The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-04-15
THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION
AND AFTER
The Right kind of Talk,
From Cincinnati Enquirer.

The Right Kind OF Talk.
From Cincinnati Enquirer.
But one solid calendar month sepa-
rates US from the National Democratic |
Of 1880. The blossoms of
the May will intervene. Ten weeks |
hence the Democrats of the United
States must nominate candidate iOr
the Presidency. The time seems short,
but it is ample. Opinions are forming.
are taking shape. Manip-
ulations, we mourn to say, are doubt
less in active progress. Prominent
Democrats in the Union are arraying
themselves in the uniforms of individ-
ual candidates. Democratic journals,
of which there are too few ill the
country, are espousing the causes OF
persons. The Enquirer, too, has con-
victions. 1t, too, has preferences. We,
also, take an interest in this contest.
The Enquirer, in like manner, has
hopes centering in, and springing out
of, the approaching National Demo-
cratic Convention. We, like the 9TH
ers, have a candidate. The candidate
of the Enquirer is the nominee OF the
Cincinnati Convention. We have no
other prior to the Convention. Most
certainly we shall have no other after
ward. Our convictions, with an eye
single to the welfare of the country,
are for him. Our preferences, look
ing at the dangers that hang over the
Republic, are for him. Our interest,
in this political condition of the Re-
public, centers in him. Our hopes, in
this contest, which are our hopes for
the continued existence of the Consti.
tntional Republic, are bnilt upon him.
He, the nominee to be, of the Cincin-
natl Convention, is the EnQuirer's can-
didate for the Presidency it's only
candidate to day, or prior to the Con-
yention, or prior to the election in No
vember. And, like the immortal apos-
tie, we would that other men were
even as we are. We believe in the
people, in the peoples unhindered and
unsmothered instincts, and we hope
that the nominee of the National Dem
ocratic Convention in June will be the
deliberate choice of the unmanipulated
judgment of the Democrats of the
Union. The people are usually wiser
than their leaders. The Enquirer has
no desire to enter upon any attempt to
manipulate the broad, aggregate pre-
ference and judgment oil the Democrats
the candidacy. We should be glad if
others would not vehemently attempt
to manipulate that conviction. A fore
ed, or manipulated, or lcgerdemain
candidacy, is not the strongest. We
are not parties to such engineering.
aud we should take pleasure in dis
couraging, or suppressing, such en-
gineers. Exceedingly strong and wor-
thy candidates may be slaughtered, in
advance by 100 much sleight- ot-hand.
The Enquirer's- candidate, named
above, will be elected. lie has at this
moment large majority of the votes
of the. voters of the United States.
Four years ago Mr.. Hayes was in q
minority of about quarter of mill
ion of votes in the popular ballot. FIX
Guiding four States, the aggregate Re-
publican msjoriiies in the Union did
not equal that number. In order to
count Mr.. Hayes in it became neces-
-sary TO count for him Louisiana, with
eight Electoral votes; Florida, with
four Electoral votes, and South Caro-
lima, with seven Electoral votes. Here
are nineteen Electoral votes which ii
is not intelligently pretended can be
cast or counted for the Republican,
nominee in this Presidential contest.
The Republicans begin the canvass
with this comparative disadvantage.
1t should be remembered, also, that
the counting of these nineteen Elect
oral votes for Hayes only gave him an
alleged majority Of one in the EIector-
al College. Had those votes been
counted for Tilden his majority in the
Electoral College would have been
h rtu hot thaco
votes will be cast and counted for the
Cincinnati candidate in the coming
election is not seriously disputed. The
Chicago candidate must somewhere,
some how, make good this inevitable
loss. Hayes and Wheeler had but one
hundred and sixty six undisputcd
Electoral votes, and they carried all
of the Republican States in the Union,
and all of the really doubtful States.
They carried all of the Pacific States,
with fifteen Electoral votes-a thing
the Chicago nominees are unlikely to
do this year. Where are the Republi-
cans to obtain the needed nineteen
Electoral votes? And what if they
should lose some which they gained
before?
The friends of the candidates for the
Chicago nomination are devouring
those candidates. The advocates of
each of the three candidates are pre-
dieting, almost demonstrating, that
neither of the other candidates can be
elected. The public mind is becoming
ftmiliariZed with all of these state
meDts, and if voters take Republicans
at their word the Chicago nominee can
not be elected. Republicans are suf-
ficiently convincing the public how
vulnerable Is Blaine, how icy and un-
popular is Sherman, and how often
siYe is the thought of a third term of
Grant. The friends of each of these
candidates are helping matters by an
nouncing in advance their refusal to
support some other candidate. On
Republican testimony what will be
LETT of either of these candidates when
the Chicago Convention shall have as
sembled and separated? And what
claim which the Republicans present
ed for suffrages four years ago will not
be weaker now than it was then?
We have already taken, and shall
hereafter take, occasion TO picture with
pen, as impartial as possible, and with
impulses as judicial as may be, the
various candidates that will be, and
that deserve to be, named in the Gin
cinnati Convention. Our purpose is
to enlighten, not TO persuade. Our
desire is not TO engineer in, or engin
eer out, any candidate, but to truth
fully portray all, and we shall contrib.
ute something toward giving fair play
to all. If this spirit shall become
widespread we can not but think that
an excellent Cincinnati ticket will be
the fruitful result. But again we say
that the Enquirer's candidate is the
Cincinnati nominee, and that he will
be elected.
"CAN get no work and am tired Of
life," was the reason a despairing man
gave for committing suicide. Follow
ing that in tho same news clippings
was this " Mr.. VIM. Vanderbilt has
$3l, SOC. 900 in registered four per cent.
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