, 1880-05-02
USUFRUCT.

Profit-EIoidtng the Helpless De.
mocracy In His Horny-IIanded ed Grasp.
| Dispatch to Cincinnati Enquirer tDen.]
New YORK, april 29.-The State Conventto
held yesterday produced In both parties a
| cooling, not to say depressing, influence, The
city Democrats feared that Ti1den had won a
victory in both Pennsylvania and Connecticut
which they deplored as probably shutting this
State out If continued. The Republicans all
hailed the Democratic Conventions as Tilden
! victories, and began to praise the old mans
pluck and perseverance while discouraged at
| the palpable personal divisions In his own
party.
| Ohio turning its back on Grant Was regarded
| as q general concession there that he could not
carry the State, and this embittered the rant
| men against Sherman who was accused through
| his influence of threatening the party itself in
order to take the State. It is the general belief
| here that Wallace has been beaten iu Pennsyl-
yania, and received a humiliation by the setting
| In of his party's sentiment toward Tilden, VINO
quietly captureN the silent, professional, ultra
| respectable Democrats like Vaux and Cly1ner
and through them gained the better ear Of the
| party.
Pennsylvania Democrats carry one idea at
| time-as in 1872, when they refused to take
Greeley as Democrat, and now believe the
fraud Of 1875 ought to be righted. Wallace could
not find a Presidential candidate equal to Til
den as the p>ssessur OF fixed, visible grievance
such as would go to the hearts Of the old
Dutch voters In Derks and the banner Ger
s fea 80 ts ts in
ton with PENNSYLVANIA. and has been SO unag-
grcssive and silent that he did not take with the
idea, and had put it forward at the New York
Convention US the solitary point and keynote Of
The old Hunker Dutch Democrats, as / have
remarked, have never had candidate Just to
their liking since Andrew Jnckson, who was
eesn the % me On he dsa shat h
Adams, and the second time by attacking the
bank and corruption: Tildeu, with his ahrewd
study IF the different Commonwealths, saw that
his one plank Ut having been cheated, and that
It was the purt Of honest Dutchmen to wipe out
been much modified among New York Demo-
New York Dem9cEatiG Poiitics with the knowl
Fo: the last month or two the prosecutions
of Bill Kemble and the bribing legislators In
pennsylyanta b bad engaged universal attention
New York In that short period, between the
escape Of Kemble and bis fellows from the Court
Tden threw IN i lis % Syracuse conventon, @ sd and
had its unwilling delegates adopt an address
presenting him and the party as the victims Of
effect on Pennsylvania had set in when The Hare
rsburg Convention met; and among am the tntiu-
ences there 1perntdtng a against @ Wallace was the
erons, and had derived aid and comfort from
kenbe and the other dishonest State Treasur
ers of Pennsylvania.
This charge WIS made By Speaker Randall
at the time Wallace was elected to the Senate,
and an Investigation demanded. Kemble,
kept large p balances ] amountinE n % to mill1ons' a
and let it out at low Interest to such banks as
were controlled by their friends III both parties
posing Wallace for the Senate, that Walace's
banks or bAnktng friends got share Of these
deposits; The psnnss ivania press PRES; Of both par
ties had assisted to turn public indignation
against Kemble. and the rigorous sentence
passed on him by Judge Pierson met the hot ap-
proval Of the whole State.
Therefore, when Senator Wallace came for
ward with a mere soldier as his choice-Gen.
Hancock, whose acts Of merit happened many
was preferred by the leading antt-Ttlden men,
or instead Of Hendricks, whu WIS educated and
studied law in Pennsylvania he was unfortu.
nate both In his candidnte and himself II
Pennsylvania does not tonight present Ham
cocks name to the country he may be consid-
cred Us next tn out Of the race. There, If any
where, he was to receive an unqualified fndorse-
ment.
The anti-railroad plank put in the Penrsyl-
Kenhc exctcment,-as Kemble's scheme was to
recompense the Pennsylvania Railroad. may be
considered an attnck on Jewett, Judge Field,
and, perhaps, Payne, who are railroad men,
though it ought logically to bear even more
severely on fflden, who has been the prolific |
father Of railroad ts cqmpensatosns ~ part Of its
farmers against the discriminating railroad
freghts. which put Western wheat at the sea-
ports cheaper than Pennsylvania whelL- Thus,
whether by design or l1fcRy coincidence, Tilden |
has made use of the immediate issues around |
hfm,-those coscstto ourselves, the Issues found !
in the tlailv newspapers-nud has made up for !
his mornl weakness in New York by his ag- |
gressions in Pennsylvania and the frmness Of |
Connecticut |
The usual exclamation that follows success Is |
made about Tildcn's ability tonight. He has |
organized the younger men Of the Democratic
party in the East. and added to them many |
out Of pulitical availability by their
opposition to the War. The old Pennsylvania
and Connecticut Bo,lrbons, reinforced by young
professional aspirants for Office Of good Demo- |
cratic families, and by some Liberal Republic
ans, like David A. Wells, of Connecticut, make
an aggressive body, which exclaims as much I
agaitst the low status of their own pnrty as Of |
the excuses Of the Republicans. While the cry
is not "Tiden and REFORM the meaning is just
that
,lTilden has, in bis conversations with visiting
Democrats Of education and address. instructed
them that the long decay Of their party has |
arisen from trading with Republicans, and TAX
ing tho lesser share Of the spoils thankfully. He
leaders, including Bayard and Thur
man. for having let the Republicans take the
In order that they should get part
ut the patronage, and rule out him rs q for1nfda-
things. perhaps, only appear to be so; but the
general coincidence Of them must be greatly to
Tilden's profit. Yesterdays work certainly nd |
Vanced his standard in New York conversation. |
is CHANCE SUPREME2
If once there stood chaos food.
And time coursed not dfurnally,
And beam OF light from boundless night
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