The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-13
TILDEN AND PAYNE.

Since the election of Mr.. Payne to |
the United States senate and indeed
before, much has been said of him as
a probable candidate, under certain
circumstances, for president. While
considering him, as we do, a patriot,
an honest, clean-handed man, yet, he,
like the distinguished man with whose
name we have associated him above,
is an old man. These two great
and useful in their day, have passed
the period in life when we may expect
that degree of usefulness as well as
mental and physical activity, so nee
essary to position such as the ruling
power in a government like this.
While the position is one of
vast honor, and should excite the
ambition of every proud citizen, it is
also one of vast drudgery, mental and
physical. Neither of them can stand
up to the task for four years, and it
will, if either is chosen, be only an
other case of vice-presidential sue
eession. Mr.. Payne's tariff theories
are good, albeit they are formed just
little too closely upon the eastern
models to be exactly popular to us
here. The most adroit and skillful
causists are continually harping upon
New York as the battle ground of the
coming campaign. While we expect
TO carry New York, yet with a
strong and vigorous "Feesstt eIr ticket
such as we suggested the other day,
we will carry enough of the western
states to make us Indifferent to that
state for once. But with either Til
den or Payne at the head of the ticket
New York must needs be the battle
ground. New York Is an unsafe state
for any man, for any party and for
any principle. Her majorities, both
democratic and republican, have ever
been too vast, too fluctuating, indi-
eating that they rise or fall, with the
fluctuations of the market. Money is
too powerful in adjusting her politics,
and it is too plentiful, as well as too
readily put up. We have come to
that point where the democracy can
never win when the pivotal point is
placed in New York. We must win
western territory instead, and that
cannot be done with either of the
distinguished men we have named at
the head of the ticket.
John Kelly, who sways the mob in
the great city is too corrupt or he is
too full of veteran prejudices and
keen hatreds to be depended upon.
But for him, to-day Gen. Hancock
would be president instead of that
weak dude whose whole career since
poor Garfeld's death has been that of
a callow school boy who has found
his first sweet heart and hardly knows
VIII 1t he will do with her. john
Kelly is not properly our mod
EN- Warwick, but he is in one
way an approximation. He has killed
off more promising democratic people
than any other man in the nation.
We must remove democratic chances
from the domain of John Kelly, and
with either Payne or Tilden this can
not be done. Eastern democracy is,
with its tariff heresies, almost as dis
tasteful in the west as protective re-
publicanism. The people of the west
are vigorously protesting against the
protected robbery by the east, and any
choice by the national democratic
convention which indicates oisposi-
ton to daily with that murderously
corrupt principle will loose enough of
the western states now considered
certain, to neutralize the effects Of a
two hundred thousand majority in
New York.
With fact staring us as plainly in
the face as does this, would it not, in
deed. be the sheerest folly to consider
seriously, even for moment, either
Of these men. Far better, for the ul-
innate success of the party, to loose
with either Morrison or Mcdonald
than to win with Payne or Tilden.
If we are t. go east for our man, If
we are to have high tariff democracy,
CD in Gods name let us couple with
it some vigor, some dash, at least
enough to sugar-coat the bitter pill
little. Take Bayard or Randall at
once and be done with it. The peo-
pie who would see either of them to
the fore are sadly forgetting the
the fact that the south and the west
are aligning themselves now on bust
ness considerations, and it is certainly
neither good business morality OF pol
icy to stand by the principle of high
tariff which is numbering the west
that few pampered industries at the
east may grow rich and prosperous
or rather continue so at the expense
of the teeming toiling west and south.
There has been a tremendous revolu-
ton going on here, and they misread
the situation sadly who don't see that
we are done forever with the dishon-
est and cruel policy which has made
New England rich and powerful, at,
the expense of the western states.