Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-06-12

-.
candidates for tho Republican pres-
Dental nomination year hence.
Their names are John Sherman and
u. S. Grant. The good citizen will
say with the dying Mercutio, "A
plague on both your houses" 1t is
with feeling of relief that we turn
from the contemplation of Republican,
intrigues and ambitions to see what
the party of Constitutional freedom
will offer an outraged people as they
prepare to battle for everything they
hold dear. Here the view is not so
circumscribed. The Democratic par
ty is n great national organization.
1t represents the diverse interests of
a mighty people scattered over a
vast territory. 1t knows no section
and lcgislates for no particular class.
Hence, it is impossible to prostitute
its high aims and patriotic purposes
to the mean ambitions of few men.
From the very nature of things, in
looking over the list of Democratic
statesmen on whom the mantle of
presidential nomination may fall
Samuel j. Tildcn comes first. Not
because his claims are greater or his
chances better than any other candi-
date, but because he is the legal
ly elected President of the United
States, and was defrauded of his high
office by the most monstrous political
crime recorded in history. Envy,
malice and calumny have marked
him for their own, but the people be-
lievc in him, and if he is made the
candidate of the party, that sense of
fair play, which is the ruling charac-
teristic of the American people, will
assert itself at the polls, and he will
be triumphantly vindicated and his
traducers rebuked. Perhaps the man
whose name is oftcncst on mems
tongues in this connexion is Allan &.
Thurman. The honest, incorruptible
Senator from Ohio, with his great
abilities and sound ideas of public
polity, would make n candidate who
would be absolutely invincible. lie
possesses in rare degree that personal
magnetism so desirable in n candidate
and he would create a degree of en-
thusiasm unknown in our later politi.
cal struggles. Almost the same can
be said of his distinguished ncighbor,
Thos. A. Hendricks. There are many
points of resemblance between the two
men, and both enjoy the entire conf.
dence of their party. Then there is
Thos. +. Bayard of Delaware. Per-
haps his equal in every way was never
before named in connexion with
presidential nomination. He is to.
day the grandcst figure in public life.
His whole career is stern rebukc to
the corruption and dishonesty that
have crcpt into the lives and bcsmear.
ed acts Of many of the peoples ser
wants. While political debauchcry
ran riot in the halls of legislation,
and the highest in the land bowed in
submission to the prevailing spirit Of
the time, the people of all parties
knew that there was one among the
Nations law makers who would at all
times, and under all circumstances, he
true to them and to himself. If the
Democratic convention should, in its
wisdom, present Thos. T. Bayard as
a gift to the party, the campaign of
1880 would be the most memorable
this country has ever witnessed. The
result would be determined the day
the nomination was made. There are
many others who might be discussed
as probable candidates, but We have
chosen to speak of the four men, one
of whom in all probability will lead
the Democratic hosts to victory in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred aud eighty.
THE investigation into the crooked.
ness by which Kellogg wormcd him.
self into the United States Senate Is