Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-05-01

the Cincinnati convention pledged
to no man, and / will say more
than this, that it was the unani-
nous sense of the gentlemen who
had control of the Syracuse e0nven-
ton, that is as far as any men ever
had control of any convention, that
the delegates should all gounpledged
and free. / would not have gone
there as a delegate pledged to Mr..
Tilden or Mr.. Anybody else. Now,
can you find in my speech one sin
gle word against Mr.. Tilden? ISay
this, that if when we reach Cincin-
natl we find that Mr.. Tilden is the
most available and the strongest
man, we shall support him, and If
we are satisfied when we meet the
democracy of the country that he is
not the strongest man, We will pick
out some man that we think is the
strongest. My individual opinion
amounts to nothing. / say now,
my individual opinion is, If the
nomination We're to be made to-day
/ do not believe him to be the
strongest man, but when ] meet the
democracy of the country at Clncin-
natl, and when ] hear them talk
and find their opinions are different
from my own, ! propose to subordi-
nate my opinion to theirs, but at
present my own judgment is ray
own property.
These are the facts of the New
York convention held at Syracuse,
and there are still men among us
who think it will be safe to assume
that Mr.. Tilden, if nominated, can
carry the state of New York, and So
be elected president of the United
States. Mr.. whose own
convention, with the organized OPP
position to him excluded, and the
convention carefully weeded of all
doubtful material, did not venture
to instruct for him, and whose chair
man does not at this time think
him a hopeful candidate. It's the
very infatuation of pertinacity to
persist in such a delusion.
We did not purpose to take any
further part in the personal eontrO-
versy regarding presidential candi-
dates, believing il mischievous and
prejudicial to the harmony of our
struggle for the nominee when
elected. But we cannot see our
people eounseled to rush on certain
defeat by such a nomination with
out a protest. We have too much
at stake; we cannot afford to be
beaten for a sentiment and a fancy.
The alternative of this contest is
destruction to self-government for
the whole Union and utter annihi-
lation to the south, or the constitu-
ton in its integrity and the south a
co-equal factor in the affairs of the
nation, and we can elect our candi-
date if we will, if we do not para
Iyze our own efforts by selecting a
standard-bearer already doomed to
defeat. Mr.. Tilden knows better
than anyone that he cannot be
elected, and Mr.. Tilden's own name
will not be presented, but he is
holding his own men together and
getting as many delegations tied to
his chariOt-wheels as he can, in
order that he may force the Cinein-
natl convention to nominate his
nominee; and now we will tell our
readers who that nominee viii be.
1t will be Samuel j. Randall. of
Pennsylvania, the man who for this
whole session has been intriguing
and cOnspiring with the republican
party to keep the south and west
under the burden of the commerce
crushing tariff for the benefit of
eastern capitalists. We might put
up with Samuel Tilden, but we don't
want Samuel's dog Sam.