The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-05-20
T,iden and the Tariff.

TtlQen ana the iaIih'
Our Charleston contemporary Is one OF
the Journals whose impolitic course touch
ING the tariff has resulted in an almost
unanimous demand for the nomination OF
the .old ticket" This nomination wiii'
,t,s snpncscd. bridge over the cbasm be-
,vveen the tarlisleires and the Randallites.
and bring into harmonious relations all
DEMOCRATS OF all factions. But the TACT Is
that the Ne,ns and Courier would almost
as lief mount the Virginia tariff platform
.s 70 advocate the election Of Mr.. TrLDEN
Ia the presidency. Itisas unsauivocally ana
unnecessarily committed against the sage
of Greys,ene as against tariff such as the
one demanded by the tariff resolutions Oh
the Virginia, West Virginia, New jersey
PENNSYLVANIA, and Ohio platforms. II Is
n. hostile to TILDEN as to the repeal OF the
tax on tobacco. In fact, TO propose 10
nominate TnpEN as means OF bringing
our Charleston contemporary into mar
monious relations with the several factions
Of the Democratic party is very much the
same as would be the proposition 10 nom
mate the editor Of the Atlanta Constitution
as means OF pacifying the redoubtable
UyNpy WaTTERsoS. The NetcS and Coa-
rier now rails at TILDEN as so recently IL
was in the habit OF railing at SAN. RAN
DALI. In fact. we have come to the con-
clusion that it would rather support KAN
DALI than TILDEN.
And WATTERsoN is in no better condl-
ton. He had all along been grooming
MCDONALD, Of Indiana, as his iavorlte Tor
the Democratic nomination for President.
But unfortunately for him the MORRISON
bill was killed the day before the Kentucky
Democratic State Convention assembled,
and this body, whose members had been
misled by WATTERsoS into supposing that
that bill was Democratic measure OF re-
form, took counsel OF its folly and nomi-
mated Mr.. CARLISLE as its choice for Presi-
dent. So after all Of WATTERsoN's attempts
to secure the nomination Of Mr.. McDoN-
AID, his own Kentucky "sat down on him."
and as good as instructed her delegates to
vote for CARLISLE. IL they vote for
CARLISLE, they may thus so reduce Nc
DoNALp's vote rs that he will be
dropped very early in the game.
Now. WATTERsON sees that his State,
acting, as he has done, upon uncomfortable
impulses. has blundered, and he would
fain take the back track. He sees that his
ambition has .'O'erreached ITSELF" He has
killed off MCDONALD, il not with CARLISLE.
at least by his tariff talk, and has made the
nomination OF TILDEN almost indispensa-
Bile TO the success OF the Democratic party.
He is estopped from attacking TILDEN or
any part OF TILDEN's record. He has said
over and over again, in giving reasons why
the Democrats should this year declare for
ga tarifffor revenue only" that Mr.. TILDEN
was nominated and elected upon that plat
form. Surely, then, il Mr.. RANDALL and
all his followers are ready and willing to
compromise upon Mr.. TLDEN, Mr.. WAT
TERsoN and his tribe Of impracticables can
offer no objection. When it is proposed
to take candidate whom he has again and
again vouched for as sound upon what he
declares 10 be the one issue OF this year
namely, ga tariff for revenue only" what
reason can he give for deserving his own
favorite OF 1876 and his own platform OF
1884?
Now, what Is to be done with these
chronic grumblers! They are not content
with having killed off RANDALL and EATON
and PAYNE and FLOWER and FIELD, lin
their own opinion, be it said,) but demand
that they shall be allowed to kill OIL
TnDEN. They are not satisfied with
killing off this years aspirants, but must
60 back eight years and kill off the man OF
1s76-the man who was elected by the
people-the only man who has since the
war closed been a successful Democratic
nominee for President OF the United
States.
Will the Democracy Of the land allow
this work to go any further! Is there to
be no peace in the Democratic party unless
at the sacrifice OF One-third or more OF its
trusted leaders? These are the questions
which the people must prepare themselves
to answer.
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