Tombstone epitaph., 1888-06-23

-hh '"NSiS9'''S S uitiNiS III thC Hiudhy N. Y., Express discusses with intelligence the prospects of the Chicago Convention and the candidates. Al present Sher- man leads, and yet his nomination is not looked upon as one of the contingencies, even by men who admit that he is likely, as matters now stand, to present the most formidable front in the earlier ballolings of the convention. His friends clam in the neighborhood of 500 votes and those most pronounced against his selection concede him 200. But it is impossible 10 indicate whence any growth is to come, beyond his original strength more or less.
 Chauncey M. Depew of New York is the next favorte in the East at present but it is feared that his nomination would antagonize a pronounced and widespread opposition on the part of the Northwestern States. The best infor- nation justifes the conclusion that this opposition will be peesent at Chicago, and to degree that is not at all antici- pated or comprehended in the East. It will come from the States of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana; the national convention cannot make nomination that meets with the united and determined opposition of all these States.
 Walter Q. Gresham is on the whole the central figure in Republican politics to-day, although his pledged support may not equal that of some of the others. But there is an elemen! of weakness in his candidacy which has grown as per ceptibly as his strength has grown, and which need no longer be concealed, even if concealment were possi ole. Judge Gresham is to be the target of the con centrated opposition of the distinctivey Blame influences in he convention. Judge Gresham held two portfolios Tn President Arhur's cabinet and is to day Federal Judge by Arthur's appoint ment. He is regarded as the natural reslduary of the strong organization which appeared in Chicago four years ago to urge nomination of President Arthur, and for that reason, if for no other, he is looked upon askance by the original Blaine men. They insist that to push Gresham is to attempt to renew and to perpe,uate factional differences in the party which circumstances have tended to destroy. They critcise Gres- hams attitude in the last Presidential campaign; ttey refer dubious'y to his record on the protection issue; and they make much of the fact that although Judge Gresham is citizen of Indiana, the delegates from that State favor another candidate, who was. four years ago, Blaine man when Gresham was for Arthur. We cannot a, this distance from the center of politics verify this in- formation abou, the feeling of the Blaine men toward Gresham.
 Ben Harrison has single advantage over Gresham, and this must not be underestimated The Indiana delegates are for him, and very strongly for him. But Harrison's nomination would have to be effected in the face of strenuous opposition from the Gresham men; and feeling may easily be engendered that would endanger the State of Indiana, even with an Indiana man at the head of the ticket. But for this complication, it would seem to many shrewd observers that Senator Harrison occupies the most favorable position of any of the can didates.
 There are many who believe that Senator Allison of Iowa will be Blaine's political legatee. But there are con- alterations initiating against his nomi- nation which possess an influence not to be gainsaid. One of them is the fact that there is no strategic justification for for Allison's selection. He comes from the State of Iowa, as certain as Penn sylvania or Vermont to cast her electoral votes for the Republican candidate.
 .Alger of Michigan must not be forgot ten, because he is really in the race, and of him It IS a suggestive fact that not one of the objections suggested in the case of the other candidates seems to obtain. He comes from a State which the admin. istraton has been hopefulof carrying on the revenue reform issue. He is antag- onized by no one, and encounters direct opposition in no quarter On the contary, the friends of all the other candidates speak of himin the highest and most friendly terms; and it is particularly ob-. served that union upon him would wipe out the division lines that have been drawn so sharply Tn the last two national 
 ASSESSING STOCK CATTLE.