Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01
POLITICAL POINTS.

john Sherman dIdn dare to take
his eyes off Ohio long enough to enable
him to eat a banquet in Boston. John
has no confidence in those fences.-Chi-
cago Times.
1t is really very amusing to read
all the talk about Democratic aspirants
for the Presidential nomination; and
yet it is all well enough. A certain
amount of talk is required-it is indis-
pensable. The Democratic party is
simply required to organize thoroughly
to get rid of factions and solidify.
This done, and victory is certain. In
diana State Sentinel.
Mr.. Hayes has received letter
from s'a soldier inclosing one hundred
and thirty dollars for the conscience fund.
The sender says that during the war he
stole horse from the Government,
sold him, and pocketed the proceeds.
Since then he has joined the Methodist
Church, and is prompted to make
restitution. Now, if Mr.. Hayes will
only take the hint, perhaps Mr.. Tilden
will get his salary after all.-Bostoas
Post.
The friends of the Grant i" BOOM
are not aiding it among the colored peo-
pie in the South by circulating the
story of one of them accosting him in
New Orleans and asking him if he
didn't 'recollec' Alick, de boy dat rode
de dun hoss in de armyP" to which
Grant said ''No," but he thought he
recollected the sshoss" AS the colored
man votes and the s'hoss' does not,
this trick of memory will not much
commend him to the colored voter.-
Detroit Free Press.
Before the exodus investigating
committee the other day DR.. I. NJ.
Stringfield. of Topeka, Kan, testified
that the Kansas Freedmen's Relief AS
sociation was managed and controlled
from the very start by Republican
officeholders and politicians, and Gov
ernor St. John was the leading spirit at
its inception. St. Johns interest in it
was owing to the fact that if white i'm
migration to the State, which was
largely anti-Republican, was not
checked or neutralized by negro immi-
be very slim.
There is not much danger that
an inscrutable Providence will again
affiict and curse the country with Re-
publican President, but if such calam-
ity is to befall it. the Lord will be
merciful if it should come under Grant
rather than Blaine or Sherman, both of
whom are miscreants of unquestioned
infamy, whose combined honesty, if it
were fire, would not suffice to light a
cigarette. 1t is said of Grant that he
repents of his former mistakes, but
neither. Blaine OF Sherman would re-
pent of their rascali.ies, if, as they de-
serve. they were lashed to Delaware
whipping-post and undergoing the pen
alties which the law provides in such
cases. Indianapolis Sentinel.
The Democratic Convention and Its
Nominee.
But one solid calendar month sepa-
rates us from the National Democratic
Convention of 1880. The blossoms o1
the May will intervene. Ten weeks
hence the Democrats of the United
States must nominate candidate fol
the Presidency. The time seems short
but it is ample. Opinions are forming.
Preferences are taking shape. Manipu
lations. we mourn to say, are doubtless
in active progress. Prominent Demo
Gratis in the Union are arraying them
selves in the uniforms of individual
candidates.. Democratic journals, o.
which there are too few in the country
are espousing the causes of persons
The Enquirer. too, has convictions. It
too, has preferences. We, also, take
an interest in this contest. The En-
qaIireT, in like manner, has hopes cen
tering in, and springing out of, the ap
preaching National Democratic Con
vention. We, like the others, have {
candidate. The candidate of the En-
qatirer is the nominee of the Cincinnati
Convention. We have no other priol
to the Convention. Most certainly VIZ
shall have no other afterward. Ou
convictions, with an eye single to th'
welfare of the country, are for him
Our preferences, looking at the danger
that hang over the Republic, are TO
him. Our interest, in this political con
dition of the Republic, centers in him
Our hopes. in this contest, which are oul
hopes for the continued existence o
the Constitutional Republic, are bull
upon him. He. the nominee to be, o
the Cincinnati Convention, is the En-
qasirer's candidate for the Presidency
its only candidate to-day, or prior t.
the Convention, or prior to the election
in November. And, like the immorta
apostle, we would that other men wer
even as we are. We believe in the peo
pie, in the peoples unhindered and un
smothered instincts, and we hope tina
the nominee of the National Democrat
ic Convention in June will be the delib
crate choice of the eunmanipulated judg
ment of the Democrats of the Union
The people are usually wiser than thei
leaders. The Enquirer has no desire t.
enter upon any attempt to manipulat
the broad, aggregate preference an
Judgment of the Democrats of the Unite
States in the matter of the candidacy
We should be glad if others would NO
vehemently attempt to manipulate tina
conviction. A forced, or manipulated
or legerdemain candidacy, is not tn
strongest. We are not parties to sue
engineering, and we should take pleas
ure in diScOuraging, or suppressine
such engineers. Exceedingly stron
and worthy candidates may be slaugl
tered in advance by too much sleight-o1
hand.
The Eaaqatirer's candidate, name
above, will be elected. He has at thi
moment a large majority of the vote
of the voters Of the United States. Fou
years ago Mr.. Hayes was in minorit
of about quarter of a million of vote
in the popular ballot. Excluding fou
States, the aggregate Republican m;
jorities in the Union did not equal ths
number. In order to count Mr. Haye
in it became necessary to count fc
him Louisiana, with eight Elector,
| votes; Florida, with four Elector.
votes, and South Carolina, with seve
Electoral votes. Here are ninetee
Electoral votes which it is not INTEL
| gently pretended can be cast or coun
ed for the Republican nominee in th
Presidential contest. The Republican
begin the canvass with this compar:
tive disadvantage. 1t should be T,
membered, also, that the counting {
these nineteen Electoral votes for Haye
only gave him an alleged majority (
one in the Electoral College. Ha
those votes been counted for Tilden h
majority in the Electoral College woul
have been thirty-seven; and that thes
Electoral votes will be cast an
counted for the Cincinn:
ii candidate in the comm
election is not seriously disputed. Th
Chicago candidate must somewhere
some how, make good this inevitabl
loss. Hayes and Wheeler had but on
hundred and sixty-six undisputed Elec
oral votes, and they carried all of th
Republican States in the Union, and a
of the really doubtful States. The