Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-21
HITTING A MAN WHILE HE rs
DOWN.

The delicate consideration Of the Demo
cratic press for its defeated candidates re-
minds one of the old adage that "the ten
der mercies Of the wicked are cruel" Think
ing, doubtless, that Mr. Pendeton'a cup of
bitterness is full to overlooking and that
little additional discontinue cannot hurt
him so badly now as it would after he had
partly recovered from his last overthrow,
the New York Wortd seizes the opportuni-
ty to speak few words to him and his sup
porters. 1t says:-
Both MIR. Pendleton and Mr.. Packer were
persis,ently voted for in the Democratic Ma
iional Convention last year as candidates for
the highest office in the gift Of the people
| Mr.. Packer BY The delegates from his own
state, and Mr.. Pendleton by a large proper
| ton of the delegates from the West. We
think there can no longer be any doubt that
the Convention decided wisely in selecting
another candidate. Ii Mr.. Pendeton, with
his brilliant personal popularity aided by
General Grants loss Of prestige, cannot car
ry his own State now, IL is not probable that
he would have carried it last year had he
been placed at the head of the Presidential
ticket. And he would have failed for the
1
gates to vote steadily against his nomination.
Their objections to him were not PERSONAL
for there is no Democratic statesman who
deserves or enjoys greater personal populari-
ty-but resulted from deep conviction that
his peculiar financial views would not be in
dorsed by any State cast Of the Lakes aud the
Alleghanies. If, as the champion of those
views, he cannot carry his own State in the
West, the Convention did not err in suppos-
ing that he could not be elected President on
such basis. Governor Seymour, who had
been making very able speeches against Mr..
Pendlctons financial views, was much
wiser selection but he went into the race
so handicapped that the canvass had not the
! full benefit Of his wisdom and sagacity. He
{ was made to carry weight by the seeming
favor which the Convention gave to MIR
Pendeton's financial views though rejecting
their author, and by associating GoYerno
5 Seymour on the ticket with gentleman VIII,
q neutraliZed the effect Of his far sighted view
on another question. If Governor Seymour
had been nominated with his own speeches
as a platform, and an associate on the tickle
who shared the sentiments of the cmnen
: iurlst whom Governor Seymour advocate,
=. for the first place, there can be no REASONABLE
) doubt that the Democratic party would hav
o carried the election. That the party wa
II not aided, even in the West, by the quasi in
II dorscment of Mr.. Pendeton's financial view
is proved by the fact that Mr.. Pendieto
. himself cannot carry his own State, although
al he is personally the most popular man with
"a in its boundaries.
1t The Herald, not being party ppper, il
d referring to the result in Ohio, puts it NOR
bluntly, thus =
r. This, we presume, finishes Pendleton
E, He failed sgnally in 1864, for he was a dea
o. weight upon Mcclellan; he has been a fail
70 ure ever since, and he ought now to be lai
Or up in lavender, for he is very nice man. .
ar All of which points to two conclusion.
L. That Mr.. Hoffman is the coming man in til
lis next Democratic National Convention, an
ty that there are positions in life more enviab
or than that Of defeated Democratic cand
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