The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-06-14
IN WASHINGTON CITY.
THE OPINION OF THE SITUATION
POINTS TILDENWARD.
What Some Southern Senators Say
About the Pre- side ntiaI OutloOk..Sev.
eral Aspects of the Campaign.

eral Aspects of the Campaign.
Special Cbrrespondence Of The Chronicle.
WASHINGTON, June 11.-The condition
Of opinion in Washington is confusion
worse confounded. Congress is a mere
farce, and will be till the session be de-
clared adjourned. Virtually it is already
adjourned. Everybody is talking politics.
Almost everybody has an opinion on his
lips, but it is difficult to know whether
the expressed opinions even of otherwise
honest men bear any relation to their real
opinions The Republican politicians me-
chanically declare the situation all very
well, or as a rule, refuse to give express
sion to opinions at all. More than half
the opinions that have been published
have directly or indirectly been denied or
modified.
Yet in all this confusion and hesitancy
there is very we'll defined and strong
opinion among the more influential pub
lie men both in the Republican and Dem
ocratic party that for more reasons than
one the chance of Democratic success is
better than it has been at all since the
war.
in the first place, it is the first time that
the Republican party ever nominated an
Eastern man for the Presidency. The
West, that leans towards free trade, will
not be made any more loyal by this de
parture. Then, too, national as Mr..
Blaine's reputation is, he suffers some
what from the same sort of disadvantage
as Presidential candidate that Mr.. Bay
ard suffers, because he comes from an
out-of- -theway State.
The open avowA of the purpose to
fight the campaign aon a sectional issue
will disgust great many Republicans who
have an independent leaning, who have
come to think kindly Of the South, and
who wish especially to see its material
resources developed. Mr.. Blaine stands
for all that is sectional.
Beyond all this-he has bitter enemies
in his own party-personal and factional.
that the Democratic party has an unpre-
cedented chance. Senator Ransom Sena-
tor Colquitt, Senator Hampton and such
representative Southern men,. freely and
unhesitatingly express such jubilant opinf
ions. Speaker Carlisle and Mr.. Randall
alike are of the same opinion.
And Blaine's nomination has without
any doubt caused all eyes again to turn to
Tilden. You have, of course, heard of
the letter which he is said to have written,
positively refusing to allow his name to
be presented Even if the letter is sent
it is generally believed that it will not in
the least hinder his friends from contin-
uing to push his name. Indeed, this week
Tilden seems the necessary and the newt
able. But Bayard is the almost univer-
sal second choice. The old Bayard men
now claim that his time has at last surely
come. Among them is Senator Ransom.
One thing is certain: there is greater
and apparently more reasonable Demo
cratic hope now than there was either the
W nominated
week after Garfeld's nomination. The
fear of the host of Government employ
ees is not concealed. They do not show
such philosophic faith in civil service
reform as to feel secure even in the hope
Of Blaine's election. In the case of his
defeat they feel that the earth beneath
them will surely give way.