Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-21
TILDEN'S STRENGTH.
Evidences Which Show He Is ths
Peoples Choice.
RANDALL AND MORRISON THE MEN,
Saws AIeck Mcclure, Who Will Act the
Leading Parts in the Democratic
Pres dchtiaI StruggIe-AmOng
the Republicans.

WASHINGTON, March 20.-A few days age
a party of Congressman were discussing
the wonderful sweep OF recent suggestions
in favor of nominating "the old ticket
and every one of the five present agreed
that Tilden and Hendricks could be elected
beyond doubt and that it would be folly
net to bring them out. Mr.. Dockery, o.
Missouri, one of The most Influential oi
the younger men in the House, remarked
"You can form no idea OF Tilden's
strength By observing only the signs Visl'
bic here. Somehow Tilden has never beer
popular among the politicians. l was IN
Washington few weeks before the St Louis
convention of 1876 and found in Congress
at that time prevailing sentiment against
Tildep. Almost every member l talked tC
said he could not possibly be nominated
The convention met and the delegates
came freshly commissioned from the peo
pie to make Tilden their leader in the cam
paign. Popular confidence in him is strong
or now than 1t was in 1876. About the
only talk heard against the old ticket now
comes from the politicians who have other
plans on foot. Go out among the Demo
cratic masses and you hear none OF it.
Fortunately Congress is not going to make
the nomination.
The People Want TiIden
ard they will choose delegates who Will
nominate him.
Congressman Hill, of Ohio, says that the
delegation from his State can be counted
on for TiIden. Payne, who is now the most
potent factor in Ohio politics, is known TO
be one OF Mr.. Tilden'S warmest friends.
As to Indiana the best information here
is that the fruits of the long lab )r in work
ing up that State for Mcdonald will fall be.
lore the old ticket movement. Hendricks
has always been stronger than Mcdonald
there. In Illinois the Palmer influence
which is friendly to Tilden can more than
match Morrisons strength, whether he
uses it for himself or for Mcdonald, as ru-
NOR reports he intends TO do.
Mr.. MaDganares, who has just been
sworn in as the delegate from New Mexico
will probably be one OF the representatives,
from the territory in the Chicago Conven.
tion. He is an out and out Tilden man and
saws the territorial vote will be almost
solidly cast for him. Mr.. Dorsheimer and
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York, are two OF the
politicians who are opposing this almost
universal popular movement IN the party.
Dorsheimer has the Vice Presidential bee
in his borret and, OF course, wants a
Western man at the bead Of the ticket.
Blsiies this he Rad a breach with Tilden
soon after tine election OF '76.
Mr.. HewitT's Antagonism
is easily understood. He has Quarrelled
with nearly every man he has ever had
anything to do with, and Mr.. Tilden is not
an exception. Hewitt was one of the first
men to raise the cry that Tilden lost the
presidency by his own fault. The blame
for t hat disaster has been placed in far dit.
ierent quartesr loAg ago and such talk will
do Tilden no harm. Mr.. Mcpherson, Sec
retary of the Republican campaign COM
mittee, and one Of the most accurate obser
vers OF our politics, says he believes the
nomination OF Tilden is assured. He says
he never expects to understand why he
was not nominated in 1850, though he was
heartily glad when the party failed to do so.
Senator German, of Maryland, chairman
of the Democratic congressional committee,
and probably the coming chairman OF the
national committee, is warm friend Of
Tilden. The almost unanimous sentiment
of the congressional committee is for the
old ticket. These evidences cannot fail to
strike the most casual observer in Wash.
iogtop. The beauty of it is that they grow
stronger every day. Already they have
proLuced the conviction that but one thing
car prevent the nomination Of the old
ticktt. That will be the positive refusal Of
Mr.. Tilden to accept the trust.