Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-03-10
The Program at Cincinnati.

The prime move OF the anti-Tilden democrats
In the coming Cincinnati convention, will be to
control the organization. In order to beat TIL
den 1t is regarded as all-important to maintain
the two-thirds rule. The action of the st. Louis
convention in calling upon states to instruct
their delegations In 1880 with regard to the
repeal Of the two-thfrds rule brings the subject
before the attention of the next convention, so
the Tilden men Will claim. majority vote will
settle the question, and the tactics Of the anti
Tfldenites viii be to prevent vote. The only
safe method Of accomplishing this Is to secure
chairman who will interposc parliament
tary" rulings to stave off the two-thirds
question. If, however, Tilden has the sup
port OF majority of the convention
it is difficult to conceive how he can be beaten
at any point. His supporters will be too wide
awake to permit the organization to be wrested
from them, and If they secure that, the majority
rule will be substituted for the two-thlrds in
Short order. Leading anti-Tilden democrats In
washington concede to him the delegations
from the New England states, from New York.
New Jersey, Colorado Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Michigan and Minnesota, with good chance of
securing some delegates from the south The
states named will have 296 delegates in the Gin
cinnau convention, lacking only "a of a ma
Jority. In addition to the states conceded, TIL
den'S friends claim that he will have Pennsyl-
votes, Louisiana, with 16, and parts of deega-
lions from other southern states with the A
votes of Ohio to support Tilden as second choice
This would give him good working majority
but there is doubt about several OF the states
claimed for him, particularly Kentucky
and Illinois, the latter Of which will probably
instruct for Palmer or Davis. Should Tiden,s
friends succeed In bringing the two-thirds ques-
ton before the convention on motion to repeal
then fight Will be opened against such mo-
t1on that may last one or two days. 1t will be
Claimed that the Tilden men seek to repeal it in
order that they may make nomination by the
votes OF states which cannot contribute any,
thing to the election of democratic candidate;
that the good old rule" has stood for many
years to protect the party against nominations
unacceptable to the states that must do the
voting for it, and it should be continued in force
The argument OF the T1ldenites will be that
majority rule is democratic doctrine, and that
the convention of 1876 condemned the two
thirds rule, and prepared the way for
Its repeal Each days development of
democratic feeling makes it palmer that Tilden
is a very unpopular candidate in the democratic
states. Throughout the entire. south there is
but one prominent journal that advocates his
nomination, while the others, almost unani-
mously, protest against it. Every effort will be
put forth to have the southern states send solid
antf-Tflden delegations, and then, it Is suggest
ed by leading members of Congress from that
section If the republican states attempt to force
the nomination of Tilden, that the southern
delegations shall protest, for the reason that he
cannot carry all those states. This plan con-
templates the enactment of the role rammany
played in the last New York democratic con-
vention, and though it is extreme, there are
any number of prominent democrats who favor
1t. If Tilden's nomination cannot be prevented
by milder methods.