Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-08
MAX'S MELANCE,
A Street Wanderers Comments and 0pin.
lens on Subjects of Local
Importance.
The Congressional situation-"People's
Convent on'-WilI Ii be Governor
BushnelI-A "Baby's Stare'-
A Nuisance-PIck-UPs.

The political pot will begin to bubble i
earnest this week. One week from nen
Tuesday the sth district congressional col
vention will be held in this city and consit
cradle work will be done, not only in thi
city and county, but all over the district
between this time and next Saturda
night
Ii is probable that the names Of only tw
candidates, General J. Warren Keifer an,
General Robert I. Kennedy, will be pre-
sented 10 the convention. The struggle fo
supremacy will be between those two, botl
honOred in their party and both men o
recognized ability. What the events of 1
week may bring forth cannot of course, b,
foretold; but the indications now are thai
there will be warm time in the convention
Both candidates are fortunate in having
partiSans who will stick to them until the
ballots Of two years ago are not likely to be
equalled, the skirmISh promises to be lively
while it lasts.
| The most important event during the
Generals Kennedy and Eeifer at Bellefon-
taine. The rumor that General Keifer en-
deavOred to persuade his opponent to with
draw from the race, had no foundation in
fact, but it served to stir up the animals,
as nothing else has during the present cam
paign. On the day that the Cincinnati dali
les gave the rumor circulation here Gen. kei-
fer was besieged by politicians and newspa-
per men, to learn the truth of the matter. He
assured one and all that there was no foun-
dation for such a report. aud, while years
and years of public life have taught him not
10 be too free with his tongue, his replies
to all questions concerning his conference
with General Kennedy indicated that it had
he would be the nominee of the conyen-
tion.
One thing of no small importance was
tacitly agreed upon at that conference, and
that was that each candidate should have a
solid delegation from his own county. In
other words, no effort should be made by
either candidate 10 break the delegation in
the others own county. This arrangement
has the effect of relieving beth candidates
of not little anxiety, and marking out the
lines of their work very distinctly. 1t was
further agreed that the campaign should be
without animoSity. The candi-
dates are and always have been warm per-
sOnal friends, and whichever one is nOmi
aI will tha haar tk-s nf tbn
other.
Although General Kennedy has many
friends in Clark county, there will be no or
ganized opposition to General Keifer in this !
county. 1t seems eminently proper that
the delegation from this county should give
its unqualified support to our own candi-
date, and they will undoubtedly do that
The boom for General Kennedy was
and is being carried on
by the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
which has taken occasion to mix itself up
in the politics of the Eighth district, on ac
count of its personal i'll feeling toward Gen
sral Keifer. Outside of the columns of that
paper the boom has no very tangible shape.
Week before last a special correspondent
was sent by the Commercial Gazette to
this district TO write up the Kennedy boom
and his letters were merely lot of mean
ngless phrases strung together like beads
Oh a string, and il all the letters are
TO be judged by the one sent from Spring
ield, he might as well have remained in
Cincinnati and written the stuff ''out of his
head"
The Commercial GGzette's attempt to
down Keifer is understood by the replbli-
cans of Clark county and the Eighth district
to be purely personal attack, and it does
not rebound any to that great papers credit
that it should stoop 10 employ such tactics.
1t is not probable, however, that the attack
will harm General Keifer to any consider
able extent His long experience
In political life has given
him lots of pointers on the
of campaigns, and as he ELL
tered this race to win, he has brought into
use all the forces at his command and
they form a mighty power. He
Is not leaving 4 stone in the district un-
turned, although he is working so quietly
aS scarcely to attract attention. During the
coming week his greatest work will be done,
and by next Wednesday he will know with
in cats jump with what forces be may ex-
pect TO 20 into the convention.
Next Thursday, August 18th, in Mad
River hall, Commercial building, on Lime
stone street, the Peoples convention" will
be held. The convention will meet for pre-
iminary organization at 10 O'Clock in the
the delegates, composed of farmers
and wage-workers, having previously been
selected according to the instructions con-
tanned in the official circular issued by the
district campaign committee. The dele
gates are selected practically at random.
Tomorrow evening in every ward in the
,ity caucus will be held, at which five
delegates to the convention will be chosen.
This city alone then, will have fOry-ive
lie egat. S, rather ponderous number, it
must be confessed. II corresponding
number is sent here from all over the dis
.rict some hotels for their accommodation
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