Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-06-27

cratic party, is to tender the nomination
by reclamation, to SAMUELJ TILDEN
of New York. This Is text full of mean
ing to those who understand the position
of affairs, and who look beneath the sur
face.
SOME DRY BUT IMP ORIANT
READING FOR POLL
TICLANS.
The prominence being given to New
York, its candidates and the views of its
prominent men, makes it's presidential his
tory interesting. 1t is fact that at every
national election since 1S4S, with only two
exceptions, the party that carried New
York elected its presidential nominee.
Pierce carried the State in 1852 and de-
feated Scott, the popular vote being 262.-
Os3 to 2S4, 1892. Lincoln carried the State
in 1850 by vote OF 2,646, the Brecken-
ridge and Bell tickets drawing away
enough votes to place Douglass in mi
nority. Lincoln again carried the State
in 1854 by vote Of s6s,735 against 3e1,-
986 for Mcclellan. Grant carried New
York in 1872 by vote of 44O,736 against
3S7 ,2S1 for Greeley. Tilden carried New
Y ork in 1875 by 52l ,94s against 4s9, POI for
Hayes; and Tilden was elected, though
fraudulently counted out. BY springing
the tariff question and the lavish use of
money, New York was carried for Gar.
field in 1880 by a vote Of 555,544 against
534, 511 for Hancock and that slender ma
joritY placed the Republicans in the
White House.
In 1856 Buchanan was elected Presi-
dent, although his popular vote in New
York was only 1876, 1878, against 276,0O7 for
Fremont, the Republican nominee. At
that time parties were breaking up and
recognizing. and Willard Fillmore, a
New Yorker, who was the candidate of
the American or Know-Nothing PARTY,
displayed strength enough in the State to
draw away 1874, 604 votes from the regular
Democratic ticket. Seymour carried New
York in 1858 by vote of 429, 1883 against
precisely 10000 less for Grant; and this is
the one solitary instance in nearly forty
years where the ticket that carried New
York was not triumphant. On the other
hand, Buchanan was the only President
in the same interval who failed to carry
the Empire State yet was lawfully elec-
ted.
These being the facts as to how New
York went, it is also instructive to know
why il went as it did. Here is something
from the record on the latter point:
In 1868 the Democratic National Conven-
ton declared in favor of a tariff on i'm
ports and such internal taxation as would
afford incidental protection to domestic
manufactures, and without impairing the
revenue would impose the least burden
upon and best promote and encourage
the great Industrial interests of the coun-
try. The resolution was wordy, but the
above was It's substance. Horatio Seymour
was the candidate. The tariff was dis
cussed more or less in the interior coun-
ties. Mr.. Seymour carried the State
against General Grant by majority of
10000.
In 1872 Horace Greeley was nominated
for President by Liberal Republican
Convention at Cincinnati. Under very
peculiar circumstances he was taken up
by the Democrats. The contest was disas-
trous and the result throws no light on
questions now at issue.
In 1875 Samuel J. Tilden was the Demo-
cratic candidate. He represented the
principle Of administrative reform. The
people believed he would act as President
as he was then acting as Governor. The
tariff was not prominent issue in the
campaign, but Mr.. Tilden was known to
hold on that subject the old-fashioned
doctrines of Jackson, Wright, Marcy and
Seymour. New York gave Tilden major
ity of about $4,000 over Hayes. He was
elected, but was cheated out of the Office.
1880 the Democratic Convention nomi-
mated Gen. Hancock on platform which
pronounced explicitly in favor of "a tariff
for revenue only" This question played
a leading part in the campaign, especially
toward it's close. Gen. Hancock's posi-
WILL w oo doSnllCu WILL SIcdU t0uou0uC6s
He tried to explain, but it was in vain.
He lost New York by 81 ,OOOmajority, and
barely saved Democratic New Jersey by
a handful of votes.
In the present juncture it is well to give
due weight to these familiar facts and fig
ures concerning the previous Presidential
elections. They are perhaps somewhat dry
reading and we have thought so while
copying them, but they are important
nevertheless to those who want to see a
Demo cratic President.
A GIGANTIC GRAB STOPPED.
There may have been days of the Re
public in which the U. S. Senate was con-
sidered safer branch of the legislative
department than the House, but the long
domination of the Republican party in it
has rendered it a hatchery for the most
stupendous money grabs of the day.
When the Mexic an Veterans Pension bill,
which passed the House, reached the Sem
ate, Mr.. ingalls, (Rep.) offered an amend
ment for pensions to every man that serv-
ed sixty days in the Union army, to pay
which would cost the nation $216, 900.