Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-06-17
TiIden Declines.


Tilden Declines.
THE PROBABLE TICKET-CLEvELAND FOR
PRESIDENT, AND MCDONALD FOR VICE
PRESIDENT.
Though it was known that Hon. Samuel
J, Tilden did not desire the nomination for
the Presidency, to which office he had been
elected in 1876, yet there was an almost
universal desire on the part of the Demo
cratic party that he should be the nominee,
not only that the country might have the
benefit of his great administrative ability,
but that the great wrong that was COM
mitteed in robbing him of the office to
which he had been elected in 1876 might be
righted. The sense of justice and right in
the hearts of the people demanded that the
wrong which had been thus committed
should be righted, and hence they felt
it patriotic duty to re. elect him President
of the United States. They knew that he
had no personal desire for the office, and
that he did not wish to be candidate, yet
they insisted that he should consent. He
never failed to say that he did not wish to
be candidate, but the party INDUCED the
hope that he might be prevailed upon to do
so. and in most of the States delegates
pledged to vote for him in Convention were
elected.
We believed that Mr.. Tilden did not
want the nomination, but that he would
agree to accept it if he believed that it was
necessary to secure the success of the Dem
ocratic party; and that the Republican
nomination would determine him to ex-
press definitely and positively his decision.
If, after that nomination, he thought it
necessary, he would indicate his purpose to
accept; and if not, he would as definitely
express his purpose not to accept nomi-
nation. The Republicans having nominal
ed Blaine and Logan, he feels convinced
that there is no necessity that he should
be a candidate, and he has accordingly
written an able and patriotic letter, address
OQ w NIL DdulCl 1lduiluSs Nuhil Lubh VI oAIO
Democratic State Committee of New York,
in which he definitely declines to be can
didate. This decision has caused regret
throughout the party, not so much that
they deemed his nomination necessary to
success as that they wished to rebuke the
outrageous wrong which had been perpe-
trated. The Democrats are confident that
they can defeat the Republican ticket with
the ticket they will nominate in Chicago
next month The State Democratic Con-
vention of New York will meet at Saratoga
to-morrow-Wed nesday-an if that con-
vention will instruct its delegates to vote
for Gov. Cleveland of that State, we have
no doubt that he will receive the nomina-
ton in the National Democratic Conven-
ton. We are impressed with the belief
that the Democratic ticket should be,
Cleveland, of New York, for President and
Mcdonald, of Indiana, for Vice President,
and we believe that ticket would be elected.
With that ticket we believe that the Demo
Gratis would carry New York, Indiana, New
Jersey, and Connecticut, and would have
electoral votes to spare after receiving
enough to elect their ticket. The nominal
ton of that ticket would destroy any hopes
the Republicans may now entertain of the
success of Blaine and Logan. From the
date of that nomination, despair would
take possession of their souls, and they
would fael that all their fuss and fury, py-
rotecnics and gong beating, braggardism
and demagogism, would be in vain.
They would know that the great mass of
the people who wish to have the admins
tration of the government purified and re-
formed would not hesitate to vote for Cleve-
land and Mcdonald in preference to Blaine
and Logan. The Independent vote, that
is not enslaved by party prejudice, and that
wishes to get rid of the corrupt practices
that have characterized the Republican adj
ministrations to the disgrace of the country,
and that so conspicuously mark the charac-
ter of Blaine, would give ready and zeal
Gus support to the Democratic ticket. The
nomination of Blaine, the representative of
machine politics, and corrupt practices,
euphemized as practical politics. with
which his character is indellibly tattooed,
has caused the better element of the Repub-
lican party to revolt, and they will vote
willingly for Cleveland in preference to
Blaine Let the Democrats inscribe upon
their banner
EUET A NH NTCnON
FORM
and we have no doubt that it will be
carried to triumphant victory, accompan-
led by the shouts of rejoicing of a happy
people. So may it be.
The REPUBLICAN PARTY BELONGS TO
THE NEGRoEs.-In LIS speech at Chicago,
Fred Douglass said: eve THE negroes) do
not belong to the Republican party-the