Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — Horatio Seymour’s Position. [ARTICLE]

Horatio Seymour’s Position.

[From the New York Sun.] Is ic necessary that a man should be a candidate in order to be nominated for the presidency? Has the office sunk so low that no man is to be considered available for it unless he has put a machine in operation to capture it? Heratio Seymour was never a candidate for anything Every office he has held came to him unsought. As far back as 1845 he was talked of for speaker et the Assembly. Silas Wright was governor. Mr. Seymour went to him and said: “My name has been mentioned for speaker. If it will embarrass your administration in the slightest degree to have me occupy the place, or if for any reason you prefer that another candidate should be chosen, just say -toe word and 1 will retire from the field. But IVright did not say the word, and Seymour was elected. In 1850, when the two hostile wings of the Democracy came together in the State, Seymour was nominated for governor. But he was not a candidate then. In 1862 he was renominated and elected, but without an effort on his own part and hardly with bis own consent. In 1854 he was very anions to retire, but was driven into running again.. The only time that he ever desired an office (even if he did then) was in 1862. He saw and appreciated the necessity of leading the party in the right direction om the war issue. He was a Union man, and he resolved that the Democracy of New York should be a Union party, whatever it cost. He jan willingly and was elected. But in 1864 he unqualifiedly refused a reuomination. It was only when McClellan’s friends peremptorily demanded that he should sacrifice all persenal considerations to the good of the cause that he consented to stand. Nd man who followed the course of events in 1868 needs to be told that Governor Seymour was not then a candidate for the presidency. The nomination was forced upon him in such a way that admitted of no

honorable withdrawal, and he con* seated to run. He will not now engage in a scramble for ‘he presidential nomination. If others want the place, they can have it for all of him. He n eets all overtures withjbe frank and truthful statement that he is hot a candidate. But it the convention nominates him he «ill not decline.--T i at is his position as defined by Senator Kernan and others whose relations with him are most intimate, and who have never yet been mistaken with regard to his true position. He is indisputably the strongest man : H his party. For 30 years he was 'he friend an J associate of Mr. Tilden.— There has never been a difference I etween them on questions of nubliO policy. He supported Tilden in his fight aghinst Tweed and in his war on -th* ring. With the exception of a little .inot of personal followers, Tilden’s friends are his friends. Moreover he can unite in his suppoit»he entire Democratic partv. His nomination would be so wise that unless Mr Tilden is bent on sacrificing success to his grievances. i twill co a 0 about in the natural course of event?.