New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-11

cures VIII become ING CndnlDlOuS Vi tIic
intriguing "Spiritual directors" aid Jesuit
teachers. The wi ole nation may be in an up
roar when a new Chamber of Deputies is elected
next year.
TIE CAMPAIGN md THE PUBLIC FAITH.
Indiana introduces Mr.. Hendricks to public
attention as n Democratic candidate for the
Presidency The claim of the individual
does not count for much, but the idea which
he represents is precisely that which may make
Democratic success impossible. Mr.. Hendricks
WAS on the fence, until he climbed of INTO the
sOrt-money field. Like Judge Thurman, OF
Ohio, he thought it good to declaim against
banks and bondhOldcrs, and in favor of un-
limited legal-tenders lie tried to make
himself and did make himself, e'-
peclally well recognized as champion
of the s0ft-money, grceuback, or repudiating
element in the Democratic party. 1t is on this
ground that his nomination is now urged. lie
represents Western ideas, says the Democratic
Convention of Indiana, and the nomination OF
General Garfield has made Western nomlna-
zion absolutely necessary.
Possibly this is true. 1t may be well not to
sneer at the idea that no Democrat can be
elected, MS against Mr.. Garfield. who does not
represent a Western locality and Western
financial notions The Democratic party,
both at the West and at the East, is largely
composed of men who do believe III those
notions, and there is n National Grcenback Con-
ventiOn now looking for candidates. If the Demo-
Gratis should nominate an Eastern man, or one
who is hostile to Western financial notions, that
candidate would fail to get the votes of Eastern
States, because General Garfield and his party
represent much better the ideas of the East
and yet he would probably he crippled and
defeated by strong diversion Of forces, both
at the East and at the West, under the Green
back banner. When the Democratic leaders
say that representative of Western ideas Is
necessary" to their success, we must presume
that they know their own party.
A national Grcenback ticket is not now an
impossibity. 1t would have the hearty
sympathy Of voters whose aid would be
necessary to the election of fOur-iifths Of the
Democratic members from the West, and net
few of the Domcc cratic members from the East.
These voters are fanatical in their attachment
tofalsc IDEAS. Unlike many trading Democratic
politcians, they are very much in earnest, and
will be Lcaten in open advocacy OF the cause
that they consider good sooner than victorious
by it's surrender Suppose that the Grccnback
ticket draws off 10000 votes in Ncw-YOrk,
and proportional number in other Eastern
States. and rallies at the West the supporters Of
sOft-mOney and rcpudiltiOn would the Demo
cratic ticket have any chance of success? The
hard-money men are justly pleased by the
choice of Mr. Garfield. He will poll every
vote that Is controlled by regard for public
faith and sound currency, no matter whom the
Democrats may nominate. But the opponents
of public faith and sound currency will have to
choose between n Democratic and Grccnback
ticket
The Democrats can avert this danger in one
way only; by nominating man like Mr.
Hendricks, who is known 10 be in full sympathy
with sOft-mOncy notions. BIT that would make
Democratic success exceedingly difficult in any
Eastern State. Virtually. it would stake
everything upon the chance of getting A.
electoral votes from Northwestern States, with
NO chance of getting any in Ohio. Indiana
might possibly go wrong, with - votes, and
there may be- Democrats wild enough to hope
for success in Illinois with u votes and
Wisconsin with 10 Yates. But even then
the party would get only 4G Of the AZ votes
needed, and there is no other Western State
which even the widest and most sanguinc
Democrat can hope to carry against Mr..
Garfield, in Il sOft-mOncy campaign.
The other plan Of battle is more promising
on the surface. But the Indiana Democrats
believe that it would surely end in defeat II is
TO fight for the 50 electoral votes of Ncw-YGrk, !
and Connecticut by the nomination
of an Eastern Democrat of hard -moncy
reputation Mr.. Seymour has been exhumcd
again, since General Garfield WAS nomnaled |
When he ran, twelve years ago, he was beaten |
in every Northern State except New York |
and Oregon. lie carried the latter
by only 1G4 votes, whereas It has ju,t given II |
Republican majority of 800 or more and he |
carried his own State only by means of the !!
gigantic naturalization frauds which were ON
Dloycd in that year to elect Governor Hoffman,
md which caused tie enactment of the |
Federal Election law rs a preventive. If nomi- |
Gated now, he would have against him an |
honest ballOt-tOx, the intense hostility of Mr.. |
lilden, and the organized opposition Of the |
4rcenback party. The Indiana Democrats
know their political associates, ana believe that
he Grceubacll opposition would be fatal. !
Whether they give proper weight TO other !
Obstacles time may show. With the votes of |
Iew-YOrk and New Jersey, and the Sold !
south, and without the vote Of Oregon, Mr..
seymour would have been beaten in 1861. :
md no man con give Il good reas N fofIo .
belief that he would fare as well in 1880.