The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1876-06-22
Can Hayes be Defeated.
From the Chicago Times.


1t is obvious that the nomination of Gov.
Hayes has transferred the field of contest
from the east to the west. 1t is further
more plain that the presidential contest Is
again to be virtually decided, as it was in
1872, by the state elections of October in
Ohio and Indiana. The Hayes party is
perfectly certain to carry Ohio in October.
Ii the Hayes party should also carry Indi-
ana at the October election, the presiden-
tial contest would be virtually ended in
favor Of the Cincinnati candidate.
The presidential candidate who can be
elected over Governor Hayes must be man
who can command strength enough in
Indiana TO defeat the Hayes party at the
October election. Ii the Hayes party carry
both Ohio and Indiana in October. they
will carry New York, Illinois, the Pacific
states, and about everything but the south,
in November.
The nomination of Mr. Tilden at St.
LOUIS, would inevitably give the state of
Indiana to the Hayes party in October.
To the rag-money lunatics of Indiana Bour-
bonism, the devil would be preferable to
Sam Tilden.
The capture Of Indiana for Hayes in Oc-
tober would be followed by the capture of
New York in November. Another thing
which would contribute immensely to these
consequences of Tilden's nomination is the
unfortunate record of Tilden as chairman
OF the platform committee in the Chicago
convention OF 1861, which nominated Geo.
Il. Mcclellan. That Presidential cam
paign, whose outcome was the burial OF a
whole host of Bourbon politicians beneath
a mountain Of popular odium, was contest
ed upon the Doted peace platform" which
declared ''the experiment of war" failure
and demanded an immediate cessation of
hostilities, with a view to an ultimate
convention of the States, or other peaceable
means, to the end that at the earliest prac.
ticable moment peace may be restored on
the basis of the Federal States" That
( most offensive platform, which aroused the
whole North to fury of Indignation
against its authors, was conceived and
brought forth by a committee Of which
Samuel J. Tilden was the chairman, and
among whose members Mr.. Tilden himself
declared there was "no dissent" The NOM
ination of Tilden at st. Louis could hardly
fail to be the signal for re-opening of the
"blOody-shirt" contest with all the advan-
tages on the side of Mr.. Tildenis opponent,
who was engaged as a soldier in the war
which Tilden's committee declared to be a
failure, at the time when that idiotic de-
claration was put forth.
| 1t is useless to talk of defeating HAYES
with Tiiden. The chances are 80 enor-
mously against it that nothing but blind
faulty Of the stupidest partyism would
venture upon 40 wild an experiment.
The candidate with whom the Ohio
governor is to be defeated must be a candi-
date whose strength will defeat the Hayes
/ party in Indiana in October, and who can
votes even without the vote of New York;
but who can also De expected TO combine the
electoral strength of the two great States OF
the East and the Northwest, New York and
Illinois. There is only one man in the
country who can be regarded as possessing
this peculiar availability. 1t is David
Davis. There is probably no other man
with whom Gov. Hayes can be defeated.
| 1t is remarkable that the most sagacious
men should all at once perceive this fact in
the situation which has been brough,
about by the nomination which not only
places Gov. Hayes in an attitude before the
country which nobody expected him to &C.
cupy, but which also brings Judge Davis
into a prominence in the public mind, a:
the only available opposing candidate,
which neither he nor any of his frisnds
probably expected him to occupy. 81 don't
know but David Davis could beat Hayes,
said a conspicuous Hayes man in this city
''if the st. Louis convention would nomin-
him but don't think they will, because !
| have steadfast faith in the certainty Of
their doing the wrong thing in preference tc
the right one" This is true statement OF
their most persistent habit.