The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-12-17
For the Palladium.
RICHMOND, INDIANA.
Dec. Z, 1870.

Editor Palladium
Over the signature Of 'Volo,' l
noticed in your paper Of the 3rd
inst. communication, the object
of which seemed to be to prove the
defeat Of the Republican party at
| the late election to have been owing
% it's advocacy of a Protective
Tariff and to its Legislation for
private interests
The proof offered is as singular
ns the fact e. 10 be proved.
fCredulity, or confidence of opin-
ion too great for the evidence from
which opinion is derived, we find
TO be general weakness imputed
by eyory sect and party to all 9th
ere.'
or oil kinds of credulity the
most obstinate and wonderful is
that Of political zealots Of men
who being numbered, they know
not how or why, in any Of the par
ties that divide State, resign the
use OF their own eyes and ears and
resolve to believe nothing that does
not favor some prcconceived no
ton. Mr.. VOlo, seems to belong
to that too mum erous class Of phil
osophers, who having allowed
themselves to embrace some favor
ite theory, and not finding facts to
agree with their ,sm consider it so
much the worse for the facts and
who seem disposed to force facts
30 their aid. He first assumes a
false aud untenable petition, and
then to demonstrate it correct,
presses into his service another
statement equally unfounded in
fect. II is not true as stated, that
our party was defeated for the
reason assigned.
Take Our own, the 4th Congress
sional District, for example. The
bare idea that the Tariff kept from
the polls hundreds of these enter
prising patriots, i?) the special
friends Of our present NJ. c., is
simply preposterous. The con-
trolling motive that kept them from
the election, was, as is we'll known,
to crafty the malignity of their
leader, as we'll as their own disap-
pointment at his failure of nomina-
ton. Mr.. Julian, by we'll timed
card addressed to The dupes who
do his bidding, urging them to ig-
more personal preferences and to
vote for principles, and appealing
to them, for his sake, to support
the ticket, could have secured all
the nominees a maj ority Of at least
fifteen hundred. That was not his
purpose however. His patriotic
(2) design was, as his followers
well knew, to prove to the party
that the nominee for Congress, was
not SO very available after all.
Precisely similar remarks apply
to the 7th District, which has long
been represented by an equally
hypocritical adherent Of the Repub-
lican party, devoted to its princi-
pies just SO long as his own per
sonsl and selfish interests would
be subserved. I'm rather inclined
to the opinion that Tariff did not
distract the voting propensities OF
the peculiar admirers of the two
snserprising (?) M. C's alluded to.
In the first and third congress
sional Districts we lost heavily
from the general apathy of the
| party, owing in good part to the
adoption Of the 18th amendment.
Both of the Democratic nominees
prophecied to the writer that such
would be the result. Tariff or
Legislation for private interests
was not even thought of, much less
named as a cause for the increased
democratic majorities. 'Twere to
consider too curiously to consider
So .
1t is a well-known fact that in
the pocket part Of the State sec
ton comprising more general ig
norance than ell the other districts
togsther-the opposition to Negro
voting is bitter. That l have cor
rectly assigned the cause Of Re
publican loss in this district, l ap-
peal to the candor and intelligence
of every person who lays any
claim to being posted in its politics.
Mr.. Volo may select ten men of
the party-of average smartness-
and if at least nine of them should
cot subscribe te the facts as sta
ted by .Nolo,' then l would almost
agree to do violence to my better
judgment and oppose a'Tarifi' pro-
tective of home industry, as against
pauper-unpaid foreign labor.
But the most wonderful part of