The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-16
The Democratic Party.


In the New York Democratic State
Convention, Hon. 81. .Tilden in the course
Of his opening remarks said:
Fellow citizens a change in the Gov.
ernment at Washington Is necessary not
only for safety, for justice, for peace, for
reconciliation in the South, but It Is
necessary for reform in the Federal Gov
ernment. 1t Is necessary for good admin.
istration and Just government In the North
rs well as In the South. 1t Is for that
change, without personal enmity, without
passion, without injustice or wrong-it Is
for a change in the Federal Administers,
tiOn that the masses Of the Democracy
are to-day moving all through the great
States Of the North.
know II IL said that the gentleman
presented az candidate at the Cincinnati
Convention fails to represent certain De-
mocratic ideas of the historic past, and
certain other Democratic ideas that are
yet In the remote future. The Democrat
10 party, finding itself unable from the
prejudice and the passions that were stim-
ulLted at each successive election when
we were led to new crusade Of hatred
and destruction to our fellow citizens Of
the South, finding itself unable to-day to
Introduce practically the great question of
Democratic administration and Democrat
10 government has resolved to go into
the field with lis three millions Of voters
as an arbiter to decide the question be-
tween the two branches of the Republican
party. The Democratic party of the
United States had no part or lot in the
Convention at Cincinnati or in It's action.
1t is responsible for nothing that was
done there, but Il secs contemplating the
broad field of the American continent,
that at last there Is apOrtion of the Re-
publican party that finds the instinct Of
the old ideas of the good Government
moving ginitsbosom and impelling 1t to sep
arate from the evils, the abuses, the
wrongs and dangers through which the
country is being rapidly carried by the
party that controls It's national admins
tratiOn, and generally, not with any
violation ofprinciple, not with any viola-
tiOn OF honor, without any compact, and
without any coalition, alone 1t stands in
the consciousness Of It's history, and with
full belief in It's own future. .
1t stands on this occasion to do nothing
for itself, but to give victory to that por
ton of the Republican party that best
represents the interests and tile needs Of
the country. Having been consulted my
sell, but without any power to bind any.
body anterior to the Cincinnati COnven.
tiOn, l advised that there should be no
Democrat placed upon that Republican
ticket. advised that no selfish interest
and no selfish object should mingle with
the great duty OF sacrifice and effort for
our country that lay before the three mil.
lions of voters which constitute the De-
tnocratic party. But II the Republican
party, or any portion OF that party felt
itself able to begin movement that
should result in better government, II was
our duty without reference to combination
or without reference to any plan or pur
pose Of the future. to bid II God speed,
and to contribute this mass Of voters who
stood through all danger, through all peril
and through all trial for what they believ.
ed to BIZ wise and right for our country.
| hear 1t Is said that there are ideas Of
Democratic policy and Democratic gov.
ernment which are not and cannot be re-
presented by Mr.. Greeley. lsit not true
that at the Cincinnati Convention, which
was formed before anybody had any Idea
Of who would be the candidate, they pre-.
pared a platform that was supposed to he
the wisest and best that the actual condl-
ton Of the country would admit of; that
they went for every reform, that they
went for every measure which it had been
the traditional glory of the Democracy to
uphold and that to-day, after the evils and
the calalnities OF four years Of civil war,
we are within reach of attainingl"
Gentlemen talk OF centralisms. stand
with party opposed TO Capitalization.
A year ago from this platform stated In
your name and as your humble agent
what l believed to be a great duty of the
Democracy, to oppose centralism and
corruption; yet can we shut our eyes to
the fact that In reference to the system OF
duties, for instance, and the revenue sys.
TEN, that, after four years of civil war,
after the accumulation of an enormous
debt, and after the establishment OF a
complicated and oppressive system of tax
alton, that you cannot go back to-day to
the position which you occupied ten years
ago that you can simply look forward
to the gradual and progressive establish.
ment Of your principals in the future after
you have effected a reconciliation between
the North and Southi That reConciliR-
tlon Is the preliminary question. Until
that Is accomplished, 1t Is In vain for you
To look TO questions OF government aud
questions Of administration.
I appeal to my fellow Democrats Of the
rural districts. ! see In this vast audience
men from the interior and western part
of the State who have not voted for q
local candidate in fve-and-twenty years
with the slightest chance Of hls being
elected, but who have stood for the cause
with their flag flying, torn, but not dis
honored 'applausel; who have stood dur
ing times Of adversely, during periods that
were hopeless because there was In their
hearts that devotion TO the principles OF
free government which IL undying and
immortal. II there Ia ever n time when
my heart goes out with the gushing warmth
to any people, to any community, Il Is to
the downtrodden Democrats Of the inte.
rior and western portions Of the State.
They will do me the Justice 10 say that |