Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-08-10

know also, just as well as |, that, eUen
n0tD. n 1ndred thousand Democratic
pqtrto.s stand ready to hurl Themselves
upon the long desired booty.
Now, what do you lock for in this
particular from NJ. Tilden viii
he oppose this great and covetous
assault upon the booty, which is
coming not only from the North, bet
moro especially from the South, and
which will suspass everything which
up to this time our history can point
10 in this line ? Will he brave it,
and at the cost of his personal popu-
larity in his own party send back
homo the office-seekers, that he may
retain in office good men and remove
only bad ones? Allow me to tell
YOU, sir, that you do not believe this.
rhe carrying out Of such reform,
more than any other political task,
requires, first OF ali, an unseIfish and
undertaking devotion to purpose
that which is called "singlenesS of
purpose" tres dom from demagogic
bias and from the grasping after pop
ularity, contempt for all wire pull
ing and political machine manage
ment. Il it your opinion that Mr.
rilden corresponds to this picture
AS for myself, it is known to you
that mover, like certain other hide
pocden;s, placed tho name OF Tilden
beside that OF Bristow, that | might
recommend the candidacy OF the
former, in case the latter should nor
be nominated. While | acknowledge
the excellence Of some Of Mr. 'Filden's
actions, | notwithstanding could
mover, even in the most favorable
moments, feel quite easy and com
Portable in respect to the reform mis-
sion of man who had grown old IN
the peculiar school Of New York pol
itici.ns. and who had developed nlm-
self into u most perfect master OF the
political machine before he began his
reform work. And ] could not
refuse to listen to the opinion OF other
persons whose fairness ! could not
doubt. and who had known Mr.. Til
den longer and better than l-shall |
say whose opinion in the matter was
of especial weight with me? 1t was
your own. This would seem like an
unbecoming allusion to private con-
versatlon if you had not yourself given
Up to public possession your Judgment
Of Mr.. Tilden. Whoever read your
paper last winter aud spring had the
opportunity of seeing Mr.. Tilden,
when occasion offered, very forcibly
unmasked as ga demagogue and a
grasper after popularity" a man I'M
worthy of confidence, and an insult
abe candidate for the Presidency.
You even found fault with that part
of his annual message which had ref
erence to the financial question, as a
suspicious step backward,' adopted
as a means Of opening bargain with
western infationists in the National
Convention for the advancement of
private aims. You strongly suspected
even the business honesty of Mr.. Til
den, for you found 50 unsubstantlal his
published defense Of the complaints Of
en.beeslement Of large sums IN rdlt-
road bonds that you felt obliged to eX-
press your doubts about it in the
Stats Zeitung. To be just to you |
ought to add that your opinions OF
Mr.. Tilden spoken in private agreed
perfectly with those which you ex-
pressed in public, and both were UNI
questionably correct Such was your
Judgment in the matter, and you will
yourself find rather laughabe, after all
this, your complaints that 81 am
trampling my convictions under foot,
because | prefer to Mr.. Tilden as
reform candidate another man who Is
mot a demagogue and popularity
seeker" and whose motives and char
acter are universally recognized as
elevated high above all suspicion.
Now YOU will allow that, in accord
ance with your own openly expressed
opinions. Mr.. Iflden is not the man Of
fdeEjtu to c0nuiction and unselfish de-
votion who, as President, will surely
turn aside the assault upon tie spoils
If any danger to the party peace or to
his personal popularity is thereby in
cured. Perhaps in his letter of &C
ceptance he will make the same prom
Uses, but out of respect for your own
estimate Of Mr.. Tilden, you must not
be surprised if | place greater reliance
on those of Mr.. Hayes.
1t is scarcely necessary for me to
speak at length of other reasons which
make a triumph of the Democratic
party undesirable | refer among
other things, to the strength which it
would give to the ultramontane ele-
ment, aud to the false hopes which it
would arouse in the lawless members
of Southern communities, giving a
fresh impulse to the commission Of
those excuses which make US shud-
der, and for which the better part OF
our Southern people have as great
horror as we
will hazard a prophecy as to what
| the future has in store for us. |
should not dare to promise the people
an ideal political situation if Mr..
Hayes be elected but as regards the
three points which the
address of the May conference touch
ed upon, the following appears to me
as sure as anything one can ever
count upon in the future: ID The
application of the whole constitutional
power of the Executive to secure a
prompt resumption of specie pay
ments, and apparently an agreeable
majority in Congress. CD A weed
ing out of bad officers, and conse-
quent carrying through of his pro-
gramme of civil service reform on the
part of the President, as far as his
constitutional powers will permit him.
The employment in the public service
of not one more party agent. The alb.
clifton of the booty system. Opposi-
ton TO these reforms on the part of
the booty politicians in Congress
The overthrow of this opposition at
the next Congressional elections. 80
An inic ligent execution OF the laws,