Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-13
NJ.

try is the Reform of the Administra.
tration in all it's branches, the restora-
ton of the supremacy of the law over
all the officers of the Government being
one of the most vital points at issue.
The selection of a man, as President,
who possesses the qualifications neces-
sary for this important work is the
task which lies before US in November.
OF the two mel who have been in
nomination there can be no doubt in
whom the fitness resides. Governor
Tilden has so well displayed his ability
to cope with the prevailing forms of
corruption, and his courage and deter
mination in doing it, hat the men who
have been enriching themselves at the
peoples expense throughout the coun-
try are alarmed at the prospect of his
authority being extended to all quar-
tiers of the Republic. His legal train
ing, to which an objection has been
raised, has led to a development of the
kind of talent which is peculiarly
adapted to the unearthing of the kind
of frauds by which the office holders
have been fattening themselves and
their friends.
In Republican quarters we continu-
ally hear about the influence of the
"worst element of the Democratic
party" being invoked to influence him
for harm, and the impossibility of any
mans succeeding in a good work while
impeded by this pressure. But apart
from this, with this "worst element"
as it is called, Governor Tilden has had
to contend in New York, and he has
there accomplished the very kind of
work that lies before him in Washing
ton. He has dared to incur its bitter
hostility, and in its warfare with it has
enlisted in his service the honest men
of the land without regard to party.
We have no doubt whatever about
the election of Governor Tilden; but
whether elected or not, the whole
country, and each individual State,
is indebted to him for the services he
has already rendered in laying open
to the public gaze the nature Of the
measures and schemes by which the
people have been so shamelessly
robbed and plundered, and by fore.
Ing upon tho managers of the dis
reputable rings the conviction that
great carr is necessary in the tran>ac-
ton of their nefarious business, as
eyes quick to detect, and a hand
swift to punish, are following them
through all the tortuous windings of
their path. The nation looks to him
as the avsnger of its wrongs, and he
will not disappoint. His past acts
prove that he knows what is necessary
to a reform of the abuses under which
the country groans and is impover-
ished, and that he will boldly and
fearlessly hurl his columns upon the
army of svil-doers, and drive them
from the field. Not like Grant, will
he attempt to cover and shield from
punishment the thieves and robbers;
and not, like him, will he share the
proceeds of their dishonesty. But, as
he has been doing during the past two
years at Albany, he will pursue,
with unrelenting severity, every pscu.
lator, to whatever party he may be-
long, and will thoroughly and eff
GENTLY reform every branch of the
Administration Of which he is the
head.
The Republican party has disgraced
itself before the people whose affairs it
undertook to manage, and in the eye
of the whole civilized world. Again
and again have the people shown their
willingness to overlook past faults and
errors, and again have they been be-
trayed and deceived. The villainies
have now assumed such alarming pro-
portions, and the promises of amend
ment have been so repeatedly broken.
that faith car be no longer kept alive.
Yet this party before us again
and coolly promises us reform. This
very promise is Sufficient for its con-
for, having held the reins
of government so long, there is moth
ing to reform but abuses which it has
created. The evils which are its own
creation it then proposes to correct.
And how does it propose to do it?
With insolence a most supreme its
leaders tell us that they will amend
heir ways by keeping in Office the
very scoundrels who have nurtured
md sustained the malpractices against
whose existence the country is pro. I
The platform which was
at Cincinnati does nothing il
does not bind the Republicans to a
of the courses which have
brought the country into di.credit and
o the verge of ruin. The election of