Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
AN EARLY " SLATE"
lac New Orleans Picayune's" Presi
Dental Programme for 1888.

he New Orleans 'Picayune's Presi-
Dental Programme for 1888.
The New Orleans Pica,atne saws: The
battle now opening in the United States
Senate between the Republicans and Dem
ocrats is the beginning of the battle of 1888.
1t looks to be between Blaine and Cleve-
land, just as it was in 1884. There is one
marked popularity of the situation among
the Republicans since they were defeated
in 1884; we stand now almost midway
to the next election and never
hear a word indicating any rise Of
internal dissension in their ranks.
Never was that party so united. 1t
has been welded together by a defeat
which it had accounted impossible, and its
heart-burnings and jealousies have been
unanimously sunk in the interest of Il
great effort to recover its domination in The
republic. There was short period last
year when Senator Sherman was talked of
as a possibility of 1888, but it is so evil
IDENTIFY imprudent to rely on Ohio, which
any Republican nominee is likely to carry
by handsome plurality, that the effort
Immediately collapsed. There was an old
quarrel in the Senate. due TO the fact that
Sherman had lost the Craftsmanship of the
Finance Committee by going into Hayes
Cabinet otherwise be would be the oldest
Republican Senator, the oldest of any
party This chairmanship Senator Morrill,
would not return to him, and perhaps the
talk of running him for President was in
the nature of a compensation for his disap-
pointment. However the Senate finally COM
pensated him by giving him the pro tempo
raj Presidency, and since then no one has
named him in connection with 1883. The
only man at present named is Blaine. His
fri f5c ole NOT
be by reclamation. and that if ballot is
insisted on, it will be seen that he is
stronger with his party than he was in 1884.
1t follows, if these assumptions be true.
that Cleyeland's nomination is also GER
tainty. He is the only man who is able To
defeat Blaine, for the campaign opens with
probability of every Northern State cast
ing its electoral vote for Blaine, except In
diana, New York, New jersey and Con-
necticut. The electoral vote, if no unex-
pected revolution occurs. is likely to stand
precisely as il did in 1884, PIG for Cleve-
land and lS2 for Blaine, and the whole Of
the battle will have to be fought in the
four Northern States which we have named.
and practically in New York, since if We
carry New York the same influences, the
same set of the tide will surely give us at
least two out of the other three States.
We admit that Cleveland does not want
the nomination, but that has nothing to
do with the question. The party wants
him, and proposes to have him. 1t is no
part of the duty of citizen of the republic
TO decline call from 100000 voters. In
stating the result of. the vote beforehand,
we state no more than is apparent on the
face of the problem. Michigan will prob
ably occur to many people as a Democratic
possibility. but this is delusion. 1t has
been locally carried by a fusion, but
there is no prospect of any important
third-party canvass in 1888. and less
chance of defeating Blaine III Michigan
than in California, and we have to face
the facts that his name swamped the
Democracy in all the Northern States
west of the Mississippi river as it has mol
been swamped before, and it looks as if the
enthusiasm for him is on the increase
everywhere west of New York among the
Republicans. The outlook now is that We
are narrowed down to the old tickets; il
Hendricks were alive he would again prove
a tower of strength, but with this forced
exception there is no choice. If Cleveland
should die, we would have 10 take Governor
Hill, of New York, or be beaten at the
start.
Under such circumstances the Demo-
cratic leaders who oppose President Cleve-
land are guilty of party treason. Their
otiense will not be condoned by the party.
They must submit to the will of the party
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