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and even of Vermont and Massachu-

sets, for Illden and reform. 1t II
well that we have been beaten in Yer
mont and Maine and that their ma or
, tiles are SO large as to convince us, be-
yond a doubt, of the necessity of return
ing to our original programme our frs
loves. Care, Caution and Courage vii
give MS o United South-13S votes
The Pacific States, II votes, are certain
!, ly ours, if we bestow upon them half az
much attention as has been uselessly
expended on Maine, Vermont and some
of the Western States that we have nc
show of carrying. And Tilden's pres
I tige in the East, as reformer, will give
us Connecticut, New Jersey and his
own great State of New York, so votes
in all, if we only treat these States with
decent respect. The States above emu
merated have 200 votes in the Elec-
toral College-15 more than necessary
to elect President.
WHO WILL II BE.
! Both parties are now waiting with a
good deal of anxiety for the nomination
of Democratic candidate for Cover
nor of New York which comes off this
week. Upon this nomination, of which
you will be advised, by telegraph, be-
fore this letter reaches you, depends,
probably, the election of the next Pres
ident. 1t is pretty generally conceded
by close calculators On both sides that
the Presidential candidate who gets the
IS electoral votes of the Empire State
will be the next occupant of the White
House. There is very little doubt that
MIR. Tilden is strong enough to carry
the State unaided by popular nominee
for Governor, as he beat Gen. Dix in
IA by a majority of so. 81 votes; but,
as so much is involved in the issue in
New York this year, it was highly de-
sirable that Mr.. Seymour should head
the State ticket, as he carried New York
against Grant in '6S, when the latter
was, perhaps, the most popular man in
the United States, especially with the
Union soldiers. As, however, Mr.. Sey-
mour has seen fit to decline, let us hope
that his place on the ticket will be filled
by man who is not mixed up in the
local feuds of the party, and who will
command its entire vote.
THE MONEY QUESTION NOT AN ISSUE.
Because Mr.. Tilden is, perhaps, the
most uncompromising advocate in the
Union of hard money, some of his
friends in the North, judging from the
course they are pursuing, in their
speeches and their writings, think to
elect him on that issue. This is griev-
GUS, and may be fatal, error. That
the st. Louis Convention did not attach
primal importance to the money ques.
ton is evident; or it would not have
placed upon the ticket Mr.. Hendricks,
whose proclivities had long been known,
far and wide, to be for more greenbacks.
For the Democracy, then, to make the
money question an issue in this cam
paign is worse than useless. It is sim
ply stupid, and waste of(time and
money; the more so when is consid-
cred that Hayes was elected Governor
of Ohio as hard money man, when
the money question was the chief one
of the campaign; and that Wheeler has
always been an outspoken hard money
man. The South went as unit for
Mr.. Tilden as a Reformer, and it was
understood that Reform was to be the
Democratic war-cry during the cam.
paign. And it should be.
MIR. T1LDEN NOMINATED AS A UNION MAN.
There is another point that the South
was very insistory upon previous to the
nominations; and it is we'll that Mr..
Tilden's Northern friends and support
ers should be reminded of it. The
leading Southern Democrats insisted
that the candidate presented by the
North, for their sufrages, should have
been, all through the war, an active,
outspoken Union man. They knew
very we'll from past political defeats,
and from personal intercourse with the
people of the North of all shades of pol
itics, that it is too soon for any party
to hope to elect President whose rec
ord as Union man during the war is
not unassailable. The time for that
has not yet come. That was, perhaps,
the very first consideration with the
Southern leaders in casting about for a
candidate. And it was chiefly because
they believed Mr.. Tllden's war record
to be good, that they made up their
minds to support him at st. Louis. |
Instead, then, of expatiating upon our
candidates opinions on finance, would |
it not. be wiser for his money-maniac |
friends to dwell upon his reformatory
and economic measures in New York, /
and their results; and to refute the false
charges now brought against him by
the Republicans of having "refused to
sign call for a Union meeting at the
commencement of the war;" of having
"refused to contribute cent to carry
on the war, while his poorer fellow citi-
zens were emptying their Golfers to aid
the Government" of having " discour-