The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-06-25

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OUR FIRST duty lie 10 assert with
emphasis that 10 man can declare in
advance Who will 30 nominated by a
democratic contention. Indicstions
DO not indicate, and pointers fail to
direct. L may be said in truth that
the nomination should by rights fall
to this man or that, but Ike signs in
dry weather, ell political calculations
fail when they assume to ioretell the
doings Of a democratic convention.
i few hours ago it looked very much
as though the nominee of the demo
cratic paity for the presidency would
be Samuel ]. TiIden. 1t hardly
seemed possible that another could
get the place. Every body understood
tha! be was by right entitled TO the
position, that his vindicstion and that
Of the party made his denomination
= necessity, tina. he controlled q
larger number of votes IN the con-
yention than any other man, and
that he could compel his nomination
if he desired to do so. Hence the
confident belief that be would be the
s'audard-bearer of the party in tbs
campaign just opened. But it ap-
paars that the distinguished gentle
man did not want the nomination or
the Office, ior the first would have
been equivalent to obtaining the
eecoad. Physical disability, or some
thing else, determined him TO retire
from the contest, and he has done so,
going into private life one OF the
ablsst, noblest and grdndest states
men Of this or any other aRe. What
ever the country may owe Tilden, he
owes the country nothing. He has
done his share as q public citizen,
though he has not received his mer-
tied reward, except in the hearts OF
the people. Having received Gov
ernor Ti'dea's positive declinstion
By telegraph en- Thursday morn
ing, the Cincinnati convention
was momentArily a! sea. We
believe i. mad been the intention to
nominate the sage of Gramercy Park,
yesterday morning, and his refusal to
slow it naturally put the meeting
about somewhat. When the baliCting
opened the delegates began voting
Tor their preferences, when it all at
once struck them that the next best
man was General Hancock. A
''boom" Wa3 suddenly started in the
Generals favor. and when it bad
subsided iha delegates we're perhaps
az much surprised Is the country
that they had nominated the soldier
for President. The Chicago choice
was arrived at in the same way, and
was as astonishing to those who
made it. It seems to have become
necessary for presidential nomina-
tons to be brought abolt by sudden
booms, rather than through the
planning and schemipg of candidates
and their frieuds. In the case Of
the Cincinnati choice, precipitate
as It seems to have been, the selection
Is Sc good one, If not TIE best that
could have been made had weeks been
spen. in deliberation and cangassing.
Governor Tllden having positively
refused the candidacy - and fer
reasons that must appear sufficient
TO the partg-the chief point in the
campaign, the fraud issue, has not |
been lost. Il can be made to play as
we'll now as If Tilden were the nomi.
nee. The race would not have been
a walk-nyer for the democrats under
any circumstances. but with Hancock |
victory will be more easily achieved |
than with any other man. He is
8 grand man. and what is a great |
point in his favor in these times of |
fouled records aud personal bad |
characters, he has a spotless re-
cord, private and public. He is not
only able as a man and states.
man, but his military career proves
him brave, gallant, conscientious,
generous. The country looks with
pride upon his long service in the
army. The HERALD has been the
ardent &dmirer and consistent sup
porter Of Tilden for iouF years, bat ne
being Voluntarily out OF the
way it can as conscientiously
support the nominee of the
democratic party, believing him
to be the best among the available
for the presidency. Long !
years before Tilden's name was asso-
ciated with tie nomination, or even
thought of in that connection. this
Journal discovered in Gen. Hancock
4 proper and probable candidate for
The high office OF president, and we
hen urged his nomination against
Grant. The HERALD is almost the
-ather OF the Hancock BOOM" hay
ng started i! in 1871, one year alter &
The paper was established. In the