The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-04


All political interest centres in the repub-
lican canvass mainly because the republi-
cans hold their Convention before the DEM
ocrats and the action of the st. Louis pol
iticians will be governed by the action of the
Cincinnati politicians. The democrats will
nominate whoever the republicans compel
them to take that is to say, there will be
candidate at ST. Louis whose name will
be the most useful in taking advantage Of
the mistakes of the republicans Thus, if
the republicans had named Blaine the DEM
ocrats might almost have taken any one, as
victory would have come with the exposures
which, happily for the republicans, have
been discovered before the election. AS it
now stands the danger of the republicans
from Blnine will make them more than
anxious about their candidate. This will
react upon the democrats. 1t will tend to
give the country good President, whatever
else may be done.
AS the democratic canvass stands Mr.. Til
den shows increasing strength. The con-
spiracy to destroy II III in his own State,
although it has assumed formidable proper
tions, is meeting the fate of oil ccnspiracies,
from that against Cesar down. 1t is seen
that the only objections to Tilden are selfish
and personal. Some democrats do not like
him because they think he has not yielded
to their dictation. Others think that if he
were President he would do as he pleased
with the patronage of the State and take no
counsel from Tammany Hail. Others argue
that his record in 1S4S, when he went with
John Van Buren, and the free soil democrats
against the South, will hurt him with the
Southern people, who may be sensitive even
now over the anti-slavery expressions of o
democratic rebel in the last generation.
Others take the eccentric ground that Mr..
Tilden is to be slaughtered because he is OPP
posed to certain railway schemes
Under all this, however, the canvass Of
Mr.. Tilden shows increasing strength. The
criticisms upon his manner Of managing his
canvass which we observe in the interview
with Governor Dix are sound. It would be
much better if the Governor were to fold
his toga about him and, combining himself
to Albany duties, allow the Presidency to
come or 60 as il pleased. 1t would be better
if his indiscreet friends remained at home.
But we are not in Roman age. Politicians
will not seriously quarrel with a statesman
of whom the worst that can be said is that
he minds his business and sees that his in
terests are neither overlooked nor de-
stroyed.
In the democratic field, then. we have
Tilden leading, with Bayard and Hendricks
challenging his supremacy. Bayard is OPP
posed, even by those who admire his charac-
ter and his name and his noble life, on the
ground that he might be Bourbon and
would carry into the Presidency his predi-
lections for the South. But this is great
injustice to one whose record during the war
was that of patriot and gentleman, and
who would as President see that the inter-
ests of every section were respected. Hen
bricks represents the elements in the demo-
cratic party which will lead it to ruin. His
nomination would be nothing more than the
alliance of the West and the South on the
platform Of reputation and revolution
If the friends of Tilden can put him on
BoOu pik1ioLM uhl SiVc LA1A 90 iCc ( IcSl-
dent q man who will satisfy the West we do
not sec that they can do any better They
might enter the canvass with many chances
of victory. 1t may be that there is Great
Unknown in the person of General Hancock,
who seems to have sudden and enthu-
sinstic support in some parts of the South
and West or Joel Parker, Of New Jersey,
who has splendid war record, if that is
what the democrats are after; or General
Sherman, who might be carried off into
the democratic camp by violence, as
the Romans carried off the Sabines or Gas
ton, of New England or, in an excess Of
magnanimity and virtue Charles Francis
Adams. The contingencies Of the demo-
cratic canvass are as uncertain as those Of
the other party Although Uncle Samuel
shows his we'll known equestrian power by
keeping the lead, there may be a Great IN
known or clark horse" to ride him down
and pass the pole, as the Mineral colt did at
the Derby last week, to the annoyance and
pecuniary discontinue Of many shrewd
statesmen who had made books in other
directions.
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