The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-07
GOV. TILDEN.S LETTER.

The letters OF acceptance OF Gov. I'LL
DEN and Gov. HENDRICKS have been
enthusiastically endorsed by the leading
Democratic papers of the country, East
and West; candidly discussed and gen.
orally commended by the Independent
press; and the strong positions therein con-
( lined have not been reiuted by the Re-
publican journals. Below we attach ex-
tracts from several OF the ablest OF our
exchanges, which have come to hand,
commencing with the comments OF an
Independent paper with Republican
leanings:
SOUND, PRACTICAL AND POSITIVE.
Philadelphia Times-lndependent.
As all expected from Samuel j. Til
den, his letter is replete with rare good
sense and sound conclusions, and 1t Will
be difficult tor carplng criticism to find
good footho.d for its work. 1t is some
what circumlOcutory and stubbornly
mathematical in reaching its conclusions
on the financial issue, but men OF diverse
theories as to resumption will read is and
wonder why they find so little IN it to
dissent from. Both Tilden and Hem
bricks, although presumed to represent
antagonistic convictions on the Imam
cisl question, plod on smoothly
and pleasantly, each in his own way,
until they find themselves as two souls
with but single thought" on the yexa-
tious issue Of specie payments. They
started like wandering political apostles
at the broad mouth of .he Democratic
stream, where its waters are divided by
greer islands of hope and sterile rocks ot
discord; its banks separated invisibly
by distance, and the voices on either
shore unable to mingle with each other,
and they have both journeyed leisure
ly toward the fountain until the
narrowing stream familiarized them
with each others echoes, and finally
brought them hand in hand and face to
face at the fountain Of old-tlme Jackson
currency. Nor do they essentially diiier
ss TO the means they would employ TO
reach resumption. Both repudiste the
resump,iou act; both declare 1t hinder
ance TO specie payments, and the enemy
of restored prosperity without which re-
sumption is impossible, both proclaim Sc
we're re,renchment and economy ~ the
first step toward the equalization OF
currency and gold values, and both de-
precate precipt,ts or violent measures ="
force resumption before the country Is
fully prepared for it bv gradual and per-
msnent improvement IN our general pros
peri,y. They write from different planes,
from different impulses and for different
people-the one from the more calI uia-
ting financial policy of the East, and the
other from the outspoken prostration OF
the industry of the West; but they are
compelled to grsvitste to the same broad
and invulnerable basis Of resumption as
speedily as it can be attained without in
Jury to our already greatly suffering bus
iness interests.
On but q single other point does MIR.
Tiiden depart from the plsin lines OF the
5, Louis platform. His brief but CO.
gent argument in favor Of single Pres
identisl term is one of his happiest and
strongest declarations, and bears upon It's
face the impress of sincere conviction.
On the true relations OF the North and
South to each other he utters the views of
eyery patriot; on the question sof civil
service reform his positive and practical
pledges contrast sublinely with the high
sounding word-psinting of Governor
Hayes, and his concluding paragraph
which of itself would have made COM
plete and appropriate letter, hss the ring
of An earnest man, whose terse sentences
are inspired by an earnest purpose.
A rHoRouaHLY CHARACrEnsrIc ,DocU-
MENT.
Baltimore Sun-lndependent.
The letter OF Governor Tilden is q
document thoroughly characteristic OF
the man, and deals forcibly with the
leading questions Of the day. Nothing
could Be more pointedly set forth than
the argument he presents TO show the
necessity tor reform IN the civil eIpendi'
lures of the government, and the inti-
mate relation Of public economy with
| national prosperity. For the last eleven
years, be urgeA the government has
been consuming larger portion
of the national earn'ngs than