Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1882 — Gov. Seymour’s Views. [ARTICLE]

Gov. Seymour’s Views.

There is no man in the whole country held in higher respect than the statesman and patriot whose name heads this article. Broad and comprehensive in his views, scholarly in tastes, strong in intellect and culture, and withal thoroughly democratic in his instincts, he is, by reason of his age and experience as well as from the fact that he has only a patriot’s interest in politics, in a position to give unbaised judgment on the present situation. Consequently, when he speaks—which is but seldom—he is listened to with the greatest respect by the general public. The New York World correspondent has had an interview with Gov. Seymour, at his home in Utica, the chief points of which are thus summarized by a New York dispatch : In course of the long interview the old statesman said : “ I feel assured that the Democratic party has it in its power to regain its supremacy in the State and country. It may be said that its organization is bad, and so it is; but the Republican party is in a much worse state, and that party is without the power to rehabilitate itself. It is impelled forward by its own weight to dissolution. The tendency of the Republicans has been to centralize Cower at the general capital and to sink the ulk of legislation transacted there until it has not only got beyond their control, but beyond the comprehension of anybody but the life-members of the lobby. The consequence can only be disastrous, as it has already proven ; and it now threatens the party with dirsolution. That organization has no remedy within its reach. It has found it impossible to return to constitutional methods. It has sought to centralize everything, and it is overwhelmed by the gigantic superstructure of eorruption it has reached. Under these circumstances the Democratic party has the opportunity to win a great victory by standing up for the constitutional methods of government. It is committed to this popular line of policy, which the Republicans could not adopt if they would. I have no doubt of the success of the Democratic party.” Speaking of the present condition of the country he said : “In some respects we have gone forward too rapidly, and I fear we are qn the eve of a break in the prosperous advance of the last three years. We are importing much more than we are exporting. It is possible that the prices of all kinds of property have been carried to a point at which they cannot be sustained, and that a reaction is imminent There seems to have been too much investment in railway enterprises, but the laws that govern the growth of the country in population and the increase of its business and agricultural activities will in the end work out enduring prosperity.” Of State politics he said: “In this State I do not believe that the different factions of the Republican party can come together again so as to work harmoniously. It is not so much the question of personal leadership with them as causes that lie deep and cannot be settled by conventions and conferences. Ido not believe that Mr. Tilden will be a candidate for Governor, or that, he has any thought of accepting a Presidential nomination. He is an old man, and has passed up out of the heat and passion of battle. I am surprised to hear that Mr. Hewitt would be willing to accept a nomination as Governor. He is a good man and has made a good record in Congress, but it might be a mistake if he were to run."