The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-03-03
THE CAMPAIGN.

The constituted authority OF the Demo
cratic party has designated the time and the
place for naming the next president and
vice president OF the United States. Gin
cinnati is the place, and June % the date
fixed for the meeting of the Democratic Ma
tional convention. The convention will
be called 10 order in 81 days from
to-day. In the meanwhile, the inter
est in candidates will increase and Intensity.
The friends of distinguished Democrats whose
names have been mentioned in connection
with the candidacy for president will be
tireless in the advocacy of their favorites. and
the public mind will be wrought up to more
than the usual tension. AS matters
now stand no one, We care
not what bis prescience may be
can name the Democratic standard-bearer.
Fortunately there is no lack Of good material
in the Democratic party out OF which to
manufacture president; indeed, the
trouble seems TO be to select from the abund-
ance of material, and the difficulties in this
regard which now environ the
situation, are too formidable 10 be
disregarded. or to be dismissed with
out special attention. The occasion
furnishes food for profound consideration
and the deepest solicitude. 1t brings TO
mind the campaign of 1876, its hard fought
battles, the splendid triumphs of the Demo-
cratic party, with all the untold perfidy Of
the Republican party, which finally wrested
victory from its grasp and placed fraud in
powers centennial and scontinental crime
so colossal and so hideous, so infamous
as a whole, and so execrable in all its parts
that even now, its contemplation fills the
mind with overwhelming amusement, in
dignation and shame. The Democratic
party will do we'll to remember that the
men who concocted the monstrous crime Of
detrauding the people out of their choice
for president and vice president have
control of the executive and judicial
departments of the Government,
and that they have undergone no change
whatever since the days when John Sher-
man bartered Federal offices for perjury;
when Grant filed Washington with gleam-
ing bayonets 70 enforce the edfcts of J. Mad
lson Wells and his gang of cut-throats, and
stood guard while Hayes mounted to power
on ladder, every round of which was
damning perjury, paid for out OF the
Federal treasury. Every one of Hayes
army of acknowledgements less than 100, 600
will be engaged during the coming cam
paign in perpetuatIng the power of the Re-
publican party, and it will matter precious
little to them who is nominated by their
party. To fight such party with such re-
sources, appliances and tactics, will require,
on the part OF the Democratic party,
harmony, solidity, full appreciation of the
interests at stake, sggressiveness and the en-
thusiasm of crusaders; and every candidate
named by the Democratic party, or any
branch of it, to be brought before the Gin
cinnati convention should be with special
reference to the harmonizing and solidifica-
ton of the Democratic party. This accom-
plished, the outlook is full OF cheer.
Harmony insures success while discord pre-
sages defeat. Sectional issues must sink out
of sight while the great questions which re-
late to the liberties of the people and the
prosperity of the whole country must be ele-
waited and dignified. The Democratic press of
the country should at once engage in the
work of harmonizing factions and Of unity
ing the party. Listening to the voice Of
patriotism, Democrats everywhere should
see TO IL that discords cease In the coming
contest there is nothing so important as sue
cuss, and If defeat comes of petty wTsnglings
in the Democratic party, those self-consti-
tuted leaders who foment strife, and who
cherish their own selfish ambitions rather
than the welfare OF the the whole country,
will be Justly chargeable with the calamity,
and will be held responsible for the conse-
quences.