The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-16
A NEW PLATFORM AND NEW
CANDIDATES.

Bsysrd visited Texas, the STATEsMAN
witnessing the effect of his presence
upon the people, and weighing his
fame aud personal and political char
acter, declared him to be the choice of
honest gentlemen everywhere IS a
candidate for the presidency. Many
newspapers have accepted the sugges-
ton, and it seems that Mr.. BIyard,
despite his antipathy to q bimettalic
standard of values and his peculiarly
hard money predictions, is widely ap
proved, and everywhere preferred to
the old stsgers that have been brought
out for two or three decades. Grant
can only be beaten by a new man, or
by the vigorous employment OF those
appliances in the use OF which
Mr.. Tilden Is supposed to excel.
II Grant be candidate and BIyard
not available for the purpose, Horatio
Seymour is the only living mao among
the old leaders who can defeat the ex-
President. If Seymour be nominated
the convention making the candidate
should suffer him to make the platform.
This "pottery" manufactured by the
party leaders in Washington, even if
it have "the ring of the true metal"
is too 'thin." 1t constitutes, just now,
false issue. In fact, the Democracy
most needs wise leaders. It's funda-
mental theories and principles as ex-
pounded by Jefferson and Jackson, and
even more logically and phllosophlcally
by Andrew johnson, require, at this
juncture, no special assertion or ap-
prevail. When such issues are to be
determined as those affecting the very
existence of the Union and freedom OF
the people and States, they should be
presented, If possible, before judi
clal tribunal and great deliherative
body, as was the Senate in 1882 and 80.
Here we have the relations of the State
to the Union and the personal liberty
Of individual citizens referred to O
hooting, maddened mob in Brooklyn
by a most potent Senator, ConklIng, and
in the same speech every art of oratory
and every ridiculous sectional p:eju-
dice ia invoked. Yazoo and Kemper
counties absolutely exert greater moral
force in determining philosophical
questions affecting the relations Of
States to the Union than the profound
est reasonings OF the fathers of the re-
public. But party-leaders have forced
upon the country the discussion of
these theories at time when sectional
passions will have greater force in
shaping the decision than sober
thinking. Therefore the necessity
for the nomination of candidate hay
ing the.wisdom to create and the moral
power to destroy q partisan platform.
Potter, Randall and the rest toillng
for Tilden blunder fatally, when, at
such jupcture, the passions of war
having been not yet appeased, they
would have the country adjust the
rights of Federal citizenship and the
relations of the States to one another.
Mr.. Conkling's Brooklyn speech shows
how ingeniously and how easily North
ern sectional antipathles and bloody
memories are arrayed against the South.
The facile speaker having first won for
himself the sectional prejudices of his
auditors, employed them to popular
ize theories of Capitalization against
which, under other circumstan-
ces and at other times, q
Northern audience would have re-
volted. BY giving the North these
sectional issues, the party leaders have
given these Southern States over to
protrActed bondage. They deliberately
subordinate ten States, with all thst
they contain, to the hazards of con-
test evolving most hateful sectional
hates and passions and legislation. 10
fact the party leaders, in order to evade
questions making an Eastern candidate
detestable in the West and South,
have absolutely sacrificed the South
on affairs of selfish ambitions. 1t
therefore follows, in the event that the
news in our dispatches this morning
justifies the movement, and in the
event that New York in November re-
pudIates Tilden by electing Cornell,
that the Democratic party should re-
assert its present practical and finan-
cial purposes and substitute new
leaders for Potter, Randall and
the fiery brigadiers cooperating with
them. We must enter into a coalition
affecting commercial interests and
railways and rivers and steamship lines
and slsckwater Suez canal from New
Orleans to the Gulf, and leaving Tllden
to the tender mercies Of Field and
Kelly nominate Seymour or some
new Western man as a candidate for
the presidency. Grant and Conkling,
it is believed by many, can carry the
East against anybody. The only hope,
If this be true, for the Democratic
party, IL Ohio went overheard yester-
day and New YSEk. iail rs On >: IL . y, ]
i1 l..,-.-------.--sssss;sss'iifa new plat
form with new candidates.