The Russellville Democrat., 1879-05-15
NOT THE MAN."--SO SAYS THE APPEAL, BUT THE PEOPLE MAY SAY DIFFERENTLY.

interviewed by the Cincinnati En- quirer, and expressed himself decid' edly against the nomination of Mr Tilden in 1880.
 The senior editor of that paper writes an editorial in the Appeal un- der the caption embraced in the quotation marks above, fully endor- sing Mir. KeatIng's views. He says:
 In his interview with a reporter of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Mir. Heating not only reflects his indiv- idual sentiments but those of the senlor editor of the Appeal. For months we have been in perfect ac- cord as to our duty Tn opposing the nomination of Samuel J. Tilden as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1880. We cannot say, as many southern Democrats have already said, that we would not support him if nominated; but we do say that there are hun dreds of Democrats in our midst who, under no circumstances, will again support as leader the man whose timidity lost us the Presidency, when it could have been secured by nerve and pluck. The national Democracy owes Samuel J. Tilden nothing. They elected him to the Presidency, and, if he had been equal to his op- portunities, the Democratic party would now be in power and the Re publican party would have been con signed to the Tomb of obsolete ideas" There is an unsavory odor about Tilden and his fugleman, Pei. ton, which is beginning to stink in the public nostrils. The prcjudices against him are bitter and unrelent- ing, and if he should be the candi- date in 1880 defeat would be inev- itable. The friends and supporters of Tilden, who have precipitated q discussion of the next Presidential election upon the Democratic party, propose to place Tilden, like the fabled Belisarius, at the gate, to ask the nation for the Presidency, out of which he was cheated in 1876 by the returning board rascals; but it is too late In the day for MT. TIlden to become leader in a cause which was lost by his cowardice. Nomi- nate Tilden and defeat is foregone conclusion. We shall discuss this subject more at length hereafter. We desire the southernern press to speak out Tn regard to the nomina- tion of MT. Tilden. The Appeal is identified with the Democracy of Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, and proposes to elicit for publication the sentiment of the Democracy of these four States, es- pecially the views of the Democratic press, and we think in a short time we will be able to show that the south will not cast solid vote for the nomination of Tilden; and, what is more, that national Democracy cannot, on the day of election, rely on ''solid south" with Samuel J. as the standard bearer.
 We are glad to have the assurance from our able contemporary that he IS not one of those who will with hold his support from Mir. Tilden in case of his nomination. There is no jus tification for the course of those southern democrats who are thus ar rayiDg themselves against what may become their plain duty in 1880, and we trust the Appeal is mistaken in It's estimate as to the number of this class, when it says that there are "hundreds of Democrats in our midst who, under no circumstances, will support Mir. Tilden." Such course IS, t seems to us, nothing short of a renunciation of allegiance to the party; and the party is nearing dis intregation very rapidly, if there are, as the Appeal asserts, any great number who intend to use any such a flimsy pretext for with holding their support from the party ticket in 1880.
 The Appeal is saddling too much upon MT. Tilden-too much, by far, when it says that but for the want of "pluck and nerve" on his part, the Presidency might have been secured to us; and that paper altogether ig- nores the record of that contest when it charges the loss of final victory in that contest to CowARDICE on the part of MT. Tilden. Mir. Tllden's ''nerve ald pluck" has been tested. In every contest he has shown prowess which betokens nerve and pluck-a true grit-which puts the charge of cowardice to shame. He has led the party on to victory in ev- cry conflict where he has been the standard bearer. He led us to victo. ry in 1876, and to one of the most remarkable and glorious victories tue party has eyer won. And it was NOT because the elected chieftain was