The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18
Notes and Comments.


New York SUN: "After sending his
letter of declination to the New York de-
legates in Cincinnati convention Of 1880,
Mr.. Tilden telegrapbed to Mr.. Daniel
Manning this supplementary message:
mo friends must be allowed to cast
doubt on my motives or my sincerity
From that time to this, no friend whom
information has qualified to Judge Of Mr..
Tjlden's purposes has ever doubted for an
instant that he regarded his difficult and
enduring work in the public service as
forever closed. The letter printed this
morning has been written only because
great majority of the democratic voters
of the land still looked with lingering
hope to the man whom they elected eight
years ago, and who personifes the vital
principles and ideas that will prevail with
democratic victory. The nomination was
his. He cannot accept it,"
The list of papers which oppose Mr..
Blaine includes, among many others, ex-
tracts from some of which are given in
another column, the New York Times,
New York Herald, Harper's Weekly, Puck,
Evening Telegram, Brooklyn Union, Roch-
ester Post-ETpress, Rochester Herald, Syr-
acuse Herald, Flushing Times, Boston
Advertiser, Boston Transcript, Boston Her.
aid, Springfield Republican, Philadelphia
Record, Philadelphia Times, Chicago Times,
Chicago NeDs, New Haven News, and the
New York Evening POSTAL of them
either republican or independent papers.
The Chicago Inter. Ocean, the st. Louis
Globe Democrat, the Buffalo Express, the
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, the Phila-
delphia Telegram, the Worcester Spy and
many other republican party journals sup
port the ticket, but protest that they have
grave doubts of the wisdom of the nomi-
nations and the success of the ticket in
November.
THE following from the Burlington
Free Press is the language of soberness
and reason "There is vast enthusiasm
for Mr.. Blaine in a number of republican
states, and the New York Tribune shouts
daily: Vor poput, uor del the people
cannot be wrong. But the trouble with
the case is, that the very considerable
percentage of republicans who at present
withhold their support from the republi.
can national ticket are not of the kind
that can be won by magnetism or taken
along by any amount of shouting. They
certainly will not be induced to change
their attitude by reading them all out of
the republican party--as some of the
more rattle.pated Blaine organs are trying
to do. The disaffect;on with the ticket
on the part Of the independent republi-
cans is very serious matter. 1t is
plainly not confined to doctrinaires, OF
| chronic grumblers. With many it is a
sincere and sad distrust of the future, if
the methods and tendencies which they
understand to be represented in Mr.
Blaine and his more noisy champions are
to bear sway in the party and in the ma
ton. Denuncistion will not affect these
men. They can only be reached by calm
argument, joined with assurances that
though voted down in the convention
their presence and counsels are still de-
sired, and that their views of what is
duty as we'll as policy are not to be ignored
by the party at large In this way, aided
by the democracy, who can be trusted to
show all calm observers that democratic
victory will be as bad thing as car
happen to the country, many of them may
probably be induced to give the party
they have so long trusted and sustained
another trial. Whatever can be accom-
plished in this way, in our humble
opinion, should not be omitted by the
managers of the national republican can
vass; for the election is to be carried by
totes, not shouts; und the votes of al
honest and sincere republicans will bt
much needed next November"