New-York tribune., 1876-09-04
AIR. BENDRIC6Ss HOROSCOPE.

The Democratic candidate 1or tne vice.
Presidency has made speech Cat Shelbyyille,
Ind.) which is somewhat Of a curiosity in its
way. The manner IN which MIR. Hendricks
smites the President with one hand and
smooths him with the other is only equaled
by the calm way in which he assumes for his
party "cvery virtue under heaven" IL shows
indeed n sweet state of things when Gen.
Grant is driven TO put up with Democratic
kicks for the sake Of Democratic caresses.
"Four years ago." says the nmable Mr. Hen
bricks, "I expressed my personal respect
"for Gen. Grant in the opinion that the
"people had less cause to apprehend an evil
"policy from him than from the malign and
powerful influence with which he would be
surrounded" Mr. Hendricks, it will be seen,
il getting his discussion into rather mud
died state, for he Immediately adds DO you
"claim that Gov. Hayes is person Of higher
"personal integrity than Gen. Grant, and
THAT nc will more certainly keep his pledges
"to the people n So the Gen. Grant for
whom Mr.. Hendricks has the highest personal
"respect" he admits to be a man deficient in
personal integrity" who has not "kept his
"pledges to the peopler- man without
Twill strong enough to stand by his convic-
"tionsn What il it in Gen. Grant for which
Gov. Hendricks has "the highest personal
"respcctT
But what reason is there for supposlng that
with Gov. Tilden as its tenant we are to have
all the cardinal virtues and all the minor ones
into the bargain at the White House J After
lie has been so abomnaby deceived in one
man, for whom he had the "highcst respect"
are we 10 swallow without coughing his eSti-
mate of anothcrl If. as Gov. Hendricks says,
Gen. Grant "was not strong enough to achieve
success in the milst of the adverse iDtiu-
fences which party and party leaders brought
"about him." is Gov. Tilden such giant that
he may be trusted alone to breast the storm Of
rapacity, the onslaught of hungry office
seekers, the rush of the thirsty caravan TO the
newly acquired wells of Executive patronage
To Justify Gov Hcndricks's theories he must
show not merely that his candidate is Caesars
wife in small clothes, but that he will be better
than his party. Did the Governor, we beg
leave to ask, ever know Democratic Presi-
dent who was better than his paItyf Did he
ever know a Democratic President who was
not ready TO do all things for the sake of
lns partyf Gov Hendricks does not men
ton that he is looking for the speedy coming
of the millennium. Yet we suppose that he
must have some such brilliant and cOnsolatOry
notion in his head. But we agree with him
that there will always be certain analogy be-
tween an Administration and the party which
has called it into existence and il is for this
reason that we are hoping for the success of
the Republican candidate in the present can
yass. He has oar best wishes for his success.
because he is the candidate OF the better pOr-
ton of the Republican party, and was nom
mated against the inclinatiOns Of what we con-
slider to be the worst portion of 1t. In order
fully to comprehend the comparative trust
worthiness of parties in this regard, it
is necessary to take into consideration
their original constitution and present elc
ments. The Republican organization is
almost 4 new one. 1t was called into exist
ence by exigencies which were only OF yester
day, and which have not altogether disap-
pcared to-day. There is in it a living, salient
spring of honesty and of conscience, which, IN
spite of its lamcntable cOrruptons and back
slidings, have kept it sweet. 1t has no tra-
ditions of management 1t has no settled
methods of plumber, and it is not and il never
has been maintained by the cohesive power of
material demand and supply. 1t was born of
a bolt, and large as its ranks have been, they
have not seldom been thinned at inopportune
moments by the dcsertions of the dissatisfied
and the dsgusted. 1t has never been thor
oughly welded, compact, and stifily disciplined
party. On the other hand the Democracy, az
they are pleased and proud to call them
selves, have usually made party aflinibes some
thing almost as sacred as church membership
Secoders from their ranks. impelled by tho