The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-23
TELEGRAPHIC.
SURVEY OF THE FIELD.
The Democratic Field of Runners for
the Presidential Cup.
Standing of Prominent Men in Sew
eral Northern States --- Tilden,
Flower, Cleveland, butler,
Mcdonald and Others.


made:
New York-Ono Of the candidates fire.
quentiy spoken of is r. p. Flower. In public
life Mr.. Flower has been a member of con-
gress. Just what strength he has in the
state is a very hard matter to determine,
particularly from Buffalo, which IS CleVe-
lands home. There can, however, be no
doubt but that be viii have goodly follow
ing, for he is a popular man personally and
is we'll acquainted with the politicians Ii
Ti!den permits the use of his name he
will have the representation from
New York; but not Democrat here believes
for moment that the ex-governor will allow
even the presentation of his name to the
Chicago convention. Buffalo Democrats be-
leva that, with Tilden out of the field, their |
favorite, Gov. Cleveland, will be nominated. |
A recent canvass of the Democratic senators |
and aSsemblymen of the state indicates the |
preferences of those members of the state |
legislature. There are thirteen Democratic |
senators and fifty six assemblymen, divided |
as follows: Senators-For Tilden Gf he will
ACCEPT, s. for Cleveland, &; for Payne /; |
for Flower, /; for Slocum, l; non-committal, |
l. Assemblymen-For Tilden, 33; for Cleve
land, Il; for Flower, Z; for Payne, 2; for
Hewitt, 9; for Mcdonald, l.; for Morrison, l.;
for Randall, l; for Butler, .; for Slocum, .;
for Carlisle, 2; for Hancock, /; for John
Kelly, l; non-cUmmittal, 9.
IN Indiana..in the Democratic camp the av-
orage Democratic voter recognizes but three
great men-Hendricks, Mcdonald and Voor-
hees, in the order named, and the fraud of
1876 is upperm0st in his mind.
The situation can be condensed into
this: That while the party organ
ization is for Mcdonald the masses are for
the old ticket, or, rather the Hendricks end
of it; and that's the long and short Of it
again. With Mcdonald they are willing to
take Flower, or any other man whom the
national convention may nominate. With
out Mcdonald or the "old ticket" it will be
hard to carry Indiana III November.
In Iowa, as to Democratic proclivitieS,
but little can be predicted. The general
tendency, rs near as can be gauged, is
toward the "oid ticket" The recently re-
ported utteraEces of Tilden with reference to
the tariff may weaken the support of his Iowa
followers, as the Iowa Democracy are
strongly tinctured with free trade Ideas.
They have been canvassed but little, and
evince little disposition to commit themselves
! to any candidate in advance. They will be
! fer the nominee without division.
| Illinois-"Give us the old ticket and we
| can sweep the country said keen Illinois
Temocrat. "Payne2 Well, Payne is a good
al conscientious man, l admit, but my own
observations and gleanings lead me to the
conclusion that so far as Illinois is concerned
no western man will be chosen to head the
national ticket"
This opinion is shared almost universally
throughout this state Tilden is acknowledged
to be the strong hope of the Democratic
party, under whose leadership success can
rely be achieved For the second place on
the ticket, if Tllden consents to be a candi-
date, q strong sentiment is being developed
here in favor OF Mcdonald.
Massachusetts,: There is much less talk in
Massachusetts about Democratic than Re
publican plans. The Republicans have been
in power so long that they have monopoliZed
public attention, but the election Of Gen.
Butler in 1852, and the tremendous increase
in the Democratic vote last year, have
set the Republicans a-thinking, and some
of them are already fearing that
Massachusetts will soon be a Demo
cratic state The Independent, Half
breed stripe of Republicans are saying now
that either Blaine. Logan or Arthur will
have very hard job to carry the state, and
that the only way to hold it in line is to nom,
mate Edmunds, or some other man of his
political standing The Democratic machine
is pretty well in the hands of Gen Butler
and there are strong indications that
| he is going to make trouble il
| the presidential contest. There art
Democrats, of course, who never voted for
him, and never viii, and there are others
who have supported him somewhat vigor
| ously for the governorship who look very
coldly upon his presidential aspirations
THERE'S no question that he will control the
state convention, however and name The
delegateS-at-iaree tor the national conyen
tion. Gen. Butler will head the delegation
ton from this state to Chicago. That mucf
is regarded as settled. Whom he will tax,
along with him is less definitely determined
The independent Republicausof the Butlel
stripe they are very different set from the
, Independent Republicans" who are for Ed
munds) have been considering starting tn,
Butler boom by an independent Republican
state convention in Boston Then, they argue
Greenbackers, Labor Reformers and all sort
of conventions viii give added volume to tn
the national convention, will force th
Democracy to face the alternative of Butle
or defeat This plan seems to lie waiting a
present for Gen. Buffers approval Outsid
Of his faction, there has been genera
feeling among Democrats in favor o
Mr. Tilden. but since the improba
bility grows that he can be induced to rul
there is a wide diversity of sentiment. Their,
l.
terest in the matter Bayard, Thurman
Cleveland, Randall, Morrison, Carlisle an,
any number of others are mentioned. l
Butler did not control the party an III
pledged delegation would probably be chosel
to represent it at Chicago.
Wisconsin: The Democrats are influence
to some degree by q desire to see Col. VIII
lam Villas or Gen E. S. Bragg, of this state
nominated for vice president. If such resul
could be accomplished the party in thi
state would unite in support of any body VIII
| might be the choice Of the convention 70
pres sident. But, leaving the matter of tn
vice presidency out of the question, if tn
D. mocrats Of Wisconsin to-day could elec
;te president, the choice would fall on TildeI
Il 5 name is power there and in the preseu
state of feeling the support of the Wisconsin
Democracy will 20 where it shall be under
stood that the Tilden influence goes.
Minnesota: The Democrats say and thin
little. On all sides it is the expectation tha
.he delegation viii be at Mr. Tilden's servic
# be wants it
If not, Mcdonald can have it. The Mime
sofa Democrats viii show more fight than 70
many years. Their success, last year in run
ing Bierman, the Norwegian candidate TO
ovenor, 10000 ahead of the usual part
trength has endowed the party organization
With good managers and the conf sence Q
!. lukewarh- voters, If Democratic presidel
is elected this year it will not be five yea
before the bulk of the Norwegian vote wi
go over to the Democrats, and make Mimi