New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-19
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The Tildenproeramm for the Democratic state
Convention to be held in Syracuse tomorrow
as reported in our Albany special is characters
tically shrewd 1t is not proposed to have any III
attractions adopted or even to put Mr.. IlldenB
name in the resolutions. Thus the Tammany
neople will be deprived of all reasonable ex-
cuse for boiling. while at the same time the en-
tire delegation to Cincinnati will be baggeu
for the Great Defrauded by unit rule en1orceu
by faithful majority of at least fifty out Oh tne
seventy delegates 1t may be that Mr. IHuen
cannot hold his knife at dinner as some Oh tle
would be legatees of his political power ask US
to believe but it is plain that ne can hanuie
the New York State Democracy as sRlllluhy us
ever.
GeneraI Grant has q way of arriving at Uhe
most important point In the field of pollqcal
operatiOns at the critical moment of the contest
for delegates to Chicago. He visited Phlladel-
mia n few weeks brfore the Pennsylvania
State Convention was held. Returning from
his Mexican tour he appeared in Texas ana
afterwards in Arkansas and missouri just pIlor
TO the meeting of the conventions in those
States, and now he ends his travels and reaches
Illinois at the moment when the Republicans
there are in the midst of a hot contest over the
question of his candidacy. These condolences
may be accidental, but they do not have that
appearance. General Grant did not do things
by accident when he was soldier, and 1t IS
scarcely probable that he is wandering over
the country in an aimless way without any
thought of the effect his travels and speeches
may have on his Presidential prospects.
A staff correspondent of THE TRIBUNE, writ
ing from Worcester, shows that the Grant
movement in Massachusetts had the important
advantages of strong leadership, influential
newspaper support lack of organized opposition
and also of the peculiar and rather unreason-
able local prejudice against the most cOnspic-
IONS anti-third term candidate in the field. Its
complete overthrow in the State Convention
last Thursday appears all the more significant
when these circumstances are taken into &C
count. The Republicans of the Bay State were
a little slow in making up their minds on the
Presidential question, and their choice of can
didate seems rather impractical, now It'll made;
but they arc perfectly clear and positive on one
point-they do not want to violate the traditions
of the country and take an extra hazard OF de-
feat by nominating the ex-President at Chicago.
The way Congress has just dealt with the an
nual estimates for the Indian service is char
acteristic of the kind of craftsmanship that pre-
walls in the party which is bOtching the legisIa-
tive business of the country. 1t consists Of
slashing into an item here and another there
80 as to reduce the total, without any regard
to the obligations the Government has assumed
toward the Indians or the danger of melting
them to war by breaking their treaties. The
Government, for example, has agreed to give
every member of the Sioux Nation q suit of
clothes once year, but the Democrats have cut
down the appropriation so that the suits deliv-
cred in the Far West arc to cost only about five
dollars apiece. 1t would be an interesting spec
tacle to see our economic Democratic Congress
men arraycd in one of the five-dolar suits which
they insist are good enough to last an Indian
an entire year. When it comes to making up
preparations for public buildings or harbOr i'm
proyements in their districts there's nothing
small about these gentlemen indeed it is beau
tiful to see how generous and free-handed they
become; but they will deprive the shivering
savages on the plains of the blankets and "a
lions which have been promised them without
the least conjunction of conscience.