The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-03-26

strength that mere wealth win not give
Mr.. Tilden, the railroad lawyer. and
that no other Democratic candidate for
a long time has been able TO command
i'm any degree. In short, the candidate
Of three barrels of strength,
Mr.. Payne has weak points also,
which we do not propose now TO dis
cuss. It is best for the Republicans, at
the very outsNt TO realize that here is q
candidate whose nomination is possible,
and from present appearances even
probable, whom il win be no holiday
amusement to defeat. 1t is time to
think about taking aim. A weak nom
inati6n or a frivolous nomination will
not defeat that particular foe. One or
two men can be nominated who will
render the defeat of the Democrats with
Mr. Payne almost a certainty But a
great many others are talked about,
who would in all probability be beaten
bv him A shot aimed at the right
place win kill; all the other shots will
miss.
For one thing it will not be exactly
in order to aim at Mr. Payne as a
Northern man with Southern principles.
He was the spokesman of the majority
in behalf of the platform adopted I'm tho
Democratic Convention of 1S6O-that
platform whose adoption Southern dele
cations protested against by seeding.
1t was not a platform that would be
called very brilliant or statesman-like
to-day, but it took some independence
to insist upon it when disruption of the
convention and of the party was the
known consequence. 1t will not pay to
nominate against Mr.. Payne any man
who has not the respect and confidence
of the conservative and business ele-
ments of the country. A candidate
who does not know what he believes
about the money question, or who hap
pens to believe wrong, will have a hard
time of it. If the Republican party so
behaves as to retain the confidence
which its splendid course has inspired
In conservative and prOperty-owning
citizens, and names a candidate who
has been identified with that honorable
career, it need not fear. But it can not
afford this year to ignore The wishes Of
such citizens; still less can it afford to
affrOnt them.
The Democrats have chosen to put
their convention later than the Repub-
liCan. If a nomination that is weak or
vulnerable should be made by the Re
| publicans, we may expect to see the ut
most advantage taken of it. Any man
Of average sense can name several nom
nations that would infalliblv hand over
| the electoral votes of New York, New
| Jersey and Ohio to the Democratic
party. But there is not the slightest
need of going wrong. The convention
| has only to remember that the past con-
duct of the Republican party in regard
/ to public faith, honest money and pro-
| lection of industry, has secured for it
| the confidence of conservative interests.
/ 1t has no reason to throw away that
/ that confidence, or to shake it. The
/ convention has only to select a candi-
! date who represents what the Republic
an party has done that is wise and
worthy of confidence. 1t can find more
/ than one. But it would be particularly
I unwise to select candidate who has
not been in sympathy with what is wise
and worthy of confidence in the past
conduct of the party. This is not the
year to make that blunder with impu-
nity.-N Y Tribune.