Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-19
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United States. That they can be made
80 depends entirely on the delegates en-
trusted by the democratic party with
the duty of naming its standard bearers.
The Intelligencer has not been given to-
what in slang parlance has come to be
know Us, .beoms" for any one. Without
saying that Mr.. Tilden was the proper
man, it has done all in Its power TO
couuteract the bad effect OF those dems-
cratic papers which have taken up the
manufactured charges Of republican
newspapers to blacken his name anu
Willy his character. Until Thursday we
saw out OF all the l%abyrinths in which
the delegates to Cincinnati might be-
come temporarily lost, a way to day.
LIGHT IN the nomination OF Horatio Sey-
mour, a man of national reputation. a
scholar, a %tinancier. and a statesman IN
the broadest sense of the term-a phil
osophical thinker, the peer OF Gladstone
and the equal OF Pitt. In his positive
%declinatlon, which we print elsewhere
this hope is shattered. At the same time
that We learn this. a portentious rumor
also reaches us that Mr.. Tllden will mol
be q candidate. Then, what! 1t IL to
this question that we wish to address
ourselves. The object OF every true
democrat at this epoch should be ior the
success of principles rather than for the
iurtherance of the ambition Of men.
Conceding this. the desire OF every del
at Cincinnati will be to assist, not
in nominating tho man from his state,
not for his personal isverite, but, in
uamlng the man that a win. Inc
democratic party does not want any
dark horses. 1t does not wish That en-
thusiasm for oratory should lead its
delegates into giving it q smirched can
didats to oppose to the smirchsd candl-
date of the republican party. What 1t
does want is a man Of shining ability, u
man conspicuous for u%nflinching integri-
ty, a man as lar removed from the DEM
agogue as honesty is from Mr.. Garheld's
records man who can neither be bought
nor scared, . man whs would be president
10 TACT as we'll as in name, a statesman
who would inspire confidence at home
and respect abroad. What m are
before the convention? There IS Gen
Hancock, of Pennsylvania. a gentle
man. a soldier and q patriot; there if
Mr.. Thurman, q lover of his country,
grand old statesman and a democrat
Without blemish there is Judge Field
a ripe student, a man Of strong chsrac'
ter and the courage Of his convictions
always a democrat; and there is Hen
bricks, the democratic beau ideal Of
western statesman, suave, polished, vel
informed. an eloquent talker. devoted t.
his country and his party. Beside thes'
there is another man-his name
Thomas Francis Bayard. New what l
to be done? Everybody knows. The ner
est tyro in politics will say that the cleo
loral college is composed of 1863 votes
and that it requires 1876 to elect. Th
south will furnish 1888 OF these votes
Against Mr.. Garfield this is a certainty
New York and. Indiana can furnish 5
more. Connecticut. New jersey, Orego
and California could also be won by th
proper man. Who is he? Gen Hancoc
is a soldier. The country is a little tire
of the sabre. Mr.. Thurman? He fiji.
the Measure of our standard, but ther
would be danger for him in New Yorl
beside his state is republican
Judge Field? Whs knows him? 1t
t not everybody that has read of the dal
7 gers and hardships which he bore
California as q young lawyer, and II
difficult read he had to travel to b
present eminence as a jurist. He
bricks? Our southern heart goes out
INN Tor the brave battles he used
fight for US in the senate. We need
e state, too, and we know that the gala
IlOOSlcC VIII uo LILO outJ "Au ~ ~
lie deserves it; but there again con,
:. the insvitable-New York locks up
his ideas of finance with suspicie
Maybe not justly, but still it is so. Til
l. who is LETT? No dark horse no secon
l. rate man. No; but Thomas Franz
e. Bayard, a man of distinguished abili
tried patriotism, and iron will. A N
f. who, like Clay. would rather be RIG
Of than be president. A man whose to
n ering character would start a whlrlwl
of popular enthusiasm which VOL
sweep the country from Boston to S
Ill Francisco. Whose nomination wo'
to bring to America the congratulations
e. every friendly foreign country. A n
whose spotless reputation would sh
in contradistinction to the blotted ma
"a OF Mr.. Garfield as day does to night.
-. man OF brains; a man with iron in
muscles, and the blue blood of one
the best families In America in his We
The American people believe in bic
it Not in the pretensions of arlstocrs
the but in the blood descending from sir
son, and son again. without a stain,
. its living representative, be he bl'
smith or prince. may say, a. he pro-
.oeks back to his ancestry. There i
stain on the old name to this day,
with Gods help I'll keep it pure" T
EEK, may sometimes come something
Ac- from a scrub, but as a rule it is
!, it thoroughbreds who win. Bayard
thoroughbred. He is a big man fro
"a little state, as his opponent would
~. little man from a big state. The 81
his state would not hurt him, as
-. York would as assuredly he hi
would Delaware. California woul
less be certain fer HIM; Connet
- would give him her electoral vote ;
ders Jersey. too; Indiana would be sat
very yond a per%adventure, and the &c
they vote tor Bayard in Ohio would
Mr.. Garfield's home state. Wha
ID as the objections? One a piece OF CO
ice. and the other a difference
cratic oe'a'i III 'he ooso
,b no Senator Bayard said in the beginnr
the war, '.let the erring sisters go
thought even this better than
. shed, but when war was inevital
.lPhia mon was truer tO the Union.