The daily gazette., 1875-10-07
PRESIDENT MAKING.

greatest obligations to metropolitan
journalism for the felicitious IN inner
in which it makes and uumakes dem
ocratic candidates for the presidency.
This quadrennial anxiety on the part
of these journals is nothing new under
the sun. 1t has come to be accepted
as q matter of course. We hardly
know how the country would sur
vlve the loss of these president makers,
or rather these makers of candidates
for the presidency. For this quadren-
nial anxiety seems to be chiefly con-
fined to the question of candidacy
the success of the candidate before the
people being quite another and diff
ferent matter entirely. The Tribune
has joined its local contemporaries in
this felicitous work of nominating
democratic candidates to he defeated
before the people And the way 1t
disposes of all presidential pretensions,
except such as it graciouslY conde-
scends TO recognize, is as remarkable
for Its disinterestedness as for the
brilliancy of its performance when the
thing is done. 1t speaks this time
through "a veteran democratic poll.
tician" Of Philadelphia-one happily
interviewed by its correspondent, and
who expresses frank views of the
presidential outlook. And it is not
little remarkable how entirely the
views of this veteran democrat"
coincide with those of our metropol-
itan contemporary on the question OF
democratic candidacy.
There is one thing, however, which
the president making Tribune fails to
tell US. 1t does not say-in so many
| words at least-that this veteran
demncrat, whose name it is not per-
mitted to give the public, desires the
| nomination Of a candidate t0be irhipped,
as it is among the possibilities 1--WE
won't say probabilities) my be the
| case with our metropolitan neighbor.
But he is the happiest candidate killer
it has been our good fortune to run
across in many day. He disposes of
all the western candidates almost as
Ifelicitously as he does the democratic
leaders of the Keystone state, who are
% cheap lot of small politicians" to
make the most of them. A year ago
Senator Thurman was his man but
now he is not thought of as a candi.
date" Hendricks Ia "eight years too
late" and Pendleton is in the same
lcategory Allen, Ewing, Cary, and
1.-THE rest of them, are only "a lot of lu.
lnatics," while the tall sycamore OF
the Wabash" isn't so much as thought
of in the list of possible candidates.
Indeed the entire West is destitute OF
democratic timber for the presidency.
All the commanding craftsmanship OF
that section is, as matter of course,
in the republican party. The demo
cratic party has not particle of it,
and that disposes of everything west
of the Panhandle They are felicit.
Iously killed off with one dash of the
annihilating pen,
/ And then the gallant and brilliant
delaware senator-he, too, is man
Ito be killed off with a single dash OF
| the 1Tibae's quill. Senator Bayard,
I've quote from our president making
contemporary, sis clear-headed, up
right democratic statesman of the best
TYPE, but not available. lie come
from south of Mason and DiE0n'S line
1--WE must not cross that line for a can
ldidate. Anybody from a half way
lsouthern state, like Delaware or Mary
Hand, would be suspected of Bourbon
lism, which would be fatal" ON
would almost suspect the author o
this gabblc of being another Oregoniai
delegate to the Chicago convention o
1880, from the tlippency with whicl
lhe talks about Mason and Dixon
lime" Senator Bayard resides in Will
mington, Delaware. He, and two o
three generations of his family befor
him. were born there, always livet
!. there, and those already passed away
Idied there. And nobody but thi
"veteran democrat" and the Nev
York Tribune, ever dreamed of tha
great ship.building city being south
the historic line in question!
This celebrated line was run i
I1764-6, and it started from the nortl
east corner of Maryland and due we:
= some two hundred and tifty-four mile
to what was then known as the Warric
branch of the old Catawba war-patf
at the second crossing of Dunkar
tcreek. 1t never divided Delaware,
any part of it, from either Pennsylv'
mia or Maryland; and, even if extende
eastward from "the northeast corn'
Of MARYLAND, this veteran democrat
, of Philadelphia, where all the Del
H. ware Bayards sprang from, would n
Fl be Obliged to cross that historic line
lind this "clear.hsaelsd, atprIght dem
cratic statesman Of the best type, as
candidate for the presidency. WI
. mington lies sheer north OF that O
historic liue. out of which demagogu
;. have hammered so much political ca
ital in the past, and this "vetera
democrat" il not the Tribune, Won
delight to hammer still more.
Blistered be the tongue OF dem
H. crat which would give utterance to ar
r such infamously sectional sentimeI
aaes as this--that Mason's and Dixon's LII
IS. must not he crossed for candidat
n Why not come out fiat-footed and s.
NJ y, that certain city or state must furni,
the candidate, or the machine VIII
,d smashed by a "bagatelle issue?
rs would sound quite as well to denocl
tic ears in this state, if 1t were not
'ls happily In keeping with the antet
~ dents of this veteran democrat, W
y. is conveniently located In Philadelpt
for tho nurDose OF killing off Jud