The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-08-10
The Happy Family.


The Baltimore american congresses the diff
1iculties and advertisements which surround
the Democratic ticket. into the following par
agrapli. All the indications point to Il disso
luton of the partnership between the hard
money and rag baby democrats. The bolt in
Indiana from Tilt! II to Cooper, of twenty
newspapers, and the signs that in Missouri and
Kansas the same influences are ut work, argue
very forcibly that there is confusion in the
camp. The american says:
Meanwhile neither T;lden nor Hendricks has
written IL letter of acceptance OF the nominal
tions conferred upon them at st. Louis, al
though II month has passed since the COnvcn-
ton labored and perspred in the sweitcr
inc heat on the shores OF the Mississippi, and
there are portentoEs rlmors III the air. We
hear that Tilden will decline the nomination if
the House of Representatives repeats the Re
sumption act that Hendricks will refuse to
serve if it does not pass repeating act; that
she head of the ticket wants to shake OFT the
tail: that Mr. Hendricks labors under the delu-
sion tlaJ he must dictate the party policy on
the financial question. and that MIR. Tilden
should Weld to him and the demands OF the
St, Louis platform; and that if he does not the
Western statesman will reject the honor Of the
Vice Presidential nomination. There is hustle,
intrigue confusion and discord i'll the Demo-
cratic camp. Mr.. Hendricks has rushed to
Saratoga twice in the last two weeks from his
indiana home, and lie is there now to hold con-
ference once more with Mr.. Tilden, with the
presumable object of healing their differences
and uniting upon some common ground The
New York Herald seriously intimates that
'Iilden is OH the eve OF retiring, and that II he
does not Mr.. Hendricks must. The conplc;t-
ton is amusing to people who are able to look
at it disinterestedly. Mr.. Nast's picture Of the
Democratic tiger with Il head at each end,
looking in opposite ways, and the body eN-
tremely thin on account OF the strain, Is lot at
ali an exaggeration i'll view of the fact OF the
situation. There have been disputes before
now between two nominees Oh a Presidential
ticket, but never one that amounted to tile dig
ntv and importance of thls-T dignity can be
employed in describing such ludricous condi-
ton of affairs. There may be Democrats so
fatuous rs not to perceive that all this hesltan-
CIV and bungling is working to the disad
taee of whatever chances Of success they may
have but it is not possible that the keen-sight-
ed politicians of the party should not be deci
dedly alarmed. 1t is not a promising sightifor
Il party to go into campaign with difference
of views on Il grave issue between its leading
nominees that it requires more than thirty
DAYS to heal, even if it is healed at all, which
at this writing is somewhat doubtful. The
outcome of Mr.. Hendricks latest GRAND to
Saratoga is still unrevealed, but the moral ef-
feet Of the delay upon the voters OF the coun-
Try is already fixed and will make itself felt us
the canvass progresses.
Robert Lincoln, a son of ''Old Abe" has
repudiated Hayes and come out for Tilden and