Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
THE PRESIDENCY.
Republicans Who are Talked of in Wash
ington for 1888.
[San Francisco Post


San Francisco Post
WASHINGTON, March Goth. - Already
there is considerable gossip afloat in politi-
cal circles here in reference to the campaign
of 1888. OF course, this talk is uniformly
based upon mere conjecture, but there are
certain men in public life here about whom
gossip will surely center as long as they are
prominent in the affairs of the nation. Al
though no man has yet exchanged the
Senatorial toga for the presidential golden
slippers, there are several Senators who
are watching and waiting.
GENERAL LOGAN
Is the most prominent of these. He is
even now a candidate for the nomination
and believes that he can get it. Logan
reasons that he is the only man in the
Republican party who can unite the Blaine
and Stalwart wings. He is confident of
the friendship of Conkling, and equally
confident that, next to himself, Blaine
would prefer him To any one else. Logan
also thinks that he comes from the right
section of the country. With the exception
of Cleveland. no man has been elected
President for thirty years who has not
hailed from the West This is one of the
reasons why Logan does not fear The bald
headed gentleman who sits at his right in
the front row OF the Republican side, and
who is known as
GEORGE F. EDMUYDs,
OF Vermont Edmunds would not refuse
Presidential nomination, and what is
more, he will probably NOT have an oppor-
iunity OF exercising his discretion in this
direction. Edmunds offered an ailront to
the Blaine wing of the party in 1891, which
can be wiped out with nothing less than
official gore. Even now the Blaine iniiu-
ence is worlaing against Edmunds in the
Green Mountain State, and the probable
tiles are that it will make his return to the
Senate anything but certainty judging
from the view point of the present, Ed
munds chances of getting the nomination
of the next Republican Convention are ex-
ceedingly remote. New York furnishes a
candidate in the person of
WILLIAM NJ. EyARTs.
1t is very difficult matter to trace the
source or extent of his strength, and vet at
the same time he is being continually
talked about. Evarts appears to have more
friends in the Middle and Western States
than he has in the East. All of the friends
of the other candidates have good word
to say about him, and perhaps that is the
reason why his cause appears TO be so pros
porous. There IS one other man on the
Republican side about whom there is no
end of gossip in connection with the next
nomination. That man is
STANFORD OF CALIFORNIA
Stanford looks like Grant. only he is a
much larger and taller man than the dead
commander. The facial resemblance is
remarkable. Stanford has this advantage /:
He never has been defeated for ANYTHING
which he really sought. 1t is not known
whether he is after the Presidential nomi-
nation or not, for the reason that he has
not intimated that his ambition lies in that
direction, but if it is, he will make a ire
mendous struggle for it. In such event he
will come into the Convention backed by
the entire Pacific slope, with strong scat
tering from other sections of the country.
By birth New Yorker, it is thought that
Stanford could make considerable inroad
upon the strength of any candidate in the
Empire State. These are the three princi-
pal candidates for the Presidency on the
Republican side of the Senate. II is true
that Mr.. Allison of Iowa and General Haw-
ley of Connecticut are occasionally men,
toned, but neither of them has ANYTHING
approaching a boom" Outside of the
Senate there ARE two men who will prob
ably have more to say than all the remain
der of the candidates combined.
BLAINE AND ARTHUR.
These two men ara James G. Blaine and