The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-19
SEYMOUR FOR PRESIDENT

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because we believe that Mr.. Seymour is the
most available man at this juncture among
all the statesmen and leaders of the Demo
cratic party for the exalted position ofpresl-
dent. Not word can be said against him
as public man no act of his since the day
he entered the arena of politics down
to this time, has about il
anything of suspicious color has about ii
anything that Can be urged to his detriment.
He is above suspicion. During the war, as
governor of New York, his fealty to the
Union and his efforts in his official capacity
we're all that the most ultra and exscting Re-
publican could ask. His private life has been
as pure and as sweet rs though he had been
an anchorite. He has the confidence, the re-
spect and the esteem of the entire people o
this country, from its centre to its crcumter-
ence, from its one extreme to the other, and
although, ii he be the nominee, there will
be thousands of Republicans, strict
partisans, who will vote against him, yet they
will feel and know that if he is elected that
the country will be in safe and in honorable
hands. His nomination will put the Repub-
licans on the defensive from the moment
thereof. They will have no grounds of attack
upon him. No charges of corruption, of
fraud, of double dealing, of treachery, can
be brought against him, can even be trumped
up against him. He will unite the state of
New York. The Tilden and the Kelly fac
tons of the Democratic party of that state
will rally around his banner and cluster
under its bright folds as one man, with
the enthusiastic determination to carry it
proudly to victory. The disatfected Repub-
licans of the state, who love and honor him
asa just, an upright, an honest, honorable
gentleman, will give him their cordial sup
port. Mr.. Conkling, his brother.inlaw, the
grand Republican leader and dictator in New
York, who already has a grievance grievously
given by his party at Chicago, like Achilles,
sulks in his tent and will let confusion dire
strike dismay in the ranks Of his party as
great Hector careers proudly DER the field
in his chariot, and in his tent
will no sulk until 1884, if Mr..
Seymour be the Democratic nominee. We
say this, because the signs are that Grant and
his leutcnsnts, Conkling, Cameron and Lo
gan, rather hope for the defeat of Garfield,
trusting that Democratic administration
will be so counter to the wishes of the rank
and file of the Northern people as to make
them clamorous for Grants nomination in
1884 Just compare Seymour and Garfield;
not the men individually so much as the
manner of their nominations and the sources
thereof, if Seymour be the Democratic nom
inee. Garfield is evidently the nominee of
the sectional leaders of the Republican party.
Sectionalism and hatred of the South
and peace were crystalized in Blaine
and Sherman, neither of whom could be
chosen at Chicago. They opposed Grant,
because they believed that he, having tray
eled over the world, having seen the pros
perity, grandeur and power Of foreign ma
tons, had an ambition to unite this country
in fact MS it is in theory; had an ambition to
weed out sectonalism, to create fraternal
feeling between and among all the people,
from the Penobscot to the Florida reefs,
from the Atlantic scaboard to the golden
slopes of the Pacific, from the lakes and pine
regions OF the great North along the shores
of Canada to the waters of the Next |
can gulf, the myrtle bowers ana
magnolia groves of the extreme South.
They believ that this was his aim
and his object, and in their sectionalism they
wanted no such consummation, and there
fore they combined for his defeat and cen.
tered on Garfield, who has never tailed to
wave the bloody shirt, who as visiting
statesman" helped to defraud us Of the vote
of Louisiana; who as member of the elect
oral commission worked and voted to seat q
president Mr.. Garfield appears
before the people of this country to-day as
the candidate of sectionaism as the candi-
date of the bloody shirt regime as the great
apostle of strife, of oppression, of fraud,
Of corruption, of wrong, of injustic,
of contention. If Mr.. SEYMOUR be the
Democratic nominee, he will bear in one
hand the olive branch of peace and prospect
ty and'brotherly love, and in the other, The
flag of our fathers, with liberty, with constitu-
tional government, with equal rights and
equal laws for all inscribed upon its folds,
emblszoned in letters of living light amid its
stars and stripes. He will be the exponent
of peace, the grand leader in the cause of
unity, Of justice and of right and
of united country, and an honest gov
eminent. His credentials will bear the
broad sign manual of the people, the peo-
pie who know no section, who love the land
our fathers gave US, whose watchword is love,
IL peace not hate, not strife. No man who
loves his country; who reveres its traditions
and its memories; who honors its customs
and its laws; who looks forward with hope
and pride to its future but what can support
him. Without fear and without reproach;
with the frosts of long life Of usefulness,
of integrity and honesty of purpose
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