New-York tribune., 1876-05-20
THE PEOPLES CANVASS.
THE prroRM CONFERENCE.


~uv x,vvrtxG NOT s.usFACTORY TO REFORMERs-
BLOWS AT CANDIDATES IN TIE ADDRtss-AN
UNFAIR DISSEMINATION BETWEEN CANDIDATES.
70 the EditOr OF The Tribune
SIR: I'm common with Il number of indie
pendeu Republicans want to hear again from the au
thor OF "Cultus "a letter having that title that ap
peareh IN last Saturdays TRIBUNE. have not seen
more right down and pain truth In any nftcie on
recent political topics II the writer of "Cutns was
before the fth Avenue Conference, he must
like many othor Ind pcndents be dumb:ounded and
founued by the utterances OF that very worthy body
Iisa matter Of profound astonisbment to many Of
us to be tod that Mr. BrstOw and Mr. Ti'den the
only hope OF the country in the way Of reform caOd
dates. We think Charles Francis Adams still lives in
spite OF Sammy Smart" and we regard VIM. NJ Eyarts
as the peer of any public in the country. We are
again amazed be informed that Blaine ls and Tden s
not Il politician.
But perhaps it was only Mr. Charles F. Adams, jr and
not the Conference who thought thus And upon closer
examination OF the address the people have reason
for this hee 1t Ia great the negare side and tells
who its authors viii not support Ii declares; I'VE
shall support no candidate who has failed 10 use
his opIOrtuni les in exposing and correcting abuses
coming within the reach of his observation but for per
sona and party ends has permitted them to tester On
We shall support candidate however con-
spicuous lis position brilliant his ability, in whom
the impulses OF the party manager have shown them
selves predominant . :" Now TO the uniEtated
this b. stab at Mr. Tllden Tor MS cOnuct IN
the days when he Tammany with Tweed. and said
not a word till after the newspaper exposures
Again the address says: ave shall support no can
didate who however favoraby judged by hIs nearest
friends is not publicly known to possess those qualities
OF mind and character which the stern task OF genuine
reform requires for the American people cannot
afford risk the future OF the republic in experiments on
merely supposed virtue or rumored ability to bo trusted
on the strength OF private recommendations" That
looks like an unknd blow at Brstow. for the people
know nothing of his virtues that he makes good
public prosecutor and that lie united with the rest of che
Cabinet in Beknap's famous dispatch to Sheridan in
louisiana we all of fully approve your course" If
the Conference did not these things, they cut
clothes that admirably ut men whom they not
made Tire ideas these good seem to many to he
extremely Illogical for Of so learned body
In substance they say ave shall support unknown
untried man therefore will shout for BriStow! We
shall support no politician therefore we will take Til
den We shall not support any man connected with me
Administration machinery therefore we are Tor Brls-
tow against Blaine, who dSked by the whole race
of Buffers aud COnklings"
lam not a "Cutus Boston Man." but as Yale man
have great reverence for ex-Presidcnt WOosey Bni
fear that be and other good lay and clerical haVo
little idea Of the motives OF who ran that Con
ference Is il true that OF its leaders has private
blaine which he is TINS payiug upi Is
tierc anV doubt that BrstOw simply used as Club
with which knock Blaine down, and that there ~ no
real intention Of nominating hint If Blaine is not The
that Confcrence, the OF all that s far ana 1uSt
tell why. But see they are deiermln"d TO dtstToJ
him, and what will they give usi MI Eauor, an no
admrer ot the present ADMINISTRATOR looked to TINS
Conference for light, but am IN worse darkness than
over Cal again upon Cultus Boston Man" to aid us.
Jersey city, May Is, 1876. NEw'JERsEf.