Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-12-06
THE NEW YORK VOTE.
Is it Essential to Democratic
Success i'm 1880?
Correspondence OF the Register.
FAIRvIEw, HANCOCK COUNTY, |

Correspondence Of the Register.
FAIRvIEw, HANCOCK COUNTY,
December I, 1879. !
Is the vote OF New York essential TO
the success OF the Democratic candidates
at the next Presidential election?
The question | regard debatable one.
Ii the election were to take place now,
OF is to be canvassed upon the issues
most talked about in the campaign of
last fall, then | should unhesitatingly
answer in the affirmative. In either
of the events supposed the vote
OF New York would be, in my judg-
ment, absolutely indispensable to
Democratic success. The ticket to be
nominated would be: Tor President,
Horatio Seymour, OF New York, and for
Vice President, Thos. A. Hendricks, OF
Indiana. And the ticket would almost
certainly be elected But then, As the
first OF these supposed events cannot
happen, the other one also is 50 utterly
improbable OF happening as TO render
any calculations based upon it wholly
unreliable. The next Presidential cleo
ton will be canyassed upon different
issues ami fought upon different grounds
from what last falls elections were.
This will strike any common observer OF
the course and movements OF parties
within the past tw o decades as so reason
ably certain, that the signs and proofs
of il will not be demanded.
What the different issues and differ
ent grounds will he, am not 80 silly as
TO try TO forecast. Only this ! venture
to say: they will probably II 20 no fur.
ther than probably be such issues as
will 80 far disturb the balance of parties
that the vote OF New York, weighty as
il is, will lose its power 10 turn the
scales. need not seek TO arouse either
alarm or hope by prediction of many
and startling and momentous insurrec-
tons within the party camps and
changes Of party base and such like
events OF tragic similitnde. II is enough
that the tone Of public sentiment walked
since the stolen message of q stolen
Presidency was read, on Saturday last,
and few brief lines from the proceed
ings of the Senate on yesterday, prove
as clearly as need be, that mighty party
changes are in progress.
Was ever the like witnessed as was Wit.
messed yesterday in the Senate? Mr..
Bayard, the able, honorable and con-
scientiOus Senator of Delaware and a
Democrat OF Democrats, rises and intro
duCes into that body joint resolution
endorsing the proclaimed policy OF the
administration in favor OF demonetiZing
the greenbaCk and contracting the cur
rency, What next? Why, everything
that WAS possibly needed to make party
treason respectable, Mr.. Ingalls,, the
shrewd, scholarly and wide awake SEN
ator ol Kansas, and Republican OF the
Stalwart order, rises and Introduces a
resolution condemnatory OF the admin
islratiOn hcrcsy OF grrenbaCk dcmonctl-
zation and contraction
DO these intelligent and lar-secng
Senator's Just fresh from their homes, re-
fleet the sentiment Of their constituent
Cies? Most likely they do; and II they
do, little Delaware has become All admin
istration State, and growing Kansas has
wheeled into the opposition. IL would
be interesting, If time permitted, Ia con-
slider the causes Of such revolutions. II
may be that Delaware's own substantial
interest demand the financial surgery
prescribed by Hayes and Sherman, and
it cannot be doubted that Kansas,
bleeding from the same treatment,
would suffer immensely. Bayard and
lngalls-Delaware aud Kansas, IN the
Senate. are but indices to the great line
of division that is 10 separate the con-
testants in the great ballot battle for the
Presidency next fall.
II have spoken of this aS a different
line from any that separated parties in
the recent State elections, was not ac-
curate. 1t is not, in fact, n
distantly different line from what
was drawn in Ohio; only il is
TO be more distinctly marked, ~ that
there will be fewer blunders and mis-.
takes made by getting on the wrong
side. The tinanCes-the greenback az
ter all, will direct and marx "the middle
line of division" Upon the side OF an
ample currency and an unadulterated
greenback will be found the great mass
OF the old Democratic; party. The solid
South solid no longer, because minus
Delaware will be upon the same side
and there also will lie Kansas p with a
mighty backing OF the Great West. New
York will then cease To be a necessity
OF Democratic success, and Mr. Hen
dricks, or David Davis, or Gov. Palmer,
may stand at the head of the ticket.
CAMILLUS.