The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-03-11
The Coming Man-WhO Shall
He Be Z?

IOl e thC oIstnlS HAAo
our Republican friends are evidently |
as to coming events, there
is still an anxiety among the Demo- |
Gratis as to who will unite their forces
and give promise of substantial results. |
For myself think see the name of
the Republican candidate plainly writ
ten GRANT" and as Democrat
earnestly hope so, as L am convinced,
with him for an opponent, anything
like n judicious nomination by our
friends will insure a complete victory.
have learned, and, 1 think the past
have amply demonstrated, the inexpe-
diency of selecting candidate for any
position-National, State or municipal
of whom it was said, would draw the
heaviest upon the enemy, one who had
by his record of timid conservative
Democracy so captivated the opposing
clans that they would attest their de-
votion by supporting him at the polls.
The results of the campaign last fall in
Ohio and New York would seem suf-
ficient to satisfy any reasonable man
that he who could rally to his support
the greatest numbers of his OWN PAR
TY would give the most hopeful assur-
ance of success, or, if DEFEATED, the
pride in the integrity of the grand old
party would remain intact.
The mutterings against Cameron's
domineering assumptions are both loud
and deep in this and other localities i'm
Pennsylvania-and, should GRANT"
receive the nomination at Chicago,
hundreds of Republicans will anxious
ly watch for the announcement of the
Cincinnati Convention. So that the
question as to who the standard bearer
shall be is indeed a mementous one
not that the Democracy are short of
statesmen; not at all-their name is
legion. Indeed, am not positive but
that the most fruitful cause of our re-
peated defeats has been because we are
blessed with asuperbundance of states
men. Who then is the "Coming
Man?" Aside from the fact that Mr..
TILDEN is one of the most able and as
tute managers and Incorporating
Democrats in the country, there would
be much Of poetic justice in renomi-
mating him. Cheated by the most cor
rupt practices of an honestly earned
majority of the Electoral College, ii
would seem that to again tender him
the candidacy would emphasize the
utter detestatiOn the Democracy hold
towards the authors of and actors in,
the greatest crime that free people
ever submitted to. Butt doubt wheth.
er the party would be justified, even
under such circumstances, in renOmi.
mating Mr.. TILDEN. Events have
since transpired that would mark such
a course as unwise. The party should
not feel bound to make a defeat posi-
ble in the defense of ONE MAN who has
been wrOnged.
The animOsities that are the result o.
three years of examination and recrim
inatiOn are well nigh irrecOncilable
and however much the party may sym
pathize with Mr.. TILDEN for the grea
wrong done him, and them through
him, its true policy should be to &c
IoutoiuC vi oll thCSC uIlO
bitterness to seek standard-bearer
The factiOus fight in New York must
be recOnciled and harmony promoted
or that State, properly designated the
pivotal State" will be lost to us. II
will not do to assume that all will be
well by concluding a bargain with Mr.
JOHN KELLY. He may be rendered
tractable and even amiable by the
sugaring process" and he may EN-
gage to head his forces at the front, but
there is at least q reasonable doubt o.
his ability to "deliver the goods" HI
builded better than he knew when III
reared SO formidable an Obstable in the
path of his party. The man who could
rally to his SUPPORT the masses, the
man whose very name is q synonym o.
integrity and nobleness, whose devo
ton TO party and friends has been &C
Jealous and yet so prudent and impair
tial that none knew him but to honor
is New York's favorite sOn-HORATIC
SEYMOUR, but as he peremptOrily de
clines the honor we are forced to look
/
We have q THURMAN, BAYARD
4 HENDRICKS, HANCOCK, DAVIS and
ADAMs-or two-besides hosts of lesser
lights, all possessing elements ol
strength in a greater or less degree and
all honorable men, but they are men
whose records have been made up
and, as the party has been rent with
isms and schisms during the past four
years, all of these gallant statesmen
have been compelled to espouse and
advocate the claims of their several
States and districts, and to such an ex-
tent have these idiOsyncracies been
thrust forward it would require plat
form as wide as the universe and as
long as the moral laws to place any OF
these leaders consistently before the
people. Where, then, shall we cast our
eyes to behold the "Coming Man" /"
Contract the focus Of your political
vision, narrow down its wide range
and concentrate its rays at the " Hub, !"
and you have it. Ial1ude to the Hon.
Ex-Governor, WILLIAM b. GAsTON,
of Massachusetts,. He it was who led
the Democracy of the old Bay State to
a victory with but one parallel since
our pilgrim fathers landed at Plymouth
and gave to that com mon wealth an ad-
ministration so wise in its tenents and
benificient in its results that the people
of New England, of one accord, rise
up and cal! him blessed. A wise and
upright magistrate, an eminent jurist,
an estimable citizen and a beloved
friend, he combines all the elements
that proclaim u man. With him as q
candidate for Chief Executive, all ami
mOsities would be buried fathOms deep
and the grand old Democratic partv