The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-06-22
WHEELER AND TILDRS, AND THE
VOTE OF NEW YORK.

Wheeler's nomination as a candidate for
the evice-presidency was evidently designed
to destroy Tilden's supremacy in New
York. II Wheeler had Hayess place as
the Republican leader. Tilden's power in
the Empire State might be neut,alized, but
the Reprbliean ticket, as we stated Satur-
day, is strongest in its launches, and the
yice-Presidency is the fatal paralysis of
! greatness. Wheeler's friends and admirers
in New York may be numberless, but these
approving none the less the deeds and pur-
poses of Tilden, would elevate the latter to
an office in which his peculiar virtues and
opinions may be injected into the conduct
of the Federal government. The elections
OF presidents. and viee-presidents become,
10 the North, matter of business, and not,
rs in former years, OF "hard cider" or
I" hasty plates of SOUP" or "squatter sove-
reignty" or negro-worshipping demagog-
ism. Great commercial States and cities
have profounder interests involved when
taxation is ruinous, aud every dollar that
drifts along the channels of trade Is elo.
quent Of hard times. Mr. Wheeler's mis-
fortune, and that of his party, consists in
the fact, that if elected Vice-President, no
force of genius or statecraft can make his
potency. felt in the couOtry's legislation.
New York, on the contrary, has tested Til
uen's virtues, and New York, more than
all the States, that prosperity and business
activity may be reproduced, will surely ad-
here to the fortunes of Tilden, and, for the
reason that if elected, he will make New
York great by aggrandizing the Union. The
Cincinnati convention confessed this fact by
nominating Wheeler, in order to break, if
possible, the force of Tilden's certain nom
ination. The action of the convention at
Cincinnati was thus based on the assump-
ton that Tilden would lead the Democratic
party, and Hayes and Wheeler were set up
as barriers to the tide of public opinion,
demanding honesty and radical reform.
But the stone wall of hard money thus
lifted up will be overwhelmed. There are
broad and deep assures in it which Hayes
and Wheeler cannot close. Reform is simply
impossible without thorough political and
partisan revolution. Fixed diseases of ex-
travagance and official corruption, gener-
ated through fifteen years of unbroken
power, cannot be cured by sedatives. He
roic treatment of the sorely liberated body
polite is a confessed necessity among the
toiling people and taxpayers, and Tilden
leading the Democratic party, and Wheeler
a cipher in front of Radicalism, the result
in New York cannot be doubted. Wheeler
is therefore nominated to head off
Tilden, and thus .Tilden's power is
confessed by his enemies. The only
mistake made at Cincinnati was, af-
Ter admitting Tildin's potency, that
Wheeler was not so used that the people
would be forced to confess that the triumph
of Wheeler's party would be the equivalent
of Tilden's investiture with the presidency.
The coming contest is one involving dol
lars and cents, and Wheeler is impotent
and Hayes devoid of that extraordinary
intellectual and moral vigor that distin-
guishes the iron-handed chief magistrate
and reformer of New York.