The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-23

NASS AASA0 ~ ttAV PNDAAS SAASl etAN S'S'S
land is their Stuffed Prophet.
When the convention heard the refer
ence to officeholders in conventions it
must have smiled q smile that Pcoyered
Lake MichisaS to the g qa4adtIsah shore.
sheathed Their Tomshawks for
Wampubn.
The New York Heraid'S we'll known
leaning TO the Democratic side gives a
queer look to this extract from one OF
its leading editorial articles:
It looks just now as though Cleveland had
made barr . n with Tammnny, or waA about to
make one. Iammppy Is q Commercial as well rs
Hill Is willing 10 consider propoSltionS made by
responsible parties, There - some reason 10 be.
lleVe that beneath all the Tammlny bluster
ROont Hlll-whO Ia q dead lion SO lar as this
campaign Is concerUed-iS willingness TO
smother is anjmoyities and fall into the Cleve.
land line Tor a ihrhher aud sufficient rGmunern-
ton In that case the American voter will have
70 choose between Republican bureaucracy and
Tnum0ny Democracy.
That Tammany is a commercial even
moro than a political organization has
long been understood. That it has no
political principles inconsistent with
It's notions Of correct business manage
mcnt hasn't been questioned for n long
time now. That under circumstances
satisfactory to itself its stands ready to
sheathe its tomahawk for wampum in
sufficient quantities or its equivalent in
offices, is a common and comfortable
understanding, which has often been OF
advantage to the. organization.
To DO told! tbns the immaculate Mr.
Cleveland, the only champion Of re.
form OF nil sorts, has got down to the
level Of Tammany and bought its acqui-
essence in his nomination, is an an
pouncement that must crate harshly on
every delicate Democratic ear.
The situation being what it is, the
Herald says the choice is between ere
publican bureaucracy and Iammany
Democracy What Republican ad-
mlnistration OF the affairs Of this coun-
try is the people know. For thirty
yeara, with one slight break, it has
written the history OF this cOuntry-a
history without a parallel in the histor-
les of the mountaineering prosper
ity, increasing national grandeur.
Tammany Democracy is as well
known. Until lately it contented itself
with plundering the largest city in the
union. Then its ambition sought to
dominate the greatest Of tho states and
by fraud unprecedented reach its goal.
Intoxicated with success it conceived
the holder scheme of fastening its claws
on the whole country.
Tammany expected to enter the
White House at the heels OF Hill. But
it wants to get there. II it.cannot go
with Hill Cleveland will do. The Her
aid thinks the--deal- has been made.
Since the choice. is. with the people
there can be no doubt Of the result.
The people will not crown Tammany
President of the United statessn no mat
ter under whose name it ma querades,
The Dark Horse in the Convention.
James X. Polk was the first Of him,
the frat "darEhoTse..a to take theprlze
in a national ScohHenFson. It was in
the Democratic national convention OF
1874, in session in Baltimore. On the
first ballot Martin yam Buren,, Of New
York, had l46, Lewis Cass, Of Michigan,
So, Richard N. Johnson, of Kentucky,
"a, and IS were scattering.
The seventh ballot having closed
without nomination, it, was proposed
to declare Van Buren, the nominee, he
having received a majority on the first
ballot. The two-thirds rule stood in
the way and the convention would not
upset 1t. On the eighth ballot Polk was
entered as clark horse" receiving "A
votes. On the ninth ballot there was q
rush to Polk, who received all the votes
in the convention,
Since then here have been dark
horses OF various degree in conventions
big and little. but national conventions
in this day do4not take SO kindly to
them. Mere obscurity is not thought
to give the best title to a presidential
nomination in either party.