The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-15
POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND VIEWS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS by Mr.. Hubbard Of
the Democratic Nominate ton for Governor.
HARTFORD. Feb. 3D. 1872


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS by MIR. Hubbard Of
the Democratic Nomina ton for Governor.
HARTFORD. Feb Is. 1872.
A. E. BURR, ESD
| DEAR SIR take occasion through you, as Chair
man of the late Democratic Convention OF this
| State. TO say word IN regard to the nomination
| which the Convention has been pleased to confer
| upon me.
| The honor. need not say, came to me wholly I'M
| solicited; may also add. wholly unwished. lhave
no itch for office. This however, shall not prevent
| me from accepting. Only let me add that, as
| have not solicited the nomination. so shall not.
| by any OF the too common arts ana practices
OF the times, solicit an election: and TINS
not because ! am careless OF the political
result or disdaln the hOnOr-very far from
it-but because such practices are against all my
habits of hfe Ia the first place. and In the next
therefore, 1t must be by voluntary and unbought
SURFACES oil my fellow citizens Such must De my
be this Will be my weakness as candidate. BE 1t
| so. II cannot change my determination.
l accept also the principles OF liberal and con,
sentative democracy expressed IN the platform OF
the Convention. The resolutions IN the main iouch
the living issues OF tine day. and are wise and states.
manlike. Unless deceive myself the great exl-
gency OF the times Is not alone the adoption OF just
principles of government In poitics-of this there
Is surely need enough ana more than enough
but what Is OF still more consequence, If pos
slDe. publication OF the morals CT pollllcs
These-bad enough to begin with and none too
good at tine Dest-have become tainted with an IN
heritance Of evils consequent on the late civil war;
evils which have become TERRIBLY aggravated by the
wanionness and shameless corruption OF the long
continued and irresponsible supremacy OF single
party IN power. These evils pervade the whole body
polite, from the petty municipalities up to the sum.
mlts OF The state. Legislation, which should ex-
press the best morality and wisdom OF the best men
III the Stale, has laen too largely into uncean
hands ana become perverted TO the uses OF per-
sonal aggrandizement Knavish rings and hired
and corrupt combinations In the lobby. The
civil administration OF the government Is full OF
| fraud bribery and peculation. 1t has come to
be almost putrd. Witness the recent developments
in New York both In the State and federal service.
And finally the Judicial departmenl-usually the
last fortress to 1all and fortunately IN our own
| State sui clean and above reprOach-has not
escaped the general contaglon: These impeach.
menis harsh, know. shall be glad If they are
| Where, now, Is the remedy for these evsP I
| answer:-ln u general burylng In general grave
league Of good men against every form or corrup-
tion both at the DOLLS where IL meets anu 1esters
aud In ONCE where It mepotlzes, lakes gifts ana
without which universal suffrage will become
deadly curse, and VIII prove here as 1t has already
| proved In France twice Over-a breeder of anarchy
and rapne In the first place, and then, as remedy
for these, of military rule and Bonapartism. by q
| government. 1t will be found, as a general thing
that free governments are corrupt IN the direct rat0
people decrease in corresponding ratio. And as
| involved In this--the restitution to the States
| those smaller and more primitive dem0cracies es-
| tablished by the fathers as barriers against
centralism-or their Just constitutional rights
| OF selfgovernment freed from every form
of dlslranonlsement for political offences,
| and so, by consequence. from plunderng
carpet-baggers In office, as well as from federal
interference at the polls, no matter whether in the
| shape OF Official patronage or custom house steal
ings or federal sodiery. by reformation OF our
excessive discriminating and inqulstorlal systems
of taxatOn, SO that they shall better promote the
economies OF the revenue and the Industries OF the
sn o to %
nectIon with this by resumption of specie pay
ments, abolshing that false pretence an lrredeem
n a IN nj N n " Ia nj
only a duty postponed without cause, and shame
to our public credit. but tends to debauch the NOR
Finally, by system OF purgation and civil SER
vice reform IN Its most comprehensive sense, en-
discovery and punishment. In u word by scourg-
ing out OF the places or public trust the Tweeds
ana Oh ra9S ad s na b every
The way out should be- as in the case OF Tweed,
with hue ana cry into the criminal courts, and not
embraces Of the Chief Executive.
Let parties and partisans perish II need be- but
let the the republic live
With these few words Of plain speaking accept
the nomination conferred, and commit my name 10
the fortunes OF the canvass.
am very respectfully, your obedient servant
Il. d. HUBBARD.
| The Iniiiative-The Democratic Organ In
| New Hampshire Speaks.
| From the Concord a. H)-democraric-Patrio
Feb. 1871
The democracy are ahead to-day; we have no
| shadow of doubt that If the election was to take
| place to-day Weston would be trlumphanty elected.
The question is, can we hold our present advantages
We think can, ana we snail do 1t If friends do
| the work they ought 10 do and can do We start
| with a decided advantage; we nave no drags upon
U.S. our opponents nave. We have a candidate
VINO the first choice of every man oil our party
| man in whose integrity every voter has entire
| confluence, aud whose fitness no one questions.
And then we have no Official iniquities to apologize
Tor, no national corruptions to gloss over We come
before the people literally with q clean bill OF
| health" asking their support OF measures and
present and future welfare imperatlveiy demands.
The radicals, ON the contrary, are weighted down,
locally and nationally; they nave candidate nomi-
| proportion Of their own party-one whose chief
qualification is his supposed ability to control and
bring TO his support the vast corporation power OF
the State. Thousands OF their party preferred
another man, and many OF them WIN not
national administration and all its admit
ted corruplons and rascalities. The people
see that every vote for Straw is vote for Grant
not only vote to endorse the iniquites and frauds
Of the past and present. but vote TO continue them
r M VIII G" be h eafg n
"a Grant victory' ana VIII insure his denomination.
| This fact alone Is enough to insure Straws defeat
II 1t Is properly placed before the peoples for 1t Is
apparent to all That thousands OF our opponents
opposed to Grants reelection and VIII do nothing
Hence we beleve that as the case stands to-day
We are ahead IN the race, and whether we MAINTAIN
tra,~ npon me eYnrs to he nnt fnrtn the vort IN
| be done in the next four weeks. Our friends know
what they have to encounter the army OF Office.
holders upon the stump and the larger
army of corruptionisls in every nook and
corner OF the fields the vast power OF
| Incorporated wealth. and the no less power
| full influence or national patronage. These must
be and by direct appeals to the patrl.
| otism ana personal welfare OF the people. The work
| TO be done is plainly pointed out; the pubic mind
must be kept upon the real questions at issue The
people that their own best interests require
a reform the administration Of public AFFAIRS and
that no reform can be obtained without change Of
men and of policy Ia the administrator OF the gov
| eminent. This great TACT must be kept constantly
| before them.
| The democratic organization in every town should
be perfected at once; that Is where we have failed
heretofore and That IS the great thing to DC looked
| to now. Where that Is completed, the victory Il
| half