The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-05-03
THE NEXT PRESIDENCY.
HENDRICKS AND VICTORY.

VIEWS OF A GEORGIA DEMoCRAT-THE
KIND OF MAN TO wIN-HENDRIcKs
CAN SURELY LEAD TO VICTORY.
A Georgia Democrat writes as follows to
the Macon Telegraph and Messenger: The
Democratic party has it in its power to
elect the next president of the United
States. provided the st. Louis convention
acts wisely in making its nominations aud
does not blindly ignore existing facts sp-
parent to all. There are several PROPOSE
tions to be considered by that convention,
and practically adopted, in the selection OF
a candidate to head the ticket, else the Re-
publican party, Notwithstanding the re-
cent disclosures involving in ruin and dis
grace many of its leaders, will again trl-
umph over the Democracy. The whole
country has grown tired and restless, II not
disguised, with the present quasi military
national administration. Grant, as q SOL
dier, was successful; but Grant. as a civilian
and statesman, is the greatest isil-
ure as president that the United
States has ever known. Unedu-
Gated to civil or political life, he
carried into the White House the habits,
customs and tyranny of the camp. He
surrounded himself with body-guard OF
army officers, glitteriDg in their splendid
uniforms, and inaugurated in Washing
toms society, through himself and MEM
bers Of his cabinet, q style of imperial
grsndeur-exhibited in magnificent resi-
dences, costly furniture, gilded equipsges,
sbowv liveries, and princely entertain
ments, rivaling the courts of foreign kings
and emperors, but wholly unsuited to our
Republican government. The cost of such
extravaganza far exceeded the salaries paid
by the government to the president and
his cabinet, and hence the Offices of the
government were basely sold for money to
enable members OF the cabinet and others
in high . sition about the White House to
hold high carnival OF luxury and extrav-
agsnce in Washington. The military arm
of the government for the first time in its
history, has been used to control popular
elections, and even to decide contested
seats between members of a state Legisla-
lure. The country, North and South,
grown
WEARY OF MILITARY RULE
in times OF peace, now demands states
man and a civilian for it's next president.
The Democratic convention must, there
fore, be careful not to nominate any mill
tsIy man as it's stsndard-bearer but 1t
should select a statesman whose ability,
patriotism and experience in civil life will
qualify him for the high Office of presi-
dent. The next proposition is, that the
nominee of the st. Louis convention mus
be Democrat of no doubtful sntecedents.
He must be man well known to the
people, and whose private character and
reputation are above rsproach. We must
have as our standard bearer in the coming
presidential campaign straightout Dem
ocrat, one who has always been loyal to
the party aud boldly stood by the flag in
the hour of defeat, as well as in the hour OF
victory. Another condition of success is
that we must seek for our candidates where
the star of empire has taken it's way
to the West. New York, backed by the
Eastern Democracy, has been honored by
the party with nominations in the last
two presidential elections. Under her
leadership the party both times suffered
disastrous defeat. Evenhanded Justice,
as well as q sound policy, now demand
that the New York Democracy in the st.
Louis convention should exhibit the
same spirit of hberality toward the party
in other states that has been heretofore so
generously extended to them, and decline
to again press the name of any New
Yorker to head the ticket. By pursuipg &
a generous course in this respect, New
YORK may be able to secure the nomina-
Cion for vice president. Besides, owing to
the divisions in the ranks of the Demo
cratic party in New York, good Western
Democrat, upon whom both factions can
unite, will more certainly carry that state
| in the November election than If the can
didate himself resided in New York
| Again, there must be
NO OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE
with the convention; no attemp' ed
dictstion by Congressional rings to force
the nomination OF any candidate chosen in
Washington City by interested poll icians,
gathered together in caucus around the
festive boards of Congressman who are
themselves aspiring I'd the nomination.
The convention, composed as it will be, OF
delegates fresh from the psople-the people
! who make and unmake Congressman in
their will-should resent any such attempt
to influence their choice, and promptly set
aside any candidate whose name may be
| pressed in that manner. We must also re-
member that the Democratic party was
virtually defeated in the last Presidential
election by the results of the October elec-
tions in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.
The national party was so demoraliZsd by
| those October defeats that il never rallie
afterwards, and the Radicals gained an essA
victory in November. Pennsylvania no
longer, we think, holds her state elec-
ton in October, but Ohio and Indiana do.
Here, then, Is TO be the battle ground foI
The next presidency. II the Democrats
lose both of those states in October, the
chances are nlnety-n1ne IN hundred that
they will be beaten in November. Then
is it not clearly the best policy for us to
run as a candidate for president man who
can surely carry aG least one il not both oi
those states? Every good Democrat will
answer yes. Fortunately for the party and
the country, we have man possessing al
the foregoing qualifications, who can carry
our flag in triumph, and by an overwhelm-
ing majority in Indiana and, we believe
A.. - n T.. T. - -
throughout the whole Union as an able
patriotic, conservative snd experienced
statesman, Democrat who has never de-
serted the flag aud, above all, one who
stands proudly before his countrymen as
the noblest work ofGod-an honest man
Amid all the disasters and defeats that be-
fell the Democrats in 1872. in every section
of the Union, the
HON. THOMAS A. HENDRICKs,
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