Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-08-04
Tho Spectre Of Defeat.

The New York Herald, which is
supporting the Democratic national
ticket with all its might, is neverthe-
less not hopeful of the situation as it
stands to-day. 1t sees the menace of
defeat for "Tilden and reform" in the
aspects of the canvass and the atti-
tude- of the parties, and it does not
hesitate to prophesy that with an
other month of such management in
the Democratic party as we have had
since the adjournment of the Conven-
ton the canvass of Tilden will be
overwhelmed with tempest of ridi-
Guile as disastrous as that which des-
troyed the canvass of Greeley and
Brown"
After declaring that "there is a
good deal of champagne drinking at
the Manhattan Club in honor of
Uncle Sammy and Dorsheimer is
reported in beaming mood full of
victory and Morrissey is betting
right and left on the reform success"
and similar demonstrations, it goes
on to say:
"Ever since the nomination of
Hayes the Republicans have been
closing up their ranks, healing differ
ences, perfecting their discipline
Every wing of the party has been
strengthened, assigned its place, and
this powerful and victorious organi-
zation goes into battle with steady
column. But how is it with the
Democrat party?
\ The delay in writing a let
ter of acceptance has injured the
Governor. 1t has given rise to a
hundred impressions, more especially
as we learn that Mr.. Hendricks has
arrived in Saratoga on second
mission In Iowa a leading Demo.
cratic politician has declared for
Hayes in telling speech. In Ohio
the Cincinnati Commercial, which
supported Greeley, and whose editor
was expected to support Tilden, comes
out tor Hayes. The Western Demo-
cratic papers, more especially the
Cincinnati Enquirer, do not treat
the nomination as serious. In the
South there is an uneasy movement,
aud good observers think North Car
DINA will swing away from Demo-
cratic allegiance.
"No sooner is Tilden nominated
than his Southern friends must ar
range massacre in South Carolina
which arouses at once the old war
feeling of the North-a massacre so
atrocious as to call down the denun-
citation Of Southern men like Lamar.
Republicans and conservative men
ask, If this is what we see in the
green tree what shall we see in the
dry? Then, instead of giving Tilden
a safe, sensible colleague for Vice
President-such a man as Wheeler,
who would at once fall into place
and do yeoman's service, the Con-
vention gives him a pretentious, in
tlated, mischicvous politician, whose
whole course is so injurious to the
canvass as to lead to the inquiry
whether he really desires the cleo
ton of Tilden or Hayes. We ven
turc the assertion that Governor Til
den is weaker to-day by a hundred
thousand votes than when he was
nominated, and solely because of Mr..
Hendricks. The behavior of Hen
bricks has aroused the suspicious of
the country. The people fear it Is to
be Seymour and Blair over again;
that Hendricks is fighting for terms;
that he will insist upon dividing pow
er in the new administration, and
not sink into the new insignificance
of the Vice Presidency. Mr.. Hen
bricks comes on the ticket as . mas
ter, as "power" that must be REQ
ognized. And when we look at the
power he represents we see that it
embodies the worst features of Bour-
neutrality-suspicious. in the West and
revolution IN the South. We see a
party which, since the surrender of
Lee, have been striving to undo the
results of the war. 1t is the party of
initiation, of unlimited greenbacks,
whose record recalls to every sol
der all that was meant by the ex-
pressive word "copperheadism'' du-
ring the war. This sentiment in the
West more especially in the North
west, is making itself felt every hour
and to the damage of Tilden.
Then, as if to crown all, at a time
when the policy of Tilden's friends
was to win that Republican element
which breads Grantism, the ablest
and most earnest friend of Tilden N
the press must pronounce against all
civil service reform. This came, too,
at the time when Hayes had electriti-
ed the country by his letter in favor
Of that reform. The effect of this
was to throw the whole conservative
element of the Republican party at
once into the Hayes ranks. Civil
service reform, like the one term, is
a cardinal point in the canvass. 1t
is a reform dear to the best sentiment
of the country--to all thoughtful,
honest men, who see In the maxim
that to the victor belongs the spoils,
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