Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-05-18

concern 1t says: The name OF Mr..
Cleveland will be presented by delegates
from this state to the deraooratlo ma
tional convention at st. Louis. This,
at least. was settled, yesterday. Does
it follow that MIR. Cleveland, il nomin-
ated, would carry this state, or that he
could muster SO large or certain o ma
iority as oouid easily be raised for q
western democrat, unburdened by local
antagonisms, entirely untrammeled by
ties OF local faction, and therefore sure
to bring out the whole vote OF the party
That is the question which the enforce
ment of the two-thlrds rule not only
permits, but admonishes the national
| convention to consider long and care
fully, and there are reasons why the
delegates from southern states should
ponder over it with special deliberation.
and anxiety. Their constituents will
have to furnish the bulk of the votes
needed in the electoral college to elect
q democratic president. they will !,
therefore, have moral right to dictate
the course OF the convention at st.
burden of the responsibility for the
triumph or for defeat. y i
Are the southern delegates alive to the
supreme gravity OF the responsibility to
which their people will sternly hold
them, should their selection OF o demo-
cratic nominee at St. Louis prove dis
astrous blunder? DO they realize that
if, through precipitation, or lack OF fore
sight uron their part in calculating the
availability of candidates, the democracy
shall lose the presidency in 1888, il is
most unlikely that the 10Th century
will witness the election OF another dem
ocrstlc president.
/ These are reasons too often overlooked
by our southern friends, and
from which their astute republican
opponents have hitherto been careful
to divert attention. Eefore the next
presidential election comes, the census
of 1890 will have been taken, and the
representation OF the several states in
electoral colleges will have been reap
portioneds The only southern state
which is expected to exhibit phsnom-
email increase in the number of its in
habitants is Texas; the other common
wealtks beyond the Potomac and Ohio
can only be counted on to maintain their
4 normal ratio of growth. The centre
consequently, OF the nations popnln-
tion will be shifted by the coming CEN
lsus still further to the northwest, and il
will be no longer possible for the demo.
cracy to elect a president without add
ing to the solid soath many more votes
from anorth,sn states in the electoral
colleges than are now needed. 1t may
be possible to capture those additional
northern votes, should the democratic
party retain the president for four years
more. To do so will be almost hopeless,
should IS seg be driven ont OF cffice
Les not the southern democrats be de.
ceived in this matter. If they want te
. maintain white mans government IL
I the states where the census attests an
excess OF blacks over whites, they mus,
elect democratic president. Had the
cool and far sighted leaders OF the south
ern democracy--the sons Of successors
, OF the men who throughout the greatel
, part OF this century have swayed tht
; counolls of the democratic party y-knowl
at Chicago in 1880 the trutf
about Mr.. Cieveiand's strength
3 in his own state, woulG
they have turned deaf ear to the note
; OF wsrning2 Hsd they foreseen tha.
aided by ludicrouH but none the lesl
effectiYe accident, he could only get
: beggarly plurality OF less than 1,10t
? votes, would they ever have edoptet
, him as their candidate for president
They were RulIed and bamboozied then
i hut now the truth ia all before them
T What will they do about it?'
The Tribune says: ''The democrati
party needed leader but has found
master. Gov. Hill; OF whom some hav
talked as the possible leader OF an insur
r rection, feels the lash and bears the hu
o initiation of q public hoRRing as best b
y can. Without him, Cleveland coul
never become master of his party, for
: was Mr.. Hills victory last year tha
made Oleveland's dictstion possibls."
: The Herald says: 'eThe democrats dit
I we'll last night when they favored th
policy OF federal economy and reforr
OF the tariff"
The Times says: .The state OF Ne,
: York edds its column of delegates to th
. llengthening list OF delegates from othe
states who will cast an undivided vot
for President Cleveland at the st. Loui
convention. x v y A governor VIII
: cannot get his party to give him tn
q humble Office Of delegate to q nationa
a convention is scarcely in @ position
demand denomination to the executiy