The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-03-21
/; POLITICAL POTTER.
AN AsTUTE rotToR,s VIEWS
On tho Situation : Where The Democrats Have
hAds Thflr NisiAks-Ths usnry Cisy Of the
Day-Col. htClsr,'s snoroseops-Gsusral :.
WIZ Campaign Notes AAd Commsnts.

A"bHDELFuiAt MAICu su,-7COIs a. NJ
Mcclure, editor Of the Tims, te'egraphs to
bis paper from Washington: There is just
as much confusion In political circles OF
Washington as there is everywhere elae,
and probably more than in most places.
There Ia no sign oi succesaiul concentration
on either side toward any one man. Til.
den Is strongest among the Dem ocrats, and
probably stronger than he otherwise would
pe but ior the tact that all know the party
can't Afford 10 nominate him ior funeral.
lie Ia sale hallway house where doubtful
men can liuger until they sec what direc-
ton to move With tho best prospects OF
success. Beyond Tilden, the Democrats
are entirely ut sea. Mcdonald hss practi.
cAlly faded out, II ever ho had any sub
stance as candidate. liz WAS oatenta.
tiously groomcd by Wa,te,s,n scme
months ago, and It WIS expected that the
SUCCESS OF the Carlisle organ zltlon Of the
House would give Mcdonald powerful
lunge 10 the front; but just when McDon.
AIDS supposed friends reached Il position 70
advance him they turned him out 10 20 In
a gang by himself. % g0
HOLMAN KNOCKED CUT.
And Holman has faded out as swiftly Is
he frightened under the genial and power.
ful rays Of the New York San. The edi.
torial sqalbs which III .kes merry over
Dana's malicious picture Of Holman only
toy With the surface Of the truth. Holman
was dropped because he had no: the
courageto throw himself into the breach |
and cave the party from an apparent, II
not M actual, Free Trade departure. Hol.
man coutd have made the Spsakeiship |
turn on n ta'cr iesue had ho been agyreslivu |
ez party leader Is he is as party econo-
mist; but bis district skirts the Kentucky
line. Wattcrson's Courier Journal is the |
Democratic Bible Of that region; and the
strong bond ol union effected between the |
whisky and the Free Trade Interests, were
too. .tofmidsble@ @ior Holman to .c3u!ront
Holman, as a Presidential candidate, seens
TO bays gone 10 join Mcdonald ~ ~
.s4'2S 3nANDALL. AND MORRISON. 80
:. The two most positive and potential fac.
tors in the Democratic Presidential st1ug-
gle, are Randall and Morrison. They are
10 tho forefront Of their respective party
theories and must Of necessity be the cen.
trail figures Of the battle 10 determine the |
Democratic policy for 1854. Both have
been prominently urged for the Presidency
and both have q positive following. Nor.
rlson's great drawback is in the fact that
not only is his own State hopeless, but
there il not a State in the Wes. that can
be made hopeful by his tar Fl policy. Even |
Indiana, the only Wts:ern Safe esss ol the |
Rocky Mountains that the Democrats
claim, bad to discard the "rariG Tor revenue
only" platform that gave them defeat in |
1850, and adopt the OHIO and Pennsylya-
MIA platform to recover the State in 1882
II Morrison's policy shall pr. vail q. Cni.
cago, Randall would not accept numina-
lion, and if Randalls policy s,All prevail,
Morrison would decline or be declined |
thereby: There il. no middle ground be.
tween them. l.1l,
JAMES X ELK AFFAIR
Many OF the more coEs!derste Democrats
here regard another Polk nomination as |
not only possible but probable. Even If
the tariff platform shall be satisfactory to |
the deba'able States, there will be deter
mined resistance to conceding both the |
platform and the candidate; aud it would |
be quite rs Objectionable TO make an &C.
cep'sble platform and place a candidate
upon 1t who belled its vital article Of faith, |
The one thing that seems 10 be settled is !
that the Democratic party cau't straddle
the tariff. 1t mps: take one side or the
other, as ambiguity or cowatd:ca would
be mora! iAlal that bold declaration
on the wrong side. The platform will,
therefore, be likely 10 give no uncertain
sound on the tariff, but wao Of the prolni.
nent Democrats can stand on the platform?
aud who Of them can stand on 1t without
alternating one side or the other? These
are the, arguments which lead many TO
theconclusion that very dark horse, such
as Polk Of lS44.or Pierce Of 1852, may be
created by the Chicago Convention in
July; and 80 dark is the horse in their
judgment that they don't even venture up.
on names. It will be s,en that this pro-
cess OF Democratic reasoning disposes OF |
ouch as Payne, Bayard and tcJre OF other |
supposed pspi,ants. There is entire con.
fusion here on the Democratic side rs to |
the Presidency, and speculation a, to the |
probable candidate for 1855 is simply ab.
surd., i .i5T$4< l5a
4 THE HENRY CLAY CT THE DAY. |
On the Republican aide there is more
concentration OF sentiment and effort than
on the Democratic side, but no one man
leads all others, Blaine is undoubtedly in |
the front, es he wes in 1876, and again in !
1880. He is tho Henry Clay Of the Rspub-
licans, and be will have Jealous Presidential |
advocates until he is called to Join the
great maj arity. l:is understood that much |
Of the Intense bitternrra that was inspired
against him by Grant, Conkling and others
in psst confess, has worn i'self out, and
that he will now be lees violently opposed, |
but it is evident that two elements will be |
agRressively agains. him. Arthur is not |
for Blaine, and that means hostility from |
most OF the South, with more or lecs hos.
tili,y from every State in which the admin
iBtraton can control delegates. ~
sentiment OF Cincinnati Republican,.
CINCINNATI, o, March 20.-The Repub.
lican city convention to-day had J.. B.
Foraker for temporary chairman, and
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