The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-08
.EC0CK As A CANDIDATE
,BsRrY FAITHFUL 70 rlM.


Presidential election said Daniel
tAhurlcrty yesterday, as he settled HIM
u comfortably in an Office chair hrtOrc
s III tesk, "ahOud be Il matter OF ire
Mudous moment To the American pcO
rJp The Democratic party, by this
Inc, surely, should have been laugh;
III experience that q mistake may mean
,.,;lr Years more Of defeat. J venture TO
mink that grave mistakes have been
Made already, but as these are irreparii-
blc no mention ot them need be made.
a National convention should be III the
81 bighest sense 4 delibcralive body. Per
e Hans this is impossible, because the vast
nuiuhcr, who are gathered as specta-
tDrS prevent calm deliberatiOn, As &
Il ecucTal thing, dcliboratiOn ceases alto
4 Neither with the nomination Of a Pro~i-
tIent. and the rest Of the proceedings M,
Ahurried through after the style of a mass
anceling. Inc selection of the National
#committce is Il matter of vital i'm.
10 Jrtance. Statesmen, politicians in the
# highest sense OF the word, the ablest and
#readiest of political writers, should be on
.tzsuch committee. That committee
21should met n daily session, say in New
&kYork Guy moan the LIST Of OctOuur Till the
day of the Presidential election. -Four
wears ago three or four gentlemen of the
committee could be found about the
committee rooms, but the principal aim
VA eeIncd to be To raise funds for campaign
fpurposeS. The tariff issue III 1850 was
Sprung on us about the LIST OF October.
'Hhere was no concert of action, no dc.
li ,eration Is to how we should meet the
+uueStiOn. In Tact, Il national campaign
:. invOlving MS grave a result as Il war does
LIN EurOpe--u charge Of dynasty should
be conducted by Il council Of controlling
minds in daily session, 90 meet on tie
Instant any emergency. Ii is nnpOS~l
\ bile to eXaggerate tn" importance Of a
E5iudiciOuS selection OF members of tie
# National comm ttee.
"a "As to the candidate: while Mr.. Cleve-
* land may be IN available one, and while,
# if nominated, ! would give him my
~ hcartiest support, | do not think ii
+ rrcdtablc in a great party, and to rcpub-
vi ican institutions, TO throw aside time
honorcd leaders like Thurman, Randall,
5# Bayard, Mcdonald and others for on,
m whose name was unknown three years
ago.
CLEvELAND'S STRENGTH.
'LcJ us look into the matter Il little
deeper than tho surface. How was il
that Governor Cleveland received such
an enormous majority in lss2? Cover
nor Cornell was entitled to the re nUmi.
nation and, it ia alleged, was doiraudeu
of it by false ballots or some such means,
President Arthur forced the nomination
of Judge fClgcr and all the friends Il
Governor Cornell and of Garfield t'OckCu
in a body to defeat the administrator,
candidate, and this IL was, and not any
Il ocular popularity OF Governor ClcNo
ia "a, that gave him the vast majority,
'Whai reason have We 10 suppose ,ha
FL in National campaign .he VOC cast TO
"a GJycmor Cleveland at the election il
"a >>2sJDuld be ANY criterion " the vote
Of New York State in Isl? Ih" VERY
rex year the Republicans carried O. {
>',.r.
'Hnc man e all others who Wor.C
4 max" a gHrlpus CduGiuutu, and one
might be proud of, l. the statesman
Thurman, utuiio; but / don't suplO,D
that he would be, even IN ONO, as avail
able rs Governor iiuadiy, Mr.. 3dyagD
4 would certmdiy bo most crcdliahl,
candidate, but ! lear tina; his Dove
speech would at used against hlm.
noted Republican leader IN On" Ncs
'aid TO Inc in 1850: we have tire
Presidents more in the bloody shirt
1T may seem strange That nave no
mentioned Mr. Randall yet ! certalnl
hay" the kindcst feelings for hin
WI lie he Is not among my first prefer
}, ences, he is undoubtedly the choice G
= the Pennsylvania delegation.
HANCOCK A. 4 CANDIDATE AGAIN.
"My personal preference would bc 70
one who, singularly enough, does no
seem to be thought of. mean llancock
surely he proved himself four years az
a splondid candidate, and he was, /
despite of all the mistakes of the cal
yass, only defeated in New IOr
State by some seventeen thousan
majority, when there had bee
detection Of many thousands throug
the mistake Of nominating Grace ft
Mayor, mistake worse than a crime.
"jien. Arthur now the President,
the DclmonicU dinner to Dorsey, adm
ted in so many words that Indiana ha
been carried by wholesale bribery 1t
true Ilancocl; was defeated, but 50 va