The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-08-26
Fitzpatrick to Hayes on Indiana.

The indianapolis .Sentiaei Of Angus
%, publishes tho following copy Of lei
ter from Gen. Fitzpatrick to Ruthcrfor
d. Hayes, the Republican candidate 70
President, It was dropped in fitzpatrick
room al the hotel, aud thus discovered
GRAND lIorrf, fSplASAroms,
August 2lst, 1876. I
Dear Sir ~ have just finished the tour o
six counties in Indiana, and feeling that an,
reliable information from this State will inter
est you, write. In the first place the canvas
is well conducted, the people are enthusiast,
and determined, and the old war spiri
thoroughly aroused, and il il were not for on,
thing we could rest certain of victory in 0cto
her. There is an Independent party in thi:
State, confined, il is true, to few counties
but formidable, and il will deieat Genera
Harrison. There is but one way to overcome
this movement. The leaders of the Indep n.
dents are poor, needy and in debt. TheJ
must be lectured TO and documents must be
placed in their hands, that they may be con.
WINGED of their folly. A bloody shirt cam
paign, with money, and Indiana is safe. A
financial campaign, and no money, and we
are beaten. The National Committee has
done nothing for Indiana. Alone they are
lighting their battle, and brayely, but unless
the National Committee wakes up and does
ITS duty to you, to the party and the country,
defeat is certain in October. | never in my
life felt so certain | was doing my duty as in
this contest, and my desire for success, my
dear sir, is my only excuse for writing To you.
Your friend, j. KlLPATRGCK.
To X. Is. HAYES, GOVERNOR, &c.
A despatch to the New York Times
acknowledges the authenticity of the letter.
Money and the bloody shirt are sadly
needed to help the waning cause of Radi-
calism in Indiana.
There was witness before one of the
committees at Washington last spring
named Perrin, one of Spencer's friends 10
Alabama. He swore II shot hole in
my hat and reported that had been at
tackled by kuklux, and sent troops to
arrest the mythical ASSISTANTS. | kept the
troops as long as | could use them as
political machine We suppose Perrin
is somewhere in the South now shooting
holes in his hat, and calling upon Zach
IhunuieT lOr troops.
Grant, Morton, Cameron, Bclknap,
Babcock, Chandler, Logan, Spencer, Clay
ton, Patterson, Dorsey, Kellogg, Packard,
Boss Shepherd, and the whole venal crew,
are in the front, crying out for Hayes, and
spending their stolen money to make him
President. They are the real leaders, and
they are the men who would run Hayes
eff elected, us he is not likely to be-
Ne,o York SUI.
MARK TIE CONTRAsT.-It is worthy
of notice that all the 'outragcs" upon ne
groes at the South, are in the Republican
States, where the governors, judges, pros
cutting attorneys, and the rest of the Office
holders are Republicans. In the Demo-
cratic States there is good order aud good
government, and negroes and white people
are alike protected.-Haptt0rd Times, Of
August 8.
In spite of the proposed naval rcduc-
tions, about one hundred extra men have
been hired in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in
the usual ante-election increase, and, as
there is no work for most Of them, they
are detailed to pull up the grass that has
grown in the cracks in the sidewalks. 1t
is said that four hundred men are to be
hired in October, all pledged to vote for
Hayes and Wheeler.
Some of the leading Republicans say
that Grant must have been drunk when
he issued his order to Sherman to hold
his troops in readiness to march against
the South. Logan thinks it is the worst
thing that could have happened to the
Republican party. 1t will drive many
Liberals and Independents to vote against
Hayes.
II is gratifying to find so many Repub-
licans who recognize the ability of Mr..
Tildcn, and acknowledge that he is the fit
man for President Mr.. Tilden's Repub-
lican vote in this city and State will be
very large. He has won these Republi-
cans over by sheer force of character and
actual reforms.-N T. SIN, Of Aug. o.
Colonel Mcclure, of Philadelphia, one
of the ablest of the politicians in Pennsyl.
vania, gives an exhaustive aud eloquent
summary of the situation. The Colonel
thinks Tilden will be elected, and the basis
of his prophecy is that as Indiana and
Ohio 90, so will go the Union.
The New York Star says ;-"Reform
in this country at this period is a simple
question of national life or death. A man
cannot be elected this year unless he has
given proofs of his ability and sincerity as
reformer.'
At an attempt to organize "Boys in
Blue" Club in Paterson, the veterans de-
clined to take stock in it, and the meeting
passed n resolution that it would be better
for soldiers desiring to take part in the
canvass to join their ward clubs Elizabeth,
~ j. Herald