Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-05
A SIGNIFICANT TENDENCY.

Among political tendencies there Is
none more significant or interesting
than that OF large, Intelligent and in
lluential element OF the democracy 20
look elsewhere than to New York for
the next presidential candidate OF the
party. Democratic discussion OF this
matter has begun none too soon, for If
the party is to secure a candidate from
another state and section OF the coun-
try there are great difficulties TO be
overcome, and the work OF educating
diency Of taking q candidate from some
other quarter than the Empire state
will require time. AT present there
are but two figures that stand out prom
inently in the democratic ranks rs pres
idential possibilities in 1892, and both
are New Workers. Ex-President Cleve-
land and Governor Hill are the only
men now associated with the presidency
in the minds of the great majority OF
democrats, In their state each has u
strong following, their strength, 1T Is
presumed, being very nearly equal.
With the party at large the ex-presi-
dent is unquestionably very much
stronger than the governor, but the
contest between them will have to be de-
cided in New York, and II it can not be
amicaby decided the state will be
pretty certain to again cast its vote for
the republican presidential candidate.
The chances are that neither will be
disposed to yield, and in that event
there must result such a decentralization
of the New York democracy as could
not fail to unfavorably affect the party
generally.
1t is the desire to avert this appar-
emily inevitable conflict, with all its
possibilities of mischief to the party,
that has prompted the suggestion that
the time has come for the demo-
cratic party to cease regarding New
York as the focal and turn
ing point in a presidential con-
test, and to give some thought to the
rest of the field. This has been vigor-
ously advocated by number of leading
democratic papers in the south and
southwest, which have insisted that
every consideration of sound policy and
expediency demands that the party shall
find its next candidate for the presi-
dency in the west. To these advocates
of a departure from the rut IN which the
democracy has travelled, so far as the
matter of relying upon New York is con-
cerned, is now added that sterling
champion of democratic principles,
Bet0rd's Mdgdzine, whose editor says
that what the democracy now needs
is national ticket rather than a New
York ticket" He, remarks that out of
six consecutive nominees taken from
New York, counting Cleveland twice,
the democrats "have elected two and
succeeded in inaugurating one," and
satiricallv observes that this is not
remarkably favorable showing. Re-
viewing the conditions which he be-
lieves responsible for the loss of New
York to Cleveland last year, in which
rebuked, the editor says the question
now is whether the continuation of
New York's leadership will not tend
to similar disaster. Hill is still on
deck as the New York democracys
pilot, and presumably with
schemes looking to Hills
benefit without very much regam to
other interests; Tammany, also, is on
hand, its appetite for local spoil in no
way impaired" In the light of past les
sons and present conditions, the editor
concludes that New York has COM
manded too much attention from the
democracy, and that it would do mo harm
if the line Of succession that has given
that state the democratic candidates
for the past twenty-four years were
broken. The democratic leaders in the
west may find in the tendency thus in
dicated an inspiration to increased zeal
in promoting both their party and per-
sonal welfare.