The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-20


new administration. Tilden and Bayard,
Allen and Hendricks, Thurman and Sey-
mour will all be necessary to it, A ma
tional convention is. really q struggle for
twenty Offices, and not two. The nomination
OF Hayes, if successful, decides the high
departments of the government and the chief
missions. There was rs much of slate in
volved in that break for Hayes as there will
be at st. Louis 1t is more of q scramble for
precedence than for place. A dozen gentle
men start out for the Presidency, and any
one of them will be content to win the Post
master Generalship or the Spanish mission.
The defeat Of Blaine at Cincinnati makes
as the defeat of Tilden at st. Louis would
make him the Secretary of State under the
democrat who beats him if the democrats
win.
Just now the democratic problem, like that
of the republicans, is TO take the man that
wins. Nothing will come from the threat
ened Ohio revolt. The leaders of the party
will have lost their cunning if they cannot
paciey Ohio in ten minutes chat behind
parlor door. There is more than one cluster
of grapes on the vino, MS Ohio politicians,
with whom the grape is a growing industry,
will be among tho first to see. And after
sixteen years wandering in the deserts of the
opposition there are very few democratic
statesmen who will not be satisfied with
much less than the Presidency. The demo-
Gratis have to nominate ticket that will
grow. They must not underrate what the
republicans have done. It is we'll enough
to say that they have picked out two of the
scraggiest ponies in the stable; that they
have put aside Sherman, Morton, Conkling,
to Grants measure of q local Treasury
Office; that they ignored Curtis, Dana,
Hartranft, Morgan for q Vice President
who was never known outside of his
district Concede this, and show how
much better any of US could hive done, but
the pregnant fact remains that this is a mega
tive, growing ticket, hard to break, as round
MS hickory nut. AS Presidents go now we
need not quarrel with Hayes. The demo-
Gratis will do well if they can find man who
will unite them as firmly as Hayes has united
the republicans. AS the canvass now looks
Mr.. Tilden is ahead. Unless he should be
strangled by the two-third rule he will have
the majority of the Convention. Even ifthere
should be two-third rule there is no such
minority opposed to him as was opposed to
Mr.. Douglas. If Uncle Samuel crosses the
majority line he may be called the winner.
But his supremacy is challenged, rs was that
of Blaine at Cincinnati. There are dark
him, who may ride him down at
the last moment, rs Blaine was ridden
down by Hayes Morton and Conkling.
It is difficult to see from what direction they
are coming The st. Louis Convention will
be largely uninstructed. The South will
come almost as a unit for the man who can
win. The same is true of New England. If
Pennsylvania throws off New York and goes
with the West then there will be strong
barrier Of States to oppose. If the
Southern leaders see victory in Til
den they can and will nominate
him. If they have any doubt on that
point they will follow their instincts to the
West, renew the alliance they formed on the
imitation issue, and give us ticket of about
the same political and mental calibre as the
milk and water nomination of Hayes and
Wheeler. With two such tickets opposed
the canvass will be as tranquil as a Quaker
meeting and we can give our enthusiasm
to the Centennial.
Tho British Courts and Extradition.
The Louisville forger has followed his
Boston brother out of prison in pursuance
of England's determination to have an ex-
tradition treaty with America that will en-
body the limitations of the act of 1870. 1t has
been clearly demonstrated that the law in
question specially excepted the Ashburton
Treaty from these limitations, but we are
now for the second time presented with the
extraordinary picture of the Attorney Gen.
eral of England offering no resistance to the
discharge of fugitive criminals amenable to
extradition under solemn treaty. The
ground on which resistance was first made
to the surrender of Winslow was the
net Of 1870, but under the able showing by
Mr.. Fish of what the law really covers and
does not cover that ground has been ADAM
doned, and the British refusal now simply
means II won't" The excuse of Sir John
Holkcr about the undisccrned meaning Of
tho violated treaty was mere moonshine. In
the absence of legislation forbidding officials
to carry out the provisions of treaty MS
usually administered the rule Of long estab-
lished precedent should be imperative. Mu-
nicipal legislation by ono party to limit the
scope of treaty may lead to serious re-
suits in certain cases, and is ut that
party's risk but the Attorney Gen.
eral could not even urge such Legislation as
IN excuse for his inaction, and we see the
strange sight Of high British court of JUS
tice placing tho laundering stubbornncss of
Cabinet officer above the law of the land and
letting the prisoner so. This phase of the