Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-12
WASHINGTON JOTTINGS.
The National C0nventi0n-Tiden Sure to be a
Candidate In certain contingencies
Flower Talk-S0ciety.
From our Regular Correspondent.


| Candidate In certain contingencies
! Flower Tak-Society.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, June 2, 1SS4.-The
absorbing subject of interest in Wash
ington at present is the National Re-
publican Convention, though there has
been great exodus of politicians and
journalists from the Capital to Chicago.
Even Congress has practically adjourn
ed for the great act which is to be con-
summated this week. The Senate has
shut up shop altogether. and the House
is merely ''going through the motions
of existence. Nearly one quarter of
the Congressman of the Republican
faith are either in Chicago or on their
way there. Of rumors of combinations
there is no end, and the difficulty is to
separate the wheat from the chaff.
| There is a beautiful chance for guess
| ing about the result of the convention,
| Uul IL Is CullOuS ltCb ludt, luOu2u
several millions of people are engaged
with this conundrum, the rural voters,
sitting around the grocery stove in
the backwoods of Maine and Mime
sofa, has just about as much real know
ledge of the subject as the best informed
men in Washington or Chicago. There
seems to be but one thing about which
there can be little doubt. and that is
that the two candidates who have the
most strength at Chicago are the pre-
sent incumbent of the White House and
the late Secretary of State, Mr.. Blaine.
There are Others, of course, who have
some strength and will be heard Of but
these two are easily the most powerful
before the convention.
hear great deal of Tilden talk
just now in Washington From some
statements it would appear that the
Democrats have decided to take the old
man alive or dead. AS the eccentric
"Gabe' Bouck, of Oshkosh, expresses
| it, "Tilden is the man if he is alive, and
if he is dead, Wen nominate his bones"
A prominent democratic lawyer who
has Just returned from New Y ork tells
me that it is the programme to nomi-
nate Tilden and Payne or Tilden and
Hoadly. 1.-The old man won't run with
Hendricks on any terms he said,
"but he will take the nomination if the
other name on the ticket is that of
man he THINKS would be proper one
to take the office if he should relinquish
it. He will head the ticket if the sec
ond man is the one the people would be
willing to elect to the first place, and
he believes either Payne or Hoadly
would be such a man. Another gen.
tleman. who was one of Mr.. Tilden's
most confidential managers in 1876, says
that after the Republican ticket is put
up they'll be u conference of Demo-
cratic leaders, and if it is deemed nee
cssary that the old man should step
into the breach he will do So, but if
it is thought the election can be carried
with another candidate then Mr.. Tilden
will decline and publish letter saying
so, in which case Flower will be the
nominee of the July Convention.
Flower is characterized by his advocates
as good square man, worth ten or
twelve millions, and with courage to put
all that is needed for the election. He
has never held office except one term
in Congress, at which time he published
the whole of the Constitution of the
United States as part of a speech, and
then circulated immense numbers of
them all over the country declaring to
his friends that he had become convinc-
ed that the people needed to read it.
Flowers actual fortune is estimated at
about So, 900, 900 He made itrather easily
by succeeding to the business of Mr..
Henry Keep, the great railroad oper-
ator in Wall street, who died few years
/ hCSP "Uo % PCoA h1"SbNJ "iO
came down from norther' New York
and built up fortune of Sl0,000,00
by operation in Wall street. At the
time of Keeps death Flower was
dealer in jew Try up in WATERFOWL, in
New York, when Keep came from. He
started out in his Congressional career
with series of dinners at Womley's,
just above the Treasury, to which
Congressman were invited in squads,
SO that $50 to one of Flowers dinners
became one OF the jokes of the season.
Rumor had it that the dinners were
very bad. The cause was found one
day when Wormley was Intercepted
upon the subject, and said, "Of course
it was bad dinner. How could it be
anything else at 50 plate.
The annual rush out of town for the
summer may now fairly be said to have
! begun. The advent of settled warm
weather, with the thermometer about
go, has started the exodus. and Mrs. and
Miss Vanity Fair are flying in all direct
| ions TO the country, sea side, and noun
tains. l hear it whispered in the fash
unable world that this summer will,
however, differ greatly from its pre-
decessors in that a great contingent Of
political and social disciples will remain
to aid in the political and social activity
which always marks a summer in Wash
ington just preceding the presidential
election.
The Congressional Library Bill viii
be called up in the House just after the
Chicago Convention. LENox.
Cinders In the Eye.
A very simple and effective cure for
cinders in the eve is within the reach of
every one, and would prevent much suf.
fering and expense were it generally
known.
1t is simply one or two grains of fax
seed. These may be placed in the eye
without injury or pain to that delicate
organ, and shortly they begin to swell