The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-03
GENERAL ib,Ess REVIEW.
Tear, A. rilden,


Nothing in contemp6rar1politls is SC
affecting as thu loud lamentations of III,
Republican pred over the failure of the Gin
cinnstj conventSn to nominate the dear oh
ticket. Not that they would have supportet
iyif it had been nominated they do not 90
81 far as to say that but as entirely disinter.
es,ed observers of what is going on in the
Democratic camp, as earnest we'll wishers OF
1.-THE reform element III that party aud above
( lsll keeping in view the srbhme heights of
Alstice they are sorry. L .ocrats are re-
Minded in a touching, a,beit somewhat
Eroachful, way OF the magnificent oppor.
lity they have lost, and Il homily is
ached upon the ngrattude of republics,
/ Il strated in Mr.. Iilden's career. There
\ the Washington Republic. for instance
which has gone regularly into mourning for
hNe old man. To the able editor OF that
journal there is something very sad and
suggestive in the thought that great party
should thus cast aside, like worn glove, one
who has given to its service the best wears Of
his life, as well as his youth, his health and
his fortune. The New York Tribune
is positively shocked about the same
thing. 1t could not have believed
anything SC scsndaous if it had not
seen it with IL 6wn eyes. For three years
it had been predicting Tilden's nomination
and stuck TO that prediction up to the very
day of the baoting. II chuckled with de-
light over the thought that the Democrats
could not escape from Tilden domination
and tauntingly asked sgain and again
What are you going to do about it," Quite
as sorrowful is the New York Times, and
even the New York Post murmurs through
its tears in u voice choked with emotion that
9 1t is very, very ,rd that tho poor, dear old
man sho,, 4 have been so badly treated 1t
looks as ttough the whole Republican party,
led by its organs, as chief mourners, had SOL |
EMMY resolved to wear Grape on its left arm
Tor thirty days as tribute of respect to the .
lately gone but still lamented. Far be it |
from US to mar the soemnty of the occasion
by any doubt as to the sincerity OF these
manifestations of grief. II is in bad taste to
snatch mourner's handkerchief away in Or
der to satisfy ourselves that the tears are real.
respect for the proprieties prescribes silence
as to the motives of those who follow the
bier. Yet We cannot but reflect that in the
hey-day Of his political vitality Samuel J.
Illden was not indebted to these sorowful
persons fOrsny!hing but kicks, cuffs and bad
wishes. de was the wrongful claimant of
high office, was brber of returning boards,
dealer in wicked cipher dispatches, a
keeper OF suspicious company, an income-tax
dodger, and nobody knows what else that
was bad. In one breath they deplored his
paralysis and said he ought to have been
dead long ago. He WAS nice man to run
for president, ha ha the Democrats must
take him, for they couldn't get along with
out his ''barrel" or the fraud cry of which he
was the patentee and sole manufacturer and
o Wner. Nominate him was the cry, and the
air with which it was said suggested the oil
adage you'll be damned II you do and
you'll be damned if you DON'T" Well, the ,
dear old ticket is dead and gone, and crying |.
does not mend the matter. As the Demo y
Gratis seem to take it with Christian resiena-
tion, and even with sanctfed glee, would '
it not be well for the Republicans, who are ,
not its nearest relatives, to bear it philo-
sophically? True, indeed, their loss is great.
There Is no chance Of warming over the ,
funeral baked meats of the campaign of 1876, !;
for Hancock's nomination does not invite
anybody to that sort of repast The barrel >,
ian no longer play partin cartoons. Cronin's
nose is not u living issue at present Cipher :,
.lley is of less political importance than 81
5aXter or Alaska street. Peton is conspcu- g.
Jus only by his absenc'. There is no urgent II
lemar d for the bottom facts as to railroad
wreck. g and income taxes The bloody shirt -.
'ss bet washed and ironed and hung out to IL
ny. b all is not lost. There is the damn :
lg fact i Hancock has drawn his sslar-
yer since uttered the army, that never
1as a can. by, that he always obeyed 4
riders rs soldier, and never sat a day in
ongress, and, consequently, is not states
ian. These things have already come to
ght and afford subjects for able editorials Y
Who knows what else may be found out 4
gainst him by diligence! Let the organs
1pe their weeping eyes, drop Tilden and go
} aS the sodier-statesmau's record to
'iee& A great deal of time is being wasted. ar