The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-14

Ing lndlvlduai. we rear the handsome MI.
Dorsheimer is the victim of one Of the risky
Mr. Coxs practical jokes, and we can imag-
inc how the jovial Cox enjoyed the success
full ''sell. !" A pretty leader Sunset Cox would
make in impeaching the title of the Presi-
dent, to whom he wrote that gushing letter
OF recommendation in favor of General
Buffers scapegrace nephew. If the hand
some and solemn Mr.. Dorsheimer were
gifted to see the ridiculous side OF things
he would not have marched with such high
stateliness into the trap set for him by
Cox's practical joke.
But Cox's sprightly chatting and Dorshei-
mer's solemn use of it are not more absurd
than the speeches of the disappointed can
didates. The question who are President
and Vice President for the present term is
pretty we'll settled, and the question who
will be their successors remains to be de-
cided in 1880. Messrs. Tilden and Hen
bricks cannot get the places Of their late COM
petitors, and other people than themselves
will have something to say about the next
Presidential election. Mr.. Hendricks, with
a grave pomposity which would do no dis
credit to Mr.. Dorsheimer, announces that
she who is elected President must be inau-
gurated," and adds that ''until that is set
tied and made sure no democrat can be
seduced from his devotion and allegiance in
any way" If this applies to the past it is
nonsense. If. as is to be presumed, it
applies only to the future, it is an
admission that the next Presidential
election may be close and doubtful.
But ii the people are as wrongod
and indignant rs the disappointed claim
ants would have us think the next Presi-
dent will be elected by majority SO over
whelming that no question can arise as to
his Inauguration. What sense is there in
making the Inauguration Of an elected Presi-
dent the paramount issue in our politics if
the democrats are going to sweep the coun-
try in the way they expect in 1880?
The parade Of their disappointment by
the defeated candidates is indicate, un-
dignifed, unmanly, unusual and regard
less Of the tranquility and business in
terests Of the country. 1t is ~ reckless Mt
tempt to reopen settled question II these
sore gentlemen feel called to denounce any
body they should denounce their own sup
porters in the late Congress. The Electoral
Commission could never have been carried
without strong democratic help. Every
democratic Senator voted for it with
single exception, and u large majority
Of the democrats OF the House. After
agreeing to the commission they were
bound to accept it's decision When Sen
ator Thurman, the ablest democrat in either
House, was asked how he thought the COM
mission would decide, he replied, in tone
Of rebuke, that he had no opinion, and that
if he had had an opinion he would not have
voted Tor the commission. This was his
emphatic way Of saying that democratic
honor and good faith were bound to accept
the result, whatever it might be- Messrs.
Tilden and Hendricks have mis-
timed their energetic protests. Their
indignant remonstranees should have
been made when the Electoral Commission
was proposed Having been silent then
they should forever afterward have held
their peace. II they have reason to blame
anybody it is their own political friends in
Congress. When their own party had con-
scented to refer the question to the commits
sion it's honor, sincerity, good faith
and manliness were pledged to abide
the result. The unseemly scolding and
whining Of the defeated candidates
are an imputation on the democratic Sena-
tors and Representatives who spoke and
voted for the Electoral Commission. With
out active democratic support the commits
sion would have been impossible. The
democratic candidates dishonor themselves
by rcbelling at this late day against settle
ment in which their own supporters in Con-
gress participated and to which they con-
sented by their silence.