The Red Cloud chief., 1884-03-21
Several Ways Not to Win. :


When the practiced and practical
fighter placed his raw soldiers in line al
Bunker Hill, he said: ''Wait till YOU
see the whites of their eyes. and then
aim low" The Republicans can begin
to ''see the whites of their eyes, TIE
candidate of the three barrels-the
money barrel. the whisky barrel, and
the oil barrels likely to DE the Dem
o~cratic candidate. He will be Il strong
candidate. too. 1t would be the height
of folly to underestimate his strength.
MIR. Payne is strong in what he has, AMI
in what he has not. He has wealth and
a fair reputation. and he has not a lone
and loaded record. He is from Ohio,
and that State votes in October. His
nomination will hopelessly wreck from
the start the Democratic notion of ap-
pealing to the cOmmunistic hatred OF
great corporations, but that will be- a
piece of good luck for the party. Mr..
Payne's relations with corporations and
mOneyed men will give him a kind of
strength that mere wealth will not give
MIR. Tilden, the railroad lawyer, and
that no other Democratic candidate for
a long time has been able to command
in any degree. In short. the candidate
of three barrels Of strength.
Mr.. Payne has weak points also,
which we do not propose now to dis
cuss. 1t is best for the Republicans, at
the very outset. to realize that here is q
candidate whose nomination is possible,
and from present appearances ever
probable. whom it will be no holiday
amusement to defeat. 1t is time to
think about taking aim. A weak nom-
nation or a frivolous nomination will
not defeat that particular foe. One or
two men can be nominated who will
render tie defeat of the Democrats with
Mr.. Payne almost a certainty. But a
great many others are talked about,
who would in all probability be beaten
by him. A shot aimed at the right
place will kill; all the other shots will
miss.
For one thing, it will not be exactly
in order to aim at Mr.. Payne us a
Northern man with Southern principles.
He was the Spokesman of the majority
in behalf of the platform adopted in the
Democratic Convention of 1S6O-that
platform whose adoption Southern dele
cations protested against by seeding.
1t was not a platform that would be
called very brilliant or statesman-like
to-day, but it took some independence
to insist upon it when disruption of the
convention and of the party was the
known consequence. 1t will not pay to
nominate against Mr.. PAYNE any man
who has not the respect and confidence
OF the conservative and business ele-
ments OF the country. a candidate
who does not know what he believes
about the money question. or who han
pens to believe wrong, will have Il hard
time of it. If the Republican party so
behaves as to retain the confidence
which its splendid course has inspired
in conservative and property-owning
citizens, and names a candidate who
has been identified with that honorable
career, it need not fear. But it can not
afford this year to ignore the wishes of
such citizens: still less can it afford to
affrOnt them.
The Democrats have chosen to put
their convention later than the Repub-
lican. If a nomination that is weak or
vulnerable should be made by the Re-
publicans. we may expect to see the ut
los advantage taken of it. ANY man
of average sense can name several NOM
nations that would infallibly hand over
the electoral votes of New York, New
Jersey and Ohio to the Democratic
party. But there is not the slightest
need of going wrong. The convention
has only to remember that the past con-
duct of the Republican party in regard
10 public faith, honest money and pro-
lection of industry. has secured for it
the confidence of conservative interests.
1t has no reason to throw away that
that confidence, or to shake it. The
convention has only to select a candi-
date who represents what the Republic
an party has done that is wise and
worthy of confidence. 1t can find more
than one. But it would be particularly
unwise to select q candidate who has
not been in sympathy with what is wise
and worthy of confidence in the past
conduct of the party. This is not the
year to make that blunder with impu-
nity.-N. Y Tribune.
"A school-boy in London committed
suicide the other day. He had failed to
pass an examination, and for many
months before had been overwOrked and
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