Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-09

majority. The full vote Is not yet
ascertained but sufficient is known 10
show any Democrat, however san
guine he may he, how the election
will terminate in November. Mr..
Tilden ought to be a wise man, for
here is such information as is partic-
ularly necessary for him to study
now, that the shock may not be as
great as il was to the last Democratic
candidate for that high office.
Without doubt we have entered up
on one of the fercest and most heat
ed political campaigns this country
ever knew. The Democrats are
bound to win. They are determined
to carry the South entire, no matter
by what means. In many of those
States Republicans will not be allow
ed to vote. The old slave system
has taught them to have no respect
for life. The manner in which the
southern Democratic journals gloss
over and justify the Hamburg slaugh-
ter is sufficient evidence, and is only
an exponent Of the same power that
used to hunt slaves with blood hounds
and that is now determined, notwith-
standing constitutional amendments
to reduce the black men as near as
may be to the same old level. A
few of the milder Democrats and
those that favor justice to the blacks,
believing that they are men, denounce
and exceedingly regret these slaugh-
tiers as matter, of principle, and
also of policy, for these things de-
velop the exact status of the South
without any disguise. Each party is
in the field with q full declaration of
principles, and men to represent them.
In all political conquests, the man is
taken as an exponent of the princi-
pies and platform of the party, and
the canvass is turned into a man
fight. The whole life Of the NOM
inees is spread out before the people,
letters, documents, books, dealings,
all are ransacked to bring out the true
status Of the man. In one way this
is well. 1t will teach public men to
be careful of their record. 1t will
teach parties to select honest, up
right men and no others. The acts
Of the present nominees are being
thoroughly canvassed.
The Tilden record thus far shown
is not what honest Democrats expect
ed, and by the way of their apers
and speakers, he was denounced be-
fore the Cincinnati convention, and
has been most numerically since. 1t
is shown that his immense fortune
amounting to millions, We're not the
honest earnings of his profession, but
were the results of cunning and fraud.
Cheating railroad companies has been
his favorite game, and he has been
very successful in it. In the year
1862 he swore before the United
States Commissioner, that his entire
income was but S7,400. While the
books of the T. H. A, & 81. L. R. r.
Company show that during the year
he received a fee of $4,000 from
that company, and this sum was in
addition to his other fees and income,
and this was but half the fee paid
him by that company. Here perjury
most willCul is proven against him,
and in no year has he paid a 1.-THE of
the income tax that is proven that he
ought to have paid. 1t is true that
the nominees of the Democratic par
ty were voiceless when the great re-
bellion arose to break down and de-
stroy our nation, Tilden refusing to
sign a call for union meeting in N.
7. to stay up the hands of govern
ment, but on the other hand was
sympathizing with, and trying to aid
the rebels. And the same rebels are
now his walmest supporters, and
placed him in nomination. And this
would be reformcr had to sacrifice all
his protested principles and bend to
the platform and dictates of the par
ty. On the other hand the Demo-
Gratis have picked and searched the
life Of Hayes, and they have nc spirit
left in them. His record is clean,
firm, honest, Independent, straight
forward, and in the same manly in
dependence he will "walk in the
course in November"
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