The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-11-14
RARNkiArS RLnNnER.S.


1t becomes more apparent every day that
IIancocl's defeat may Justly he laid at the
door of Mr.. Tilden and the Chairman Of the
National Committee. The fatal nomination
of English--a nomination which compelled
the Democracy of Indiana to swallow the in
carnation of all they had been taught to
loathe-was forced 10y the Tilden clique in tho
Cincinnati Convention, In defiance Of vigor-
ous protests from Indiana mon on the ground,
and apparently with the design Of afrronting
the friends of the most eminent and powerful
Democrat In that State, Thomas A. Hen
bricks. Then, when those who best knew
the needs Of tho canvass, and who saw that
the balance Of power was in the hands of the
Nationals, desired to withdraw opposition TO
the reelection of Congressman De La Matyr
and to effect coalition with this powerful
element, Chairman Barnum and William II.
English mulishly insisted that straight can
didate should be run, with the inevitable re-
suit of destroying the last hopc.of carrying
that State in October.
This Bourbon policy of insisting upon
straight tickets when success was only possi-
ble by alliances was not a new one with
he represented are mainly due the large Re-
publican majoritics that have reappeared
this year in the Northwest, where 1t lately
looked as If the Republican organization was
in as bad way as IL has been in the extreme
Northeast. When the present Congress
| was to be elected, the most astute Democrats
in Michigan, seeing that n majority Of the
| Congressional Districts could be carried
against the Republican candidates by union
with the Greenbackers, began 10 work up a
movement TO obtain that object. MIR. Bar
mum forcseeing that such fusion would
prevent Mr.. Tilden from controlling the
Michigan delegation in the coming National
Convention, went to that State and used his
influence and position as Chairman of the
National Committee to prevent It. lie sue
ceeded, and in consequence the Republican
congressman were uniformly elected, and
even so popular man as the late General
A. S. Williams, of Detroit, was defeated.
This year the wiser Michigan Democrats
wanted to adopt the policy which had proved
so successful in Maine, and run an electoral
ticket composed in equal parts of Democrats
and Greenbackers, and also to unite on Con
gressmcn and the Legislature. Mr.. Barnum
put his veto on this project, and of course il
fell to the ground. The fact that the third
party polled 1000 votes in Michigan, ever
after the Indiana disaster had set the It'd,
running In favor of Garfield, reveals tn,
rationale of the fresh uprising of Republican
ism in the West.
The deposition of August Belmont from III,
Craftsmanship of the National Committee II
; 1872 was step in the path which woul,
have led the Democracy to victory. Thi
step was retraced in 1876, when the ex-rebe
delegates to the st. Louis Convention sue
oumbed to the money kings of New York
Hancock and Hendricks, if nominated tina
t year, would have swept both Ohio and In
diana in October, and New York would hav
t been borne along on tide that would hav
carried most of the Northwest in November
for mark that there was then no Solid Sout
9 to weigh the ticket down. The bondholdin
element, which it ought to have sloughed of
Il the people in 1876, and broke it's back whe
IT ii became a question of fair count or
40 fight.
is The cipher kilograms, as this journal a
"a ways maintained, spoilt the fraud issue fror
ID the start, because in order to maintain sue
:, :, an issue effectively 1t must not appear til,
: those who make the outcry have merely bee
~ beaten at their own game. Yet after IL
l. elections of 1S7S-'79 had shown that IL
~ fraud issue was impotent the Barnumit,
in tried to make 1t the chief question of Il
's campaign. Then after they had taken Il
IN lOSl anu Indub na
l. oock's election impossible, they did the
as best to degrade the great party they misre
ne resented, and the peoples chieftain who w
;. towering so far above them, by abetting-
:. at least being deceived by-the Morey 70
a. gerry, as if, not contented with defeating, tn,
?, wanted to dishonor their party. Those wi
le were misled by its apparent genuneness in
r. treating as true this blackguard' device ha
1t ground for righteous Indignation at such
IN fresh exhibition of that spirit of Tildenis
~ ~ which has now freshly consolidated Il
@ power of the money monopolists and ce
On tralizationists for an indefinite term of year
so But then, millionaires like Tilden, BarnuI
!" English, and Belmont never had any logic
to place in party which had no reason for e
~ isting except as party of the masses; and
a. party of the people only reaps the crop
~. sows when it trusts itself under such inin
Ms cal leadership.
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is TIE NAVAL REVIEW.
ry Much surprise was felt at the absence
We all the highest line officers of the Nav
active and retired, from the Naval Revi,
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