The Morning herald., 1876-07-26
FOB SHERIFF,
ISAAC GRUBB.
ossCUsIrx AND PROMINENCE.

ODecurlty agS'Fst nOnoIdpie PIoW
nence," ;s the graphic comparison Mr..
Bayard has made of the candidates in the
Presidential contest When Gov. Hayes
was selected at the Cincinnati Convention
II was not because Of brilliancy or promi-
nence: it was not because of achievements,
popularity as statesman or dashing
leadership as politician; none Of these
could the Ohioan lay the first claim to.
When his name was brought before the
convention that nominated him, it was in
. sort of complimentary manner, origi-
mated by the delegates from his own State,
and when he triumphed over such men as
Conkling, Bristow and Morton, it must
have been an astounding unraveling Of
something mysterious even to those who
set the bubble on the surface, not including
the whole convention. He defeated Blaine
because Blaine meant party defeat. Grant
and his minions worked against Bristow,
and Morton and Conkling were too much
taintad with Grantism to suit the Repub-
lican stomach. In the leading men of the
party there was mistrust, that could not
be overcome by the most favorable promi-
ses that could be made; an obscure man
was found, and his name was Hayes but
for his having defeated Gov. Allen in the
wild excitements Of campaign surrounded
by many peculiar circumstances, he would
have remained the private citizen, promi-
nent only for the title of "Ex-Gov" hay
ing occupied the Office previously. We do
not discuss anything but the merits of the
man, as we have right to do, if he is to
be offered to the country as candidate
for high position his priority of right in
claim to the office over Tilden it is stated
lies in the fact that he has been in the
National House Of Representatives, while
the Democratic candidate never was there.
Yes, we know this, and when he left had the
back pay in his carpet-bag. schuyler Col
fax was in Congress, and many other gen
tlemen of the Republican party who wish
they had never been there, for they nigh
stand better chance OF going there now.
The Boston "Traveler" claims, that be-
cause Governor Tilden never occupied any
army Office of note until he was three
score, because he never wrote any books,
and was not scientist, that he is not
prominent man. He never was a soldier
and delivered no great orations. Soldiers
as presidents, we have paid very dearly
for the experience, Which has shown us are
failures. The soldier in the chair now has
disgraced it, and the public is hardly ripe
to try any more military presidents. As
to the prominence of the man-all men
cannot fash before the country, meteors of
intellect in day. His rise to the honor
able position of Governor of New York,
over such competitor as General Dix by
a majority in the neighborhood of $4,000
votes is an achievement of political victory
and personal popularity which stimulates
prominence, and is but seldom witnessed in
political careers. Ridden into power upon
a astrength Of popular vote like this, his was
the sturdy arm wanted at the helm of the
government to twist it from the parasitical
influences that were winding about it, and
supping out its life. He found fraud, and
upon the spot applied the knife that
pruned it from honest government; the &C.
tion was the promise, and the word fol.
lowed. He laid hold and went through with
reforms, rings were broken up, members of
them arrested and punished, and his ad-
of the government of New
York has not only been successful, marked
BY bold decisive force, but is pointed out
rs one Of reform, and its governor the
great "Reformer."
Could agovernneut want man for its
eader more prominent than this. He is
'mphatically the man to take the wheel,
he same pruning knife he applied to New
York a. Governor is want ed in the Nation.
! Government. Could man
q more prominent than one who is an
sknowlsdgsd "Rsformsr," and can take
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