The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-04-01
mR. sEYmoUR ON OLD MEN.

Gov, SEYMOUR, who Is now seventy
three years old, and who is the favor
tie, ike Andrew Jackson, OF many
Democrats, declares he is not and will
rot be q csndldsts ior the presidency.
he says he Is the oldest prominent
man now in TIE party. and that he ex-
poets soon to lead 81 ID another dIrec-
ton than towards the White House.
He teaches that his wTangling over
old men for standard bearers Is Of no
profit to Democratic since it arrays
young men in strife over those who
are soon to pass away and
be forgotten, and are hence
not worth fighting about. He goes on,
like a Scion, and tells that IN his
younger days he entered into bitter
contests oyer such men as Clay, Cas-
and Van Buren,, and that before he
knew it they were all dead. II. Is
FOOLISH" says Mr.. Seymour, ''for
young men to waste their time in quar-
reling over or espousing the cause Of
old men," While we differ with Mr..
Seymour in this proposition, knowing
that it often becomes the duty of young
men to select in their leaders age,
coupled with wisdom, we are
free to admit that the PROPOSE
ton applies with great aptitude to
the national struggle through which
we are sbou: to pass. Were Dir.
Seymour twenty years younger, he
would, no doubt, be the presidential
candidate of the Democratic party.
His purity of purpose, his exalted
character and his noble bearing In pub
lie life make him q leader, to whom
younger men should turn for example,
aud If We only secure candidate so
exalted as Mr.. Seymour, 1t is written
that once more these United States are
to be raised towards that exalted
plane in political affairs that dis
tlpguished the administrations of JEFF
ferson and of Monroe and OF Jackson.
The New York World has been lnves-
tigat.ng on line which shows that Mr..
Seymour's conclusions are at this time
being quite generally adopted. This
paper has been endesvoring to find
some reflection OF public opinlon from
the young men in the institutions OF
learning in the Northern and East
ern Statee, and the sentiment has
been largely in favor OF Bayard
and of Blaine, both of whom
are in their fifty-second year, while
Mr.. Seymour is not very many years
the senior OF Mr.. Tilden. In Colum-
bia College, New York, the preference
is one for Tllden to oyer four for Bay
ard, while at Princeton it is one to
sixteen. The World is satisfied, too,
that nine tsuths of the active business
men of New York feel just as do these
youths at the institutions. They sre
tired of the hacks, tired of Tilden, and
wish 10 be free from the despotic rule
which he has used for many years
for his own agrandisement, tired OF
the wsecker and OF being wrecked, and
wieh 80 insugurate new era will
new men, and living vital issues tina
lead q nation on to grandeur. Mr
Bayard has imbued the youth of thu
country with his honesty and his states
manship, looking not to the expe'
dIenccs of to-day, but to the safety and
solldity of the future. Mr.. Bayard is
yet young man, but he possesses de
fined purposes that have secured
him the confidence of all bu
time servers and trickstera. He meetI
the opposition of many who have axe
to grind, and who are anxious t.
mount, if need be, upon the ruined
fortunes of peoples. These he will en- en-
state conventions, and at the nationa
convention, but among the untram
meled multitude he is mighty. because
he is honest and true, and because
they see in him the duplication of sr
exalted civilization and of the nobles
aspirations.