The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-12
TIE REPUBLICAN, SITUATION.

The Republican situation in regard
to the Presidential nomination is
ably set forth by the New York
World in a recent article under the
above caption. That jour- al thinks
the situation is now defined with
some distinctness, and continues: 1t
is pretty certain that four candidates
will be presented to the convention.
| President Arthur will be named by
New York. Vermont will put Sen
| ator Edmlnds in nomination. John
Sherman. having settled his differ.
ences with Ex-Governor Foster, will
be presented by Ohio. General Lo-
gan will be named by Illinois.
1t is probable that some names OF
less Importance may be put forward
at the start, such as Gresham or Har-
risen by Indiana. for a compliment
ary vote. But the four candidates
named will initiate the fight, and
they will create a situation very much
like that which prevailed in the con-
vention of 1880 between Grant, of
Illinois; Blaine, Of Maine, and Sher-
man, of Ohio. 1t seems probable
that neither of the four will be nomi-
mated, but they may hold the con-
vention as the convention of 1880 was
held by the triangular struggle until
some new candidate steps in to carry
off the prize.
OF, the four candidates Edmunds
has the most character. The others
are of a piece with the material out
of which the Republican party has
tried to make, and with one accident
al exception has made, Presidents
since its foundation. In 1852 the
embryo organization put forward
John p. Hale. In 1856, after the
death and burial of the Wing party.
Republicanism nominated and sought
to defy John G. Fremont. After
Lincoln the Republican party elected
Grant, a pro-slavery Democrat, who
had declared that he would tear his
epaulettes from his shoulders If he
thought the war was waged for the
abolition of slavery. Then came
Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. We
omit Lincoln. an accidental and
providential President. And now
comes as %expectant nominees Arthur,
a machine politician; John Sherman,
who has been associated with every
political roguery that has been prac-
ticed since he entered Congress and
has made himself a millionaire; and
Logan, an ignoramus.
What a list Of names as compared
with Washington, Adams. Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van
Buren,, Polk, Pierce and Buchanan!
The contest will be bitter. Foster has
already given notice that
Ohio will "knife" Arthur if
he should be the nominee. Arthur
will also have to contend against !
treachery in his own State. The old
enemies will again unite against
Sherman. The politicians will not
have Edmunds. Logan will be con-
sidered a joke.
What will follow? Who will be
the Garfield of 1884. Will it be
James G. Blaine? He has been
playing a shrewd game to build him
self up quietly while hidden in the
cages OF his imaginary book. He
has strength in New York and III
the West. He has more popularity
and more individuality than any
named on the Republican
side. He might be the best nominee
after all. What wonder that his
friends began to regard him as the
coming man? Does anybody dis
Germ the wiry form Of old Tecumseh
Sherman in the distance? Wonld he
accept the nomination ? There Is a
proverb in Ohio that a Sherman
never declined anything-except a
loan to a friend.