Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-25
THE ssvICTORY'' OVER TILDEN. -ncl nl;l<l.xa;4ou

1 THE ssVICTORY,, OVER TILDEN. 1 aThe anti-Tildenites call the action of the l Democratic national committee in selecting
 Cincinnati as the place for holding the na- tional convention ''victory" over Tilden, and
 therefore they rejoice. They have certainly l some reason for feeling better. Mr. TiIden's agents worked hard to have St. Louis select ed, and only relinquished the contest when
 they became convinced that they could not win. Then they attempted to secure Chicago, but were also unsuccessful. The failure of
 their effort is the more significant because it was the only organized effort made on behalf of any Presidential candidate, and because up
 to recent period Mir. Tilden controlled, or
 was supposed to control, a large majority of
 the national committee. The New York
 World is so chesred by the failure of Tilden
 to control the committees choice that it sees
 great deal in it. It says: ''The committee is
 clearly not disposed to hang 8 millstone
 around the neck of the party as preliminary
 to swimming match nor have We any req
 son to expect that the convention will be anYp
 more disposed to solve by suicide the ques-
 tions that come before it.
 The choice of Cincinnati means not only
 conviction on the part of the committee of the
 impossibility of MT. Tilden. It means hard
 money as well, for convention held at Cin- cinnati, if it were composed of sane men,
 could no more fail to mediate the lesson
 taught by the defeat of Ewing in Ohio than it
 could fail to mediate the lesson taught by the
 defeat of Robinson in New York"
 The selection of Cincinnati was not the only
 part of the proceedings that pleases the oppo- nents of Tilden and gives them hope. They feel that the treatment of the resolution of
 fered by devoted friend of Mir. Tilden, the purport of which was to direct the executive committee to confer with the Democratic State central committee of New York, with the view of harmonizing the differences in the party there, was indicative of strong opposi- ton to Tilden in the committee. A corres- pondent declares that had this resolution been put to vote it would have been overwhelming ly defeated, as twenty eight of the members of the committee were opposed to it ''for the simple reason that it bore MT. Tilden's ear-marks" The Tsmmany men present in Washington during the meet ing of the committee were especially delighted with the refusal of the committee to interfere l in their quarrel with Tilden, and went home | protesting to be satisfied that their enemy was beaten.
 Time will tell whether the Democratic l party will be able to shake the old man of Gramercy Park from it's back, or whether the | belief of portion of the party that he can be shaken of is only pleasant fiction. The | quarrel in New York makes the problem to be | solved an unusually complicated one. Tilden | could hardly carry that State with Tammany against him, and, on the other hand, his friends assert that no candidate objectionable l to him shall carry the State. But whatever the woes of the Democrats, and however much trouble it costs them to do the wisest thing, it is satisfactory to think that if the Republican convention does it's duty all their efforts will be in vain.