New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-13
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Tn reconstruction times Democrats crippled
fine Republican party at the South by assassl-
MATING its leaders. At the North, not finding IL
safe TO mt an end TO prominent men with .Dnl-
lets or knives, Democrats have for years at
toontod tbc moral assassination of Republican
leaders bv infamous ISLANDERS. The people are
neither unjust nor brainless. however, ana
therefore the effort has not succeeded. But as
If on purpose TO punish this wrong the gOOd
nnonle have been killing of Democratic leaders
with ballots. -.
There are several obstacles to Democratic
success next year. But the thickest and highest
and hardest is the want of a man. Where is the
candidate who can be named by the Democrats
with reasonable hope Of successT VI course
any insignificant dummy wOuld poll large
vote that is n virtue of the Democratic party
But it is going to take something more IMAM
stone blind party vote ~ elect n Democlauc
President next year. The recent elections
nrorc flat there will be needed large body OF
sensible and self governing voters who hold tho
balance of power in certain doubtful States
What candidate can the Democrats nominate
with chance of getting that vOtef
Had Governor Cleveland proved man OF
mach size. or had he been able to keep himself
ON speaking terms with his party managers he
might have done something. But his name has
droppcd like lead in mid-Ocean Had General
Butlcr held Massachusetts,, he might have
drawn some votes, though not of the sensible
class. But his defeat gives his foes club with
which to beat him down. Had Judge Hoadly
possessed n tongue little less dangerous than
dynamite TO his friends, or had he escaped the
u. L. Itn,,' ,,.tb rod. or p1
he secured majority big enough to last year,
he would have looked large. But the persons
who will take greatest care not to nominate
Judge Hoadly are the shrcwdcSt Democrats oil
Ohio. In brief, the new men do not wash
The Democrats have to fall back upon the old
stock of candidates.
Mr.. Tildcn considers that he il still alive.
But if anybody thinks that recent events have
made Mr.. Tildcn a possibility in Ncw-lork, he
has something to learn. a campaign with him
as candidate would be pleasant onc-for Re
pubicanS. Any close friend or tool of Mr..
Tildcn would meet with the same difficulty in
Ncw-York, while lacking his elements of posi-
five strength. Mr. Randall has succeeded III
getting beaten in his own State, and has never
been strong with the Democracy OF Western
States, whose generous" spirit and whose
longings for free trade he has thwartcd. No
candidate from former slave State will he put
I'D. if the Democrats want 10 carry doubtful
Northern State next year. The tendency of the
party, evidently, is to seek Western candi-
date. leaving Ncw-IOrk as too uncertain and
trcachcrouS for the party to trust a sixth time
for Mcclellan, nOmnally of New -Jcrscy, and
Hancock, nominally OF Pennsylvania, were
really Ncw-York men, and nominated with a
hope of the Ncw-York electoral vote. The
Democratic party has tried no other experiment
and looked nowhere else for a candidate since
1860
There are too many great men al the West.
Ohio has Thurman and lloadly. PcndlctOn and
Payne, and their fondncss for each other is cvi-
dent. Indiana has Hendricks. Holman and
Mcdonald, and the one who gets the nonina-
ton is likely to wish he had not. Not one OF
all these candidates would have more than the
mere machine strength of his party at the East.
and not one of them can command the whole
vote of his party in his own State. Mr.. Holman
is a small man, who has objected too often when
other Democrats wanted things. But he would
be apt to object again if Mr. Mcdonald should
be nominated, and so would Mr.. Hendricks
who has no chance himself Mr. Thurman and
Nj. PcndlctOn have friends enough in Ohio to
mako it a most audacious thing for the party to
nominate a candidate from the IIOadly Book
walter Payne combination. Before the Demo
cratic party rcckons victory sure, and begins to
distribute the offices, it had better find a candi-
date who has fair chance Of carrying his own
State