National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-10-26

away and grow beautifully dim and
indistinct. The New York Herald of Sat
urday, for instance, in an editorial on the
subject sees some shadows on the Demo-
cratic canvass in that State, which presage
anything but good omen for Mr.. Tilden.
1t says: "Another shadow falls upon Mr..
"Tilden. II comes from the West where
"the Democratic sun has risen as the Re
"publicans expect it to set in the East. 1t
s'may be so, indeed, for the Democratic
Victory in Indiana and Ohio is darkened
land made repulsive wherever it was
"founded upon the delusive promises of the
Limitation party. The dread that the sue
"cess Of the Democracy generally might
"mean, in the end, the tinkering of>Con-
"gress with our financial law, and the de-
"struction of that wise policy which Gen.
"Grant proclaimed in his veto of the great
Imitation bill is one ofthe principal obstacles
"against which Mr.. Tilden has to contend.
"The Democratic party is suspected of
planning the issue of more irredeemable
"paper money, and their Western victories
care thought to have in part been won
"upon the basis of imitation. Mr.. Tilden
finds this shadow thrown across his fears.
''He has but one way to dispel it, and that
sis to boldly utter those words of fidelity
"to the financial principles Of his State,
the true principles of the whole country,
(Which his fellow citizens have right to
"demand, and which Gov. Dix, in his
"letter to President Grant, emphatically
Sustained"
When the President vetoed the initiation
bill last spring every Democratic paper in
the country, with the exception of one or
two in the West which had committed
themselves to initiation and reputation, de-
clared that he had not only saved the Re-
publican party and the honor of the
country, but that he had rendered greater
and more important service than even the
superb and unparalleled service of putting
an end to the rebellion and giving peace to
the republic. The New York World held
up to the reprobation of its party and of
the whole nation the dishonest Demo-
Gratis" in the House Of Representatives who
had voted for the bill, and called upon
their constituents to repudiate them this
fall. 1t fought the financial heresy with
great ability, and in so doing honored itself
and saved whatever of good name remained
to its party. Day after day it strove to
teach its party that all its traditions and
doctrines were in favor Of gold and against
rag money; that we never could have per-
manCnt prosperity until specie payments
were rNstored, and the working classes re-
ceived Gair days wages for a fair days
work. In thus seeking to correct the
blunders of some of the best men in its
party, and imlress them with sound finan-
Cial ideas, our New York coSemporary did
really noble and pgtriotica service, and did
much to atone for is errors and follies in
other days. But, in spite of all its labors,
the initiation serpent which it was thought
was strangled in the East revived in In
diana and Ohio this fall, and succeeded in
coiling itself around two of the fairest and
most enlightened States in thu Union. The
food of misfortune and evil which the
World predicted six months ago would
flow from initiation has risen to hgh-water
mark in those States, and almost hurst the
embankments which prevent it from
spreading over the whole country. But
the World is silent as the tomb. 1t has no
words of reprobation for its party now as
it had only brief few months ago. Nay, it
positively rejoices al the condition of af-
fairs, and at the hope the disastrous situa-
ton holds out to the party in its own and
neighboring States. In its present attitude
it has lost the confidence and respect it
then won and commanded, and convinced
every thinking man tlAt it is ready to pur-
chase victory at the cost of national dis
honor and suicide. If it were only half as
honest now as it was then a Democratic
victory in New York would be impossible
this fall; but it prefers to sacrifice its
country at tie shrine Of its party's success.
HoweveI, says the Herald, which has the
sagacity to discern how the current sets,
the masses of the people are not deceived
by is silence upon the subject it had so
mUch at heart or the specious pleas it is
Putting forth to aid its party in the coming
battle. They are beginning to see and IN
derstand the great national danger which
threatens every industry in the country as
well as the country itself from the initiation
and reputation victories of the Democracy.
And accordingly shadow falls upon Mr.
Tilden's canvass, and the triumph which
seemed in his grasp within the week al
ready begins to vanish into the air. The
working men, who feel how much paper
money has cost them during the last four
teen years, who compare 1874 with 1860,
are only all the more anxious to hasten the
coming Of the day that will diminish instead
of increasing its volume for the more it is
diminished the nearer we come to a sound
and stable currency. The merchant who
understands how his purchases and sales
are affected by rag money" shudders at
the thought of seeing the Treasury presses
again in operation grinding out national
promises to pay, which would be the newt
able result Of the accession to power of the
party whose chief glory in the past was
that it was opposed ever and always to an
irredeemable paper issue, whose chief dis
grace in the present is that it is in favor of
it. And so we have shadows upon Mr..
Tilden's canvass, and already we are be-
ginning to hear predictions of defeat. We
regret that the World is not with us now
as it was some months ago. In its fidelity
to its party it is guilty Of infdelity to its
country.
THIS WILL be an important day in the Epis-