The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-05-15
THE NATIONAL DELEGATES.
FRIENDS OF THE CANDIpATEs FIG.
URING UP THE UHANcss.

Tho bitterness Against Blaine--fhs Bad
Management of His FriendslsA Guess at
The First Ballot. 49,. ..
tLetter to tie Philadelphia Times
WASHINGTON, May S.--Political cir
tiles here are more excited over the re-
ports coming in from States that have
c!ected their delegates to the Republi-
can National Convention than at any
time since the canvas opened. Calcu-
l"tions of two weeks ago are not ex-
ictly borne out by results and the
friends of Mr.. Blaine are the most con-
fused, while Oh the other hand the fol-
lowers of Arthur are considerably
clated over what they now claim
enough votes to command the situation
Sufficiently, with the aid of the other
candidates, to wrench the prize from
Biaine. While the numerical strength
OF Arthur will como principally from
inc South-that from other quarters
Dcing more complimentary than real
1t IS still claimed that his supporters
VIII number enough to encourage the
other candidates to make common
cause with him to get rid of Blaine.
This is just the condition Of affairs the
enemies of Blaine have been waiting
TOR and what they now assert they
were instrumental in producing i'm Or
der to effect their purpose.
BITTERNESS AGAINST BLAINE.
There is no disputing the bitterness
against Blaine, and since tho recent
attacks on Edmunds it has been very
largely intensified, particularly in New
England, even rcochiES into his own
State, from where q delegation of men,
heretofore his friends, will go to Chi.
cngo to protest against his nomination.
Representative Republicane Of the same
class will also go from Vermont, Mas
Snchusctts, Rhode Island and New
Hampshire. These influences will be
independent of the regular delegates,
and it would be folly to say that they
Will exert no power in the choice of
the convention.
Ex-Congressman Harris, of Massa-
chusetts, who was here lately, said
that while friend of Blaine he was in
grave doubt whether he could carry
massachusetts if nominated; but this
Is not likely, as in such an emergency
Ben Butler would carry enough Demo-
Gratis TO his support to save the State;
besides, the good sense of the Republi-
can party would never permit such
disaster.
BAD MANAGEMENT.
AS your readers know, the same
antagonisms have taken shape in New
York, with Pennsylvania and other
States ready to follow suit when the
opportune moment arrives. Add all
this to the bungling management of his
friends, as illustrated in your State and
then in Maryland and Iowa, and the
npprehensious for his nomination arc
deepening alid spreading every day,
which nothing but the most skillfni
gcneralship can change. Lamcntable
AS all this presents itself, it is still more
so, when the fact is taken into consid.
Grafton that some Of the most active
workers against Mr.. Blaine to-day arc
made up of men who stood the brunt
of his struggle at the two former coll
vcntions.
OF course the great mass of the party
hive had no opportunity of learning
the causes underlying this condition Of
affairs. They learn Of him only as he
appears in all the brilliancv and mar
Vclous power of his intellect and in the
wonderful originality of his conception
OF public affairs. AS he stands out be-
fore them even his enemies concede the
beneficial possibilities of all admins
tration under his guidance. The trou-
bic is simply in the man-that he lacks
tiiat great essential to all trnc nobility
OF character-tidclity, and that for am
bltion's sake he would violate q pledge
ns readily as he would make new one
to serve it and then forget that there
was obligation involved in either.
Such arc the ways of politics, and what
sad commentary they furnish on the
weak side Of human nature. With
proper management, however, with
his forces skillfully modified and so
held together for three or four ballots,
all this opposition would be compelled
to yield.
TIE FIRST BALLOT.
Men who are accustomed to calculate