Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-04-03
CAPITOL GOSSIP.
The Presidential 0utiook-Senator Blaine Com
ing to the Front-senator Logan's Work
Tilden said to Favor RaBdaIl-6en.
Grant
From our Regular Correspondent.


Tilden said to Favor RandaIl-t'en.
From our Regular Correspondent.
| WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 20, 1884.
The ''booms'' are daily growing in
volume, and there is no better field for
studying the various growths than at
this national political center. OF course.
no indications are as yet sufficiently
strong to indicate who will be the COM
ing nominees, but some significant
straws are, however, bobbing and wav-
ing TO show from what quarter the Re-
publican breeze is strongest. Strangely
enough, these significant straws favor
more positively than ever, within the
last few days, the Plumed Knight from
Maine, who has announced that he is
retired from the uncertain way of poll
tics, and whom the people will have to
call from his quiet desk, where he is
writing the history he helped to make,
if they want him, even as Cincinnatus
was called from his farm to save Rome.
The most serious question which has
| troubled the minds of the friends of Mr.
| Blaine has been whether he could secure
the support of Mr.. Conkling in the event
of his entering the presidential field
Mr.. Belford, more Familiarity known as
the Red Headed Ranger of the Rockies,
who is quoted as authority upon the
political views of Roscoe Conkling, has
announced this week that if Blaine is
nominated Mr.. Conkling will earnestly
support him, though of course the lat
ter's preference is Grant. Thus it is
that the Blaine blaze is breaking out
from most unexpected quarters-a sort
of spontaneous combustion affair-until
many of the other aspirants begin to
think that evidently the way to be a
candidate is not to be candidate.
This activity in the Blaine camp has
been balanced by the not little going
to and fro between Washington and
Gramercy Park. Ex-Speaker Randall
is one of those who have visited and
conferred with Mr.. Tilden, summoned
there, it is thought, by the sage himself.
There is more surmise than knowledge
about the purport of these conferences,
but it is pretty well settled that Mr..
Iilden has consistently refused to de-
clare any preference among the Presi-
Dental aspirants in his party. 1t would
seem from the talk at the Capitol and
about town that the New Workers. kind
word for Randall in his list of 'sgood
Candidates has helped that leader s
chances. and judging from the express
sions of local sentiment Randall is
nearly as popular among Pennsylvania
democrats as Blaine is among the repub-
licans of that state, and he will most
probably go before the convention as a
''favorite SON"
The booms of the other candidates
here are being carefully nursed. The
warrior statesman with the resonant
voice of fog-whistle, who is at once
the pride and fear of his fellow Repub-
licans in the United States Senate, is
still in the front ranks. His aspirations
have had an alarming effect upon his
mail, for he how gets from 100 to SOC
letters every morning, and an answer
Of some sort must be made to every
letter. This is larger mail than is re.
ceived at the White House, or by any
other public man in Washington. Three
clerks, and So day on the average fol-
age, are required for this correspon.
II The people of the United States
evidently got the idea that Johr
Logan is very good natured man, anc
it must be admitted that he needs the
Sc per diem private secretary which the
Senate recently voted to each of it,
members.
While speaking to an old habitue o.
the Capitol the other day, he informed
me that Senator Blaine has not entered
the senate Chamber since he ceased tt
be Senator, nor has Senator Conklins
been seen in the Senate end of the Capt.
tol since he voluntarily severed his con
nection with that body. Mr.. Blain,
frequently visits the Congressional Lii
brary to consult its volumes in connec
ton with his history, but never look
INTO the Legislative halls of the Senat,
and House. Mr.. Conkling has appeared
several times as counsel in the United
States Supreme Court, but has studi
ously avoided the Senate and House O
Representatives, although the court
room is located on the main corridor o
the Capitol, and within one hundred
feet of the Senate. The examples o
these men, who achieved distinction il
Congress, he told me is not exceptional
General Grant is in town and he will
be soon rendered a dinner by the ele
giant widower who dispenses the hospi
talities of the White House in the sweet
est manner, and who, in the matter o
the fit of trowsers and set of coats, ha.
a judgment unsurpassed by any gentle
manly broker in New York. He say,
he prefers Logan as a presidential can
didate. 1t is said on dit that one of Gen
Grants projects is to write book anC
that he will do it the coming summer, i
he RECEIVERS his strength. The aim is t.
get it out about year after Blaine's
production finds its way to the second
hand stores. LENox.
Nilsson at the White House.
Nine Missions visit at the Whit,
House is thus described in the Washing
ington correspondence of the Boston
Transcript;
1t was the elimination of the evening
when Nilsson entered the Presidential
presence Escorted by an army officer
Of distin0Ilishad baa,.inoN drocSad -, i.