The daily gazette., 1880-06-10
From the New York World.
GARFIELD AND ARTHUR.

II the Democrats of the country are
not satisfied with the result OF the Chi
cago Convention they are very hard TO
please. The nominations at Chicago do
not indeed Justify tte Democrats IN aX
pectlng TO win witt the tainted cauJi-
date of a divided party. But they do
ampl7 j1Snty the Democrats IN expect
ing 10 win with real representative
Gt he principles Of the Democratic par
", upon which THIS ration was prosper
ously governed through 1hree-quar't
OF its existence, anU upon h,ch III sub
stance peace n3 been re-e>ta blished
since the close ot the great civil war.
The nomination of Garfield y not only
compromise 1t i a weak and tiuid
compromise. For several days IL ha.
been evideut thar the contest for thu
nomination lay between Grant and some
Out tNidef who had thus far developed no
strength whatever IN the convention.
GENERAL GARFIELD was the hkelitst man
for the nomination, sinc- General Gar
field, besides having a certain positive
strength in the party, has excited no ac-
tive enemies In the party, aud, more i'm
Portaut stlll, since General Garfield Is a
citizen OF OHIO, generally Republican
STATE which holds an election IN OctD-
ber The cowardide of the cumurpuiiS,
lay in this last fact When the Rrpub,i-
cans consider IL necessary TO nominate a
man, as they nom mated Hayes IN 1876
auu rs they have COW nominated Gar
field, for the purpote of making sure Of
the vote of Ohio ia the local October
,lecion, they show in the clrarest way
hat they are far from f-ehug aUN conn
dence a to the result Afthe genera elrc-
ton Ia Novem Der. 1t would have been
Idle TO- he Chicago Convention 10 noml.
nate any man who could not hope 10
carry 0hlo. In fishing tor sprat, there
fore, the Republicans have thrown away
their whales The leadership Cf Came
ron in Pennsy lvanta and of Coukling in
New YORK has been not only cha lruged
out OEerihroTn. 1876 CoGkhug h ;n-
-elf a. csndi ,ate ht lra.t cnum tui.,.
aud held sixty En' OF the seventy rnti
OF New fcrk. In Chicago, alter mucA
more desperate eNertions, a IT, rd OF he
New YORK delegation has drnrd him
throughout More than "A thlrd Of the
Pennsy ylvania DELEGATION. which Came
ron Kept almost unanimous foI Har-
tranfi in 1876 until he wlrbJrrw Har-
trautts name, thik year bolt-d Game
rons lustrucuons and Camrrpu's con
tTol, II the man Tor whom they baH
made thelr strenuous aud tujil. efforts
for solld delegations had finally been
nominated, Coukhng aud Cameron
would have done tueir best to reuuIte
their forces ana I'd regain their own as
tendency. But certainly Mr. Garfield j.
not the man to rNrlte the rnthu>la>ln OF
either boss, aud Mr Cpnkhng n snlt-
OF his haste to moV-, in the interest OF
general Arthur, that the nomination
/ shoull De maee Unanimous maN bt rN-
pecteu 10 sulk III lis tent. "a, he dId dui 10
! ing the canvass of 1876, aud as II i his
| haou To DO When campMgns are not con
| Quoted upon lines OF his LAYING
MT. CARR eld Is as tar from being the
man to coucihate the Independent vot,
lu any State IS he is far from being Ia,
man TO bring out he straight RepEOhcaI
vote In Pennsy lVania and New York
Nj Garfield has NOT been handling ptci
for rifteen years without being be-
smlIched' 1t NAY, however, he satd 70
hlm that he is a. li'e besm rched a
any conspicuous candidate before ID
ciuveut'on, with he exception OF Judg
L imunds, who never had a chance o
she nomination. Though Mr.. CARTEL
was reputed 70 have acquired some raj
way >ecuriti-, a a very cheap rale. an
10 ave received very hands 5me pay fu
= legal o 1lnlous upon subject which wtr
TO coIDe before the House OF -pre-e
tativSs for dispoNlti0n, he id not max
he mistake of beginning "a gailaI
! dght" wneL the evldeue was produce
! but acted upon The good od maxim thu
. the Il asst said was tue SColpst mpndrt
, l. Is absurd TO ,NpDuse that be Hli Sa'
i>ty the boiler aspirations Of the Gui>
scratchers, or secure the votes of ib
much larger and more important ca,
of people who signify their disapproba
ton OF The candidate Of their own part
. by quietly declining to vote for him an
= in extreme cases, by voting tor his ol
ponent, prov -ded that the "reeord' q
his opponent is dIsunclly c'earrr. NI
! Gar6elds "record" IN this r4.n-ct ,
SIMPLY that of an average Rep;ibhca
d; politician, who requlres ' nv good cars
to be shown why he should refuse whi
{ comes In his " az, and is luclined i
doubtful cases fO give himself he h- IA,
f OF the doubt.