Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-01

is extOrted from him because of the dam
| aging fact that the majority of the party.
should he be elected, will make the pay
ment OF these claims the great leading
measure of the Administration. The DO
sitions of the Democratic and the Repub
llcan parties are not, however, changed
by this letter. These parties will stand
toward these claims in diametrcal oppo-
sitlon. II Gov. Hayes is elected, the Re
publican party in the Government -Execu-
tive, Legislative and Judicial-will be a
unit in opposition to these claims. Hayes,
rs President, will have the support of
the Republicans of his Cabinet, of
the Courts, and of the two Houses of Con
gfess, and the non-payment of the claims
will be determined beyond all question.
How will it be with Tildeng The Repre-
sentatlves and Senators Of the sixteen
Solid South States will be ma iority
OF the Democratic caucus. These sixteen
States will be a unit for these claims
These States will of necessity have one or
two representatives in the Cabinet In re-
deeming their pledges TO their constituents,
these men Will propose in Congress, not a
bill approprating $4,000, 900, 900 to pay
these southern claims, but they will pass
a bill such as that proposed by Mr.. Riddle,
OF Tennessee, and now pending, repeating
all laws recurring claimants for losses bv
the var to prove their loyalty during the
war. This is all the legislation the claim
ants need. With the present exclusion of
these claims removed, then the Court
Of Claims, the Claims Commission, and
the several Secretaries, and the account
ing officers of the several depart
ments, will have complete jurisdic-
ton to allow these claims. TO
give judgments therefor, and to
pay or order their payment out of the
Treasury, We will assume that Tildens
disclaimer is intended to cover such an
act as this Riddle bill, but how is Mr..
Tlden to resist itg 1t must be remem.
bered that such bill will have for its
support a lobby able to divide fifty mill.
ions of dollars that such bill will have
the support OF wo.thirds, if not three
fourths of any Democratic caucus; that it
will have the united support of the State
Governments and Legislatures of all the
Democratic Confederate States, that il
will have support in the Cabinet and the
support Of an army of Democratic law.
yers from all sections of the country.
Under these circumstances, to veto such
measure, Mr.. Tilden must choose to stand
alone in his own Administration. To OPP
pose his party in such a case will compel
him to fall back upon the Republican
party. He can have no other chance. He
must go with his party or DO as John
Tyler did, and as Andrew Johnson did,
fall into the arms of the other party No
Administration elected by one party and
supported by the other has ever been sue.
cessful, or has ever escaped being dis
graceful.
Is Mr.. Tilden a man thus to break into
his own party and destroy all hopes of u
successful Administration Has he the
courage thus to oppose and defy the Dem
ocratic party, especially those interests
which elected him? His record gives no
evidences Of any such spirit When Con
gress in 1875 passed what is known as the
Resumption law, and fixed January, 1879,
as the date OF resumption, Mr.. Tiden
proposed to the Legislature of New York
that that body emphasize the action of
Congress, and that Legislature did pass,
and Gov. 1ilden approved, an act declar-
ing that after the lst of January, 1870, all
contracts made in the State of New York
shall, unless otherwise stated be payable
in gold. Here was his official sanction of
an act to compel the resumption of specie
payments in New York.
Mr. Tiden afterwards in all his official
papers laboriously advertised himself as
the advocate of the immediate resum ption
of specie payments, and the immediate
return to the gold standard. He prepared
for the ST. LoIis Convention Il platform
embodying that declaration, but that Con
vention substituted therefor demand for
the repeal of the Resumption act of Con
gress, and the Democratic House of Rep
resentatives repeated that demand, and
in both proceedings Mr.. Tilden sub.
mitted, not daring, as he might have
done, to resist this direct reversal of
his own boosted official policy. If
Mr.. Tilden had not the nerve and the
courage to defy the faction of his own
party which demanded this repeal OF the
| Resumption law, can it be expected that
as President he will give up all the hopes
and ambitions of his life--to be II success
full President-by opposing his party and
! all the personal friends who Will have
| elevated him TO power, and seek such sup
port as he will lind in the Republican
party? Mr. Tilden knows that he cannot
conduct an Administration without Il
party. Jackson could not do 50. Pierce
and Buchanan were compelled 10 submit
to the South, then ruling the party. John
son and Tyler made the attempt and
failed, and Iilden carrot make himself
an exception to the universal and newt
able law. Despite Mr. Tilden's present
avowed purpose to veto the payment Of
these Southern claims, the country must
know that he can only do so by abandon.
ing the Democratic party and appealing
TO Republicans for support; and the coun-
try knows that, when the time comes, Mr..
| Tildcn will not dc anything of the Kind,
but will go with his party wherever IT may
lead .-Chtcago Tribune.
| ~ II is a significant fact that in every
| Northern State that has held elections this