The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-21
TIE MAN WHO CANNOT WIN.
Written Tor The DEMOCRAT


% commit some fatal mistake or
| bluUder each Presidential year. And
| while some Of us hoTe It will cease
TO Flunder and fall, il is hardly 10 be
expected from the present outlook.
A judicious selection Of d caId date
il 1892, whose ability to organize,
| lead aud win has been demonstrated
to the satisfaction of ell men of all
parties IN this country would insure
success.
No candidate for the presidency
IN the next Campaign will have 6
W 4lk-oyer. The contest will be &
desperate one. The 0est general
ship with the best disciplined al
Organized army will win.
A general, or leader on tue demo.
cratic side with Justification among
his lIeutenauts or among the rank
and file of his army, will be driven
from the ield with dropping ,olors il
not trailing In the dust. A leader
WHO will not listen to the wise cOun.
sels Of the wise men Of his party
canrot WIN. A leader Who ignoree
any fiction of his party cannot win.
A leader who is known TO believe
himself more honest, and who sets
himself up 80 wiser and greater than
his party cannot win. A leader who
IS known to be selfwllled, stubborn.
and revengeful cannot win. A lead
er who has heretofore committed
hIunders and under whose Leadership
his party has heen driven horse, foot
and dragopn from the strongest D. d
best fortified position on the Ameri-
cao continent cannot win in 1892
One who won a victory without &
record against the most stupeDdous
odds with the enemy thoroughly for
titled, and after be bad made q
record. and posted his artillery and
infantry and fortif d (or ought to
have fortifed) his position was by
that same defeated, demoralized
enemy Ganked, routed and driven
from the field cannot win.
No leader Tho has more confidence
10 his own wisdom and Craftsmanship
than in the accumulated wisdom and
states manehlp Of his party can win
No man who treats one half Of bis
party with contempt and defiance
because, torsooth, they differ vito
> him on finance, tsxatjor, mugwumJ
ism or civil service reform can wiz
in 1892. No man WHO came to the
presidency of the Unite States
, through the patriotism, honesty
bravery and wisdom of the democratic
O party, after the party bod been bar
, ished from power for more thar
twent-four yea s, and la at hi
disposal the whole patronage of tn,
q government, and the privilege 8:
r we'll as the power to open the hook.
=; and turn the rascals out, and die
neither and wes thereafter defeated
q for the same position before IT,,
, American people, can WIN 10 1892
No man who appointed republican,
> and mugwumps to off e instead 0
q democrats can win on the Democrat
side. No mau can win as the nom
!. inee Of the great democracy of tbi
O country who filled all the Offices il
y all the territories with clrpet-bas
Il gers from New England and th
= Middle states instesd Of oppoint!n:
r citizens fcom the territories, thereb,
: Recognizing and p-act!CiDg loCai self
II government can be elected iresIdeu
:. Of the United States in 1892. \,
9 msn who kept from forty to sixt,
millions OF the peoples money OF
O deposit ia the Natlonal Banks with
f out entries during four years simpl,
o to aid tie spectators and monte
q powers Of the country to Cypress tht
n people can be elected hy the voters
of J>tftrsonian democrats. No mar
who refused to coin four million
+ ounces of silver per month when be
+ had the power to do SO, but did al
=. 10 his power to prevent the coming
, Of two million ounces (the minimum
per month can be elected By demo
, cratic votes.
No man who followed or would
follow in the financial footsteps OF
the republican president ought TO be
nomin ated or can Re elected by the
democracy Of the country 10 1892.
No man who indorsed the de-
mobilization Of silver in 1878, and
, condemned its reconciliation in
.. 1879, aud Who still condemns il
: ought to be nomlnateu or elected in
1892 by the democracy. No man
who was President Of the United