The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-25
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
STILL ABOUT THE CONTENTION AND
IT'S MAyYHEADED DIFFYcULTY

BIaine's COquetry-1he biaineIT"s'"'"
procre.sinr-The Broiling Week-The
Wrath on Ingersoll-wise Words for
Democrats-The German Assembly
THOSE TRICKY LETTERs.-No inde'
nendeni. no revenue reformer, at heart
desires the nomination OF Mr.. Blame. lie
would be the easiest candidate to defeat
for the damage he has done himself by
his tricky letters, added TO the direspulc
previously attaching TO his name, would
depriyc him of the votes of hundreds OF
thousands of sfanch Republicans. we
doubt whether Mr. Blaine would obtain
100 electoral votes.-Neo York Times.
NJ. Jules Simon. distinguished
Frenchman, says in his recent address
"War at this moment is almost newt
able. 1t may not break out-we must
ardenilv hope that il may be sO--.but that
is nearly impossible. When two prov
inces are taken from a people it il as if
the perpetual presence Of war were
plcdpcd War is there To insure their
possession nothing short of the destr'i :
ton of France would suffice. This il
the thought that haunts the mind OF our
enemy: we must accustom ourselves TO
il. Every moment, night and day, W.
shonlI have no other thought. We
should blush for ourselves if we thought
of anything else"
THE BLAINE PRoGRAMME.-The pro-
rramme agreed upon weeks ago was to
make no mention of Blaine, and To lei
the ballotng 90 on, giving the conyen-
ton plenty of time to experiment with
the various personal booms, whose mu-
tual antagonisms were expected To prove
mutually fatal, and so as to let the con
test dras along till the nomination OF
Blaine should appear necessity. Every
Thing has gone as was expected up 10
thi, point, and even the shrewd general
ship OF Quav has not succeeded in max
inc any effective opposition TO n pro-
gramme so ingeniously disngenuous
There il one more chance afforded BY
the interval of to day To find candi-
date on whom a majority of votes can be
concentrated, but the fact that most OF
the adherenls Of minor candidates would
RATHER have DIhllt IMAM OllC vi tHS Otb7
ers makes this concentration difficult
PliLa. Times.
A BRoILING WEEK So here we are,
beginning a second Droiling week, in the
same effort TO keep the convention from
naming its first choice. That is the
great Blaine conspiracy al Chicago,
and that is all there |, of IT,
The trouble is that the first choice of
every candidate, after himself, Is Blaine.
Each wants 10 hold on as long az posi-
bic. in the hope Of firing the others out,
and getting the prize himself, but not
man of them is willing to be beaten by
any other candidate in preference 10
Blaine Hence, not man of them will
consent TO let his friends join in an effec-
tive concentration upon somebody else
After all, that is human nature.-N. J..
Tribune
Colonel Shepard telegraphed to his
newspaper yesterday, in a spirit of ex-
ultation, the following:
IngersOlis overthrow was complete.
lie has abused audiences by disappearing
God, and the Divine wrath fell upon him
in he sight of as splendid an audience as
ever gratified an orators ambition and
angered and beaten, he retired from The
field desolate and broken.
BLAINE IL SCoTLAND-lle swept into
Jedburgh, which is full of old tales of
" Jeddarg justice" while the wild echoes
of Chicago were breaking upon his ears
lie weDt at the tomb of the Wizard Of
the North while the Blaine screamers
at the convention were raising anarchy
and Cain. He unused over the ruins OF
MerOse Abbey while the Blaine boomers
were marching through the Chicago
streets bearing aloft his banner. lie
gushed over Abbeisiord while holding the
Chicago platform in his hand. He gazed
upon the spot where the heart OF the
Bruce was buried, while besicged by o
gang of interviewers anxious 10 learn
whether he would accept the nomination
de ate Scotch haggis and collOps while
his wire-puilers at Chicago were operat-
ing in mysterious ways.-NOo York .SUH.
CAN lie GET HERE 1t is tolerably
certain at this writing that Mr.. Blaine
cannot secure the unanimous indOrse-
ment OF the Chicago convention. Ii is
only upon these terms that he can accept,
according to the declarations of hi.
friends. But there is no telling what a
lively Sunday will bring forth EIehange
WISE WORDS IN SEAsoN.-The lead.
ers of the Democratic party have n little
over four months between now and cleo
ton day in which to enlighten and con
vince the mass of the voters of the coun
try upon the sole issue between the two
parties. They are fortunate in having
that issue clearly defined, not only in
their own platform, but in that OF the
Republicans.
The Republican party demands IL
tariff for protection with incidental rev
enue. The Democrats demand tariff
for revenue W tn incidental-and, as il
is put in the Mills bill, very substantial
protection.-N Y. Herald.
In looking over the scenes at Chicago
the World finds that no one has developed
strength enough 10 indicate a nomina-
ton, and continues Nevertheless, Sher-
man, Harrison, and Gresham all lost
ground on the fifth ballot, and the votes
went TO slightly increase the totals of
Alger Allison and McEinlcy Ruf NO