The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-07-17
Our .on the wing Letter.
MrpDLxroRr, b., July 7.


MrDDLvroRT, b., July7.
Editors lnteilgeneer
In communication 10 the lNTELLI-
GESCER, some weeks ago, predicted that
Rutherford B. Hayes would be the nom
inee Of the Cincinnati Convention. Per-
haps you are prepared to admit that |
am something Of prophet. ! will now
venture another prediction-that Hayes
will be the next President Of the United
States by a majority large enough, as Bill
Yoncey said, to be respectable. That be
will carry the State OF Ohio
BY FIFTY THOUSAND,
though others who seem to thoroughly
comprehend the situation claim for him
majority Of one hundred and fifty
thousand. That there is a hostility, par
ticularly in Ohio, 10 the st. Louis nom
inee cannot be disguised even by the
seeming aifectation Of enthusiastic ratiti'
cations. Thurman was the man the Ohio
delegation wanted, there was no swapp-
ing 0f horses with them and they do not
consider themselves In anywise par
ties 10 the trade. They now de-
clare Themselves in favor OF Hayes.
Indeed my observation is that such is the
feeling strongly predominant, that the
ST, Louis Convention could have done
nothing worse than the nomination OF
Tilden, nothing better calculated 10 In"
sure, the defeat and destruction Of the
Democratic party.
Kelly, OF New YORK, comprehended the
situation when he told the Convention
that the nomination Of Tilden meant dis
ruption and defeat, and that
DEFEAT MEANT AHEIHnA1IoN
OF the party as an element in national
politics, He has since, however, been
heard to say that possibly they might pull
him through New York.
1t was 10 have been hoped that the
Democratic party, protiting by the Ne.
publican example at Cincinnati, would
have followed suit with nominee as near
spotleSs as possible, in order that the
country mightonce more witness cam
paign conducted upon the higheat princi-
Piles Of honor, and evinced q .determina-
ton 10, secure 10 the country in any
event an administration oi public affairs
worthy Of the initiation OF the second
Centennial. Not SO, however, for the
Democratic party has thrust forward a
man for the highest Office in the nation
LOADED DOWN WITH SUSPICION
as to the purity Of his motives even in
the interest Of reform, for every one
knows that the great "ring smasher." as
| he Is called, in the initiation and prog.
ress Of the great Tweed steal is more than
suspected Of having profted thereby
The gauzy film OF reform Is too thin to
cover the nakedness Of the Democratic
party. II is the trick Of the simple o.:
trici covering It's head in asmall tuft OF
grass and imagining itself safe from pur-
suit, while its huge body stilted upon
ungainly legs,'is the most,pslpable object
| in all the horizon. Tilden's small, dried
and shriyelled body is too small 10 hide
the incongruous history ofthe Democrat
ic party in It's relation &c, reforms Of any
kind.
All the people are in favorof
HONEST ADMINISTRATION
OF the Government. II they were moi
the presidential race would be but q
walk over the course for the. Democratic
party. ...
The financial question which has beer
dragged in and attempted to be made Z
principal feature in the Democratic plat
form is nothing, the records OF the par
ties nominated embody the distinguishing
features Of the present contest and the re
cord Of the Democratic nominees Is mo-
such on. that or any other question inyolv
ed in the history Of the country sinc'
1861, aS to inspire the confidence of. tht
patton in the honest intent Of that party
to abide by the result Of the contest
which enables us 10 commemorate tht
hundredth anniversary OF American ma
tionality. Here again I venture another
prediction-the Democratic party undel
that name
! WILL NEVER AGAIN
obtain asccndency in this country. The
late Vallandingham knew what he wa
doing when he went in pursuit OF q new
name for the party. The name for year.
has been ana sui IA stencil In th(
nostfils Of the people. The name ant
| the odious institution Of which It was thu
synonym for almost a century SHOULD
have been buried In one common sepul
ehre. In short, q party, the distinctive
feature Of whose history has been the at
tempted destruction Of free government
with view Of erecting on the ruin
thereof an oliarchy, the corner stone o
which was to te human slavery, canno
now nor ever succeed to supreme
CONTROL in this country. They may fol
years continue to periodically rally
with some show Of strength, but only L
be repulsGd with greater slaughter, to b.
rejected
WITH MORE SIGNIFICANT EMPHAsIs.
While my hand is in. Ixlll add another
prediction, which Ia that the elections o
Ithe coming fall will materially reduce
liz they do not annihilate the Democrat,
majority in the lower House Of Congress
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