The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-08-02

fore them a very disagreeab!e dish OF
prospective crow. Bat if the average
Bourbon gullet was under the plea of
party cxpediency equal to the physical
feat of swallowing Mr.. Greeley, certainly
Mr.. Tilden would set lightly on any or
binary Democratic stomach. Besides Tie
simple and plaintive cry of g fraud,
echoed by the jingle of the political mar
which few of the rank and file can resist.
The fraud campai On, then, with all that
the name implies, which has been going
on with steady monotony OF melan-
choly earnestness, may be said to be now
fully inaugurated. At first, the Democ-
racy tired of this sort of plaintive cam
paigning. Some of them thought that if
the originator and expectant beneficiary
of this prolonged wall had more pluck
there would have been no need of whin-
ing. Others felt that they were lucky i'll
having got Mr.. Tildeu out of the way.
But the Presidency having become his
sole pursuit-saving few side spccula-
tions for the replcnishment OF his bari
he persisted in forcing the ''fraud' issue.
And having the advantage of lying PERI"
save when posing as a martyr-whilc
the other Democratic candidates We're
pursuing their game openly, he began to
reap the same advantages from Demo-
cratic blunders that have been enjoyed
by the Republicans. Sitting in his spa
cious and elegant lair in Grammercy
Park, he has seen one Democrrtic candi-
date after another fool away his chances,
and has seen the Democratic party III
Congress blunder on every living issue,
until there was plainly nothing left to
fight on in 1880, but the old campaign of
1876, with him (Tilden) as its inevitable
standard bearer. Besides, New York is
the pivotal State, and who SO well under
stands the skillful manipulations of a
campaign as he, and who can make the
''bar'l" go so far? (Oregom He is
''smarter" than all the other Democratic
candidates put together. He can do
more effective work, pull more wires
direct more men and win more votes than
all the rest, and yet all the while seem
apparently idle. His testimony before
the Potter committee is regarded by the
Democratic masses as complete vintlica-
ton, although at the expense of his
nephcws his cousins and his f;imiliars.
AS for what the leaders think it is imma-
terial so far as he is concerned. He beat
them all at st. Louis. lie can do it
again if they are foolish enough to make
a fight. But political suicide and I'M
availability have nearly cleaned the field
of vigorous competitors. Bayard has
been too stiffly honest. Thurman has
made botch of it in his role of dcma-
gogue, and Hendricks has sickcned On
the Democratic stomach. And what is
most patent of all, the Democrats ac-
knowledge the situation. In all the
political history of the country there has
been no instance of such a marvellous
growth of strength, on the part of any
candidate, in the same time, as has been
made by Tilden in the past month. Even
i'll Humans and Hendricks own bali
wicks, Tilden is the second choice = of
most Democrats, which, for all practical
purposes, is the same as though he were
their first choice, for when politicians
get to talking about a second choice =
their :: first choice" might as well save
further effort and expense. Moral Sua
sion and the '.bar'l'' have done it all