New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-18
rgJyKryG IysTEAD OF SHOUTING.

There is n lack of enthusiasm at Chicago,
Democratic correspondents complain, Natur-
ally: this is not ratification meeting, nor q
gathering of persons who get salaries for shout
ING. Enthusiasm at the end of a campaign fire.
ouently results from calm judgment at the be-
ginning, while the campaign which begins with
hot heads occasionally ends with heavy hearts.
The people have sent 800 men TO Chicago 10
do job of thinking, and a man does not al
ways think his best with his mouth open Inc
Democratic party did its shouting in conven-
ton, and now begins to do its thinking after
ward. which is not always the most profitable
arrangement.
Whoever tries to reach the truth will como
early to the conclusion that the most Jealous
boomers, who appear to have run one or Two
candidates into the ground already, may not
be found the most unerIing sources OF informa-
ton. Their magnificent certainty that nobody
can carry Republican State except the par
ticular Republican they happen to be booming
however it may impress political infants
scarcely appears to experienced men as reveal
ton of eternal truth. The Oregon electlon
clears the atmosphere so far that the votes OF
the Pacific States can be fairly counted for q
strong Republican candidate, and Indiana
New York. New-Jersey and Connecticut may
fairly be reckoned, with the nomination Of such
q candidate, the only doubtful Northern states
"The SUM- frankly warns its Democratic read
ers that "the talk of yanking Minnesota from
its place in this solid Republican column IS
of the rainbow variety" and that "the same
remark applies to Democratic prospects III
Massachusetts,"
The four States named have sixty-six elect
oral votes. and of these the Democratic candi-
date REQUIRES forty to elect. It follows that
nineteen of these electoral votes VIII give inc
Republican candidate q majority, in addition 10
the 1872 from safe Republican States. Inc
more closely the thinkers at Chicago fix thelf
minds upon these alithmetica Statements inc
more sure they will be to avoid damaging MIS-
takes. II is easy to name men who can carr!
all the safe Republican States, with their lo>
electoral votes. 1t is also easy to name men VINO
can carry this or that doubtful state, But the
man whose nomination promises less than nine
! teen votes from the doubtful States is not the
man for whom the convention is looking Inc
londcst brass band, and the biggest flag and
the most tempcstuous boom on the continent
are not worth a single Fourth of July fre'
cracker, unless they open the doors to victory
in the doubtful States.
The sincere and earnest Republicans of Other
States do not allow themselves to be blinded
TO these facts by any pyrotcchnics Of enhusi-
asm, and they are not anxious to have thell
own way in June only to give Mr.. Cleveland
his own way in November, and for four years
more. Hence it is that the men who count arc
at present thinking more than they are shout
ing. Among other things, they are thinking
that there is just one straight road to success II
the doubtful States namely, that the candidate
shall be able to call out the full strength OF th'
cause of protection in those States. They SCI
that the candidate who will fall short of that
though he may have other merits by the mill
ion, has a weakness which outweighs man,
merits If the thinking men of the convention
can clearly determine which candidate vii
meet this need most completely, and then ge
him nominated, they will have performed
service well worth all their trouble.