The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-02-27

y NOhhE@fONDtN1 VI Allt L lllSbuIH
Post who was in Gtreensburg interview
ing several of the most prominent Dem
ocrats of that place regarding their pre-
ferences touching the next Democratic
candidate fer the Presidency, reports
John NJ. Laird, Esq, the veteran editor
OF the Argus, as having delivered him
self in this wise
II am for TildeD. wouldTather we should
be defeated with Tiden than give him up.
There is no reason why Kelly should be al
lowed to dictate TO the party. think III
den could carry New 7 ork even with Kelly's
opposition. 1t will be defeat with any 9th
er candidate unless Tilden voluntarily with
draws. In case he should withdraw, my
choice would be Seymour, il be would run,
OF Thurman. But Tilden should be the no
minee, OF he should name the candidate.
The argus will support the nominee l
think Bayard would get cold support in
Pennsylvania. Hancock would run well"
Mr.. Laird is justly regarded as the
Nestor of the Democratic press in this
State, and We had a right, therefore, to
expect from him wiser deliYerance
than is contained in the foregoing para
graph 1t is both amazing and incompre
hensible, to hear man of MT. Laird s
ripe age and long experience in politi-
cal affairs deliberately asserting that he
would rather see the Democratic party
defeated with Tilden as the standard
bearer than to witness its success with
with any other candidate That is just
what he means and just the idea he in
tended to convey. 1t shows slavish
adherence to the political fortunes Of
Nj. Tilden which, by eleYating him
above the highest and most supreme in
terests of the Democratic party, would
wilfully and with a sort of political NAL
ice aforethought crush and destroy it.
Mr.. Laird knows as well as any other
Democrat that without the vote of New
York no Democratic candidate can pos
sibly be elected, and that the great and
overTuling question at the Cincinnati
Convention will be, and ought to be,
what Democrat possessing both honesty
and competency can receive, beyond any
reasonable doubt, the thirty-five elector-
al votes Of New y YOrk, and thus secure
a Democratic victory? Can Samuel J.
Tilden carry New York ? Mr.. Laird
says: ''I think Tilden could carry New
York even with Kelly's opposition, y
Don't Mr.. Laird know that q digger
man. in the State Of New York than
John Kelly ever was, or can ever hope to
be, stood behind him kelly in his op-
position to Gov. Robinson last fall, sim
ply because he, unjustly as we think, re-
garded Robinson as the shadow Of Til
den And don't he likewise know that
the same man is now the real and poten-
tial head and front of the thorough and
completely organized opposition to Mr.
Tilden in his own StateY Mr.. Laird GER
tainly knows this, or ought to know it,
anG with that unfortunate fdct patent
to every man who has watched political
movements IN New York for the last
six years, what hope would there be for
Tilden if he should be nominated &?
Mr.. Laird seems also to labor under
the additional deIusion that Mr.. Tilden
owns the Democratic party, and that it
exists only for his use and convenience
for ne says that Tilden should either be
the nominee, or be allowed to name the
candidate. We deny most emphaticaIly
that Mr.. Tilden should be invested with
. any such imperial power Rs.is proposed to
be accorded to him by Mr.. Laird
Whenever the Democracy Of the Union
, recognize the-right Of any one man eth
er to be nominated for the Presidency
himself, or to dictate to National
Convention his own personal choice for
the office, they cease to I've freemen,
proclaim themselves to be slaves, and az
a party have only one further duty to
perform, and that is-to die.