New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-26
THE HAND of THE GOLD MAN."

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THE HAND OF THE "OLD MAN'
We have it upon such Democratic authority as
The World newspaper that the late Ohio Demo-
cratic State Convention was the most bolster
GUS blbulous and disreputable convention ever
held in the great State" But we are likewise in
formed by the same journal that the Ohio
| Democrats are always demonstrative in con-
vention," that "they will run to faction and
| they will quarrel over candidates, but they al
ways manage to reconcile their differences be-
fore the day of balloting" The frank admis-
| sion concerning the character OF the convention
is followed by the confident prediction that
| before the day of voting the differences will be
healed and harmonious and united Democ-
| racy will elect Judge Hoadly Governor. Mean
| time certain other Democratic journals are
| turning over the results of this boisterous,
bbulous and disreputable" convention, and
| wondering what effect, if any, they viii have on
| the National Convention next year, and the
Democratic nomination for the Presidency.
| There seems to be a lurking suspicion in the
minds of many Democrats that the nomination
of Judge Hoadly to be Governor of Ohio
means good deal more than appears on the
surface; that he means good deal more In
accepting the nomination, and that the men
who have been pushing him mean good deal
more than the Goyernorshp OK Ohio. The
Atlanta Constitution expresses an opinion by
no means uncommon when it says: 1t means
" that either Hoadly will be in training for the
democratic nomination for the Presidency or
shat he will support Pendleton, who is his
spolitical prophet From this day forth the Pres
aidential campaign may be said to be in pro-
"gress"
So much of this as relates to Pendleton ay
be dimissed That gentleman can hardly be
called candidate. He had his nomination for
Vice. President in 1864, and his boom for the
first place In 1865, and so far as those places
are concerned may be considered shrlved. There
are plenty of reasons for setting this down as
a fixed fact, but one will suffice. Mr.. Pendleton
is so far committed 20 Civil Service Reform
to make il doubtful in the minds of many DEM
ocrats whether he would make a clean sweep
of the Republicans in Office and put Democrats
In their places in case of his election. The
present Democratic party, whatever else it may
do, will run no risks and take no chances in a
matter of such vital Importance. The Atlanta
editor may be assured, moreover, that should
Judge Hoadly be elected Governor of Ohio
which we take leave TO say is extremely i'm
urobable--he is not the man to turn over to
another the advantages thereof, or to lend Mr..
Pendleton or anybody else tho prestige of his
own success. Judge Hoadly purchased this
nomination--as some Democrats charge-and
if he should succeed in purchasing an election
in October, it is an investment of his own funds
for his own profit. He is not engaged just now
in philanthroplc enterprises but iii practical
politics. 1t is a political venture for the bene
fit of Judge Hoadly himself If the Ohio
election is understood to lap over on the Ma
tional Convention he will insist that the tail
goes with the hide" He is not buying the priv
ilege of acting as ladder or stepping stone to
some one else.
Moreover, there are uncOmmonly good rea-
sons for the belief that an eminent Democrat of
this cty--whose robust vitality and radiant
youthfuluess were recently described so poeti-
cally by Mr.. Henry Watterson-had something
to do with putting forward Judge Hoadly as
candidate for Governor ;Sand he is not man
whose ambition stops with the making of mere
Governors. The Atlanta newspaper truly says /:
From this day forth the Presidential cam
paign may be said to DO in progress" 1t might |
have said further that so far as the Democratic
canvass in Ohio is concerned Mr.. SAM el j. |
Tiden's great effort to pay of an old debt and
make his own man President has fairly begun. |
Mr.. Tilden owes Judge Hoadly considerable |
debt of gratitude. It is well known to persons
familiar with the political history of the past |
eight years that Judge HOadly wrote and pub |
lished during the tendency of Mr.. Tilden's |
claim to the Presidency in 1867 a most elab-
crate and formidable opinion sustaining the |
bogus Cronin electoral college in Oregon. 1t is |
not SO well known that at the time of this pub
LEGATION certain emissaries of Mr.. Tilden were
on their way with large sums of money to the
disputed States-South Carolina, Florida and
Louisiana-and that upon the strength of the
Hoadly opinion their instructions were coun-
fernandez; Mr. Tiden having become con-
WINGED that the Hoadly argument in the Ore
gon case was sound, and that the one vote be |
needed being assured there was no need of
spending more money on the other disputed
States. Mr.. Tilden is probably the only man
besides Its author who ever read Judge Hoad
ly's argument in that case. BUTT was so subtle
and technical, so full OF pettfogging points
and withai so unfortunately tedious, that it COM
mended i;sef to him at once.
From that time Mr.. Tilden has been an ardent
admirer of Hoadly. rhe two men are not I'M
like in disposition, temperament and mental
qualities they believe in general way in the
same political theories, and 1t may be fairly in
ierred from the stories current concerning the
Ohio nomination that their methods in politics