Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-04-03
FROM ARKANSAS.

FROM ARKANSAS.
EDITOR CHRONICLE: / notice
that your editorial remarks upon
Mr.. Tilden have been attacked by
a gentlemen for whom, as you
know, / entertain the greatest res
pect and admiration but from
whom l must differ as to the avail
ability of Mr.. Tilden as the eandi-
date of the Democratic party.
Mr.. Tilden was chosen in 1875 be-
cause he had carried New York for
Governor and was considered able
to carry it for the Presidency. AS
New York was essential to the sue
cess of the party, the nomination,
then, was eminently proper.
New York is as necessary to us
now, if not more so, than it was in
1876; but if there is one thing that
has been demonstrated, it is, that
Mr.. Tilden is the one man who can
not carry that State now.
The Democrats who refused to
vote for Robinson did so simply to
express their disapprOval of Mr..
TiIden and to demonstrate the fact
that without them he could not
carry the State. They succeeded,
and proved, by their success, that
there was so much dissatisfaction
with Mr.. Tilden in his own party,
that he cannot carry his own State,
the one essential to victory.
Now / do not approve the action
of the anti-Tilden party, and think
they are wrong but l simply rec
ognize the position they occupy as
factor that cannot be overlooked
in this campaign. Mr.. Tilden is d
noble gentleman, was duly elected,
and was by the grOssest frauds de-
prived of his Office, and all these
are reasons why he should be elect
ed again; but is it right to expect
the party to willingly court defeat
in order to show its appreciation of
the wrong that was done him.
If Mr.. Tilden continues to de-
mand his denomination even at the
risk of defeat as debt due him for
the fraud that had been perpetrated
upon him, he will truly become the
"Old Man of the Sea" to us; or
greater bore than Andrew johnson
with his everlasting cry for "the
vindieation of my policy"
The Democratic party in New
York is divided only on Tilden.
On any other man they can and will
unite. Seymour could carry the
State by an overwhelming major
ity, and is clearly the man to be
nominated but if he refuses all So
licitations to run, we can turn to
Bayard, upon whom the Democrats
at least will unite.
With either of these gentlemen
at the head of the ticket, we can
undoubtedly carry New York, and
with either Hendricks or English
in the I'd place we can count upon
Indiana, the two northern States es-
sential to Democratic victory.
People say that Mr.. Tilden en-
bodies the one idea upon which de-
ponds success. If the Democratic
party can put forward no better
claim for office than that they ought
to have had it before, they are sure
ly in a bad way. The cry that
fraud should be made odious"
will not work with Mr.. Tilden as
candidate, for he spoiled the purity
of his position by tampering with
Oregon, while the Republicans
were stealing Louisiana and Flor
ida
With Seymour or Bayard the
Democratic party can hold up to
the just inignation of the people the
frauds of the Republicans without
having to defend Mr.. Tilden with
even the poor excuse that he did
not know that his nephew was ne
gotiating or sending cipher dispatch
eS, etc, etc. We can only win with
a leader who has nothing to explain,
and who can charge from the word
go. PATRICK HENRY.
Henrico, Ark, March 23d, 1880.
Ice.
Our people have been contem-
plating withsOmething approaching
to dismay the prospects implied
by short ice crop all over the
United States. An ice famine here
would throw our housekeeping out
of gear in every family, and it is