Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-22
A STRONG PLEA.
Why Iildes Should be Nomsinated--V ie,cs
of Montgomery Blair.

of Montgomery Blair.
To the Editor of the Sun:
SIR think Mr.. Tilden should be nomi-
mated:
1. Because this is no time for figure
heads. Time was, when the Democratic Or
ganization was in power, that it was strong
enough to supersede its representative man
and elect the unknown. But now it is ne
cessary to assert Democratic principles in
the most effective manner to enable the
Democratic party to recover the power it lost
near quarter of century since; and to do
this it must present the man in whose per-
son the right of self-government was violat-
ed, because he represented an aggressive
Democratic reform policy in manner to
rally the people, and had been so opposed to
the pre-slavery policy of the party leaders,
through which the party lost power, as to
break the force of the sectional issu, in the
canvass.
2. Because this election depends entirely
upon our ability to occupy the public mind
with the questions of which is the repre-
sentative man, and make the election turn
upon those questions. To supersede him is
to supersede the question on the fraud and
reform, and give triumph to the contrivers
of the fraud and to the rings which COLI
bined with them to set aside his election and
| defeat his nomination.
3. Such triumph will enable our oppo-
| nents to make the sectional issue on our can
| didate, whoever he may be and whatever
may have been his political history, for he
| will be regarded as the candidate of the COM
| bination of jobbers and secessionists by
whom Tilden's denomination will have been
defeated.
4. Because having been elected in 1876
| as the representative of aggressive reform
Democracy, cheated out of his Office, and
his denomination opposed by this combina-
| ton, the issue on his re- election will be the
simple and plain issue whether people will
assert their right to govern or will submit to
be defrauded of their right and to be ruled
by such combinations. On such an issue the
triumph of the Democratic party in the cleo
ton is absolutely assured.
5. Because the opposition to Tilden of
Gould, Scott, Stanford and the other repre-
sentatives of great monopoly interests, of
Lamar and the old secesh element, of the
autocrat of Tammany, of the canal ring and
| of all the other rings and jobbers In the
country, is q certificate to the people, which
will not be questioned, that if they elect Til
den President he will be their President and
not the President of these magnates.
6. Because the election of the man whose
name is the synonyme of "thorough," in
purging the government of abuses, will
proclaim go emphatically the earnestness of
the people in that policy as to insure its
accomplishment. 1t will change instantly
the spirit of all connected with the business
of government throughout the country, and
impart to them zeal and activity in the
work of reform hitherto unknown. What
transformation was wrought in the spirit of
the Office holding fraternity, and of the null
titudes who aspire to join that noble army,
when the people make it known that they
mean to stand by the Union.
Z. Because his election will put down
sectionalism and the corruption and ring
rule born of it, and will substitute as the
passport to the public service honest and
skillful ADMINISTRATION of public affairs.
Washington, March IA, 1880.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR.