The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-07-05
The Most Singular Feature Of the
Canvass.

The chief, if not almost the only is-
sue in the election of next November.
will be the question of reform and hon
est government. This is rendered nee
essaly by the alarming corruption
which, under Grant, has got establish
ed in every department of the Admin
istration. If we are to have any gov
eminent at all, indeed if any citizen is
to be allowed TO enjoy any part of his
honest earrings, public plundc,ers
must be turned out of Office, and hon
est men put in their places.
Now, there is one man whose uatu-
raj tendencies and favorable circum-
stances have made him peculiarly the
representative of this kind of reform.
That man is Samuel j. Tilden of New
York. He is not merely known as ar
guing in favor of honest government;
he has not merely exposed and de-
nounced the thieves and plunderers of
the other party; he has exposed and
attacked the thieves and plunderers of
his own party; he has stopped their
depredations, and brought them to JUS
tice; he has reduced the taxes of the
State by millions; he is an economist
as well as refornleI; and the people
everywhere see from these facts that
he ia the kind of man who is needed in
the White House at present.
That this is so, is proved By the uni
versal opposition and the bitter hos
tility which thieves aud public plum
derers of every degree make against
Mr.. Tilden's nomination at St. Louis.
He is the man a':ove all others whom
they don't want, and for long time
they have been doing their utmost to
keep him from being nominated and e.
lectel. There are some upright aud
worthy men who oppose Mr.. Tilden
for other reasons Of their own, but the
main force of the opposition against
him is the opposition of thieves and
plunderers. .... ........ .-
This has gone so far, and has been
carried on with such zeal and bitter
ness, and SO little of ordinary cunning
and prudence, that the great body OF
the people have been led to rally
around Mr.. TiIden with such teuacity
and determination that the question
has passed entirely beyond the limits
of ordinary controversies about candi'
dates. In fact, it has gradually yet de-
cidedly assumed the aspect Of IN i'm
mense struggle by the dishonest ele-
ment to defeat an honest man; and
this has been made such conspicuous
feature of the affair, that Mr.. Tilden's
defeat and the selection of another
person would inevitably appear to the
country to be the exclusive work Of
corruption, venality, and public plund-
er; and as such, another candidate
selected Instead of him will be gene.
rally regarded as defeated the moment
he is put up.
Under such peculiar and unexpected
circumstances, produced, too, by Mr.
Tildeu's enemies, aud not by himself
or his friends, We may we'll appeal to
the gentlemen who have been men-
toned as competing with him for nom
ination, to carefully ponder the facts,
and to determine whether they ought
not peremptnrily to retire from the
competition, and to advise their friends
to give their hearty and earnest snip
port to the candidate of New York
Mr.. Hendricks and Mr.. Bayard especial.
ly should take this matter into con.
sideration, and see whether patriotism
as we'll as self-respect does not advise
them to take the course We have sng-
gested.-[N. Y. Sun.