The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-06-21
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been no abatement Of the enibarrass
mont resnlting from AIR. Tillenss let
ter. His decIination seems to have
left the party without leader, and Il
have preeipitated hot and ratheI
ibitteF contest m New ! ork. The OBJ
lection Is made to Cleveland, VIII
otherwise would appear to have nj
mean strength, that Tammany i
against him, and this has served t.
cool'the feeling for him here In Thu
case Of Flower, 1t Is urged that he ii
entirely too little known to De put al
the head Of the tticlSei, bat for some
reason he has developed considerable
strength at home, and Ii appears mo-
unlikely now that lac will beat Eleve
land at Saratoga next "Wednesday. IN
that event, with New York solidly al
his back, he will appear at Chicago
with following that viii attract at
tention
Mr.. Bayard has undoubtedly been in
Ijnred by the publication of his Dover
peace speech, delivered in 1881. Witt
characteristic manliness he stands ~
for his uttcranees, which really does
credit to both his head and heart ;'bnt
nevertheless, the impression prevails
that the speech would drive Northern
Democrats from his support in numbers
sufficient to accomplish his defeat.
! The belief obtains here in certain
quarters that, notwithstanding his de,
clination, the nomination viii still be
offered to Mr.. Tilden; and there arc
some who believe that, brought face
TO face with the situation, Mr.. Tilden
will accept. With him the party
would march to certain success, for in
his great name all differences would
disappear and in his support all fac
tions would nnite.-iSpecidl to The
1imes-Democnat.
Snch clap trap argument as the
above is only calculated TO injnre the
Democratic party in the coming con-
test. We were in favor of Mr.. Tilden,
not that we considered him the only
man in the Democratic ranks that
could be elected, but because we
Thought the nominationan honor just
" due TO him. We are not prepared,
yet awhile, to acknOwledge-like the
Washington correspondent of the
Times esnocrat--that Mr.. Tilden, or
any other man, controls exclusively
the destiny of the Democratic party
of this great and glorious Union.
1t is, in our opinion, agreat mistake
for the Democratic party TO openly
acknowledge that they have but one
man who can be elected to the exalted
position of President Of these United
Satisfactorily detraeting from the
merits and patriotism Of the many
true and tried statesmen in its ranks
and despair Of success because that
man declines the honor.
In the ranks of the Democratic
party can be found many men who
possess all the requisite qualifications
for this honorable position, and
among the number we can mention
such men as Mcdonald, Cleveland,
Bayard, Hancock, Hendricks, Hoad-
ley, Randall, Flower, and many others,
the names of whom we have not space
nor either is it necessary to mention
here, who would lead the grand old
party TO victory in the coming cleo
ton.
Let the Democratic National Con-
yention nominate either of the gentle
men above mentioned, adopt a sound
and liberal platform, ono that will
be acceptable to all classes, and let the
party go before the country on its
past record of reform and retrench-
ment, and we are satisfied that the
result will be a sweeping victory for
the Democratic party. Butifthe party
assemblies in convention with the i'm
preston that its maingprop has been
knocked from under it by the decli-
nation of Mr.. Tilden, and with the
idea that it makes no difference who
they nominate the nominee will be
defeated, because Mr.. Gilden declined,
we predict that we will have weak
ticket and no show Of success. So
we say in the language Of the old
adage, that ''there are just as good
fish in the sea as were ever caught out
oft" And to the weak-lSneed. who
arc disposed TO despair, we would say,
that men may die and times may
change but Democracy willliyc for
ever.
THE Iinaes7Dsmocsat Of the 18th
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