Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-06-06
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
The Republican Situation Growing Nor,
Complicated increasing Interest in tn,

The Republican Situation Growing More
Complicated Increasing Interest i'm the
Developments.
Thrice during the period of its organiza-
ton the Republican party has assembled in
National convention with its course as plain
ly anticipated as is that of the convention
which will renominate Cleveland. In 1864
Lincoln was renominated. In 1858 and 1872
Grant was so obviously the candidate of the
party that Notwithstanding the opposition
OF the liberals in the latter year and the fact
of their withdrawal Grant was selected
without opposition. AT each recurring Pres
idential year since 1872 the contest in the
Republican convention has been keen and
bitter. This was particularly the case when
the attempt was made TO break the tradi-
ton of the Republic and make nomination
for third term. But never in it's history
says the Chicago Times, has the party been
so entirely at sea as now.
If Blaine were to complete the parallel
with Clay, whose career and Blaine's are
strikinGly similar, his defeat at the polls
after successive efforts at a nomination
would have put an end to his opportunities
for the Presidency, but another Zachary
Taylor was not springing TO prominence in
another Mexican war, and Blainc's renomi-
D
ago when in the now famous letter from
Italy he declined to be a candidate. AS
early as last summer Sherman announced
his temperance as Presidential aspirant
by securing the Endorsement of the State
convention of OHIO. Even before the Flor
ence letter many Chicagoans, among whom
was the editor of the Tribune had resolved
! to throw Blaine overheard and bring out
Walter Q. Gresham, of Indiana, as candi-
date. Considered eligible ever since his APP
pearance in the Cabinet Gresham as Presi-
dental possibility attracted no gaeat atten-
ton until his decision in the Wabash case
wherein Jay Gould received merited scor-
ing.
The Gresham movement might have
grown after the Florence letter into an ir-
resistible force had Indiana, his native State
and his place of residence, made or even
seconded the proposition that he should be
chosen. But Ben Harrison was ambitious
of distinction, and the Republicans of
Indiana, ignoring the Gresham as an Illinois
movement, pronounced for Harrison. This
is a stumbling block i'll the road of the
Gresham movement, but it is a trifling OBJ
stacle compared with the purpose of the
highly protected industries now controlling
the Republican party, to have no candidate
for the Presidency who Is not wholly and
safely committed TO antagonism of the
tariff-rcform policy which Cleveland has
sagaciously and so emphatically announced
that it can not be ignored as an issue, and
sooner or later must bear fruit.
| The Florence letter, variously interpre-
ted, encouraged the appearance of sundry
additional candidates, some of them, as may
be the case with Anger, posing for second
place, while others, as Phelps, are acting
merely as a cover for the friends of Blaine,
who insist that Blaine will make the can
yass if the nomination be rendered with any
degree of unanimity.
| PLAIN graphics may be employed after the
manner of the baking powder advertisers
to express the relative standing of all an
nounced candidates as thus:
/ Sherman,