The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-09-09

partisan and every official pledge of a
purpose TO resume which reissued, by ex-
ecutiyc usurpation, notes issued without
constitutional authority which has trans
cended the war limit imposed upon such
issues, even by the packed courts last
legal tender decision; which refused to de-
stroy the notes Withdrawn by Secretary
Bristow (replaceable 100 to so by nation
al bank notes. and openly declined to give
security that they should not be reissued
as were those withdrawn by Secretary
McCulloch; which, in March, 1860, sol
cmnly pledged the faith of the United
States to make provisions at the earliest
practicable period, for the redemption of
the United States notes in coin, and which
in 1875 again, for the hundredth time,
dishonored that public faith by passing
John Shermans sham, naming Jan. | !,
1879, as the day Of resumption, and
providing and preparing for that resump-
tion with a surplus which has never been
accumulated, with sale Of bonds which
have never been sold, and with an expan-
sion Of paper issues which has only not
been realized because, in the disastrous
extremity to which Republican charlatans
and plunderers had reduced the business
of the country, initiation itself, except by
Il greater increase of governmental expen-
diture, had at last become impossible.
NO HOPE FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Is it from such party that you hope
for better things?
Is it from the party which in National
Convention on the second ballot nominated
Samuel j. Tilden, that you dread u darker
day?
Do you hope for reform from the party
that, as represented in National Conven-
tion at Cincinnati, voted down the resolu-
tion in which it was proposed by Gov.
Davis of Texas that the convention should
declare it gthe duty of congress to provide
measures for carrying out the provisions
of what is termed the Resumption act Of
Congress, to the end that resumption of
specie payments at the time fixed by said
act cannot be further postponed?"
Do you hope for specie payments from
the party which after having repudiated
the pledge of 1869, and after having by
the act of 1875 repudiated until 1879 the
notes of the United States which are pay
able on demand, finishes by repudiating
all that kept the promise to the hope, in
the act that made promise 10 the ear, of
resumption Of specie payments two and u
third years hence?
Do you dread and distrust the party that
may have erred us to one item in the long
catalogue of hindrances to resumption
which, as such, it denounces-and that
item, one which never by its authors was
intended to be, and never has been, made
help to resumption 7
A party retained in power retains its
character and its control of its highest Off
cials whereas party newly charged with
power which il has obtained by the pledges
! Of its platform, and the character of its
nominee, must accept his leadership and
be faithful to its pledges in his interpreta-
ton of the same. In the former case you
have a popular condonation if not popu-
lar endorsement of the past you have no
inducement to reform since its necessity
has not been affirmed, and since all official
rewards have been conferred without that
price. Where, then, goes the influence of
every oficeholder, high and low?
In the other case the selfish interest of
every aspiraut and every appointee concurs
with the highest aspirations and the best
purposes of the leader by and under whom
! they have achieved victory.
The steady progress of the Democratic
party which you have witnessed during
the last decade you may. look to see con.
tinued hereafter, and continued in the di-
rection of success that has been so signal
The leaders in that progress are the cap
taius in this fight,
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO SUCCEED.
We shall succeed Ohio and Indiana
hitherto repeatedly lost upon false issues,
will probably both be carried in October
by the Democracy. Ohio will certainly be
lost to the Republicans, though it is the
the home State Of their candidate. The
Democrats cannot but be victorious upon
the sound issues of the st. Louis platform
and Gov. Tilden's letter Of acceptance. 1
venture the prediction.
Observe that the soft-money Republi-
cans have never failed to rule their party,
and impress their wishes upon every item
of its affirmative legislation. Sherman's
sham is the monument of the cowardice
Of the hard-money Republicans, who did
not dare eight for funeral" with the
soft-money Republicans But our soft
money Democrats have been squarely de-
featei in National Convention, and have
promptly and manfully wheeled into line.
Perhaps they are themselves suspicious of
the cause of the repeated defeats which
have followed their most gallant struggles.
Perhaps they arc convinced of their own
misapprehensions regarding the hard-mon-
ey men of the East. Anyway, as faithful
Democrats, they have wheeled into line,
and they will be as loyal as New York
itself to the declared will of the party, and
to the work of resumption with which
Gov. Tilden will make his administration
illustrious. Shall we begrudge them their
sidearms and the honors of war2 They
have already melted into the swelling
ranks of the Democracy, and follow the flag.
After victory will come the harvesting
Of its fruits, will come the construction of
new and better public policy. This will
be work as great, as far-reaching as that
of Jefferson at the dawn of the century,
but more difficult and affecting ten times
as many human beings for veal or woe
From that, toe, will you withhold your
hand 2 Yours, respectfully,
MANroN MARBLE.