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Who viii he the Nominee!

Who Will be the Nominee!
. Tildeu and Seymour have both dcclin-
cd Internationally the papers say, /"
allow their names 70 be put before '"'
cincinnati Convention. This WAS wiScln
Seymour. he being as he says IAN old
anan"disabled b. age for assuming the
duties and responsibilities Of the preSi-
dency. II was exceedingly wise Ill Ill
den. for there is no doubt that in spite OF
his astuteness, his influence, and his
"har'L" he would have been defeated.
" lie would nave been the Grantof Clacil-
matt. A third-term president is not moro
obnoxious than u second-term nominee
who failed to go to the White House al
though his party had opened the do"r Tor
him. Nothing succeeds like success ana
nothing fails like failure.
Who, then, will be the Democratic
nominee? Bayard, Field, Hancock
Payne, Morrison, Jewett, English, Ran
dali, Thurman, Mcclellan and other less
known men have been spoken OF ant
their merits and chances discussed. 1t is
difficult to calculate the chances Of these
men, but our impression is hat Bayard
will be the choice of the Convention fox
president, and Mcdonald or English for
yice-president, unless the democrats Will
do at Cincinnati as the republicans did III
Chicago--give the country not nominees
Of choice but nominees Of chance. ana
surely the democrats should learn a les
son from the republicans and take care
that the Cincinnati Convention will he as
unlike as possible the Convention OF chi
cago. Delegates are supposed to be sent
to conventions to select the best man for
president and the second best for vice
president. The Chicago Convention Sc
lected neither its best, second-Sest, nor
thlrd-best man for president; and tor
yice-president they offered a man whose
5oplytftle to fame is his connection with
corrupt practices in the New York Gus
toms. A gathering OF discordant and jar
ring factions, each pledged to the support
OF some one particular maj and to The de-
feat of every other man whose name had
7 been spoken of as a candidate. the Chica-
go Convention played %forseveral days the
nndignified game of "dog-in-the-man-
GER nc, faction willing to give up to any
: other, and all factions at last agreeing tc
.zdroptheir pet candidate and unite in sup
]. porting a man whom nobody had though;
OF.
It will be to the lasting disgrace of tie
Democrat: party if the Cincinnati Con
yention will play the miserable farce acted
in Chicago. We cannot believe they will
do so. Although a national Convention
may. in some respects be like tho wind sc
that beforehand thou canst not tell width
er it goeth in selecting anominee, still we
trust and believe that thedemocratic Con.
vention will 90 in the right direction, will
choose the best man, not for that mans
sake, but for the good of the people. We
cannot believe the delegates to Cincinnati
will do as did the delegates to Chicago
turn their ballots into dice and trust to
: luck. 1t is a shame to a great people that
the nominee of the party now in power
got the nomination just as a man gets a
prize in a lottery; and now all republicans
aretrying hard to believe that Garfield,
thenominee Of chance, really and truly
is the man of their choice.
The democrats in Convention have now
golden opportunity. Let them show
the people that they will coolly and intel
ligently choose the best men for president
and vice-president, that they are willing
to sacrifice personal preference to the
good Of the people, let them cast their
ballots like rational men, and also let
them do it decently and in order and not
like shouting gamblers at a horse race =
by thus doing, they will not only keer
the great democratic party intact, but
they will attract to its ranks thousands o.
the disaffected and disappointed republi'
cans, and secure a great victory. Tho re-
publican party is not ready for a gr al
battle It's army is ~disorganizcd and all
the sugary things said by Conkling,
Blaine, and Garfield, about harmonious
action. unity of purpose. shoulder tc
shoulder, and so forth, cannot and will
y not create that which does not exist. The
old Roman was right when he said
p AS we grow hot in faction
e.. In battle we grow cold,
And the factions fought so fiercely at Chi.
cage against each other, it is mott TO be ex.
pc. ted they will be anything but luke.
warm in the day Of battle. Against re-
publican discord and alf-heartedness lei
the democrats place complete harmony
and earnestness; against a disorganizeG
horde, let the democrats place a discip'
lined phalanx against Garfield and Arthur
who were rafled for when balloting fail.
ed, let the democrats place Bayard OF
Field, and Mcdonald or English, as the
deliberate choice of the Convention,-and
1.-The unterrified' will without doubt place
$beir nominees in the White House.