Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-08-18
Notes on the Campaign,

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form, is to be vigorously nursed for the
next three months at least.
The hand of the New York governor
is more and more manifest in the con-
duct of the campaign. Hendricks is
brought on to Saratoga, summoned by
the partisans of Tilden, and the net re-
suit of repeated conferences is that Hen
bricks swallows his initiation heresies,
and is even made to echo feebly the hard
money doctrines of his chief Politics,
indeed, makes strange bed-fellows. The
concession on the part of Tilden to eff
feet party harmony on the currency
question is the repeal of the date OF re-
sumption fixed at Jan. /, 1879, by the
act of Jan. IA, 1875, which has just gone
through the democratic house. So much
of tub it was thought necessary to
throw to the initiation whale. The ne
cessities of democratic strategy have de-
veloped some curious reasoning in con-
nection with the financial question. The
new democratic paradox on this subject
may be thus stated TO set a date for
future resumption of specie payments IS to
hinder specie payments. Wonderful
logic but the platform, the candidate
and the democratic majority in Congress
have all affirmed it, though it may not
be quite clear to ordinary apprehension
yet.
With the publication of the letters of
acceptance of Tlden and Hendricks,
ends the preliminary skirmishing Of the
campaign. The political forces of the
respective parties have been rather slow
in getting into position, but we may ex-
pect lively times from now till Novem-
Der. There is much to foreshadow q
sharp, holly contested struggle. Tilden
chooses to fight the presidential battle
on the issue of reform, and he is to di.
rect the campaign in person. it is OBJ
vious now that he not only manipulated
the st. Louis convention but construct
ed it's platform. Out of his great wealth
: he may be expected to contribute heav-
lily for campaign expenses. Whatever
may be his merits as reformer, Tilden
is beyond question long-headed, crafty
: old politician and master of political
strategy, and the republicans will find
him no mean adversary but one demand
ing their best strength and mettle to de-
: feat.
Up this way the democrats are all de-
! lighted with his letter. They think his
arraignment of the party in power, for
its sins of omission and commission, per-
fectly unanswerable. 1t is, undoubted-
ly, good specimen of vigorous political
writing, and contains sound maxims of
political economy. 1t was we'll studied
, and shows art,-a kind of ad cdptnndanl
! art, in passages descending to political
clap-trap and cheap pettifogging. 1t
: seems to me, moreover, to be quite too
denunciatory or Incorporate in denunci-
alton for the occasion that called it forth
Its intense egotism and vehemence Of
assertion compare but poorly, it seems to
me, with Hayes modest, frank and
straightforward statement of the line of
policy he will carry out, if elected. The
character of the two men is well brought
out in their respective letters; and let
; them be studied therein-the republican
candidate cannot suffer in the COMPARE
son.
1t seems to me, again, that Gov. Til
e den is little disingenuous in some of the
), charges he brings against the republi-
cans. Is it fair to place the govern
, mental expenses for the past eleven years
at the sum of $4,500,000 and make no
> account of the reduction of the funded
:, debt by several hundred millions during
: that time, as we'll as the payment of a
large floating debt for military expenses
, at the close of the war, the claims of the
J states for reimbursement of war expen
ses, pensions to soldiers and sailors, &c.
1t is difficult to believe, too, that the
governors denunciation of the Resump
ton Act is anything but hypocritieal, i
he is really the sincere hard money MAJ
he processes to be. He affirms that tn,
: earliest time in which resumption can bt
brought about is the best, yet with al
!. his cavils at the want of preparation t,
: meet it, is unable to suggest any othe
means than is provided in the act itself
y Is there any good reason why existing
. Legislation should not be preserved an,
made more effective, except that it wa
the act of republican congress, at leas
until some better plan could be settle
upon? Or was it necessary to unsettl
:. and confuse the people still further?
MEG.
- Charley Ross will soon ha hi