The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-04

have working majority in the house Of
representatives. They have devoted time
and expense without limit to the subject of
| investigation. A visitor at Washington
| during the past few months would have
thought that legislation was not a part
of the business of an American congress.
At one time there were forty different in
vestigations by congressional committees
in progress. What have they proved !?
Have they proved that the government has
been defrauded of one greenback dollar
by republican official in the last four
years No, not one, nor the tenth part of
one dollar has been taken from the treas
ury by republican. ask the democrats
this question: "Who is he, and where is
the man." This is a fact, and one which
can not be stated of any democratic i'd
ministration since the forming of the gov
eminent.
True, they have found cabinet officer,
who took fee from somebody away off
on the western frontier for keeping him in
Office and he went down to destruction rap
idly. II the republicans had had the
power he would have been impeached with
in forty-eight or seventy-two hours after
his offence came to light, though there are
some of us who think that he should not
have been impeached after he was out of
office. Then there is Gen. Babcock. o!
they say, he is an swfuly bad man-the
presidents private secretary, too Vol
umes, reams, carloads have been written
about Babcock and his bad practices. lie
may be the worst man in the world, but,
remember, he was indicted 10 the very
midst of an anti-Grant, democratic, semi
rebel community, where | supposed tina,
under the circumstances lie could not es
cape, even If innocent, and that Jury in
that comm unity acquitted him. We ought
in all fairness do the same. When ac-
quilted, did he go TO his position Z? No,
he was dismissed.
That men are any better to-day than
formerly can not be said. Men OF both
parties will deiraud the government of the
whisky tax. They always have done it
and they always will attempt t.; ana will
say this in reference to the charges now
thdndered through the country, and in
fairness to General Grant and his admins
tration, that after ten years have passed
and the history of the administration comes
to be written, it will not be known az cor
rupt, or willful, or vicious one. and |
would be obliged to say il all tue same if
the democrats had been in power and the
same measures had been accomplished.
Suppose matt RS were as bad as the dem
ocrats insist. and that we must take new
departure, must hoist the banner of reform
anu cut loose from old organizations and
go upon higher and nobler grounds of po-
litical action-the first thing in order is the
selection of a candidate. We must find
one long enough in the public service to be
tried and found efficient; one with an I'm.
tainted record who has never stolen
money or committed any political
sin who has never covered
up wrong-doing for friend or associate;
one free from all suspicion of any kind
who has nc bad associates, for it ever re-
mains true that man 10 known by the
company he keeps. Ii his associates are
bad he will be tainted. We must have
man untainted, without; mark against him
and with no bad associates. Where shall
we go? To New York city and Tammlny
hall, for Samuel J. Tiiden? Born under
the ewes of Undertook, educated in the
worst political school thnt ever obtained
upon this continent, this man, the associate
of VIM. NJ. Tweed, only deserving HIM IN
the eleventh hour, who when the rebellion
was in progress never raised his voice in
behalf of the imptrlled government, but
gave his voice and opened his pockets to
the country enemies-is it him?
No. We went to Ohio and got one with
Vermont blood In his veins, us much so as
any one before me, and who failed Of be-
ing Vermonter by birth OILY by few
months. He has been before the country
above six weeks, and where, in this time
of SANDER, abuse and vlliilcation has there
been raised one word against the moral
character, the honor, tho integrity or the
career of Rutherford b. Hayes Does lie
n nj ayanflu I'M tho us al In
requirements of the candidate in such
crisis1 Who is the second man. Born
almost among you, one who has been for
more than twenty years in public life, and
for term after term, congress after con-
gress, occupied that position, where almost
every one else was smirched, without
taint-I mean the Craftsmanship of the
Pacific railroad committee-where have
you heard hard word against him9 No
where.
1t is safest or us to 60 for Hayes and
Wheeler. But do not propose to stop at
that. Some excellent and patriotic men
supported Buchanan. Among them were
John A. Dix, Daniel S. Dickinson, Edwin
NJ. Stanton and Logan of Illinois, and
many more democrats dyed IN the wool.
Every one of them abandoned his party,
and some of them laid down their lives for
their country. Where was Tilden during
this time Twelve years ago last 4th of
July, we had passed through three years of
bloody war. All calls upon the country
were manfully responded to in money and
men one hundred bloody fields had been
lost and won. Antetam, Gettysburg,
Cold Harbor and the Wilderness
had been fought. Grant lay before
Petersburg with his grip that never.
never relaxed upon the great artery of the
contcderacy. Vicksburg had fallen the
year before, and Sherman had begun that
great march to the sea which only culmi-
mated at Atlanta when he had the very
devil of southern rebellion in his relentless
grasp. Then came the call for 500, 900
men. 1t was answered. | found to-day
that you of this town, voted 100000 TO
carry on the war. The rebellion was in It's
it. The campaign If 1864 commenced
One OF the two parties nominated that
man who is second to no one in American
history-Abraham Lincoln. (rhe speaker
here read from the platform of the repub-
lican party of 1864 That platform rele-
rated the principles of the party in refer
ence to emancipation and the conduct of
the war and the preservation of the Union.
the last forlorn hope of the rebellion.
Their success meant patched-up peace
and the return of slavery-their defeat the
defeat of the rebellion. Their great high
priest at the north was Vallandigham;
their prominent leaders Horatio Seymour
and Fernando Wood. Their organizer wss
Samuel j. Tilden. The New York World
vlllifed the republican candidates. The
famous Albany letter was prepared and
published bya committee of which Samuel
j. Tilden was a member. They held
convention at Syracuse and declared the
war failure, and called for the suppress
sion of the tyrant Abraham Lincons who
murdered three white men to free
one negro. They held up IIo-
ratio seymour as the champion
of the civil over the military power. Their
convention at Chicago nominated McClel-
Ian for president. Samuel j. Tilden was