Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-20

fortune anG the prestige he has. Ii
would be no loss to him to run indie
pendently for president. and would
even be an honor to be beaten. He
would stand no worse than Martin
Van Buren, who bolted the party
nomination III 1S4S, and whose fol.
lowers We're taken care of by the sue.
ceeding republican party as consider.
ately as if they had been amt. slavery
wings.
Butler might be able to elect Il re
publican if he could not succeed him,
self. If the election in Ohio this fall
should wipe out the republican party
for next years presidential chances il
may produce through the country a
sensation equivalent To the loss OF
Maine at the brink of the Garfield
campaign. The loss of Maine seemed
to preSage the overwhelming success
of the democratic ticket and the
restoration of the south to political
influence. The business classes began
at once To feel excited.
ENORMOUS SUNS OF MONEY
We're raised in New York and other
states, and. as an equivalent of Maine,
Indiana was plucked from the demo
cratic column.
| suggest that the loss of Ohio this
fall may SO strengthen the democratic
party that il will inevitably fall into
two camps, and know of no man 81
capable of taking possession of one of
those camps as Gen. Butler
But, THAT MR.. TILpEN
is very strong among democratic
voters everywhere is manifest. There
are republicans, too, who IN the trans
formation of politics 10 new plane
would prefer Tildcn to any man in
sight. l heard one of the leading Ohio
men say two weeks ago that if Mlden
was ready to run for president the
production of his name with his as
sent i'll the convention would storm
the fort. The suggestion of Mr.. Til
den to run on no other platform than
the great fraud of 1876 is to put aside
all the issues which have since arisen,
and which are championed by Mr.
Carlisle and others, and it throws the
democratic politicians back into n
condition of recrimination. With
nothing but the great fraud under dis
cussion what becomes of all the men
north and south who abetted that
fraud to the extent of supporting the
Conkling, Edmunds and Thurman
plan of counting the vote2 They
must step down and out if Mr., Tilden
steps up. Besides, the supplanting of
the republican party in Ohio will an
ticipate by eight months the probable
fate of the republican party in the
presidential election
The republican nomination
WILL GO BEGGING.
The minds of tens of thousands of
men are very much unsettled, and the
democratic party is not more III favor
with these than the republican. Such
an event will produce II battle for the
democratic nomination Immediately
that will assume vicious conditions.
Butler will stand off at
the tip of the country and
take u rest, and let the more
legitimate democratic competitors as
sail each other, and with his huge re-
publican contingent, gathered from
both the half breed and the stalwart
camps, he may occupy the position of
General jackson in 1882, when the
congressional caucus as usual, nomi-
mated Mr. Crawford, but jackson,
gathering the federalists into his
camp, revolutionized the politics of
that day.
have now considered
THE THREE CANDIDATES,
not fully but partially, and may ask,
in conclusion, what other names are
there standing in the first rank like
those of Mcdonald, Tilden and But
Ter! None of the Ohio leaders are at
present il such advanced position.
Mr.. Hendricks has no consideration
whatever for the first place on the
ticket.
GENERAL PALMER
has several times attempted To get the
presidential nomination, as in 1872
and 1876, but he has been undemln-
ed by the friends of Morrison, Trum-
bull and others in his own state, and
the same thing will happen again.
There is no southern candidate. no Pa
cific coast candidate, no candidate west
of Illinois. Under extraordinary cir
cumstanceS
MR.. THURMAN
might become the democratic point of
agreement, but he is all wrong on the
great fraud question, and there exists
an indisposition i'll both parties to take
their candidates again from Ohio.
GENERAL HANCOCK,
at times, has seemed to retain some
portion of his old support, but he was
fairly beaten i'll 1880, and the tariff
question, which he neither under
stands nor discusses, will leave his
party with him as its representative,
in rather cheap position to make a
great campaign Besides time has
dealt heavier with him than with older
men.
MR.. TILDEN AND MR.. HENDRICKS
are both infirm men physically. Ii
the old ticket be run again the coun-
try will face the probability OF con
gress having to elect a chief magis-
trate through clique in the senate.
Whichever man might be the bene-
ficiary of the senatorial caucus, it
would make as much hostil-
ity and faction in the democracy as
the alternative Of Ben Wade in 1869,
which was the entering wedge to
break down the republican party, and
led to the instant detection of Fessen-
den, Grimes, Trumbull and othei
senatorial leaders Iapprehend, there,
fore, at present, that Mcdonald has
somewhat the advantage; but the
moment his position is defined bat
teries will open on him from all sorts
of sources.
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