The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-11
4 Trading REPUBLICAN DECLARES ID
FOR TIlDEA AND Hendricks.
A STRONG LETTER.
The issues Clearly Deflueti.

Of this city. Il It speaks for itself, and needs
no laudation. 1t gives excellent reasons
why everybody should rally to the standard
Of Tiiden and Hendricks 50 " ~. ,..,s' !.
RICHMOND, Va, August s, 1876. !.
Editors Dispatch: Allow me, as briefly
as possible, to answer through. your columns
the numerous inquiries which have and
am daily receiving as to my position IN the
pending presidential canvass. =. go
Once, for oil, 1 say that l shall yield my
cordial support to the nominees OF the 81,
Louis Convention. AS q Pir9tnsan IN lS!2
I supported President Giant rs opposed 70
Horace Greeley. AS an american citizen
shall now support Tilden. and Hendrlcks;
NV reasons are cogent, and will be adopted
bv very many Republicans North ana
South. II care very little for party names.
1st.. Let Us see what was the predicalheht
Of the American people when; the respec-
tive parties met in convention. congress
was in session, and had been for ssevera.ii
months There was one common mati
where over the whole country.
The people, without respect to party,
we're everywhere writing under the
most appalling difficulties. In every sec
tion. in every industrial department., the
lethargic pail OF death and decay was felt,
seen. and recognized. The interests OF all,
the business OF each citizen, were more or
less,s paraIyZed; commerce was crippled;
manufactures tagged; agriculture dropped;
labor was improbable; trade-domestica and
Observation-Disclosures credit was destroyed !;
the merchant without hope; the farmer ana
planter without energy; the inecnanlc I'M
employed; labor improbable. There WAS
no yitality-nO recupcratlve power any
where. The people were without hope-ln
desnair-full of apprehensions their means
nj subsistence nearly exhausted. They were
denletcd bv enormous taxation. The Fcde-
raj tax-gatherer consumed their all, indi-
rectly, while their agent-the Federal Gou-
er1saent-was accommodating and locking
ND in its vaults millions in gold, silver, and
currency.
This state of things had arrested the Mt
tcntion, awakened the apprehension, ana
aroused the fears OF the people. WAS there
no remedy? Was there no balm in Glllead--
no physician there2 A remedy must DE
had or there would be 4 feyulsion.
I'd. Under this state OF things the two
conventions met. Let us consider ana estl-
mate their respective elements, as also their
composition. Tho best intcllects OF the
country were present in each convention.
The Cincinnati Convention seemed to have
been composed mainly OF ofBcc-holders.
They were fresh from their desks or avoca-
tions, but not fresh from the people. In its
deliberations we find men and not principles
the chief object. 10 defeat Mr.. Blaine by
any bodv-by any combination-tcdS the
first object. MIR. Blaine was to be defeated
at all hazards. The combination was man
aeed by Il member of the Presidents cab1-
net, acho acuS appointed for the purpose.
Indeed, President Grant headed the OPPOSE
ton to Blaine. He used every argument,
arti1ce, and means to defeat him. The neC
Secretary of War was in the Convention,
resorting to every appliance to defeat him.
The combination succeeded in nominating
Mr.. Haycs-one of the weakest men named
in the Convention-and then only by small
majority. Under these circumstances Mr..
HAYES must be considered an administration
nominee. AS such object to him. l de-
nouncc the whole proceeding as. anti-repuh-
lican, dangerous. and obnoxious. 1t was II
bold and daring attempt OF the President to
usurp the functions Of the Convention and
defeat the American people i'll their choice,
and merits the severe rebuke Of every Re
publican. ~.
How different was the composition OF the
st. Louis Convention. 1t was not properly
Democratic Convention, so to speak. 1t
was composed Of old-lme Wings as well
as old-linc Democrats who went to ST..
Louis to work for the reform and re-
modelling of the Federal Government.
The two-thlrds rule was established.
Under it Mr.. Tilden was nominated on the
second ballot. Mr.. Hendricks had no OPP
position. So we see that Mr.. Tilden was
chosen by t,ro thirds, while Mr.. Hayes was
barely chosen by small majority. What
if such illterferenccs are to be allowed by
the Chief Executive? The liberty Of free
opinion is gone. .l.E .r..sy.r..F .1.E
Sd. Let us now compare the respective
platforms We shall easily discern marked
difference IN every essential and funda-
mental principle. And this, too, Us well
to measures proposed as to the fundamental
principles which are. announced, by which
each party will be regulated in the admin
istration Of the Federal Government. :: 4
In the Cincinnati platform we detect the
platitudes OF the Bringing demagogue. In
tie St. Louis platform We readily discern
the declaration of men in earnest-men
fully aroused to the exigencies OF the occa-
sion., Men who were masters OF the, stu
alton, who had discarded all, mere make
shifts and temporising expedients. q; Men
who Were met in national, council to meet
the demands OF, the people and aaaSeeeri the
calls OF their, country in her ertrsmei hour of
Tie CRY %t Of Reform had gone forth III; It
echoed the dire necessities Of a, people in
despair7--a nation PROSTATE, in humiliation,
This cry, they, felt, was not, to, be, put
off,. it called for, an unmistakable, answer:
governmental desuetude stared in, the,
face a nation on the eve. of moral,
bankruptcy-party decrepitude eneryated
the sinews OF Government, and paralyzed
theif energies. Of the people, "A galvanic
shock was needed, and was given. 1t came
in the precise mode it was most needed: lit
is the platform, of this Contention. Il There
is no. }misconcepti0n, no lodging, NO eva.
sion,! mo double meaning. Each issue is;
distinctive, ieachsremedy isolated, each pro-
position emphatitally stated. 1: No man can
he deceived. Each word, each sentence,
and the whole, is summed up, and ring in
tones not to be silencedS: Reform, Reform
eyerywhere-from the Executive down.
The measures needed are given, andare par
aLel with the reform proposed. Frauds are
denounced and the remedy named! Official
corruption, deficiencies are specified, and
means of efectual trelisf designated! y In
word, the Republican platform promises
much, butt guarantees nothing. The Dem
cratic platform INDUCES in'no party plati-
tudes; but boldly dissects the:decaying body
polite; detects the gangrene, and instantly
proceeds to cdutefize. - Its postulates are
as bold rs they are eminently tudicious and
wisely practicable. :, The currency and cor
ruption questions are squarety nnef. ~
4th. Now, as to the men and the letters of
acceptance. Mr.. HnyesJ in his letter, writes
xx,;@f, tho. OF mn pliahad