The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1884-06-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

the National Republican
Convention, though there
has beer great exodus Of politicians
and journalists from the Capitol to
Chicago. Even Congress has practi-
cally adjourned for the great act
which is to be consumed this week.
The Senator has shut up shop alto
gether, and the House is merely ego.
ing through the motions" of exist.
cnce. Nearly one quarter of the
Congressman of the Republican faith
are either in Chicago or on their way
there. Of rumors of combinations
there is no end, and the difficulty is
to separate the wheat from the chaf'
There is beautiful chance for guess
ing about the result OF the convention,
but 1t IS a curious fact that though
several millions of people are engag-
ed with this conundrum, the rural vo-
ter, sitting around the grocery stove
in the backwoods of Maine or Min
nessota has just about as much real
knowledge on the subject as the best
informed men in Washington or Chi
cage. There seems to be but one
thing about which there can he but
little doubt, and that is that the two
candidates who have the most
strength at Chicago are the present
incumbent of the White House anil
the late Secretary of State, Mr.. Blaine.
There are Others, Of course, who have
some strength and will be heard of,
but these two are easily the most
powerful before the convention.
hear a great deal of Tilden t,lk
just now in Washington. From
some statements it would appear thai
the democrats have decided to take
the old man alive or dead As the
eccentric Gage Houck, of Oshkosh,
expresses it, "Tilden is the man if he
is alive, and if he is dead, we'll nom
mate his bones" A prominent de
mocratic lawyer who has just return
ed from New Yerk tells me that it is
the program to nominate Tilden and
Hoadly. 1.-The old man won't run
with Hendricks on any TERMS" he
said, "but he will take the nomina-
ton if the other name on the ticket
is that of a man he thinks would be-
a proper one to take the Office if he
should relinquish it. He will head
the ticket if The second man is one
the people would be willing to elect
to the first place anil, he believes Ell
Their Payne or Hoaldly would he such
a man." Another gentleman, who
was one of Mr.. Tildens most conf.
dental managers in 1876, says that
after tho Republican ticket is put up
there'll be a conference of democrat
leaders, and il it is deemed necessary
that the old man should step into the
breach he will do so, but if it is
thought the election can be carrie |
with another candidate then Mr.. Til
den Will decline and publish a Letter
saying so, in which casa Flower will
be the nominee of the July Conven.
ton. Flower is characterized by his
advocates as a cool square man
worth ten or twelve millions, and
with courage to put mp all that is
needsd for the election. He has new.
er held Office except one term in Con.
gress, at which time he published the
the whole of the Constitution Of the
United States as part of speech
and then circulated immense number,
OF them all over the country declar.
ing TO his friends that he had become
convinced that the people needed to
read it. Flowers actural fortune j.
estimated at about S3,OOO,O00 H.
made it rather easily by succeeding
to the business Of Mr.. Henry Keep
the great railroad operator in Wal
street, who died few cars ago
Keep, was poor newsboy who came
down from northern New York and
built up a fortune of SIO,000,000 by
operation in Wall street. At the time
Of Keeps death Flower was dealer
in jew elry up in Wacrtown, in New
York, where Keep cams from. H
started out in his Congressional ca.
reer with o series of dinners at
WornleY's, just above the Treasury
to which Congressman were invite
in squads, so that Go to one of the
Flowers dinners" became one of the
jokes of the season. Rumor had it
that the dinners were very bad The
cause was found one day when
WormleY was interrogated upon tbs
subject, and said, "Of course it was a
bad dinner. How could it be any.