The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-28
DEITHLESS DEMOCRACY.


1s7o--An Old Guard that outiives All
Waterloos and Mover Surrenders. ti
philadelphia Times, Ind.j "
| Who has forgotten that in 1872 Re-
publicanism swept this city by tens Of
thousands, the State by ono hundred
and forty thousand and tho country
by an immense popular and almost
unanimous electoral votc2 Hcre and
there State gavo nominal majority
against Grant, but only six out Of
thirty-scvcn failed to cast their elcc-
toral votes for the Republican candi-
date. Tho North was solid for Re-
publicanisn by moro than half mil
lion majority, and the party had jolli-
! 1l"d and its orators spoke only Of VIC
tory and ofa cloudlcss future, rs they
did Oh Saturday evening. Two wears
: thereafter, the same Rcpublicanism
that had been borne into power by a
majority that seemed to annihilatc all
opposition, was defeated in minority
of the Northern States, defeated in
Congress-, and the foundation of Re-
publican supremacy in the Senate de-
stroycd. In 1875 the Republicans
rallied, and by almost supcrhuman
effort, by the exhaustive employment
OF all the power, and political rcsour-
Co.'S OF the government, Ohio was re-
covered by II nominal majority, Penn
sylvania was saved by u plurality,
only because of tho overwhelming ma
jority wrought out in philadelphia,
and all tho dcbatablc States Of tho
North trcInblcd in the balance. Ono
year thereafter, when eight and a
quarter millions cast their ballots for
Ircsidcnt, the Republicans were de-
tcatcd by quarter of million ma
lority of the popular vote. Again in
1877, the tide eliminated against Re-
publican power, and Connecticut,
Now Jersey, New York, PENNSYLVANIA
and Ohio were swept into tho Demo-
cratic column. a year later tho Re-
publicans triumphed by bare plurali-
lies III tho same States, and now
Maine, California, and probably Ohio,
arc again Republican by bare plurali-
ties, us will be Pennsylvania, New
York, and likely Massachusetts, III
November: When the elections of
1917 shall DC footed up aud the en-
thuslaSm that wildly rcjoiccs without
regard to tho stubborn facts of arth-
mctic shall come to q sober invcstipa-
tion Of the election figures, who will
find the Republican outlook Of 1879
! any more promising for 1880 than it
was in 1876 for 1892
The Coming Man.
| [Austin reSlattery's Estimate1
Now, who can carry New York;
We answer
| SAMUEL J. TILDEN,
and will show facts and figures where
OF we speak. In 1868 Tildcn used all
his influence in favor Of Seymour, and
the State went 10000 Democratic.
Some may say Seymour could have
carried il without the aid of Tildcn,
but they do not know whether he
could or not. Tildcn worked hard,
and the State went for Seymour. In
1872 Tildcn took no particular part in
the campaign, owing partly to tho
action Of fTammany Hall and the Lib
erals, and chiefly the work Of John G..
Littlcjohn. The State gave Grant
$4,000 majority, and tho Republicans
elected join, n. Dix governor over
Francis Herman Dcm.) by majority
OF $4,000. Shortly after, tho fight be-
tween Tammany and anti-Tammanv
ragged. and has hrcn continued to this
day, with the exception Of the interval
of the campaign of 1876, when thcy
became united on Presidential and
State tickets. In 1874 Tildcn was
nominated for governor and,
DESPITE TIE OPPOSITION OF TAMMANY,
lie carried tho city Of New York by
$4,000, and the State by 5000 outside
the city, thus giving him $1,000 ma
iority over John a. Dix, who was
elected tho previous term by $4,000.
lie was then nominated for Presi-
dent Mt st. Louis on the second ballot
over tho opposition Of Tammany and
the two-third principle which governs
National Democratic Conventions. Uc
carried the State by $4,000 majority,
running ahead Of his ticket. lii 1877,
Johl Kelly secured tho nomination OF
Augustus Schcll us candidate for tho
seventeenth Senatorial district. Anti
Inmnany nominated John Morrsscy
Tor the same office, and, although he
(Morrisscy) had u majority Of 5000
to overcome, he was triumphantly
elected by $500 majority.
In 1877. Kelly again stopped to tho
front as dictator aud nominated Schcll
for Mayor of New York City. Anti
Tamnany, led by Tildcn, nominated
Edwin Cooper, and, although he had
$4,000 majority to overcome, he
(Cooper) was elected by 20, 900 majori-
ty. In 1878, this same year, tho
State went Republican by $1,000 ma-
jority. ~
In September, 1870, tho Democratic
party metin convention at Syracuse,
and nominoted Lucius Robinson, tho
present incumbent, rs their candidate
for governor by almost thrce-fourths
of all tho delegates, he having obtain
cd 243 delegates out of 373, tho whole
number. Tammany boltcd, that be-
ing part Of the programme for them to
30 so, and nominated John Kelly,
knowing full we'll that thoy could not
induce their Hicnds to vote for Cornell
as against Robinson, but by nominat-
ing a candidate Of their own they hopo
to draw of votes enough from Robin
son to defeat him and elect Cornell,
because John Kelly says he has no
hopes Of boing elected himself. No