New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-03

POLITICAL FEELING IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The wise course of the last Republican Ma
tonal Convention, in providing for the election
Of delegates by districts, has had an excellent
effect in Pennsylvania. There is almost an en-
tire absence in that State OF the intense feeling
OF bitterness which prevailed in the ranks Of
the Republican party there preceding the last
two National conventions. The party is bar
monious and enthusiastic, and success at the
polls III November is certain, unless a colossal
blunder is made at Chicago, of which there is
now little probability.
This changed condition of affairs is the re-
suit of the new rules and regulations governing
the election of delegates to the State and Ma
tional conventions. In 1876 and again in 1850
large proportion of the Republicans Of Penn
sylvanil felt that they had been msrepresentcd
in the National conventions Fortunately for
the party the effect of that misrepresentation
was not as bad as it might have been had the
men responsible for it succeeded in their pur
pose. The delegates sent to the National CON
ventions in those yeats were chosen at State
conventions. And the State conventions were
made up of delegates appointed by county com
mittces or chosen at county conventions, the
majority Of which were held several months in
advance of the State convention. 1t was
claimed in 1876 and again in 1850 that a ma
iorty of the Republicans OF Pennsylvania
favored the nomination of Mr.. Blaine. There
did not appear to be much doubt that the claim
was based on a substantial foundation. But
under the system of choosing the National dele
gates he did not secure the vote of the State.
The effect of the new regulations, which pro-
vide for the election of delegates to the State
Convention at primaries, and for the election of
National delegates in the districts, has been
such as to leave no doubt that Pennsylvania
was misrcpresented in the last two National
conventions.
The Republican State Convention will meet
in Harrisburg on April &c. Enough delegates
have already been chosen to the convention to
give Mr.. Blaines outspoken friends the control
of it. The indications are, from the expression
of opinion in the districts and from the instruc-
tons given to National delegates already
chosen. that Mr.. Blaine will have a large ma
jority of the delegates from that State. Such is
the expressed conviction of General Beaver
Chairman Cooper, of the State Committee and
other prominent adherents of Senator Cameron.
This result of the first opportunity of the Re-
pubicans of the STATE to express unrestrictedy
their opinion in favor of Mr.. Blaine must be
highly gratifying to that gentleman, especially
at a time when he has declared himself not a
candidate. If he should be nominated at
Chicago it is pretty evident that he would have
an enthusiastic support in Pennsylvania. If the
same freedom in the choice of delegates pre-
walls in other States as in the rural districts of
PENNSYLVANIA, the nominee of the Chicago Con-
venton. whoever he may be, can be confident
of success.
There is a striking contrast between the feel
ing in the ranks of the two great parties in
PENNSYLVANIA. The Democrats are sulen and
apparently without hope. Their State COnven-
ton meets in Allentown on next Wednesday.
1t now seems probable that Mr. Randall will be
ndorsed" for the Presidency. and that a
tariff plank similar to that adopted by the
Democrats of Ohio will be approved. While
such a plank will mean nothing further than
an expression of Democratic cOwardice on the
tariff question, the Endorsement" of Randall
will prove that the Democrats of Pennsylvania
are not in sympathy with the party as repre-
eoute1 in Congress-.