Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-08

The Sly Old Foc of NeaO York Believed to
BE on the Ins4de-ROaU All Things Werhc
Together for Hts Political Pro1at-Hold-
ing the Helpless Democracy in His
Horny Handed Grasp.
New York Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.
The State conventions produced in both par
ties cooling, not to say depressing, influence.
The city Democrats feared that Tilden had won
victory in both Pennsylvania and Oonnecti-
cut, which they deplored as probably shutting
this State out If continued. The Republicans
all hailed the Democratic conventions as Til
den victories and began to praise the old man g
pluck and perseverance while discouraged at
the palpable personal divisions in his own par
ty.
Ohio turning it's back on Grant was regarded
as general concession there that he could not
carry the State, and this embittered the Grant
men against Sherman, who was accused through
his influence of threatening the party itself in
order to take the State. 1t is the general belief
here that Wallace has been beaten in Pennsyl-
vania, and received humiliation by the set
ting in of his party's sentiment toward Tilden,
who quietly captured the silent, professional.
ultra respectful Democrats like Vaux and
Clymer, and through them gained the better
ear of the party.
Pennsylvania Democrats carry one idea at a
Greeley as a Democrat and now believe the
fraud of 1876 ought to be righted. Wallace
could not find Presidential candidate equal
to Tilden as the possessor of fixed, visible
grievance, such as would go to the hearts of the
old Ducth voters in Berks and the banner Ger
man counties. He tried Hancock late in the
day, but Hancock has so little recent connec-
ton with Pennsylvania, and has been SO unag-
gressive and silent that he did not take with
he c0untrv DomOcrafs liLxa TiIdnp wi had
one idea, and had put it forward at the New
York convention as the solitary point and key
note of the campaign.
Tilden threw in his Syracuse convention, and
had its unwilling delegates adopt an address
presenting him and the party as the victims of
similar bribery, mendacity and crime. The eff
feet on Pennsylvania had set in when the Har-
risburg convention met; and among the inhu-
ences there operating against Wallace was the
charge that he had been an ally of the Gamer
ons and had derived aid and comfort from
Kemble and the other dishonest state treas
urers of Pennsylvania.
This charge was made by Speaker Randall at
the time Wallace was elected to the Senate,
and an investigation demanded. Kemble,
Mackey and other state treasurers had kept
large balances, amounting to millions, and let
it out at low interest to such banks as were
controlled by their friends in both parties,
The assumption was made by Randall, when
opposing Wallace for the Senate, that Wallace's
banks or banking friends got share of these
deposits. The Pennsylvania press of both par
ties had assisted to turn public indignation
against Kemble, and the rigorous sentence
passed on him by Judge Piersoa met the hot
approval of the whole State.
Therefore, when Senator Wallace came for
ward with a mere soldier as his choiee-Gen.
Hancock, whose acts of merit happened many
years ago-instead OF taking up Bayard, who
was preferred by the leading anti-Tilden men.
or instead of Hendricks who was educated and
studied law in Pennsylvania, he was unfortu-
nate both in his candidate and himself. If
Pennsylvania does not tonight present Han
cocks name to the country he may be consid-
cred as next to out of the race. There, if any
where, he was to receive an unqualified en-
dorsement.
The snti-railroad plank put in the Pennsyl-
vania platform, which is also derived from the
Kemble excitement-as Kemble's scheme was
to recompense the Pennsylvania railroad-may
be considered an attack on Jewett and Judge
Field, who are railroad men, though it ought
logically to bear even more severely on Tilden,
who has been the prolific father of railroad
compensations. A part of its animus
is the jealousy of the Pennsylvania
farmers against the discriminating railroad
freights, which put Western wheat at the sea-
ports cheaper than Pennsylvania wheat Thus,
whether by design or lucky coincidence, Tilden
has made use of the immediate issues around