Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-14
THE SEVERAL BOOMS.
Arthur's Friends Confident He
Can Carry Southern States.
Blaine's Way of Making the
Public Hungry for Him.
Significant Hints Respecting the
Vitality Of the Old Ticket.
The Logan Boom Dead and Cold.
The Drift of Opinion.

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WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE talk
ers here are beginning to talk out on
the presidential subject. Gov Foster
says, for one he thinks Arthur's nom
ination is unwise. But all admit that
Foster can never see anything except
from an Ohio standpoint.
FRANK HATToN
is in the west. Under his skillful
manipulation the state of Iowa be-
gins to incline towards Arthur.
THE soUTHERNERs.
Houck of Tennessee says that Ar
thur can get the vote of Tennessee.
THE PRESIDENT IN NEW YORK
will have to rely upon the machine.
The only paper which was outspoken
for him was the Commercial -Adver-
User, and that has been bought out
by an anti-Arthur syndicate.
LOGAN Is CAST DOWN.
it is said. over the outcome in Louis
lana. He had expected to get the dele
cation from that state.
BLAINE's BOOM.
.Blalne's literary bureau is hard at
work. The plan of Blaine's strategy
is to play indifference, to seem not to
want it or care for it; but everywhere
that he sees anything like enthusiasm
for him it is carefully nursed. None
of it dies from being left out in the
cold. But New Englanders say that
he will not have a solid New Eng
land There is much talk of Ed
munds. But Edmunds is not candi-
date. He knows tkat he is not well
calculated for president. He can
work better at ideas, and with books
than with men. He would be bored to
death at the white house. He says it
needs man who does not think and
study, but whose style is more like
ArthIr's to be president. Arthur Is u
painstaking man to please. He stud
les to be agreeable. His thought is of
department His accomplishments
are social, and with these great deal
of good sense and tolerably fair judg
ment of men. These are the class of
men who make the best office holders.
Men of ideas, of books, of close men
tai pursuits, do not do well as Office
holders except on the bench.
Blaine's work is being done with
great skill. His greatness is lauded
on all hands; but in California his
championship of the anti-Chinese
RADIO and Nevada he is pulled and
praised as the staunch friend of silver.
In Pennsylvania he is the patron saint
of protection. Jay Gould and Wall
street are quietly helping him, but IN
ways that never see the light, for
their public aid would kill his boom.
In Iowa he is exalted as prohibition
ist who vouches for and upholds the
prehibitory laws of Maine. In Ohio
he is the trusted friend of Garfield
and so on. No literary bureau at
work feed each locality with d diet
best calculated to digest, so well and
so carefully as does this, the slyly
worked campaign of Mr.. Blaine.
THE OLD TICKET.
A close friend of Tilden said recent
ly,: 81 am satisfied that the governor
(Tilden) views his public career as a
mater so absolutely in the control of
the public decision that he will tacitly
abide the event of a denomination. :"
The New York Star, the organ of
Tammany, is quite outspoken for the
old ticket, or rather pledges Tammany
to its support if nominated.
HENDRICKS WILLING.
The story is current that Hendricks
is now not unwilling to accept a sec
ond place on the ticket. The strong
probability that the vice president
will for part of the time at least be
called upon to perform the duties of
president is not unlikely to be the
cause which induces him to reconsider
his resolve never again to be in the
second place.
MALONE.
1t is now said with much confidence
that Malone will go to the national
convention with a delegation for
Blaine. He will exact hard condi-
tions, but he will sell out in a market
where the demand is brisk and the ar
ticle one of prime necessity.