The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-04-12
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Lively Times in Politics-Mr. Blaine as a
Observation-Disclosures Delegates
Democracy and the Tariff, &c.
WAsuINGroN. ID. C.. Anril Sth. ISS

WASHINGTON, ID. u, April oth, 1881.
Messrs. Editors A very large number of the
State and district conventions throughout the
country, to send delegates to the great National
nominating convention of the Republican party,
to be held in Chicago in June, to nominate candi-
dates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of
the United States, will be held during the present
month, and therefore the political caldron will be
kept in boiling condition and the month will be
fraught with great Importance not only to politi-
clans but to the political parties of the country
themselves as well as to the Nation. Will the
Republican party be able to carry the election
next fall and thus assure to the country contin-
of its benefcent and prosperous rule for four
years more? This question, perhaps, will depend
largely upon the events of this month in the cleo
ton of the delegates to the coming Chicago :
vention. 1t may be that the character of the men
elected delegates to that convention from the
several States and districts that will elect dele
gates during the month will determine the char
acter of the men and whom they shall be that will
be selected for our standard bearers in the great
Presidential contest so rapidly approaching
Will the people have men nominated for the two
great Offices of President and Vice President whom
they certainly can elect? The character and per-
sanal of the delegates to the convention and
of the nominees who shall lead the people to VIC
tory or defeat being independent-as the fountain
does not rise higher than its source, and the NOM
inees will partake of the likeness of those who
nominate them-it will be prudent for the people
to pause and consider whether the men who are
aspiring to their suffrages to be elected dele
gates to the local conventions and finally to the
great National convention are of the character
they would, if they acted calmly and discreetly,
wish to represent them in those conventions
This remark applies as much to the Republicans
Of your county and the State of Maryland as to
any county or State in the United States.
Again, the questions at Chicago should be, who
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tory Not who can be nominated, or who is the
popular candidate of this that section, when
the whole country and especially the great pivotal
State of New York, upon which almost certainly
the election will depend to be considered
For instance, Mr.. Blaine's candidacy may be pop
uar in section or State, but would it be equal
ly as popular in New York or Massachusetts or
many of the Western States? Mr.. George VIM.
Curtis, erstwhile and believe still an Irdepen-
dent Republican, of which faction of the party Mr..
Blaine has professed to be the head, perthe ed
itorial from Haiper's Weekly introduced into THE
UNION last week, and which information | have
had confirmed from interviews with number of
persons from the central and other parts of the
State of New York, among them some friends of
Mr.. Blaine, said that he (Blaine could notpossi-
bly, carry the State of New York, as exGo'ernor
Clafin said he could not either probably carry
Massachusetts. And | will add to this that at
this political centre. where Congress meets and
where oil shades of political sentiment, inferma-
ton and opinions converge into a crystallized
state and sounder judgment perhaps than any
where else in the country, and even among Mr..
Blaines most enthusiastic admirers, the opinion
prevails that Mr.. Blaine could not carry New
York State and therefore could not be elected to
the Presidency. This is given a solemn warn
ing to the people on the eve of their conventions.
The reasons given here for Mr.. Blane's inability
to carry New York and perhaps some other of the
kl~k,. .Ioaxv
extremely undesirable to the Republican party,
arc precisely those given by Mr.. Curtis and ex-
Governor Clafflin, and are acknowledged here by
Mr.. Blaines friends.
The course then to be pursued by Republicans
is to send ,ninstructed delegates to the conven-
tons, so that when they meet there they may de-
Eberdte upon who would be the most available
candidate and the one who can most certainly win.
Nor should any delegates be sent simply because
they are in the interests of this that
candidate, but rather on account of their qualif-
cations to deliberate with the other delegates in
the convention from the States which shall be able
to elect by their electoral votes the next President
of the United States.
The Democrats in Congress made another bad
step yesterday in voting down the Converse bill
to restore the duty on wool in Ohio to what it was
before the reduction year ago, and thereby
irrevocably losing that State next fall. The Re-
publicans, almost solid, voted for the BILL and
some Democrats who have operated with the free
trade wing of their party, while the other hand
some of Mr. Randalls followers, heretofore, voted
against it, among them Messrs. Hoblitzel and
Talbot, of Maryland, Mr.. Findlay and the two
Republican Representatives being the only ones
from that State to vote for it. This, however,
does not determine how the vote on Mr.. Morrisons
bill will stand when it is called up in the House
next Tuesday or Wednesday, Mr. Randall now
being away and Mr.. Morrison not wishing to call
it up in his absence Mr.. Converse, in converse
ton with reporter day or so ago, said that if
the House passes the Morrison bill the Democratic