The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-06-10

local power. Besides this, in a shor
canvass the hope Of carrying q local
ticket representing immense official
patronage and an appeal to the sympa
| thies of q class of adopted citizens who
had been subjected to injustice and op,
preston at home, misled many sound
and true Democrats who have the most
absolute devotion to the Democratic
party as their safety and shield In a ma
tional contest. Proofs thicken round us
on every side that they cannot be again
misled." -.
"On what do you base such assertions?"
ut is to he observed that the then
feeble rival of Tammany Hall-the Dem
ocratic organization of the city and
county of New York-Ead long been
hardly more than a shelter for the rem.
nants of the party who had been rejected
by Tammany for refusal to obey her ex.
acting commands. Chilled by the indif-
ference of the party in the State, desti-
tute of means to perfect its organizations,
weak even in hope, deprived of patron
age in both county and State, 1t was yet
in a sudden and p~erilous emergency, the
only means at hand wherewith to gather
| and poll the great vote of New York and
there was not time in so short a canvass
to form a new organization. Temporary
| expedients had to be improvised to sup
ply its deficiencies. Under all these cir.
c%umstances, however, the present Tam
many leader was whipped ont of his
boots as Hooker said of Hood at ATTAIN
Ia, and in the local contest was driven
from every stronghold in issue. Pos.
sessed now of a full recognition in the
State, organized on a really Democratic
basis, in which power comes up from
the people and is not doled out by a sin.
gle autocratic hand, we have in the reg
ular Democracy of the city and county,
irrespective OF Tammany's chieftaiO, a
| powerful, loyal, compact, confident and
clean organization, with which to make
a successful canvass here"
But the defeat of Governor Robinson
last fall, through the hostility of the
Comptroller's followers, may inspirit
that faction to seek to accomplish a like
defeat next November"
The Comptroller's adherents suffered
in our defeat a greater disaster than any
other class of Democrats. They lost
| prestige and position in the party. They
%relinquished local patronage, They in.
cured the Censure of the great body of
the party throughout the country. Their
leaders have ever since been holding
out their empty hands to a Republican
Legislature, but the Republicans had
been 80 starved by Tilden's and Robin
sons economies, that, after filling them
selves, they had nothing left to give to
their late allies. In truth, however, the
Comptroller's followers nave no pre-
tense even Of direct complaint against
Governor Tilden, as they professed to
have,and made some people believe they
had against Governor Robinson. The
necessity did not arise in Governor Til
den's administration of applying the rod
of official discipline to any pet of the
Tammany leader or friend Of his follow.
ers. The Comptroller opposed Tilden's
nomination at st. Louis even to threats
of open rebellion. His followers com.
PEELED him nevertheless to support Til.
denis candidacy. They have greater
reason to do 30 now"
you think, then, Tammany will sap
port Tilden if he is nominated at Cincin.
natl ?"
~ do. The evidence, already abund.
ant, ia rapidly accumulating that they
intend to do 30. Doubtless. the Tamma.
ny leaders will maintain their present
attitude in the hope Of preventing Til.
denis nomination, should he consent 20
be a candidate. The nomination once
made, they would be powerless to con
centrate against the candidate of the
ofthe Union. Their late expe
with its disastrous consequences,
hope of recovering from past errors, the
stress and boom of the canvass, the
grand array of 100000 Democrats in
line for Republican government, Consti.
'utiODal liberty and administrative re.
the absence of State issues and To-
cal irritations. the Presidency and the
wrongs of the party filing the whole
political sky and melting all true Demo-
Gratis to an angry activity, will sink Dem
OCratiC dissent in this State into insig.
1iiCanCe, and the importance of indi.
viduals will be lost in the great surge of
events, involving paramount
confined to no locality"
How do you look upon the chances .
nomination and election of Mr.. Til :
len ?" L
1.-THE frauds of 1875 removed Mr.. Til. !
len from the i'm Lediate custody ard
guardianship of his friends in this State
ind made him the property Of the Union G
1t large. 1 believe that if he stands for /
he nomination at Cincinnati the vote of
New York will not be needed for his =
nomination. It would be hazardous to
that the 'two-thirds rule to which 8
lis friends everywhere, with his approval, 1
lave lately given new assent, does not
efficiently guard the party against an
nomination. The experience of I
.874 end 1875 disclosed Mr.. Tilden's
power to add votes outside the party, z
clear gains from the working. =
men, the Germans, the business and the G
literary classes, and if he stands for the 1
nomination he will have what the racing
men call a walk over at Cincinnati"
II presume you do not ignore the fact =
hat Mr.. Tilden has been and is violent =
y assailed by men of both parties ?" G
1T would be difficult to prove what is 1
o very apparent, but the same might s
ave been said OF Clinton, Van Buren, 7
nd Jackson. AS taxes are the penalty
f property, personal vituperation is the
of political strength. The same
hings that are said of Mr., Tilden now T
7ere said of him in 1874 and in 1875. l,
he bitterness of bis assailants simply q
measures the fear of the rogues who a
now that power in his hands is dan. u
erous to the plumber in theirs. l have :,
owhere seen or heard a censure of his ..
brilliant and effective reforms in admin. Il
,tration. No Republican administration t
q any State or in the Federal Govern. G
tent, can bear a moments comparison =
18th his executive career in New York. y
Tr. Tilden's idea is that Government is I
OF instituted among us for the benefit b
T the politicians, but oil the people who F
ay for it, and that government of the a.
by the people ought to be a gov. y