The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-09
AN UNCOMFORTABLE FIX.


II the Greenback editor is asked who
is bis candidate for president, he can an
swer as bold as sheep; I'm for OtH-
aye, or Dil-la.ye, or Dill-a ye- Don't
know To pronounce his name, but Dill
Is NV man" Not so the Democrat or
Republican editor; he is in an uncom-
Portable fix. The most votes thus far
have been given in the direction of
Grant and Tilden, but there are great
multitudes in both parties who are OPP
posed to these candidates.
Party harmony and strength, on both
sides, would be promoted by immediate
nominations. Delay leads to censure,
hard words, severe criticisms, political
and personal-to a thousand unpleasant
thlngssthat would have to be apologiZed
for and forgotten. For man to advo-
cate to day what he opposed yesterday is
popularity called "eating crow" and we
shall be nation of crow-eaters after the
national conventions are held. Many a
man will say that he always did like
crow; that il is his diet; that he prefers
crow to the choicest game; and so he
will laugh away the sorrow which fol
lows the sitting of cherished convic-
tions. But We can at least be thankful
that we do not live in Russia where men
and women are transported because they
do not bow their heads to the national
chieftain. This is not an imperial gov
eminent and no sane man believes that
there is any such danger ahead.
Tilden was not the choice of the west
ern Democrats in '76 and it is not now.
Then they wanted soft.money Hendricks
now they have abandoned both. The
soft money cry is confined to the Green
back paIty-a minority that will cut &
very small figure in the national contest
Seymour, Hancock, David Davis, Pal
mer, Church and Bayard are the chic
Democratic favorites. But Tilden viii
probably be the man. He is the ma
chine candidate. He has the Organiza
ton, the money, and is one of the mos
powerful and INSCRIPTIONS politician
our county ever produced. There is NJ
| doubt of the mans ability-no NOR
than of Jay Gould's, whom he greatly re
sembles.
If he is nominated, 1t will be becaus,
he has made his party believe that he cal
carry New York. That was what nom
mated Mcclellan in ga, Seymour in '6S
Greeley in'72 and Tilden in '76-all New
| Workers, all Democratic nominees an(
| all defeated.
But the Democrats were beatan il
| New York last fall; Tilden's man, Rot
inson, was beaten. John Kelley's Tam
many Hall supporters cast some 1000
votes against Tilden's man and defeateI
HIM. They hate Tilden more than the
did his man; perhaps more than the
love Democracy. Within a few day
Tammany has declared against Tilder
| Ii he is nominated again he will probs
bly, lose his own state. And yet Tide
is the strongest man in the Democrat
party. If they cannot elect him the
| cannot elect anVbOQV
And that is the way it stands. tn
Democrats cannot elect anybody. The
were beaten in go because they preferre
slavery to freedom. They have bee
beaten ever since because disunion an
secession have been added to their pre-
slavery record. The Democratic part
without the south would be very sma
affair, and the south stands now as
has stood for fifty years, the ally an
promoter of barbarism; the opponent I
free speech and free high schools; IL
nurse and defender of the bludgeon, Il
knife, the revolver; the parent of XII
klux, the author of b1lldoZing, the en-
my of civilization.
She must be beaten this year and
one more presidential election. Tht
the hand of power goes to the GROWN
and teeming populations of the nor
and west, and the feeble south ceases
be a menace to national freedom.-We
: Wilder, in st. Joseph Herald.