Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-25
ALEX ANDRIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER %.

THERE Is good deal of talk now among
New York democrats about the present re-
spective strength Of Cleveland and Hill in
The democratic executive committee Of that
Slate, of the changes that may occur in that
committee previous to the next national
democratic convention, of the abolition of
the unit rule with regard to the New York
delegation in that convention, and az 10
which of the two gentlemen named will be
likely to have the support of the majority
of that delegation in the convention refer
red to. Now all this looks very much as if
the New York democrats are under the i'm
preston that they have preempted the Presi-
Dental nominations of their party for their
own State. But they should not reckon
without their host. The idea is spreading
throughout the South that the tail has wag-
ged the dog about long enough, and that as
the South supplies the votes that elect dem.
ocratic Presidents, she not only has the
right, hut is 10 duty bound to the people who
cast those votes to exercise her legitimate
power in the next national democratic con-
vention, and select the candidate FOR the
Presidency. Her failure in the past TO ex-
ercise this power. leaving the selection of
the candidate to New York, which has al
ways chosen one of her own sons, has re-
suited by no means tavorably either to her.
self or to the country at large. Four times
in succession has the democracy Of the
South fought the Presidential battle under
the lead Of q New Yorker, three times to
ignominious defeat, once to victory which
was basely surrendered by New York lest
her bonds and stocks should be temporarily
depressed, and once to success, which, though
maintained, has been more disastrous to the
party than any of its defeats. Experience
is the best Of teachers, and by it the wise
democrats of the South have learned to be-
ware Of New FORK democrats. Why should
they not be, when the democratic congress.
sional delegation from New York are so un-
democratic that they vote against even the
consideration of bill to reduce the tariff
on the necessaries Of life? Mr.. Carlisle, OF
Kentucky, is the man the Southern democ.
racy should name for the next democratic
Presidential nomination. He was q Union
man, and his State did not secede; and il
the mere fact that he halls from State that
is ciassed among those of the South be suf
fcient, quarter Of q century after the close
Of the war between the States, to deprive
him of the support of Northern democrats
no Southern democrat can ever hope to be
President, and the South had better be in
formed of that prohibition now than later
OF coulse these ideas are not entertained
by such Southern democrats as the three
misrepresentation Of the South in Mr.
Cleveland's cabinet, who have been 80 trans.
ported with delight at their positions that
they have apparently lost their senses, but
that they are gradually finding their way
into the minds of the vast majority of the
other democrats Of the South will, unless q
great change shall come over the spirit o.
their dreams, be rendered glarngly
apparent when the democrats of the
country next assemble in national convea
lion.