Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-08-06
PREMATURENESS IN POLL
TICS.

TICS.
Our ignis fdtuus contemporary, th,
New York Sun, has up TO date, an
nounced itself TO be in favor of, fol
the high Office OF President, Joe
Parker, OF New Jersey Winfield
S. Hancock, Of Pennsylvania Horatio
Seymour, OF New York Sanford f.
Church, of New York; John Kelly, OF
New York Samuel J. Tilden of New
York John NJ. Palmer, of Illinois
Thomas Ewing, Of Ohio, and David
Davis, of Illinois, unreservedly, and
John Sherman, Of Ohio, with a reser-
vation. 1t declares unaltera6io opposi.
ton TO the aspirations Of Ulysses s.
Grant, Of Illinois, and William Dors-
helmer, Of New York. The st. Louis
Post Dispatch, which resembles the
Sun in many respects, announces its
Presidential preference TO bc Thomas
f. Bayard, Of Delaware, and its anti
pathics Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio
Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, and
Thomas a. Hendricks, of Indiana.
We are pleased to see our beloved
contemporaries thus energetically lead
ing the fight We are more than
gratificd to witness such evidences of
enterprise on the part of the Sun, and
such elements of dogmatism in the
Post Dispatch. 1t is true there really
seems TO exist no occasion Tor hurry
in this matter of Presidential nomina-
tions, but then it may be Just as well
to have the brush thoroughly beaten
in advance Of the meeting time. But
we have one mild reminder to impress
upon the minds OF our journalistic
friends 1t carries with it, also, some
few grains of advice. If the Sun aud
the Post Dispatch, in their characters
for Residential nominators, resurrec-
tionists and executioners, arc only
acting as skirmishers, the beautiful
but, as we may say, disjointed vague.
ness which characterizes their remarks
and fgurative movements will receive
no criticism from us. But if this early
start in the field OF Presidential poll.
tics IS only the beginning OF an at
tempt onthe part of these two journals
to shape the policy oi the two parties,
the democracy especially, with regard
to Their National candidates in 1880,
we must take more serious cognlzance
of it.
For tho present. however, we will
content ourselves with advising our
contemporaries to be triile more ex-
plicit IN their statements, and little
more reasonable and consistent in
formulating their groundwork OF facts
upon which TO base expressions of pre-.
ference or dislike. This will apply to
either one OF the two possible objects
above referred to, as in view. We do
not particularly object to the Sun hav-
ing ten iavorite candidates for the
Presidency, every one OF whom it pre-
iers above all the rest, This is but
natural. But we must take some little
exception to the way in which both
the Sun and Post Dispatch dispose Of
the claims OF those Of the alleged
aspirants whom they do not favor, and
also to some OF the reasons which they
give for their support Of the others.
For instance, the Sun opposes Grant
because he has already had two terms
in the White House-a good reason
and sits down heavily upon Dorsheimer
because he recently made public use
OF the words "The differences Of con-
dition, every day becoming wider and
deeper, give ample security" in a
Fourth of July oration, which we shall
have to consider as absurd Again,
the Sun supports Parker because he
lives in New Jersey Kelly, because
the people Of New York city will vote
for him Hancock, because he has not
been mentioned in connection with the
office as much as he deserves Church,
because he is on the New York Su-