The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-03-04
SOUTHERN CANDIDATES.


new DIX sun.
The suggestion Is heard, with what
has come to be regarded almost as be-
coming regularity in advance of every
Presidential contest, that the nominal
ton of a Southern candidate by n
Democratic National Convention would
no longer be attended with the perils
of Northern opposition, irresistible
and insurmountable. The discussion
of the claims and qualifications of
Senator John q. Carlisle revives the
previous controversies on this point;
and the fact that he Lives on the
wrong side of Mason and DiXon's
line is referred to MS important by his
champions and his opponents.
In tho National Democratic Conven-
ton OF 1883, the first one after the
war, all the leading candidates, Sey-
mour, Pendleton, Hancock, Hendricks,
Chase and Church, were Northern men,
and no Southern candidate was con-
sidered.
In tho Baltimore Democratic Con-
vention of 1879 the ratification of the
Greeley and Brown ticket, put up two
months previously by the Liberal Re-
publican Convention i'll Cincinnati
was foregone conclusion; but there
was some opposition to it, and
Southern candidate for the first time
was presented in the person of Mr.
Bayard, who received the votes OF fif-
teen delegates. The whole number
voting was seven hundred and thirty
two.
In the st. Louis Convention of 1876
all the leading Democratic candidates
were Northern men with, again, the
exception Of Mr.. Bayard, who received
this time theSlarger total of thirty-one
votes from Georgia, Delaware, Vir-
ginia. North Carolina, Louisiana and
Texas. On the second ballot he re-
eeiyed eleven votes.
In the convention of 1880 Mr.. Bayard
was again the only Southern candi-
date, and received, on the first ballot,
one hundred and lifty-three votes,
against one hundred and seyenty-one
for General Hancock. On the second
ballot, however, the support OF Mr..
Bayard's Southern friends was thrown
to Hancock, and he was nominated in
consequence.
In the convention of 1854 at Chicago,
Mr.. Bayard once again, and for the
third time was candidate, and re-
ceived one hundred and seyenty-one
votes, the largest number yet given
for him. They came chiefly from
North Carolina, Alabama Mississippi,
Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, South
Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Della
ware, Missouri, Maryland, Florida and
West Virginia. On the second ballot
Mr. Bayard received one hundred and
ilfty-three votes, and on the third,
elEhty-one. Nine months after he re-
ceived this proof of confidence and
popularity he became associated, as
Secretary OF State. with Mr.. Cleye.
lands administration, and since then
he has never been spoken of as Il Pfesi-
dental possibility.
The fact is not to be lost sight of
that i'll each of the National Conven-
tionS in which, in increasing numbers
each time. Mr., Bayard received the
support Of many Southern delegates,
the vote given him at the outset of the
balloting was larger than upon any
subsequent ballots. This was due to
the circumstance which has passed
almost into the realm OF political ira
ditions, that Southern delegates in
National Convention, by casting com
plimentury votes for a candidate whose
prospects OF Success is slight. can
hold their strength until the critical
time, and thus make their support de-
cisivo. Although, AS the record shows,
tho support OF u southern candidate
has been more popular at each succeed
ing Democratic Convention, small
Roadway has been made in convincing
the delegates from Northern States OF
the availability of Southern candi-
dates.
Thus. in the National Convention of
1854. the kentucky delegates, acting
under instructions, favored the nomi-
nation for President OF Mr.. Carlisle;
and Mr.. Mckenzie, OF that State, in nd
vocating his claims, raised the ques-
ton OF locality in the following words,
which, as bearing directly upon the
question still at issue, are worth re-
productions:
1T may he urged against Mr.. Car
Isle that he comes from the wrong
side OF the Ohio river; bat II the stat
ute of limitations ever Is to run against
that plea, il ought to begin now. be-
long to a class of men who believe
that we have a Union in fact, Us we'll as
in name, und believe that there is as
much honor, virtue and patriotism in
the South as there is anywhere within
tho broad limits of Our common coun-
try. appeal 10 the sentiment of JUS
tice and fairness that peryades this
great convention representing, as It
does, the intelligence of the DeGoc-
racy of America, il l come before 1t
with any unnatural plea when ask
you to recognize that the arbitrament