Year: 1875




The democratic politicians in the South
and West are calculating on n union of those
sections in the Speakership contest in De-
cember and in the Presidential Convention
of next year According to this programme
the democratic nomination for President is
to go to the West, the South modestly fore
going any place on the Presidential ticket
and asking only the clerkship of the House
of Representatives. The Speaker is to be
conceded to Pennsylvania, provided that
State will act with the South and West in
the National Convention, and thus secure to
them majority of the votes and the Vice
Presidency is to so, like the famous Credit
Mobilier fund, where it is likely to do the
most good.


The ease with which the claims of Governor
Tilden are disposed of in this pleasant ar
rangement will probably astonish the friends
of the great reform candidate. New York has
had her turn, we are told and must now
stand aside. Mcclellan was really New
York nomination in 1864. Horatio Seymour
was resuscitated in 1868 and placed in the
field against his own desire. Horace Greeley
was the experiment in 1872 1t will
not do, say the united sections to take
q fourth candidate in succession from New
York, and the claims of the Great West must
not be ignored. So Governor Tilden is laid
in his little bed, politically, in advance of
the Convention. The perseverance and
shrewdness that were SO effective in fixing
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Ring are to go for naught. The boldness
and vigor with which the canal frauds have
been attacked and firmly rooted system of
plunder torn up and scattered to the winds
are to bring no rewards. Our bachelor Gov
ernor is not to be our bachelor President,
but is to stand aside for some such man as
Allen or Thurman or Hendricks or probably
Pendleton himself


But the fact that the last three democratic
Presidential nominations have been conceded
to New York is not all that is urged against
Governor Tilden. 1t is insisted that a can
didate from New York city will be recognized
as a concession to the "bloated bondholder"
and national bank interests, and will not be
acceptable on that account to the West.
We are promised from the foreshadowed
combination platform that shall not uphold
initiation, but shall be severely denunciatory
of the national banks. These institutions
are to be- branded as unconstitutional, as
little better than public robbers, and their
abolition is to be demanded. The whole
volume of currency is to be issued in green
backs instead of half in preenbacks and half
in national bank currency. Our paper
money is to be of one denomination and all
legal tender Then we shall have the re-
lease of the reserves and, by so much, infa-
ton. Then the whole amount of paper
money issued will be at the command of the
business interests Then it will be i'm
possible for spectators on Wall street to lock
up greenbacks and create financial panic.
This is said to be the programme of the
South and West but the poet tells us that
''the best laid schemes o. mice and men gang
aft a-gley," and Governor Tilden is o shrewd
plotter and vigorous worker 1t may be
that the arrangement, so smooth in theory
may meet with difficulties in practice, and
that, despite Ohio, the Democratic National
Convention may refuse to perform the opera
ton of hari-kari.