New-York tribune., 1880-06-25
yHE CIACINNATI NOMINATION..

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The issue of the Democratic Convention is
what might have been expected of such an
| irrational body as soon as Mr.. TildPn lost his
| hold upon it. There was only ono question
upon which the party could appeal TO the
country, and that was Inseparably involved with
| the pretcusiOns of the defeated candidate Of
| 1876. When no was discarded, all the COM
| plaints and all the accusations which Demo-
cratic politicians have made their stock in trade
! tor the past three years were discarded like
| wise. The party cOntcsses now that the great
| charge of Fraud was untrue. There IS no
| ground for impcachng tho decision OF the
| Southern CanyassnG Boards or the Electoral
| Commission. Democracy has fed upon slaudcr
| all through the term of President Hayes, and
| kept itself alive by the dissemination Of scan
daous stories which it now admits Mat 1t did
| not believe. 1t has been more than three
years industrously working up the Fraud Issue
for the c..mpaign OF 1880; and when tie time
comes for putting it to use the Democratic Con-
VcntiOn declares that it IL all humbug. The
Republican party would have welcomed the OF
porunity to submit the cast to the test Of
popular vote; but the Democracy has prudcntly
Withdrawn its owD challenge, and that matter
must row be considered settled.
Mr.. Tidcn being out of tho way, The De-
mocracy, as we have said, had no principles
upon which it could ask the verdict of the
country, and 10 candidate representing any
positive idea whom it could afford to support.
The financial question is mcOmparably the
most important that remains for settlement,
and there is every probability that in the course
of the next Presidential term we shall find our
r r. a.. 4
from the yet unsettled problem of the currency.
An Executive of clear perceptions, firm rcSOlu-
ton, and an accurate knowledge Of finance and
political economy, may then bc needed to save
us from q great commercial disaster. The
Democrats might have offered us such u man in
the person of Senator Bayard, VINO was by Ga:
the ablcst and best Of the candidates before
their Convention but they promptly killed him
off because lie was too good and because they
dare not go before their rotten constituencies
at the West with n nominee who feels sure III
his own mind tnat one hundred cents make
dollar. General Hancock has never given the
world reason to believe that he has any
opinions Oil finances and it is certain that his
interests and studies have been connected with
subjects of an entirely different nature. The
candidate for Vice. President ia an Indiana
banker with plenty Of money to put into the
campaign. His selection will not offend the rabid
in1atOnisls who alc running on the Democratic
State ticket in Indiana, because they know
very we'll that tho Vce-Prcsd cnt has absO-
lutcly no influence upon the flnancia policy of
the Government; and for the same reason the
name Of Mr.. English will add no strength to
the ticket in those regions where sound ideas
about money prevail.
Casting aside the Fraud issue, and tho nnan-
cial issue, and trying TO forg ct that they were
prepared, in case Grant had been nominated, to
make an issue on military Prcsldents, the
Democrats have taken the only COURSE open to
them. They have rushed into IIurrdh
Campaign. 1--WE shall have smashing and
"mariial outside" The party which denounced
US for making a bad President out of good
General will try by much shouting to COPY our
bad example; and the Southern brRadicrs, to
show that they bear no malice, wi II very hand.
somely consent to vote for military man,
whose principal doctrine in politics s that
every State must be let alone TO do as it pleases
within its own borders. But hurrah campaigns
succeed only under rare circumstances and
we do not believe that the Democratic party,
loaded with ell the disgraces of the past few
years. could win the Presidency with any
nominee on the face of the earth. General
Hancock is a very handsome and amiable gen
teman, whom we shall have pleasure in beating
with all possible courtesy.