The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-19
HENDRICKS AND INDIANA.

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As the turmoil, the strife and the bitter war
fare increase in the Republican party, they
determined to win in the next contest, and
the conviction that victory with Mr.. Tilden is
much more likely than without him is becom-
is purely personal Will not be allowed to
stand Ia the way OF party success.-Courler-
Journal.
In discussing possibilities and probabili-
ties, the Democratic Convention, when in
session at Cincinnati, will be required to
look facts square in the face. The availi-
bility OF Mr.. nlden for the nomination will
be taken into consideration. The great
purpose of the Democratic party in
the campaign of 1880 will be to
achieve success. If there is opposition to
Mr.. Tilden, we are quite willing to assume
that it will be solely upon the repeated and
defiant assertion that he can not carry New
York and recent events are well calculated
to impress upon the Convention the fact
that such assertions are not idle vaporings
There are no indications that the opposition
to Mr.. Tilden in New York is weakening
Whether that opposition is "purely per-
sonalp or not does not matter. That it
exists, that it is formidable, that it is defiant
and unyielding is well understood and
universally admitted. Without the vote of
New York, Mr.. Tilden would, under
ordinary circumstances, have no show for an
election, and the opposition to him in his
own State is OF such character
as to afford no hope at all that it will weak
en-. The Cincinnati Convention will not be
likely to shut its eyes to such facts. and
blindly force upon the party a candidate
with the probabilities of defeat so clearly
foreshsdowed. We have shown in these
columns that Indiana and New York are
necessary to the triumph OF the Democratic
party. II the New York Democracy will not
unite upon Mr.. Tilden, then Mr.. Tilden
should be regarded as absolutely unavsils.
BILE. Then what? Indiana comes to the
front, a Democratic State, and as the New
York World says, the only Northern State
rhieh ras left entirely Democratic after the elee-
tons Of last 0utumn.' Indiana proposes
Thomas A. Hendricks as q candidate for the
nomination at Cincinnati. Mr.. Hendricks can
why he can not carry New York, it has never
been stated; and since New York and In
diana are necessary to success, Mr.. Hen
bricks becomes at once the strongest and,
therefore, the most available Democrat
named in connection with the nomination.
The New York World, in recent issue, has
an editorial article captioned "The South at
Cincinnati" in which il says that 1.-THE
South will be on trial at Cincinnati, and that
upon the conduct of the South in the Demo
cratic National Convention the issue of the
contest in November will turn" Admit
this, and the conclusion is that the South
wants success; and since success is not prob
able with Mr.. Tilden, and is probable with
Mr.. Hendricks, is it fair TO
assume that the South will demand
Mr.. Hendricks nomination. But the
World, instead of naming Mr.. Hendricks
brings forward Mr.. Bsyard, and, as an argu-
ment in favor of Mr.. Bsyard's nomination,
says that "the business men of the North
and West desire to see the Union as it was
in the hearts of the whole people. New
England, and especially Massachusetts,, the
brain Of the anti-slavery war, is looking
back to the better days of the Republic, and
proves this to demonstration by the feeling
which it displays in favor of such National
statesman as Mr.. Bayard. The colleges, the
churches, the best elements of Puritanism
and the best elements OF Catholicism in
Massachusetts, all manifest this feeling" 1t
would be difficult to conjecture how a
weaker argument for the success OF the
Democratic party could be framed. The
World appeals to section where
there is not Democratic electoral vote as
favoring the nomination Of Mr.. Bayard, and
calls upon the South to name q candidate In
harmony with New England" "Massaohu-
sstts," "the brain of the anti-sIavery war"
churches, colleges" and the best elements
of Puritanism," The World seems disposed