The daily gazette., 1880-03-01
The Issue Joined

cratic COmmlttee mas uOne lCs work
very well. In June, at least, Cincin-
natl is preferable to st. Louis. The
Music Hall of Cincinnati is, in all
points, superior to the Merchants Ex-
change of st. Louis. The hotel ac-
conn. O 1ations of Cincinnati, like the
Town of Passage, are ''both large and
spacious" The 22d day Of June is a
good date. And, added to these ma
terial details, comes the pleasant su-
perstition that 1t was at Cincinnati
that the Democratic party made its
last successful Presidential ticket four
and twenty years ago, when it nomi-
mated an old bachelor, in the person
of James Buchanan, very able, a very
upright, and, like Mr.. Tilden, very
much abused statesman. 1t also yoked
a young Kentuckian to the Sage of
Wheatland; and, if the coming conven-
tion has fancy to carry out the par
allel, there are still number of Ken
tuckians, young and old, who would
probably not decline to keep company
with our admirable Uncle Samuel
For, although the telegram of Colonel
McHenry to the editor of the Courier
Journal states that the choice signifies
little as to Presidential aspirants, we
may state, what he indeed insinuates,
that without the assent of the friends
of Mr., Tilden, who have not shown
themselves every particular on this
point, Cincinnati could not have been
chosen, and was chosen for reasons
which are perfectly satisfactory to Mr..
Tilden and his friends.
Colonel McHenry tells us that, ex-
cept among members of Congress, the
drift of opinion is decidedly for the
nomination of Mr.. Tilden, and adds
that the only obstruction suggested is
the doubt as to whether he can carry
New York. This is an old story. It
was as lively four years ago as it can
be now. 1t seems that John Kelly
sent a "delegation" over to Washing
ton to talk this up, and we are
ashamed to record that these renegade
rascals were well received by some
congressman calling themselves Dem
ocrats. If the vile scenes of which
John Kelly was the promoter at St.
Louis are to be repeated at Cincinnati,
encouraged by Democrats who sacri-
flee everything to beat Tilden, we may
as well give up the contest in advance.
1t is our fixed opinion that, with a
single exception, the Democratic party
can elect no individual President of the
United States this year, but Mr.. Til
den. That single exception is the
candidate named by Mr.. Tilden. 1t is
our fixed opinion that we cannot main-
tain ticket in the field six weeks un-
less it be headed or heartily supported
by Mr.. Tilden. We may further state
as within our positive knowledge that
Mr.. Tilden does not seek the nomina-
tion, but that he is casting about for
some one who may lift the burdens of
the canvass from his shoulder without
sacrificing the party. If he succeeds
in achieving the misfortune of finding
one the party will lose rather than
gain by the transfer.
Thirty days before the assemblage
of the Democratic convention here in
Kentucky, we shall place at the head
of the Couriey-JournaL preamble, re-
citing the situation, and a resolution
instructing the Kentucky delegation to
vote in the national convention as a
unit for Mr.. Tilden. We shall submit
this preamble and resolution to our
State convention. Democrats who
have been amusing themselves by
| gratuitous, wanton and causeless abuse
of this unselfish statesman and up
| right citizen, may prepare to waltz up
to these. If they beat them, they beat
us, and we shall go to the rear, satisfied
with having done our duty, and leav-
ing the vindication thereof to the ulti-
mate result. In the meantime, how
ever, we shall give, as occasion re-
quires, the reasons which impel us to
| a position in which we have no COM
promise to make, and shall neither ask
nor give any quarter. The present
/ seems to be one of these.
In 1924, when General Jackson was
cheated out of the Presidency, to
which he had been at least morally
elected, he did not do what the enemies
of Mr.. Tilden profess that they would
have had him do in 1877. He did not
wrap the American flag about him and
march down to the foot-lights to be-
come the sport and circumstance of
fools. He retired to the Hermitage,
and, holding his peace, waited for the
people to do him the justice which the
politicians had denied. The interven-
ing four years saw bim abused precise
ly as Mr.. Tilden had been abused.
But the end came, battling cliques and
factions, and the old hero was borne in
triumph to the White House. 1t was
the vindication of the elective fran
chise by popular arsovereignity. In 1928
General Jackson embodied in his per-
son the irresistible force of an idea
which organized itself. 1t was con-
viction, which, taking it's root in the
hearts of the people, neither Congress
men nor newspapers-nor the steady
stream of defamation issuing thence
could extinguish. The people said
"letjustice be done though the heavens
fall" and in spite ofdemagoging arts,
justice was done. ~
Mr. Tilden stands to-day where Gen.
eral Jackson stood in 1928. He is the
representative of all that is genuine and
aggressive In the issues possible to sue
cessful Democratic campaign, as opposed |
TO all that is mistaken, pretentiOus, ruin |
GUS, and insincere. Those Democrats |
who have arrayed themselves against his |
denomination have given and can give |
no reason for the wild and almost fatal |
antagonism they have brought into pre-
iudices, which have no facts to support |
them. On the contrary, they have for |
tho most mart shown thpmselvps eithar |