The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-03
qgg PREsIDEETIAL oOHrIsT,

crate Larty in the Presidential contest ihh
fall, 10 succeed, tbs party must eApsnd vs.
strength upon principles aud not lr'ller u
away lna quarrel over men, the candidate
must bo m available man, upon whom not
merely MI tho party, bat pl'o tho con'orv"
tive element Of tho country can unl'n
OF tho many gentlemen spoken OF
In connection with tho Demo-.
cratic nomination, thoro ara AeyerA
who no doubt would lll tho measure Of lhl'
requirement Tho campaign must be- IN eg'
gre,,Iyo ono with the Democracy a
defensive war will not Ninmd the party wlll
have no need for firth WtIons, garllson' or
brent works, II must carry tho llsht Into
the cnomys territory mi put him ufon the
defensive, This being tho case the nominee
must bo u gentleman who IA unavailable on
hh war records lnyulnemble on
tho money questions unimpcocha'
Bile In his integrity and private and
public character, In short gentleman whose
armor and shield ar1 without blem'h or
weakness In any pOrt II Is true that the
Southern States will 60 for tho Democratic
nominee, but tho Southern States alone will
not elect him. Some Of the Northern States
must DO carried, aud he who can carry the
largest electoral yoto in the North should be
tho nominee of tho Democratic party The
timc has passed for favoritlsm or personal
preference, The life Of the Democratic party
Is nj stake, and far more than that, In
our honest judgment, tho life of tho repub-
lie itself rs our fathers planned IT, is In the
balances II tho Domo cratic putty Is
defeated in November II Is defeated
we fear for perhaps all time II vie-
tory does not wreathe " banners, the next
ten years will see other political parties arise
and assume power upon the wreck and ruins
of the Democracy and W. say 1t in earnest
ness and in solcmnIty Wa believe from amid
the fallen columns aud turret-stones Of this
republic these new parties will arise
to sway the doStcnics Of the country Ms best
they may in some newer form. The pivotal
State In this contes. IS New York. We see
the Democratic party there rent in twain, not
upon principles but upona man. Ono man,
like the head Of Muduia, turns to stone the
hearts of n hundred thousand Democrats
when he aspires to place and power and that
man seeks the Democratic nomination for
President. For ways that are dark and
for tricks that are vain Samuel j. Tildcn has,
whether deserved or not, the name Of being
peculiar 1t was his upas influence that so
many believe lost New York to the Demo-
cracy in the gubernatoral contest last fall,
and that same influence, it would seem, wi |
lose New York to the Democracy next No
vember if he should be the nominee of the
party Mt the Cincinnati convention. The
Democratic party of New York can lie
united ms one man ut n moments notice il II
Democrat true and acceptable be nomi-
mated in June. They can he led,
but they cannot be driven, One
hundred thousand Democrats of New York
in 1876 had dose of crow, so they say,
forced upon them in the nomination of Mr..
Tilden, and like men, they held their noses
and ate it. And last FIJI thirty thousand of
them had, they still insist, II second plate of
crow forced upon them from the Tilden
rookery, in the shape of Governor Robinson,
and they ate it, but seventy thousand who
had partaken Of the first dish would not go
the second one. NotOne of the one hundred
thousand can, in their present state Of feeling
be made to partase of the Tilden diet next
November Without these one hundred
thousand voters New York is lost to the
Democratic party, Can the party for the
sake of any one man afford to lose New
York? His only claim to the nomination is
that he was the nominee in 1876
and defrauded out of his
seat he having been elected. Let those deny
it who WILL yet there is no question that
Mr. Tiden favored the bill establishing the
Electoral commission whereby he lost his
seat, or else Mr. Hewitt, then his bosom
friend, and supposedly acting under his ad-
vice, Mr. Clarkson Potter, of New York, and
other gentlemen equally as distinguished, do
him great injustice. We do not know any
thing about the suit being urged against Nj.
Tiden by the government 20 re-
cover income tax Claimed TO be
due from him to the government,
but whether tina. suit be malicious or founded
in fact and justice, can the Democratic party
afford to nominate csndidate against whom
such suit is pendlag' When the iuvesti-
CATION was made by Congress into the Louis
lana and Florida frauds and the Oregon
matter, it is n fac. that sicllening pile of
Republican corruption and filth was uncov-
cred, but did Mr.. Tden pass through
the ordeal unscathed? Didn't the Re-
publicans give the Democrats Roland
for an Oliver and was not Mr.. Tilden very
conspicuous as said Roland? As We have
said, to win, the Democrats must wage an ag-
gressive warfare, laying bare the corruption
and infamy of General Grants two admins
trat,ons If he il tho Reniblican pominea or