St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-14

You can set it down that the nomination
of Grover Cleveland for president, is decid
edly due to the opposition of John Kelly and
his Tammany Hall crew. In 1880 Gov. Til
den would undoubtedHy have been nominated
at Cincinnati, and reelected in November,
but for the insoient attitude of Tammany on,
that occasion. They came there wearing
badges announcing their unalterable oppoSi-
ton to Mr.. Tllden, and the convention was
weak enough to be swayed by their Interior
ence. Notwithstanding Mr.. Tilden's letter
of declination at that time, it is now most
positively stated that had he been
unanimously selected he would have
accepted. That was the fatal
mistake which every one now comedies, and
in the face of that the Democratic party OF
the country felt that they would no longer per-
init the Tammany crowd to dictate the nom-
ination and the defeat. / think their oppo-
sition to any candidate would have helped
him in this convention and the dragging of
their state fight into a national convention
so disguised the delegates from other states
that even those who, personally preferred
some other candidate, were not willing to
have it said that they had submitted to the
dictation of Tammany hall. They felt and
very properly that it was better for the party
and certainly more in'accordance with their
own self respect, to select man independ
ent of any Tammany dictation, even if de-
feat follow, than to allow it to regulate
affairs-which course was certainly
sure to be followed by defeat. The fact of
the surrender to Tammany in 1880 was one
of the weakest elements in the Democratic
campaign. and second surrender in 1854
would have been as fatal as in 1880. In re-
pudiating the demands made by Tammany
for the defeat of the reform governor of New
York, the national Democracy placed itself
upon higher plane than ever. They say to
the country, ''We don't propose to use the
spoils of New York city to secure national
power We appeal direct to the honest
masses of the people and invite them to make
the change which every reasonable, thinking
man outside of the office holding factions
can but concede is important. We appeal to
the independent voters of the country who
think more of the honest administration of
the government than of the Ioaves and
fishes and rely upon the sober sense and
candid judgment of the people for success"
This places the Democracy in strong po-
sition and one upon which it can win if it
wins at ALL OF course New York is to be
the battle ground, l have not been and am
not sanguine of the strength of Governor
Cleveland among certain elements of the
Democratic party in the state of New York.
But in the main it is to his credit that he is
weak in certain quarters of his own state
and if he is defeated on that account it will
be better for the party than to succeed and
be loaded with the elements which would in
event OF their success come to the front. If
the country is to be run as it has been, by
star reuters and the general gang of treas
ury plunderers, it is as we'll or it to remain
in its present hands.
1t is now for the people who bear the bur-
dens of the government, who devote them
selves to their private business, neither ask
ing nor expecting public favors, desiring an
honest, pure national, state and municipal
government, to decide which party they de-
sire to place in power in national affairs.
The Democrats are simply citizens of the
country, the same as Republicans, and it is
no more to their individual interest to sue
coed than to the interest of any one else
1t is true that there would undoubtedly
be change of officeholders, but when you
consider that out Of fifty millions of people
there are only one hundred thousand federal
Office holders, it will readily be seen that the
mass OF the voters who have nothingto ex
pect from that direction are the ones who are
to render the verdict in November.
If they are to be plundered, if they love to
labor in their business in order to pay the
expenses of ''star route gangs;' if they
desire to pile up money in the treasury, to
be squandered upon convenient opportuni-
ty, then they will vote in that direction. If
they desire change, a change which surely
can make things no worse, with every pros
pect that it will make things great deal bet
ter, they can vote in that direction. The
prbole IN is so plain and so simple that feel
no uneasiness US to the result. The Ameri-
can people, if they are capable of self govern
ment Gas ] sometimes doubD, will readily
decide which ticket shall be elected.
COON DUDE.
A Palmer House incident, this morning,
| claimed to be relic of Tammany, who, hay
ing imbibed too freely, got left when the
grand exodus Of the braves took place yes
terday. He wore a stand up collar, which
was so high US to be in danger of amputating
his chin, sported huge rooster (not little
one for five cents on the front Of his hat
and large picture of Cleveland was dashed
relic of Tammany, left blooming alone. All
his lovely companions had skedaddled and
gone. He could not blush on account of his
color, and, as he seemed to be a supporter
of the nominee, whoever he might be, ~
there was no occasion to return sigh for
! sigh.
TRANQUILITY.
It seems almost like Sunday in the city
to-day and tonight. Aside from the bands
which escorted departing clubs to the early
morning trains, no music has disturbed the
air. The huge banners which have been
swung across the streets for a week an
nouneing the headquarters of this or that or
ganization are gone, and the only banner 1
can discover tonight is swung across the
Monroe street, front of the Palmer House,
announcing the agency of new bathing
establishment. l don't know whether this
has any significance in connection with the
recent conventions or not. Perhaps it is the
beginning of an anti-clholera boom.
A tour of the hotels tonight shows them
to be in a comparatively deserted condition.
If Goldsmith had been here this week
think he could draw inspiration for another
deserted Village" by taking the round 1
| have just concluded.
1t is astonishing with what rapidity a city
can be emptied when there has been a long
| CON We ton which tarns the 1,ncLathnnls of