The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-06-05
The Presidency.

dict which was rendered at the polls.
The electoral vote by which
Hayes was counted president stands
as a warning mile post of in
fanny, while all along the ex-
tended track the 250,OO0 majority vo-
ters who elected Tilden, have ever
since been waiting and standing ready
to reopen their UNANIMOUSLY silenced
verdict once more in favor of the
great democratic leader. There is no
installing the popular acclaim which
Is ringing the welkin all over the
union. Deep down in the hearts of
American people, there is ever
sentiment of justice which will not
condone fraud and will swell to the
surface at some opportunity. 1t may
be repressed for season by the force
of circumstances; but like truth,
crushed to earth, it will rise again"
till the gathering force of the senti-
ment reasserts the will of the people,
and bursts full-banked in songs of
victory.
But sentiment aside, what are the
facts pointing to the success of the
old ticket? There is little doubt bnt
that for the disaffection of John Kelly
in New York, Tilden would have
been nominated and elected, nor is
there any question now that if he is
nominated again he will be triumph
antly placed in the presidential chair.
The doubt which SO long existed as to
his accepting nomination may well be
dissipated, as the people are evil
IDENTIFY determined to decide the
matter for him. Kelly and "Tammany
and the great state Of New York
without which state the democratic
party can hardly hope for success, are
emphatically pronounced in favor OF
the great reformer. This, with the
fact of the unanimity of sentiment
and enthusiasm all over the country
ought to insure his selection again as
the standard bearer of the party; ant
the prize which he must see he can 81
easily win under the universal demand
of the people Is one we imagine tina
even Samuel J. Tllden will
not refuse, as certainly as it il
rendered to him by the convention
The question suggests itself then
why think of nominating any on
else? Or stronger still, why take I'm
tried chances with any but the oil
ticket, TiIden and Hendricks3 1t ha
been tested as stated and won by tw'
hundred and fifty thousand majority
Those who supported it before hav
all the same and even new and stron
ger reasons to vote for it again. Ever
as to the tariff question, important q
it is and ever has been, it is no new
issue about which the minds of tn
people are more than usually eX
ercised. Tariff reform" certainly
no new cry in their ears, and besides
Tilden they know to be sound pc
litical reformer, and knowing thiI
they are ready to trust him to wor
out the complex methods of reformf
ton in such complicated matters.
Even admitting that tariff does ente
largely into the canvass, the demo
cratic party can well stand the racke
and will again succeed in electin
Tilden; and, avoiding the folly of a
1 electoral commission, something, b
the way, which history has sine
n shown, was not approved by Mr.. III
den, and was beyond his control. TT
truth is, the presidency was basel
bartered, for the sole purpose of secu
ing the concession of democrat
state governments to Florida, Loui
lana and South Carolina. An
just here is another political infam
= connected with the Hayes frau
which, not only the people of tt
v south. but even justice-loving vote
|. Of the republican party north al
= south, want to atone for as far as pc
E sible by restoring the defrauded tick
to the sovereign rights of the peopl
There is no telling how many thou
and independent, justice-loving voter
men who, independent of party pred
lections, will vote for those who the
: believe should, and whom they wal
b to be elected, would vote this time fl
Tilden and Hendricks. And as ma
4 ter of principle, of course would pr,
y fer the old ticket without any chang
by the substitution of any 9TH
name for that of Mr.. Hendricks.
is possible, too, that such votes ma
I change the result even in some of IL
republican states in favor of Tide
D and Hendricks.
a Again, the conservative course {
Mr.. Tilden, following his election, s
little understood at the time, and s
bitterly complained of against him h
the south, although,the responsibilit
rested upon congress and not Mr.. III
: den, has added new strength in fave
t of his candidacy at the north; an
since the midnight mysteries of Ii
Wormley conference at Washington
and barter of the presidel
cy for the mess of pottae
of a few democratic stat
. governments have been more fully r,
: vealed Mr.. Tilden is now the stros
: est man in the democratic party, b,
fore the people, north and south, an
to-day is the choice, besides, of hur
dreds of the leaders of the party, VIII,
soon after the election, denounced hi1
| for not attempting (what they nov
see was folly to force himself int
: the presidency, even at The risk of an
other war. If nominated, he will as
suredly sweep the south, while at tn,
north, which has the preponderating
voting influence, and theideciding
electoral vote in presidential cam
paignes, he is infinitely more popula
now than he ever was, so nue.
so, indeed, that he can doubles
carry New York, and more northern
and western states than he did in 1876
and this time, too, the southern state
without single exception by count
ing out as before. His majorities vii
be too sweeping for such game a
that again eSpecially in the face n