Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-01-26
NEW YORK or NOTHING.
Chicago Herald

One thing Democratic leaders
must bear in mind. The party can
make no impression upon the great
Republican States of the Northwest
this year. Ii it is to have n fight
ing chance for success in the Presi-
Dental contest soon to open 1T must
encanp on the old ground and be-
gin hOstilities on the old lines.
There is no escape from it. The
battle field must be where it was in
1880 and in 1876. From the posi-
tons then occupied by the party,
and still open to it, success is pos
sible. From any other standpoint
Democracy will wage from the first
a hopeless and despairing warfare.
In 1880, as in the campaign Of
four years before, the Democrats set
out to carry the South, New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut aud Indi-
ana. They failed in Indiana and
in New York and they therefore
lost the election, but they came
nearer to success in those States
than they did elsewhere, and they
still remain debatable ground. This
cannot be said OF any other North
ern States. The SPLENDID campaign
mapped out by few Southern and
and Western enthusiasts now in
Washington which contemplates
the abandonment of New York to
the Republicans and the carrying
by the Democrats of Michigan, Wis
consin, Iowa and Nebraska on the
revenue reform issue is magnificent
in it's outlines, but hollow, indeed,
as to its real promise of substantial
results. There is without question
a demand in the West for thor
ough revision of the tariff and for
the looping off of the countless spec
ial privileges conferred upon protec-
ted monopolies of every description
but this sentiment has not yet crys-
talized and among Republicans there
is disposition to give their own par
ty still further opportunities to heed
and act upon the demands of the
people. A Presidential campaign
between the old parties fought out
in the West, would result in Demo-
cratic disaster, both East and West.
Mr.. Conkling's contemptuous re-
mark that "anybody (Republican)
can carry Michigan" is as applica-
BILE to that state to-day as it was in
1880, and the same may be said OF
Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska and all
other Western States. They cannot
be carried for the Democrats this
year on any issue, righteous or I'M
righteous. Persistent campaigning
IN favor of revenue reform and tariff
reduction would produce results in
time, but not in one year or in four
years.
Elections held last fall in the va
riOus States cleared the political sit
uation of many uncertainties. Massa-
chusetts and Pennsylvania wheeled
back into the Republican column,
and New York, though nominally |
Democratic, elected one Republican
the head of the ticket.
Virginia, for sOtne years in the |
hands of Malone, returned to the |
Democratic fold, and Ohio, always |
in Presidential years,
elected a Democratic Governor.
Probably no one will deny that
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
Will remain Republican as Virginia
will remain Democratic, and,
it will not anywhere be (
that Ohio will vote
next fall as it did last, These prop
being granted, the situa-
lion resolves itself down to this:
The Democrats remain in possess
on of the Southern and border
Ststes, and the Republicans either
lold or are certain to regain all the
Northern States usually classed as
,afe for them in Presidential years.
Neither party has gained any last
ng advantage over the other since
$40, and both remain reasonably