New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-05
GILL THE NEXT.

After to-day in all probability tho intense
public interest which has centred at Chicago
will in a measure subside, and our Democratic
friends will take the floor. During the past
three or four weeks they have been so Occu-
pied with the contemplation of Republican
affairs, and the nomination of Republican can
didates that they seem almost to have for
gotten that they had q Convention OF their
own coming off and ticket to nominate three
weeks hence. 1t Is we'll for them that they
have, for they have no doubt enjoyed taking
part in the squabbes of their opponents, and
contributing as much rs they might to the
promotion of strife, q great deal more than
they would quarrelling among themselves,
though as a rule they would rather be fight
ing AnnOng themselves than not at all. Now
that there is to be an end to their fun Of look
ing on +ho Republican scrimmage, and patting
rival candidates on the back, and giving
advice to the contestants and making predic-
tions and bets on tho winner, they may put
themselves in training for their own little setto
without gloves, In the twenty-four-fOOt ring
at Cincinnati. Meanwhile the Republicans and
the public generally will watch the proceed
ings with interest, occasionally contributing
counsel and advice and doing whatever they
can to make things lively.
A day or two being given to the discussion
of the ticket nominated at Chicago, we shall
see by about the middle of next week the
entire Democratic press in a state of eruption.
With them everything has hinged on the event
at Chicago-everything been kept waiting
until it should appear who were to be the can
didates of the Republicans. All the big
booms and little bOOms that have been started
in the past three months have been kept in
check for the past three or four weeks for
fresh squirt after Chicago. Within n day or
two we shall have all the favOrites and sec
ond choices and availables. tho runners and
PAGERS and trotters, the known and the un-
known, the ringbOncd, spawned and blind,
all out on the track. Here will be 1ilden
and Hendricks and Seymour and Bayard
and Hancock and Thurman and Field
and David Davis and Randolph and Sam Ran
dali and the two Englishes from Connecticut
and Indiana and Payne Of Ohio and clark
"horses" without end. There's no reason
why, with all these candidates in the field or
lust on the edge of it, there should not be
some lively work done during the next three
weeks.
The first and main question will be what
Mr.. Tilden proposes to do AS to MIR. Hen
bricks, he will undoubtedly step into the pub
lie eye once more and 80 emphasize his re-
fusal TO take the second place on the ticket
as to leave no manner of doubt as to his en-
tire willingness to take the first. Mr..
Seymour will have one more opportunity per-
emptorily to decline, and his steadfast fool
friends will thereon manifest their belief In
his sincerity by insisting that he only needs
urging to accept. All the rest are known to
be willing, aud . little more. though it was
said at the Connecticut Democratic Conven-
ton that Ex-Governor English Of that
State had written a letter declaring that
his time was so occupied with his
private business that he could not
think of accepting the Presidency. If this is
true-which we dOubt-it should be known, as
it is the only of the kind record.
But the real question centres in Tlden.
What his plans actually are, Of course, nobody
knows, not even the old gentleman him
self; but whatever anybody knows Ia known
by Henry Watterson, of The Louisville Courier
Journal The latest authoritative announce
ment from that quarter is that "he is in the
field as n candidate for the nomination at
"the Cincinnati Convention" and that
"nothing will take him out of it but
assurances that some other candidate will
{" be more certain of success" Meantime it is
to be distinctly understood that there will
be no pressure at Cincinnati and no organ
"ization designed to force Mr.. Illden on the
"partY." Anybody can put whatever con-