Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-02-27
AlPENA WEEKLY ARGUS.
Wednesday. February q, 1884.
New York Democracy.


showing that New York is the battl
ground for the next presidential cam
paign, and the Democrats must carry
it if they win. Well, grant it, wha
then? Is New York to have any
special privileges or concessions, t.
secure its vote? Can't New Yorl
Democrats vote for any candidate out
side of New York Must New York
Democrats name the candidate, OF
pain of defeating the one named by
the national Democracy? Must the
Democracy of the union have Haunted
in their face, the absolute necessity Of
New York, and to that end slavish
pandering to New York politicians be
continually urged? We believe Dem
ocratic principles should predominant
and we believe the party should take
manly, straightforward course, and il
the Democracy of any State is so fee
bly, Democratic, that they will bolt
anything that does not suit them, then
the sooner new party is organized
the better. This continually toady-
ing to New York is sickening, and it
is spelling the New York Democracy
about as fast as anything we know Of
For one, we give to New York even
chances with the other Democracy
and nothing more. The Herald's
teaching is plain; we must select a
New York man for n candidate on
penalty of defeat if we choose some
one else. We think it an insult to the
fealty and good sense of the Demo-
cratic party of New York to make
such an intimation.
Holding before the Democrats of
the West this continual threat, "please
New York now or you're licked"
tends to create bad feeling. If the
Herald will study New York, il will
find that the Democrats in that State
have such happy faculty of internal
warfare, that the State elections are
oftener Republican than Democratic,
even with the fight among Republi-
cans.
1t is time this whining about car.
ryng New York was stopped. If the
Democracy of that State has got to
be coaxed with bon bons and sugar
plums to support the Democratic
ticket, they should be informed that
the stock of sweatmeats is exhausted.
If Tilden is nominated, well and good.
If it should be any other man in the
State he would be licked by 10000,
and we think Tilden would be in
about the same shape, unless John
Kelley were fed bon bons. Let New
York enter the contest, make a vigor-
GUS push for what it wants, get it if
she can, and abide the result. Mich
igan Democrats will support Tilden,
Flower, Cleveland, or Hewitt, and
never falter. So will they support
Holman, Thurman, Randall, Morri-
son, Palmer, Rosecranz, Hendricks,
Lothrop, Mcdonald, Payne, McClel-
Ian, Springer, or Carter Harrison. In
fact, they will cheerfully give allie
glance to the nominee of the Demo-
cratic convention. The next cam
paign is going to have for its issue the
bloody shirt and the tariff. Ameri-
can workmen begin to see that tariff
does not help them, but that they are
at the mercy of the wealth of capital
lists who import pauper labor to COM
pete with home workmen. Protection
to home industries has got to yield to
protection to American laborers, and
the party that boldly champions the
cause of the workingmen and the
farmer, by relieving them from the
robbery of protective tariff, and
bravely, unhesitatingly meets the "out-
rage" policy, will sweep the country,
New York or no New York. A little
such talk as the Chicago Herald in
dulges in, about the necessity of New
York." will soon initiate the politicians
of that State with such an idea of
their Importance, that no move will
be safe without their countenance.
Suppose Texas or Georgia Democrats
took this position would il be right?
This servile trucking does not become
an Independent newspaper and it looks
to us as though the Herald was NOV
ed by money consideration to thus
crawl on its political belly, and beg
for New York, or tremblingly sup
plicate the Democrats of that State.
If the success of the Democratic par
ty is in the keeping of New York, let
the Democracy of that State realize
the responsibility resting upon them,
and merit the confidence of the coun-
try by being worthy the trust. Since
Douglas time, we do not remember
a Democratic presidential candidate
not from New York at the time of
nomination, unless it was Hancock,
but we believe he voted in New York
State. If the national Democracy
see fit to look elsewhere for candi-
date, they should not have New