Show HURRAH The Soundest Talk Since Via ciaeatl New York ISThe Sun hat a re marfcaHe editorial under the heading II No Mincing MaiUrr n whereof the following are extraiUr The democrats have sustained an unexpected and mortifying defeat in Indians and Ohio Ill h fligaiirous and may prove fatal it is silly to make light of it and idle to try to whittle it away by cunning eaTen lations and adroit figuring The democrats demo-crats arebe ten badly Beaten whether beaten to death or not is theonly question ques-tion It has seemed to as that the whole democratic campaign was a series of blunders The panty had one man only one whose immense st ength had been demonstrated on the nti nal field Samuel J Tilden It is the one great pro emintnt name in the dtmocratio party He was a reformer indeed as his record in the office of governor had proven He was a statesman as al of his public papers especially his letter de cl lung to compote for the nomination bad emphatically shown Childless like Wasningt n he had only his country coun-try to love and even the ties of kindred wale ruthlessly sundered by his cUrn nd uareleotia hand if the faintest blush of improper practice rested upon hem bo patriotic iff lofiy so convincing convin-cing was his great letter to the conven ion which made tho nomioatioa that the most adroit and blestof his enemies J alter reading it avowed bU dispoiition to support him This illuitrious i man the democratic party thoughtit could afford to dispense with as a candidate There aword of one syllable withtwo os in it which i might not inappropriately be I inserted here The party nominated Gun Hancock a good man weighing 250 pounds But Hancock is not Tilden Then as the crowning act of folly the party went into the state of Thomas A Ucndricks and took another man for vice president Any name other than that of Hendricks WouIa havo been folly enough but to go one step further they had to take a man with tho most odious reputation as a skinflint to overcome There used to be a folluw who made an occupation of batting hirhead against a rougn stone Now England wall for 25c The democratic party in making this nomination resembled him only if report re-port be true thny did not get the 25c Now we are for looking the facts squarely in the face Who cannot do that without with-out thinking in defeat and disaster as well as in victory hs no manhood in his make We are beaten we are overthrown over-thrown but wo are not detroyed the disaster we have experienced may yet be r trieved |