The Chicago Convention of Republicans has not yet selected a
candidate. All manner of names are brought forward, the most prominent being those of Senator Sherman, Mr. Gresham, and Mr. Harrison, of Indiana, the latter said to be a probable choice. The enthusiasm of the Convention is, however, reserved for Mr. Blaine, whose name is received as Mr. Gladstone's used to be in Liberal meetings, and who is described as "our Henry of Navarre," all American schoolboys having recited Macaulay's "Ivry." In spite of this enthusiasm, however, which manifests itself in the worst style of oratory we ever remember to have read, oratory as of Americans educated by Irishmen, the fear of a " bolt " if Mr. Blaine is nominated will probably compel the Convention to make another choice, which, it is guessed, may fall on Mr. Robert Lincoln, the son of Abraham, and a Cabinet Minister under the last Republican Administration. His name, it is believed, would evoke en- thusiasm, a remarkable instance of the hold which descent has over the general mind.
Previous page
