The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-05-26
BRIsTow, GRANT AND TILDEN.

The raids made by Secretary BrlstoW
upon the whisky rings and Grants
Federal revenue thieves are creating
great CONSERVATION among the third
term advocates. Such men as Ben
Butler, Sailor Robson, Father Delano
and Boss Shepherd are attempting to
make light of Bristow's course, and
affect to believe that the Government
will be loser by the operation. When
they find that the Conservative and OPP
position press and people are unanim-
Gus in their praise of the meritorious
acts of the Secretary in exposing the
corruption and frauds of the Admins
tration rings, they begin to raise the
cry of disloyalty, Kuklux and treason,
and try to break the force of the DANA,
ging exposures by charging the whole
scheme to be conspiracy against the
party in power for electioneering pur-
poses. These exposures and criminal
prosecutions made and instituted by
Bristow will have telling effect on the
next Presidential campaign. The
whisky rings and Treasury leeches have
mainly furnished the Grant party for
years with election funds. They will
now refuse to respond to party de-
mands, since they have been stabbed
in the back by their friends. They
will hold the party responsible for Bris-
lows honesty, and those who escape
the Penitentiary will retire to private
life to enjoy their ill-gotten gains, and
let the balance of the party fight its
own battles and advance it's own money
for the corruption of the ballot-box.
Ben Butler, however, the shrewdest
thief in America, takes courage from a
side view of the situation. He thinks
these exposures and prosecutions will
force the third-term nomination, as
Grant is the. only man who can Sc
cure the support of the prosecuted
thieves and their friends, who are al
most an irresistible power in elections,
and he claims that Grants nomination
has now become q party necessity.
But Benjamin is doomed to be disap-
pointed in the final result. The people
have formed fixed resolution that in
tegriiy and capacity shall hereafter be
prerequisites in candidate to secure
their support, and that the will of the
honest masses shall not be defeated by
the hoodlum element of party; but
Bristow, however much he deserves
praise, has forever accommodated
himself from his party SO long as its
control remains in the hands of its
present leaders, and he can hope for
no further preferment in that direction.
He is to-day, and undoubtedly will be
next year, the choice of the honest Re
publicans for President, but that ele-
ment will have no voice in the selec-
ton, and he will be laid on the shelf
for non-availability by reason of his
raids on the rings.
Governor Tilden, of New York, as
Democrat. occupies a commanding
position for the Presidency. The peo-
pie demand reform, and reform candi-
date they will have, and, rs such, he is
the most available in the United States.
His integrity and capacity comes up to
the Jeffersonian standard, and his
party will not stop to consider whether
he can secure the support of that ele-
ment which Bristow is prosecuting, for
by instinct and practice it is anthem
ocratic. We may then safely predict
that the two opposing candidates in
the next Presidential campaign will be
Grant and Tilden.
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