The Portland daily press., 1876-11-06
Every man who hates the
Government will vote for TiIden,
Muster Of the RefOrmers.

Muster Of the RefOrmers.
The solemn hour of election is at band
and the 'sreforners" are mastering their
forces. 1t is pity they cannot be assembled
on some one spacious field, so that their per-
scnnet can be made apparent to the physical
eye. But they are visible to the minds eye,
and here is brief catalogue of some Of
their most eager and mettlesome forces COM
posing, indeed, the Tilden tenth legion.
First comes the ''sold South" the re-
organized Confederate army. Every hand
that carried rebel musket or brandshed
a rebel sword now carries and brandishes
with the old-time ferocty and arrogance a
Tilden vote. 1t is the design to try Gettys-
burg and Appomattox over again and to OBJ
tain reversal of the judgments there rem
dered if possible.
Then comes the greenback column led by
Hendricks. These reformers would reform
the state by administering the heroic remedy
of national bankruptcy. Their Gen. Butler
by some mistake or cunning scheme for our
modification trains with US, but he is doing
them more good and the Republicans more
harm hundred times than if he, too, like
another Gen. Butler we wot of, were propa-
eating reform among the freedmen at the
head of band of reform cutthroats and
murderers.
The reformers with scarlet decoration,
armed with shillalehs, make up the Popish
legion. Educational reform is what they are
bent on. They feel that the country is be-
ing ruined by secular education. The school
house must be purified by the infusion of a
good deal of their religion. The public mon
ey which is SO layishly spent in making
heretics and infdels must, part of it at
least, be diverted to the sacred purpose of in
culcating the dogmas of papal infallibiIity,
the real presence and the sound doctrines Of
the Pops's encyclicas. In no part OF the
reform ranks is discipline better preserved
than here, for the officers speak in the name
of God.
This noisy brigade, with red noses, yells
and curses, is the "solid' rum interest. Le-
gal and social reform is what these gallant
troops will have, and they will take no denial.
They are against sumptuary laws. They
feel in their inmost souls that such laws are
andemocratic. The pale and menacing spec
ter of Thomas Jefferson haunts them on ac-
count OF these laws, aud they hear the bones
of Andrew Jackson turning over and over in
his grave and rattlng most dismally every
time a reform rumseller pays his fine or re-
tires to the unwelcome seclusion of Jail.
They are to a man for Tilden and Reform.
Those alert and exceedingly garrulous gen.
tlemen belong to what is known asithe Cor.
pheus c. Kerr division. These are very
practical men indeed. Mere speculative re.
form little interests them. They desire to
take right hold and do the work themselves,
they are willing to leave their business and, if
necessary their cherished wives andlovely chill
dren for that purpose. The matter OF salaries
will first engage their attention in case of sue
cess. Not tLat they are too large particularly
some of them on the contrary, are clearly toe
small. But they are paid to the wrong per-
sons. They can hardly wait to reform this
crying evil. If permitted they would begin
tomorrow to set things right, and entirely
reconstruct the civil service by putting al
the good places into the right hands-theiI
own.
There comes somewhat unorganized ccm
pany-like the tail of the average Democratic
procession-of what may be termed general
reformers, made up of persons of great di
versity of character and genius, but al
of them in deadly earnest about
reform. A good many of them live
in New York city. John Morrissey il
one of them. Among other things they wan
to regulate municipal government, secure
full registration, proper discipline at the
primaries and vote large enough to counter
balance the rural districts. In their compa
ny may be seen most OF the swim
ders, blacklegs and gamblers of th'
country. One of them has beer
arrested in Philadelphia recently loadec
with bogus tax receipts. These gentlemen
are rema rkably "unanimous" and are always
ready to "bet' on reform, being careful 70
the sake of their families and orphan ward
to ''hedge" up to the full amount of thei
wagers.
The list grows long, but there may still b
mentioned the German metaphysicians who's
taste for the absolute and unlimited cause
them to see reform in the direction Of univer
sal, unlimited, Subjective beer,-bee
transferred from the cold, unsympathetic ant
objective non-ego to the warm and kindl
embrace Of the ego. That this is clear an
precise explanation of the position of tina
part Of the German voters who fight mi
Sigel but not NIT Schurz can, if demanded
be proved by copious citations from Spinoza
Hegel, Fichte, Kant, Schelling and Her
Diogenes Teufelsdrockh of Weissnichtwo.
1t would be extremely unjust to say or t
| think that all the Tilden reformers are er
rolled in some Of these companies. Such a
assertion would be clearly untrue. But le
these classes be Withdrawn from the Tide
organization, and where then would be it
head, its spinal column. its vital organs an
circulating fluids?
SINCE 1861 the Confederate Democrat
have been deprived of power by the will
Il hn Ayo