Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-04-14

nomination of Senator Conkling, of
New York, by the Republican National
Convection FOR President, and the re-
cent very decided D mocratic victory
in Conn cticut more closely define the
| ,lutr OF The Democratic party in the
matter of the P. esidencY, and cprtails
:ho list of available candle etes very
materially. And from the pr. sent
: audpoint II is prudent ut least to
survey the field. There are no more
elections to be held before the ST.
Louis Convention meets, and indeed
none of Importance before the Presi-
Dental election. except those Ct OHIO
and Indiana, which take place in Octo-
Der. The elections in Maine in Sep
TENDER and in Iowa in October will
have no bearing upon the great
| National contest in November.
We have said that the probabilities
of the nomination of Mr.. Conkling are
| dni!y increasing He is the choice of
the administration, which means
much, as is already evident by the
certainty of his securing the support
of New York and Pennsylvania. This
also allies to him every carpet-bag
Senator and Representative from the
South, with the powerful retinue OF
Office holders. The undivided support
of such Senators as Clayton and Dor
sey, of Arkansas, Hamilton. of Texas,
West, of Louisiana, Patterson, of
South Carolina, Conover, of Florida,
and Spencer, of Alabama, means much,
and each AMI every of these men are
avowedly and earnestly for the New
York Senator. The powerful help of
the administration is apparent in all
this.
In few Southern States in which
the negro may have some representa-
tives in the National Convention Nor
ton will get divided support as a re-
wand for his pretended fidelity to the
race, and to the untiring zeal with
which he has waved the "bloody
shirt" But, like many other great
men, Governor Morton has wrecked
his political bark upon an over-conf-
dence in the ability of the imam and
brother" to control the politics of the
Southern States. This must have been
| painfully evident to this presidential
aspirant few days since, when the
Mississippi Republican State Conven-
| 4 IL roc oh, nd
will be controlled for Conkliug, when
few moments afterward a majority
OF the same men, the whites withdraw
ing, met to appoint delegates to Ma
tional Convention of coiored men to
assemble at Nashville declared uuani-
mously for Morton, as their choice for
President.
! It is certain that BristUw cannot lie
nominated, for the surgery which at
tempts to cut the ulcer of corruption
from the Republican party destroys
the life of the patient. Blaine cannot
succeed with the President against
him, nor is / probable that the forces
of Morton aud Blaine can be united
upon Governor Hays of Ohio, or any
one else against Senator CpnkliuS.
And now who oan the Democrats
minate i'll this emergency ? There
should be no experiments; nothing
should be risked in favor of persons
or sections, but candidates shcuid be
selected with view to success! It is
pretty safe to say that any proper can
didntes eau receive the one-hundred
! and twepty-aeven electoral votes of the
| Southern and Southwestern States,
| which are now under Democratic con-
| troll. This does not include Florida,
| which may add four to the connt. We
feel the necessity for change too
much, and have suffered too long to
bubble about candidates. We want
victory more than we demand particu-
lar men.
The other two localities in which we
may most certainly look for success is
IN the metropolitan States of New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut,
and the P~cific States. While we can
look with some degree of confdence
upon Indiana, it will not do 20 rick the
election upon .eithe, Pennsylvania or
Ohio. We do not mistrust tho pat
riotism or zeal of the glorious Dem
ocracy of those States, but the hold |
them, and the vast resources for fraud |
and corruption which that party has,
render the result in those States more |
than doubtful.
So it appears to us that candidates
should be selected with view to their
strength IN the two localities named.
This indeed seems a necessity. And
as all of these States arc "hard
money" States, it would be absolute
folly to nominate men who are them>
selves for ''soft money" or whose
States are so identified with that move
ment as to render their position ones
tionable.
If our premises be correct, the four
names, of those most prominently
mentioned for the Presidency best
calculated to secure the electoral votes
of these States are Senator Bayard. of
Delaware, Judge Davis, of Illinois,
General Hancock, OF Pennsylvania,
and Governor Tilden, of New York.
And the friends and opponents of
these gentlemen urge the nomination
of their favorite, and oppose that of
the others for the following among
other reasons:
While Governor Tilden is acknowl-
edged to have very great strength in
New York. New Jersey and Connect,
cut, and is popular on the Pacific ! s
coast, his acknowledged unpopularity /
in Ohio and Indiana might lose these
States in October by such large ma