Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-30
IT IS E0T A VICTORY YET.


The New York Truth, in its issue of June
23d, declares, in double-leaded editorial,
that the only safety for the Democratic
party Is in nominating the old ticket. Yes
terday came weighty declarations that Til
denis letter of decIination was not in
tended to be final or sincere. The outcome
of the Saratoga Convention proved, says
TRUTH that no man the Democracy can
name will secure the unity Of the party in
that State except Mr.. Tilden. Assuming
that the party has not the wisdom to nom
mate either Judge Field or Governor Cleve-
land, then he, of all other men, can
tide over the dissens;ons of cliques and
rings and ignore the petty ambitions of
the small men of the party, and their
name is legion. 1t is not, therefore, at all
improbable that Mr.. Tilden will be in
duced to withdraw his declination and
consent to the use of his name We shall
not be at all surprised if this is done. but
if it is, it will be on the first attempt to Sc
lect a nominee. Tilden, if put up, will be
mand for him at the outset. There is no
need to deny the fact-and it would be
worse than foolish toignore it-that if this is
done the Republican party-sxcepting only
the nomination of Judge Ficld-will have
still more difficult fight on its hands, since
the old ticket Will call back to the
ranks every wandering Democrat of what
ever shade, and give strength, by virtue of
the false tradition of Tilden'S former cleo
ton. 10 all the moSS-backed Democrats of
the land 1t has been quite the thing
to say, among Republicans, that they
want nothing better than the nomination
OF Tilden to insure the election of Blaine.
This will do for campaign talk, but so
Der thinkers know very well that Repubh-
cans have more to fear from Tilden,
Field or Cleveland than any candi-
date the Democracy can present The faint
of the campaign Of 1876 cannot be dis
guised in Tildens garments; the cryptic
graphic business clingS to him with the
odor of low and fraudulent dealing; he is
old and all but in the grave; he can be
only nominally President if elected, and
behind him is Il party without settled prin
ciples But for all this he will have the
support of solid South, the united sup
port of all the Democrats of the North, and
about his candidacy will spread the absurd
but still effective tradition of the " old
ticket If, then, he is chosen, and con-
sents, which is not at all improbable, the
Republican party will he called upon for
its very best efforts. 1t will not do to spec
ulatc upon a campaign going through upon
enthusiasm. Something more is needed.
In this day. when men think for them
selves, they must be reasoned with, their
judgments disabuSed of error, and their
intelligence correctly informed. Just now,
with only Mr.. Blaine in the field, and the
poor apology for a Greenback ticket with
Butler at its head, lost to view, II does APP
pear to us of the Pacific coast that these
Occidental States must 80 for Blaine. We
are so elf-assurcd of this that most of us
have taken to propheSying the numerical
majority already. But let us not deceive
ourselves. There is a very large following
here to the faction that assembled not long
ago at Stockton. That following is drawn
largely from the rural districts,
where the Chinese question is not
so intense as with the people of the cities.
In fact, while the rural people are anti-Chi-
nese in sentiment, their selfish interests
very largely influence the employment of
Chinese, and precisely that happens that
lies at the root of the whole BUSINESSMEN
American labor as the farmer should have
does not come into the State as needed. 1t
cannot do so, and compete with the Chi
nese, who will live in state and exist
upon a wage the American laborer cannot
endure and should not be subjected to.