The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-02-03
Seymour as a Candidate.

ITO the Elio0r Of the Courier-Journal.l
The Democratic party cannot hope
TO elect man President who has ever
been suspected ofsympathy with the
late rebellion.
That Mr.. Seymour is a patriotic
gentleman all must admit. Mr..
Greedy was believed to be- popular
candidate; no one thought that the
mere act Of his signing the bond that
released JEFF. Davis from prison could
be used to defeat his election. Yet
this simple act was seized upon BY
demagogues, and made the key to the
Republican campaign Of 1872.
What did the enemy say of Horatio
Seymour in 1868, and what will they
say if he is nominated again for Pres
ident in 1880?
They will hunt up the old cartoons
OF Mast on the draft riots in the city
Of New York in 1868.
Conkling Will say: This is tn,
same old coon we freed in 1868, witt
another ring around his tail-t'raud."
This fraud dodge" says Mr.
Conkling. lis getting too thin. Their,
has been a fraud-aye, more than
fraud--a blunder by the Democratic
convention, and there are none NOR,
sensible Of the fact than the friends Of
the sage Of Creamery Park. If the Re.
publican party wronged Mr.. Tilder
by uniustly seating Dir. Hayes. til,
action Of the Democratic convention
wrongs him more.
al the Republican party commit
ed fraud in counting Mr.. Tilden out
OF the Presidency, the Democratic
party has sanctioned that fraud by
counting him out of their party. That
they should refuse to nominate Mr..
Tilden, who they claim was elected
President in 1876, land l admit, ii
not elected, he came within one vote,
for it was eight against seven, and the
eight spot was Republican trump
and took the trick J, is another one Of
those inexplicable mysteries of the
Democratic party. A party with
such poorjudgment, pursuing such an
insane policy, deserves not the con.
troll of the Government. 1t has been
a question in the minds of some of
the solid men Of the Republican party
are we not demanding too long lease
OF power for the good Of the republic?
But, to turn the Government over
now to the Democracy under such a
lead would be an insult 10 the loyal
living and the loyal dead.
Remember the gloomy forebodinps
OF lS63-The Union army defeated at
Charlottesville, driven across the
Rappahansock to the banks of the
Potomac, Washington threatened, and
Pennsylvania invaded by rebel hordes
During this dark period of the war
when New York was asked to
fill her army quota, the Governor of
the State was found in the city of New
York addressing disloyal bloody mobs
with these endearing words, "My
friends"
Dir. Blaine speaks: "This is the
same old Widow Secesh with a new
State rights petticoat on. The petti
coat is all right if they'll let me add
another stripe, namely, that each
State has its particular rights; but the
General Government also has its
rights, the right to preserve social
order, but then you sec the petticoat
would be too big for the old woman +"
Garfield will say:
THE Democratic party will mot
have loyal candidate; for President
Iilden was loyal and the best man
they ever had. They electing him
President in 1876, but the Brigadiers
did not like his opposition to the paw
ment Of rebel claims, and they did not
want him. The Bourbon Democracy
discovered that he favored the green
back currency, and wrote nation with
big n and they did not want to in
uugurate him President, SO they fixed
up an electoral commission, the result |
OF which they knew beforehand, ard
the Tilden was bartered away for
the Nicolls Government in Louisiana
and the Wade Hampton Government
in South Carolina.
The words l put in the mouths of
these stalwarts Of the Republican party
are not from any spirit of malevc-
lence. The purpose is to draw the at.
tention Of Democratic leaders to what
they might have to meet should Mr.
Seymour or even Mr.. Bayard be nom.
mated for President. The patriot
sentiment Of the country calls upon
the Democracy to perform its duty.
The nomination of Samuel j. Tilden
spikes every gun; silences every sland.
er; defies all ridicule; puts the Dem
ocratic party on the aggressive; forces
thes issue of fraud in seating Mr.
Hayes, associating all the leaders of
the Republican party with the crime.
They can raise no cartoons nor cold
ducks. The game must be PLAYED
over with the same cards and The
country know the result, God favor.
ing the just. w. N. ALLEN,
MRntnvr Safr.rcon oo.