Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-10-12
The Cause and the Cure.


hard money man for President, and a |
soft money man for Vice President
Their platform declares 'sfOr hard mo.
ney in one sentence, and adopts ''the
battle cries of the inilationists and
soft money men in another. There is
design in this diversity; there is meth
od in this madness of contradiction.
The seeming inconsistency conforms to
a consistent purpose. The hard money |
features of candidates and platform |
were intended to carry hard money
States; the soft money features, soft |
money States. The continuance was |
believed to be shrewd, but it really |
was very shallow. The democrats are
fought in all the States as inAationists
and repudiationists and as such it is |
to be hoped that they will be defeated.
A Piece Of Tildcn's War Record.
When every loyal heart was glowing
with patriotic fire ut the cry that came |
up from Sumpter what did Samuel j. |
Tilden do? Did he, too, throw away
his law books and briefs and 20 forth !
with the gallant sons of the Empire |
State to fight for honor and the right
Did he freely offer his own life that |
his country might live? No! alas,
no! There was no responsive fire in |
his heart. All was cold, calculating,
false!
On April 20, 1861, in reply to Presi.
dent Lincoln's proclamation calling
for $4,000 troops, grand meeting of !
the citizens of New York was held in |
Union Square to indorse the action
0n6 f0 1nIr %1,n,,ocolxync %~ %An
tenance of the laws and the Constitu-
tion of the United States. General
Dix was chosen president, and
among the vice presidents or speakers
were Daniel S. Dickinson, j. T. Hoff-
man Fernando Wood, A. S. Hewitt,
Erastus Brooks, Augustus Schell, and
others. Was that of Tilden included
No. One of his friends called upon
him and begged him to come, but Til:
den refused decidedly to have any.
thing to do with this ''abolition war"
And when his friends expressed a fear
that he would live to regret this re.
fusal, Tilden having faith that Robert
Tombs would yet call his slave.roll at
the foot of Bunker Hill, replied: 81
think not, and remained firm in his
refusal. Nor did he cOnfine himself to
negative support of the rebellion he
gave it in words when among his
friends. But even before the war
broke out, in 1860, he wrote as follows,
speaking of the Republican party:
SELECT Lincoln, and we invite those
perils which we cannot measure. We
attempt in vain to conquer the sub
mission of the South to an impractica-
BILE and intolerable policy. Onr only
hope must be that as President he
will abandon the creed, the principles,
and pledges in which he will have
been elected. Defeat Lincoln and all
our great interests and hopes are equal
ly safe.''
That Know. Nothing Story-What an Inde-
| pendent Democratic Paper Says.
New York Herald 0nd. Dem.) Oct. s.
A fac-simile of a letter written by
Gov. Hayes private secretary was pa.
raded yesterday in the two leading
Tilden papers of this city. A plate
for printing the same fac-simile was
also offered to the Herald by the Til
den shop in Liberty street, but we de.
clined to use it.. 1t does not quite do
to. assume that the readers of a news.
paper are idiots, sWh0 think that the
exact reproduction of piece Of hand.
writing gives significance to it's SUBJ
ject matter which it would have in
printers type. What interest can any
two.legged creature have in the hand.
writing of so obscure person as the
confidential clerk Of State Governor
The attempt to make the contents of
this clerks letter important is be-
meath contempt. The so-called Amer
ican Alliances, of whose bylaws and
purposes Gov. Hayes probably knew
nothing, passed a resolution indorsing
his nomination for the Presidency.
Like all Presidential candidates who
are in daily receipt of a mass of COM
plimentary effusions which it would be
waste of time to read, he turns over
such correspondence to the Secretary,
who opens his letters. with instruc.
tions to make civil replies. Gov.
Hayes clerk seems to have been dis.
crete enough, for he merely acknowl.
edged the compliment. Gov. Hayes
desires me to acknowledge the receipt
of your valued favor of July 7, enclos'
ing resolutions of the American AL.
/ lance, and to say in reply that lie is
deeply gratitied by this expression OF
CONFIDENCE It is not probable that
this note of mere formal courtesy was
:. submitted to the inspection of Gov
Hayes but even it was, there is moth
: ing in it which it was worth while fol
him to tell his Secretary to alter. II
= was a mere acknowledgment crouched
, In courteous terms. Gov. Hayes has
, never seen, and did not care to see
= the trumpery constitution of an oh
: scure set of men who had seen fit tx
. indorse his nomination, and did MOI
= stop to waste a thought on so trivial :
r matter. He thought it due his clarac
3 ter as gentleman and his position a
n a candidate that his clerk should &C
n knowledge the receipt Of respectful
!. communications, but he did not fee
;. that it was incumbent on him to maxi
}. minute investigations into the Organi
;. zation of every insignificant body o
a men who pr0fessed their intention o
q supporting him. But Mr.. Tilden' s shol
t in Liberty street, having got posses
q Jon Of this paltry note, made an inves
/. tigation and found that the American
4 Alliance is a set of w-Nothings
|. The .Liberty-street shop thereupo1
i. conceived the brilliant idea of MAXIM
MI. Hayes responsible for the princi
pies of that obscure organization an
of twisting the note Of his clerk int
"a an acceptance of those principles. w
3 are sorry that any respectable new!
g paper should have lent itself to so dt
d spicable a trick.
!. The 9th inst. was observed in Ch
J. cago by q general suspension Of bus
]. ness: it being the anniversary Of th
great fre.