Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-09-30
sTRAws WHICH SHOW THE DIRECTION
Of THE WIND.

sTRAws WHICH SHOW THE DIREcTIO!
OF THE WIND.
Below we give our readers extract
from papers and letters of prominen
Independents who have heretofor
acted with the Republican party:
The Springfield Republican says:
Messrs. Hayes and Wheeler are in
debted for their good fortune-if it i
good fortune to two things. Person
ally all that is upright and amiable
they have not made themselves often
sive to the honest men of the country
and they have done nothing to earn tn
i'll will and dread of the thieves"
Charles Francis Adams says:
"With Mr.. Tilden and this platform
the Democratic party stands better
morally, before the people, than doe'
the Republican party. Hayes is moth
ing; respectable, no doubt, but with
out any record as refo,.ner. Tilde1
is in himself platform. He has made
his record. OF the two I would inf
nitely prefer to see Mr.. Tilden in the
executive chair. Governor Tilden viii
secure the support of the opponents o1
corruption who desire to see the real
work accomplished. Tilden's
war record, is good one. He is all
right there. As President, Mr.. Tilden
would sweep away corrupt men and
abuses"
What Parke Goodwin says:
"The man is the platform. And the
Ring breaker of New York will prove
the Ring breaker of the Nation. ALI
who really desire honest money, dimin-
ished taxes, pure administration, unfet-
tered trade, and the restoration of a true
national feeling in the place of a
wretched sectionalism, will rally to his
support"
An extract from letter from j. B.
Stallo, q prominent and influential
German of Ohio:
Mr.. Tilden has been nominated as
the representative of reform. I am sure
l am not behind anyone in recognizing
the necessity of reform, and I believe
that Governor Tilden truly and worth
lily represents it. I believe this, not by
reason of anything that be has said, or
that has been said of him. But the re-
form of our public life is task to which
the power of any one man is unequal.
If we are to have reform, it must come,
not from one single individual, nor
from one party, but from our whole peo-
pie, or at least from the whole body of
voters
Extract from speech of Hon. E. F..
Hassaurek, the former editor of Carl
Schurz's paper, at Cincinnati:
"The Republican party drives its
ring-breakers out OF the Cabinet, and
defeats them in its conventions, but
you have had the good sense and the
pluck to nominate your ring breaker for
the Presidency. If Mr.. Tilden will do
in the Government of the United
States what he has done in the State of
New York, I solemnly undertake to
say that the people will never enter into
metaphysical investigation whether
his motive was simply, purely, and ex-
clusively the promotion of the public
welfare, or whether he also also had
in view the fame, reputation and glory
of Samuel j. Tilden. If what he has
done was done for effect merely, let us
have the man who will do these thin gs
for effect. 1t is the very kind of man
we want in the Presidential chair. *
X x I carry no mans vote in my
pocket but my own. But that individ-
ual vote shall be cast in undying opposi-
ton to the paternal Or interference
theory of and, consequently,
at the approaching election it shall be
cast for individual liberty, unfettered
industry, unshackled commerce, free
trade, hard money, and S. j. Tilden. -
The founder of the Republican party,
T. A. Bird, of Massachusetts, endorses
Tilden in a letter to the ratification
meeting held at Boston, as follows:
Mr.. Tilden's nomination discourages
any of the rings which have made this
Administration Infamous. They clinch
their whole argument with the follow
ing: The man to be intrusted with
the Presidency this year, must have de-
served not only the confidence of honest
men, but also the fear and hatred of
thieves. He who manages to cultivate
the thieves cannot be the candidate
for honest men. Every American citi-
zen who has the future of the republic
and the national honor seriously at
heart, should solemnly resolve that the
country must now have a President
whose name is already q watchword of
reform; whose capacity and courage for
the work are matters of record rather
than of PROMISE" etc. This perfectly
fits Mr.. Tilden.
The Hon. Gustav Koerner, ex-Gov-
ernor of Illinois, publishes in Ster7. dies
Westens of Belleville, letter of which
the following is translation:
The moment has arrived for the Lib
eral Republicans to come to a decision
in regard to the Presidential election
When this address was made public
the whole country said: "1t means
'Bristow or Tilden.'" In the conference
itself Adams declared himself first in
favor of Bristow, then in favor of Til
den, and his words in the conference
were received with great applause.
True to these articles OF faith, and
not accustomed to depart from course
once adopted (without bitterness to-
ward those who made different choice)
we place on our stardard the name OF
Tilden, the watchword of reform, who,
as the conference says, deserves not
only the confidence of honest men. but
also the fear and hatred of thieves"
The following extracts are from the
letter of the Hon. Charles Goepp, Judge
of the Marine Court of New York.
dated July 1, 1876:
d. j. Dittenhofer, President Of the Ger.
nan-Republican Central Committee Q,
NelC York:
DEAR SIR.-Please accept my resigna'