New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-13
THE BANDANNA CANDIDATE AND CAM
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A'voTER WHO SEES NO GOOD IN THUEMAN's
WAR RECORD OR HIS LABoRS IN THE SEN
ATE OR AT TIE BAR

| A'voTER WHO SEES NO GOOD IN THURMAN's
| WAR RECORD OR HIS LABoRS IN THE SEN
ATE OR AT TIE BAR
| To the Edftor OF Tho Tribune
Sir: Thurman ia Of course typical reprcsentativ,
| OF his party. but for that very reason, he was the
worst possible nomination. next to Jefferson Davis,
| that tho convention at st. Louis could have made.
His selection was the result Of sentimental gush,
but IL was the sentiment Of disloyal,y and treason
To the solid South of course he is highly acceptable,
but in the loyal North there will be no response but
Intense disgust. lie has record to run on In the
| North. That record Is history and 1t neither
| DO denied nor wiped out. lilo was O statcsrg hts,
pro-slavciy Democrat dyed in the wool and ell tho
waters OF the ocean cannot say out damned spot"
He belonged to the same school with Vallandi CHAM,
voorhees, and Fernando Wood, but was a little more
discreet than his associates. He was . wise
1 serpent" that knew when to take to his hole and
whoa 10 come cut, but the poison was there all the
same. lie wrote AL the Platforms OF his party la
| Ohio during the war, ami We look Ia them In vain
for smg.e word "a encouragement for the Union
cause nJtnng but socaled constitutional bubbles
ANA unpatnoIc distractions to the prosecution the
war iio was The author OF tho nlst deivcranco OF
the Northern Democracy at the outbreak OF the war
when, NJ conventon OF the party at Columbus, Ohio
in the winter OF ls0l'02, he sent greeting to the party
| OF the country that, wnen IN, North docs justice
TO Tho South, we viii consider the question Of The
poprlcty OF secession and the right Of coercion"
All through tn, war he peace sneak Of the most
pronounced type, and was the main architect of the
platform In 1864 which declared the war failure.
!" Old Roman" indeed As well compare Hyperion
to satyr farthlng light to the sun. The virtue
and his unseliish devotion to his country. This
modern Roman failed TO see am important differ
ence between the Union and the Conederacy, unless
that difference in favor Of the latter; and no
always surbordinatod his country to his party.
Another virtue OF tho Roman character was con-
sIsency and stcadfasness to the truth. Thurman was
hard money man by convictions bur when the craze OF
Salesman Bah lie has not s' the least slemsnt q
statesman or at loaSt has never shown 1t. either In his
twelve years In the seuatc In all his life Def0re.
What has he said done that shows the states
little band Of Democratic obstructIonlsis that had
s a'Ee sonns s W S AFT
which shows the demagogue, but not the statesmen
for What called The Thurman Act in regard to the
Pacific railroads But every lawyer knows that It
ssas:, asst BY re rssads to dsssSsso Sss
catch few Ignorant gndgoons
re same breath with Henry stanIerry Thomas Ewing
eraIc side MS tclspIone cases q recent date were
ws into politics, and first appeared in Congress
ne Of his nne wa AeS the
He cxt appeared on the Supreme Bench Of Ohio, but
iawye Ills opinions We're half politics and half law
Of his associate on the bench Judge sanncy That no
has BEN life long politician of only ordinary abilities
and some s undoubtedly true but that he has
ever born either lawyer of first class, states
man In any proper sense of the word Is the shecrest
nonsenst
No. TIN "bandenna" business VIII not take.
There vas something sublime in the talsman which
the classic story of Sir Waiter Scott There was some
Navarro as 1t nodded the ptrlous edge of battle
and told ht devoted soldiers where to follow in the
thckest Of he fight But this modern tasmar, this
red bandana7 of the Democratic candidate for
Vice Prcsidel will prove signal OF victory for his
party. IL is nothing but the personal necessity Of
old man whose brain Is turned with tho mandn Incense
OF his worshi1pers. ANTI-HUMBUG.
New-YOrk, June 0, 1883.