Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-30

TILDEN AND TAM Many DISTURBERS.
A New York special to the GLOBE asserts
that the Democratic politicians of that city
and State are in dispute as to the place
where the next Democratic national conven-
ton, with every prospect of renewal of the
old and bitter strife between the Tammany
and Tilden factions. Tilden's adherents are
| reported as favorable to the selection of
New York or Saratoga, while Kelly declares
that it must not be held at either of those
places, but at Chicago, Philadelphia or Bal.
timore. The Tildenites, if they cannot have
their own way, will accept either Louisville,
Cincinnati or Pittsburgh, but will not listen
to propositions from other cities.
We wonder if these two quarrelsome fac
tons imagine that they constitute all that
there is Of the Democratic party of the
country. One would think 80 from their
talk, yet the fact is that they are but small
fraction Of that party, and if they continue
their contentious, they will prove to be .
very insignificant fraction too. Our own
opinion is that the New York Democrats are
deserving of less consideration in the mat
ter of fixing the location of the convention
than are those of any other State in the
Union. For years they have been in con-
tinual broil. If 9 member of one faction
succeeds in securing nomination for an Of
fee, all the members of the other faction at
once join the Republicans in the effort to
defeat him. Each cabul wants all the offices
in the gift of the people, and failing to get
them it deserts the party and allies itself
with the enemy. The course of these NAL
contents has done more to bring dissatisfac-
ton upon the Democratic party in the past
than all other agencies combined, and
for them to attempt to dictate
the location of the convention
with the purpose of influencing its action in
favor or against this or that candidate is, to
say the least, decidedly presumptuous.
The great mass of the Democratic party
care little or nothing for the personal quar-
rels of either Tilden or Kelly, except as they
influence the interests of the party at large.
It now looks as if their quarrels were to be
PerPetuated at the cost of jeopardizing the
success of the Democracy at the polls next
November. If they refuse to harmonic be-
fore the convention meets, and send each q
delegation to that body, both should be ex-
Guided. The result Of such action would
probably be to give the State to the Repub-
licans, but the same result will be inevitable
If either of the factions shall be left out in
the cold. 1t will therefore be seen that
nothing can be lost by such a course, while
the party would gain by keeping local
quarrel out of the national council.
We are decidedly of the opinion that both
the Tilden and Tammany factions are max
ing asses of themselves, if Providence had
not already frustrated them. They are ruin
ing the party they profess to serve, and all ia
crafty their own private and petty revenges.
If they refuse to bury the hat chet they must
be wholly ignored in all matters relating ia
the next Presidency, or the Democratic
party must be again content to suffer defeat.
We trust the committee, when it meets next
month, will act without regard to the claims
or wishes of either of these disturbing and
disreputable factions.