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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1884
Page
8
Col. Dowdall of Peoria reports interview with Samuel J. Tilden in Gramercy Park parlor. Tilden refuses to run, cites health, but supports finding a reform candidate and urges a 1884 campaign on 76 platform lines. Dowdall notes Illinois convention, tariff reform stance, and Tilden’s continued influence.
Worcester dispatch reports Colonel N A Plympton—Massachusetts insurance examiner—returning from Chicago and noting tentative candidate alignments. He cites New York Democrats split among Cleveland Dorshheimer Hewitt Flower, Illinois with Morrison Palmer, Indiana with McDor tad, Ohio with Payne, Delaware Bayard, Pennsylvania Randall, New Jersey Pattee, Massachusetts Butler. He mentions Butler’s broad support and Chicago delegation room arrangement for Massachusetts at Palmer House.
The national committee allocates rooms and parlor space for delegates from New York, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, and others with about 100 attendees from Massachusetts. Rates are four dollars daily or six dollars for board room with baths. Grant discusses politics, denies Blaine preference, praises Logan, and analyzes Republican prospects, noting Edmunds strength and potential Democratic nominees.
Senator D. M. Sabin of Minnesota, chairman of the Republican National Committee, arrives at Gilsey House en route to Chicago for a Saturday meeting to plan the convention. He says the party will back the strongest candidate who can carry New York and the country, the Minnesota delegation will unite on that person, and Democrats nominating the old ticket will not derail Republican chances.
In New York on March 20 Colonel O H Payne of Cleveland son of Henry B Payne says Senator Payne is not a candidate and will likely have little effect. He backs Governor Hoadly as a strong but unlikely nominee and notes health issues. He endorses Mr Tilden as the nominee at Chicago calling him a purer patriot and a grander man.
Washington March 19 The Star reports that Conkling’s stance could tilt toward Blaine if he joins the race. Belford says Conkling favors Grant as the top Republican, but would back Blaine strongly if Grant is unavailable or Blaine secures the Chicago nomination.
A Blaine Club has been organized in Washington with D. B. Stockbridge of Maine as president. The group aims to use honorable means to secure the election of James G. Blaine to the nation’s exalted executive office.
An application supposedly signed by Colonel Maurice Pinchover seeks a patent for an adjustable tail for dogs missing a tail. It claims the tail cap attaches to the stump and aids turning, helping the dog balance and move quickly without losing equilibrium.
Rev Henry Ward Beecher argued the Sermon on the Mount is not simple but paradoxical. He warned literal readings would undermine industry and social order, urging interpretation that supports personal virtue and adaptive effort within Providence.
A venturous mix of light vignettes spans Huron Dakotas leap year club motto about asking for what you want, an Athens wife sheathing a shotgun reforming her husband, two Cincinnati tattoo artists upholding the title Prof, Chicago’s Grace turned major general in ink, Detroit hermit Sue awakening at midnight, a Norway old maid bequest to six discarded lovers, Kate Field shoe collection, Utah governor gifting Castellar boots, and a Buchu Paiba kidney remedy note.
Charles F Barker announces Barker's American Checker-Player a 179 page cloth bound volume with twenty two openings and 34 variations plus 35 critical positions. Wardwell and Lyman contributed twenty two positions. Price one dollar postpaid. Orders to Cambridgeport Massachusetts. Three orders earn one free copy.
Edward Atkinson argues in a Harvard Finance Club lecture that precise language matters in economic questions while criticizing the Supreme Court for upholding fiat money. He contends precedents must yield to fundamental principles of money and liberty, warning the court’s stance undermines wages and scientific analysis.
A comic auction scene ends with a horse dying mid bid as a harmlessly sad auctioneer laments low offers and calls for better bids on a royally bred animal. The piece uses satire to lampoon auction talk and the animal's fate.
The Philadelphia Press notes Lord Derby of England earns £167,000 yearly from land and could exceed £200,000 with other sources. His wife is a celebrated heiress, and they have no children.
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