The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-09-21
From the Erie Dispatch.
The Prospects for ridden.

Democrats carried six states and their
candidates secured sixty-six electoral
votes. AT that election the Democrats |
were reinforced by the Liberal vote of
the Union, and their candidates were
urged upon the people by some of the
very best and ablest journals in the
entire country. Among those journals
were the Springfield Republican, New
York Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Gin
cinnati Commercial, and Carl
Schurz's journal, the JVcsttichc Post,
of st. Louis. These wore perhaps
tenth part of the able Independent
daily papers which felt ca led upon to
support Greeley and Brown, while
their weekly organs were numbered
by hundreds. The Democracy, con
sidered by itself, was fairly united
and well organized, and yet, with the
entire Liberal element in addition, it
failed to get more than the ludicrously
mcager share of states which we re-
cord above.
lloN tllt tClllOtlutS Cttil tottilt uDOll
as heavy vote this year as they
polled in 1872, we do not see. TO claim
the possibility of Il Democratic victory
is too absurd for discussion, except it
may be, to enlighten the minds OF the
henightcd hoodlums who swallow the
brag of Democratic stump orators
without discovering its nauseating
falsity. In the ranks of the Demo-
cracy there is to-day much more dis
cusson than in 1872. The rag baby
has wrought fearful havoc among the
solid Northern Democrats, as is
evinced by the strong condemnation of
| ton, while the war record of Hend-
ricks and the taX-perjuries of Tilden
| disgust every honest and patriotic
man. The Liberals have left the
Democratic camp and come over in
body to Hayes. Every one of the Lib
eral journals mentioned above is
strongly advocating the claims of the
Republican candidates. And these
papers really constitute the Liberal
party. On their subscription lists can
be found nine-tenths of the Indepen-
dents of our country, and all the in
tiuence they can exert and all the
votes they can poll will be given for
Hayes and Wheeler.
The Liberals, who alone made the
Democratic vote of 1872 respectable in
size cannot vote for Tilden and Hend-
ricks because those candidates repudi-
ate the hard money doctrines which
are the cardinal points of the Liberal
faith. Civil Service Reform, which
was so vehementlp insisted upon by
the earliest conventions of the Liberal
party and by its late Fifth Avenue
conference, would under the Presi-
dency of Tildcn, amount to nothing
but indiscriminate dismissal of all the
present employees of the government
and the installation of an army of
hungry and needy adventures who
know nothing of department work
and care for nothing but the pay they
would draw. The majority Of these
aspirants to place under Democratic
administration are rabid disunionists
and eX-rebels from the South. The
Southern wing of the Democratic
party is the strongest and can enforce
every demand for patronage which it
might choose to make, as was proved
by the wholesale importation of its
parasites into the House of Represent
tives last winter. The cause of adj
ministrative reform would not recover
in Il score of years from such change
as Democrtic administration would
make within thirty days of its in
auguration. True reformers see this
and vote for the party which proposes
not Il general and entire change in
the civil service but only such change
as pure and economical administra-
ton may render necessary.
There are reasons enough why Lib,
erals will never support Tilden and
Aendricks and proof enough that they
are working with will tor Hayes and
Wheeler. If the Democrats carried
six states in 1872 with the assistance
of the entire Liberal element of the
Union, what are they likely to get in
1876 when not a respectable sprink
ling of their quondam allies can be
found working or voting with them.
The loss of the Liberal element, large
as it was, did not suffice to defeat ol
discourage the Republican party in
1872. This year the Democrats are al.
ready discouraged by the return of this
element to the Republican fold and by
the well-established fact that the
Cooper Carey -Greenback movement
draws off two of their voters to one
Republican, and their defeat is already
plainly seen i'll handwriting on the
the wall.
The Philadelphia Typographical Unior
has agreed to reduction of ten per cent
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