The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-09-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept 9, 1876.
Ihe decentralization and panic-stricken
condition of the reform Democracy can
not be longer concealed. The leaders
hoped up to the date of the New York
Times expose relative to Tilden's delib-
crate perjury and systematic frauds upon
the Government, that by the industrious
labors of their Manton Marbles and their
Hewetts to so direct attention from the
"reformers" past career as to quiet the
apprehensions of loyal and honest men,
and to cover up with a mass of vebiage
and antiquities the perils threatening
the cause of general education through
restoration Of the rebel copperhead
Democracy, but the conviction of Mr..
Tilden's guilt, as charged by the Times,
has become so general throughout the
country, that his voluntary, or in case he
refuses to yield, his forcible withdrawal
from the ticket is now believed to be i'm
minent. The record is so conclusive
that no attempt at denial has been made,
except by madly desperate follower
here and there; and the puerility of their
attempted explanations only show the
hopeless poverty of their resources in
the matter. The universal prostration
of their hopes from this cause has been
aggravated by the ridiculous, contempta-
bic and disasterous triekery practiced at
the Saratoga Convention. The man.
ayers in this city who were left in charge
of the campaign work at this point have
never before been so unguarded in their
expressions of disgust and dependency
as since the adjournment of that Con-
vention where few plotting conspira-
tors betrayed the Empire State Democra-
cy into the merciless clutches of the
wiley old fox at the head of the national
ticket, and against whose sharp and I'M
scrupulous practices, there appears un-
mistakable evidences of a widespread
revolt
Some recent utterances of fArchibishop
Purcell, of Cincinnati, are so notoriously
inconsistent with tie teachings and de-
mands of the Roman Catholic priesthood
in this country upon the public school
since the first agitation of the mat
ter many years ago, as to lead to a
suspicion that they were solicited and
procured just at this present time, to
quiet the feeling of general alarm with
which all friends of universal education
view the possibility of the reascendency
OF the Democratic party, associated with,
and often led, as it is, by the only relig-
ious sect in the country which aspires to
political power, and which is openly and
relentlessly hostile TO the American pub
lie school system. The character of the
men nominated by the Northern, South
ern and Western Democracy in this Cen
tennial year of our national life for re-
sponsible Offices, is attracting general
and shows very clearly the
reactionary, if not the revolutionary pur-
poses Of the leader. In the South no
man without rebel army record is con-
available; and the more defiant
and unrepentant he has been since 1865
toward the Government, the greater is
the unanimity of his selection. Men of
known Union sentiment, though other
wise unobjecionable, are forced to take
back seats In the States that were loyal,
the Democracy only appear perfectly
with their work. when they
nominate those who notoriously sympa-
thized with the rebellion and who tacitly |
approved and often blatantly applauded
the burning q N0rthern cities by the |
rebel incendl~ - he starvation and
torture of Union prisoners. The same |
animus was observable in many Of the |
made here in the House to