Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-06-22
Stauntolt Spectator.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22nd.
National Democratic Convention.

to learn what the National Democratic
Convention will do. 1t will be more
numerously attended than any con-
vention ever held in this country, ex-
ceeding that of the late non-descript
Convention of the Republicans at
Minneapolis. The excitement is great
and the feeling intense, and it is prob
able that it will be more like a Don
nybrook Fair than love feast, as the
Tammany braves, like the pugnacious
Irishman, are hoping that some gin
tlemon would plaise trid on me coat
tail" They have on their war-paint
and are giving the war whoop, and are
resolved, if possible, to wear Cleve-
lands scalp on their belt, but the indi-
cations are that they will be disap-
pointed. They claim that they are
working for the nomination of David
B. Hill, but they now have no hope OF
succeeding in that object, and merely
use him as war club with which to
brain Cleveland-their object now be-
ing not to nominate Hill, but to defeat
the indications are that Cleveland will
be nominated, no man can foretell with
any certainty what the result will be.
He has certainly a majority, but
whether he can get two-thirds of the
votes of the Convention-the majority
required to nominate-cannot be
known at the time of this writing
Monday morning.
That Cleveland is the first choice of
a majority of the Democratic party
there can be no doubt, and if the
election were to be determined by the
popular vote, there could be no doubt
of the policy of nominating him, but
as the election will be determined by
the electoral votes of the several States,
and as the electoral votes of New York
are absolutely necessary, and there is
such determined opposition to him in
that State on the part of the friends OF
Hill, and opposition to him by the
third party in the South, and the
hundreds of thousands of pensioners
in the North and West, and disap-
pointed office-seekers, the question of
his availability becomes very grave
one, and calls for the greatest wisdom
on the part of the Convention. The
friends of his nomination in New York
claim that he can carry that State, and
more easily than any other man, and
his friends in the South maintain that
ha boC ,nt1,inCs 10 Ipao Il tho tb ipI
party i'll the South for the reason that
the Republican party is pledged to
the passage of the Force bill which
would be destructive of the peace and
liberties of the South, and that the
Democratic Alliance men will feel it to
be their duty to vote with the Demo-
cratic party, particularly as the policy
of that party is promotive of their
interests, whilst all the evils and
grievances of which they complain are
the direct results of the policy of the
Republican party. AS the Convention
is now in session-having commenced
yesterday-and the result of its action
will soon be known, it is useless to
speculate DIS W WutU blldU ISbulb Will
be. We hope it will be such as to
secure the success of the Democratic
party, for upon its success momentous
consequences depend. If Cleveland
should be nominated we hope he will
be elected, for he is by long odds our
personal choice. In 1884 this was the
first paper in Virginia, and SO far as
we know the first in the Union, to adj
vocate the nomination of Cleveland
for the Presidency, when we correctly
predicted the eract vote he would and
did receive, and we esteem him more
highly now than we did then. We
have such confidence in his unselfish
patriotism as to believe that, if he
party, in view of it's complications and
party feuds, to have another as its
standard-bearer, he would advise his
friends not to nominate him, and hence
we have thought that, possibly, after
Hill would be out of the way
Cleveland might advise his friends to
withdraw his name that some one
might be nominated who was not so
strongly antagonized, and who could
receive the united support of the party.
We have thought that this might
probably be the best solution of the
difficult question with which the Con-
vention has to grapple, and If this be
not done, it will be, we think, because
C1nuo1ond haliauac hn oar our
York, Notwithstanding the Hill feud,
or that he will feel it his duty to yield
to the wishes of the majority of his
party and make the contest for nomi-
nation, in which event the ticket will
probably be
CLEVELAND, of New York, and
GRAY, of Indiana or CLEVELAND,
of New York, and BOIES, of Iowa
but this cannot be predicted with
much certainty, for, as the French
say, cit is the unexpected that hap
pens" and this is particularly true of
Conventions and elections. No less a
prophet than Daniel can fOretell with
certainty the names of the nominees of
any Convention. 1t is the duty and
we hope it will be the pleasure of every
Democrat to give the ticket nominated
at Chicago his earnest, cordial and
active support.
In case Cleveland should withdraw,
or should make the contest and fail to
be nominated, then good ticket
would be WHITNEY, of New York,
for President, with either GRAY or
BOIES for Vice-President; Or, if they
should go West, either GRAY or
BOIES for President, and RUSSELL,
of Massachusetts,, for Vice-President.
There is no chance for HILL, but his
friends and all other anti Cleveland
delegates will strive to defeat Cleve-
!