Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-07-07
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMLWA-
TIONS.

1t is not easy to give expression to the
intense feeling Of satisfaction, confidence,
and certainty of better things in the next
administration of the United states gov
eminent, that has taken possession of the
people of the country since the nomina-
ton of the Democratic candidates. We
do not speak of the immense mass meet
ings; the professions; the illuMinations of
whole cities. and those other evidences O.
popular enthusiasm over TILDEN and
HENDRICKS, which have taken place, for
these feelings may be things of day; but
we speak of that deep, underlined and I'm
deinable sense of approaching victory
that feeling that at last there is banner
and leaders worth following which per-
vades the Northern and Southern Democ-
racy. 1t is feeling that has two sources
One is the character ofehe candidate, who
looked at in the light of political history,
is lnvinclble. There has been no ticket v0-
ted for by this generation which has such ell
ements of success in it,; noAe that combin-
ed as much OF the courage of honesty; tn e
political wisdom of statesmanship. and the
broad, unsectional love of country. SAMUEL
j. TILDEN, the head of it, is man of rare
history and rare traits-such traits as come
to the people of America just in the nick
of time. No day in our history as a people
has so needed Reformer. In the matter
of honest government the Union is. almost
an drticul0 naortis. Thieves both reign and
serve; corrupt men both make and execute
the laws. From the highest politician at
the North, who went into the Republican
party on bold political venture, down to
the humblest scallawag of the South, who
makes it his refuge from pecuniary want,
they have made common cause against the
people, whose substance, with a common
rapacity, they have plundered and wasted
Such has been the audacity of their success
that they have taken Reform by the throat
when it appeared within their own ranks
BRIsTOW, the only good that in fifteen
years has come out of this shrinking Naza-
reth, was strangled at Cincinnati, and his
cup-bearer and chief assistant in terreting
out thieves, was last week dismissed from
office on the demand Of President GRANT
himself. This being the drift wood, we
may know something of the depth and ex-
tent of the flood. To meet such an emer-
gency as this, there was but one man in the
nation upon whom the public mind Gould
centre. In the Republican party the bet
ter class saw in Secretary BRIsTow rem
edy, but the strong and dirty hand of the
administration pushed him back and drag
<rod ard in nd no
they have but one man to look to, and that
one is SAMUEL. TILDEN, who is presented
to the country in its dire necessity as the
gift of the Democracy. He is above all
other public men the man for Che occasion.
Sixty years of age, his life has passed with
out suspicion Of his integrity. Po-
litically great, every step forward he
has made, has been. by blow at
some great wrong, which has scattered it
to the winds. A contestant entering for
a race, he has the prestige Of never having
been defeated. No odds have ever intim-
dated him and so deadly sure has been his
success to his enemies that it is a saying in
New York State that s'if Tilde4 gets the
nomination he has gotten the ofice.'' So
ing into political campaign he goes with
the reputation of being the most astute po-
litical organizer that ever lived in .4meri-
can politics. No amount OF political or
ganization on the other side has ever
checked him. His two greatest fights have
been made uader circumstances that would |
have discouraged any other man. When
lie whipped the corrupt. TWEED ring in
New York city he had to fight whole
State of corrupt Democrats and Republi-
cans, and not only gained the victory but
landed the leaders in the State pris o.
When he whipped the corrupt canal ring I
in New York it was against such trenen-
dous odds that nobody expected him to win,
but he showed himself master Of politi-
cal organization and statesman of. nl-
finching courage and captured the whole
sieId. All the corruption he has fought
and destroyed has either had its root r it's
branches in his own party. but he never
stopped till he cut it up both root and !