Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-10-26

certainty that any Democratic majority in
Congress will be controlled by the Oonfed-
crate element in it has startled the whole |
country with the evident danger of the sit
uation. Carl Schuiz, in his address at the |
Union League, in New York, on Saturday |
evening, referred to it as being, in his opin- |
ion real and serious, and now, finally, Mr.. |
Tilden sees that no escape is left him but |
TO declare that he would not be a party to |
paying such claims And yet, with all this
reality of danger, recognized by everybody,
even by Mr.. Tllden, EUery E0enSng sees fit
to regard the calling of attention to it
dishonest trick, used 'to scare the timid
and foolish" and then sapiently adds that
sit almost seems" that the Republican man
ayers will stop at "no desperate and dan
gerous falsehood," in their efforts to elect
their candidates
Aud this Is from an independent" pa
per
In its correspondence, even stronger
Democratic feeling, if possible,is shown.
Dover letter talks of ''the little tyrant who
now disgraces the White House" and says
be was 'justly denounced" and "handled
without gloves" by Senator Bayard The
New Castle letter, after Dragging about
Democratic meeting, ,cheerfully announces
that that hundred "will doubtless satisfy
Democratic expectations" as "the banner
hundred" And yet these letters appear In
a paper that claims to be ''independent" of
party bias
1t can hardly fail to have been noticed
that when, four years ago, men like Carl
Schurz were speaking against the .Republi-
can party, and newspapers like the New
York EUeniag Post were opposed to Gener-
al Grant, the Eoery Eoeniny attached great
weight to their expressions, and thought
independence worthy of everybody's high
valuation. But now that Mr.. Schurz and
the Post (wbom we refer to only as promi-
nent examples of a class,) are opposing
Democracy and earnestly advocating the
election of Governor Hayes, EUery EUening
utterly ignores their course or only mem
tions it to sneer at it. Ii an Independent
helps tie Democrats he must be considered
of high Importance; if he helps the Repub
licans why there is no merit in him-this
appears TO be e E's logic. And it is to
be remarked, in illustration of this, that the
EUening Post published, few days ago,
important dispatches from Washington,
showing that the syndicate of bankers now
taking the AZ per cent. bonds would
"weaken" on them, if Mr.. Tilden should be
elected. This news published in an inde-
pendent newspaper, EOery EUening joins
with the New York World, a Democratic
sheet of the most extreme type, in ridicu-
ling, and it publishes the Worlds dispatch
es, (worked up probably in Tilden's Litter
ary Bureau,") for the purpose of discred-
iting the Posts news.
AS matter of fact, EUery EUening gives
five words to the Democrats where it gives
one to the Republicans. All its tendency
is against the Republican candidates. Its
devotion to Mr.. Bayard knows no apparent
limit or qualification, while it would choke
on any word of praise for President Grant
1t gives a hearty support to the Wade
Hampton outlaws by denouncing the meas
ures adopted by the General Government
to keep the peace and insure fair election,
and any newspaper that really desired the
slaughter of the colored people, and the to-
tai overthrow of free election could go no
farther than this 'independent" journal.
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