Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-04
pRESIDENTT4L CANDIDATES.


pendent Republican association of the State
of New York is never happy except when
he is boiling a ticket or at
tempting to so mould the action
of party as to ensure its defeat. In 1872
he opposed the denomination of Grant as
he deos to-day, and organized the Liberal
Republican movement of that year which
captured the Democratic party and brought
about the disastrous defeat of 1872. 1t
is very evident that he is trying to bring
about like result this year, but as the Demo
cratic party has learned wisdom by expert
ence it is not at all likely to prove success
full.
Mr.. White announces positively that
Grant cannot carry New York State in
November, and that if he is nominated at
Chicago the faction he represents will at
once place an independent candidate in the
field. His association, he claims, controls
over fifty thousand votes, none OF which will
be caat for Grant. He made the same claim,
however, in the State election last fall, as
sorting emphatically that Cornell could not
be elected by reason of the opposition of the
"young scratchers." Nevertheless, he was
elected, Tammany, however, contributing
more to the result than the scratchers were
able to counteract.
There is no doubt but Mr.. White speaks
the truth when he asserts that Grant cannot
carry New York. No candidate the Republi-
can party could name can carry that State
against any Democrat in the field, Mr.. Til
den, perhaps, excepted, and even this excep
ton seems scarcely necessary since the
Syracuse convention. The men in each
party WHO are the m 1st unpopular and the
most likely to excite opposition are Grant
and Tilden. 1t is not improbable that in
case the regular conventions of both parties
nominate these persons, an Independent can
didate will be presented by the d1ssenters
from each party, and that there may be four
Richmonds in the field. The result will
probably be that the two irregular can
didates will take off the dissenters from both
parties, and leave the regular candidates IL
the same relative positions they would have
occupied if the field had been left clear for
them.
The nomination of Mr.. Tilden by the
Democratic convention is still only a posi-
bility. 1t is probable that if he is not de-
feated outright in the convention, the oppo-
sition to his candidacy will be so formidable
az to induce him to withdraw as a matter of
expediency. The GLOBE does not regard
him as the supremely selfish man he is repre-
sented to be by his opponents. 1t thinks he
has sincere and patriotic regard for the
welfare of the people at large, and will sac
rifce his own personal ambitions TO the
good of the party and the country. Those
who know him best are confident in the as
suraDce that he will not suffer the success of
the party to be jeopardized in order that the
wrongs he has suffered may be avenged.
Such, at least, it is to be hoped, are his real
sentiments.
While many would regard it unwise to NOM
mate Mr.. Tilden for the Presidency, if
he is nominated he will no doubt receive the
support of the majority of the party. There
would be brief protest against it from
some sources, but in the end the party would
acquiesce in it. The question is whether
Thurman, Payne, Hendricks, Seymour, Da-
Wis, or some other of the score of names
mentioned would not be stronger than he.
Mr.. Tilden's grievance is not an individual
one, but belongs to the party which he rep
resented in the campaign of 1876. The is
sue of Mr.. Hayes fraudulent Inauguration
can be raised as effectively under any other
standard bearer as under Mr.. Tilden, and it
would not be matter of surprise to see
Mr.. Tilden urging the selection of candi-
date other than himself.