Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-21
ASArAnABLE MANwlNTED.

party tne w wilmington EVeIy
Evening, truthfully says: at is
time to return to honesty and
fair play. Let people assert
their honest preferences and
send delegates they can trust to
represent them at Cincinnati.
When these delegates come to-
gether and compare notes
will be the time to decide the
question Of availability"
Friends of the various aspir-
ants for the presidency are
spending time and money with
liberal hands in advocating the
claims of their favorites. 1t is
claimed for Bayard that he can
get the vote of Massachusetts,
and perhaps other New England
states; that he is popular with
southern and western demo-
Gratis, etc. Tilden's friends
claim that he was elected and
swindled out of his seat. The
claim is not denied by any DEM
ocrat and all iair-minded repub-
licans concede the same thing,
but modify the word swindle by
saying it was shrewd manage
ment on the part of the leaders
of their party. 1t is also claim
ed that Tilden can carry New
York state, and goes New York
so goes the union. Hancock's
friends claim that he is i'm
mensely popular in the south
and is unexceptional to north
ern democrats, he is not poll
tician and has no political re-
cord which to assail. His abil-
ity and fitness for the position
is unquestioned, yet in some
sections of the country his avail
ability is openly questioned.
Persons in different sections of
the country are too apt to be
blinded by local prejudices,
many men are prone to imagine
that the sentiment of their i'm
mediate neighborhood is the
sentiment of the country. This
feeling is aptly illustrated in
the state canvasses. Jones who
lives near Cornucopia postoffice
in Elysian precinct, talks with
two or, three of his intimate
friends and they make up their
minds that Smith is the man to
be governor; straightway Jones
goes to his wife and borrowing
from her a bit of indigo, he
makes an impromptu blue ink
and writes a letter to the near
est paper, stating that every
body in his section of the coun-
tyis forlSmith and so far as he
is able to learn the same feeling
exists throughout the state. In
regard to the presidential can
didates the feeling is much the
same only on grander scale,
the identical same principle is
involved. OF the dozen or more
other names which have been
prominently before the country |
as fitting candidates for presi-
dental honors, the same claims
are urged. {iie
& The democratic party wants
and must have an available
man, who that man is can not
well be determined by any one
locality or even section of the
country. When the delegates
from all the states assemble in
convention and compare notes
they viii be able to determine
which one of the. many .candi.
dates is most likely to harmon
ize the party and even though
Tilden himself, which is very
doubtful, should be the recip-
lent of the nomination he should
be enthusiastically supported
by the entire party. In making
a presidential canvass all par
ties bend their entire energy in
favor of a; certain man, appar-
emily for the time being, over
looking the Importance of con-
gress. a president is greatly
hampered unless he has a con-
gress in consonance with his
political views. At present we
have a republican administration
and democratic congress; the
working of the two branches of
the government are chiefly dis
tinguished for a lack of har-
mony. Should we succeed in
electing a democratic president
it would follow as matter of
consequence that we would also
elect democratic congress, and
nasmuch as the president is at /,
asst onla..an executive officer; the
machinery of the government is
n the hands of congress and
congress in the hands of the
'eople.
The Galveston MesOs is in
avor of taking the pardoninu