The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-12-15
Tilden and Hendricks.

IL
TO any settlement of the Presidentia
question which does not include Mr..
Hendricks as well as Mr.. Tilden. one
il as fairly elected as the other. and
leitheris rs fairly entitled 10 thehigh ofic,
l'o Whlch he was nominated as his asso.
crate both were fairly elected by III,
poople, ana no compromise, agreement
understanding or forced com pact should
be considered or ubmitied TO isr A
moment that does not place both where
Inc people, by IA tremendous majority
ordained that they should 90. There. ii
the people are true 10 tbemse Ives or care
TO preserve the substance of Democratic
or Republican govern ment. they will 90
no matter what the cost NAV be OF
putting them there u hes cot TO ba
The fashion with eviscerated newspaper
conductors of the New York Tribnne
order, TO stigmatize everybody as n noisy
bully with nothing material at stake.
who talks about employing force To
carry out the will of the people. and
into this senseless strain good many
Democrats have fallen without know inc
It, liza Democratic Journalist who was
| IN the Confederate service talks of a
lOrclble resistance TO fraud, he is told
that il Is because he il still a rebel AT
heart, and anxious TO renew a contest In
which he was once defeated. II IL is
one who was in the Federal service. he
Is set down as having fought tor pay or
fame while vet traitor at heart Ii il
is one who was in neither army. he i
hooted at As having had innumerable
chances to fight which he never improv-
ed, and a. not particularly dangerous in
any event.
We are not at all anxious TO undeceive
such critics, and vet 1t j. Necessary that
we should not misunderstood ourselves
We can teal Nj. Iildeu and the mana
gers Of the democratic party i'm the East
We can tell Mr.. Chandler, Mr.. Cameron.
Mr.. Grant aud tho managers of the Re-
publican party everywhere. we do rot
need Ia say IL to the Democratic menu
bers of Congress, for they have seen
their constituents and know it-that un.l
less Mr. Tilden ahaEdons his claims tol
the Office TO which b. has been chosen
there are hundreds of thou sands ofI
democrats ia the states of Ohio. Illinois. j
Indiana and Missouri who would putl
4 themselves in Washington at their ownIt
expense. armed and equipped as the,
need required, in less than ten days afterlI
they learned they were wanted. The,
settled, deeply imbcdded determination
of W esteru Democrats is that they will
not ALLOW themselves 10 be cheated out
Of their honestly earned victory by all
The Grants, hellOggS, Camerons and,
BelknapS that ever lived. There is noIt
brayado in this. neither j. there anythingf
10 br regretted in such determination. N
10 iuaugurate. Hayes by such means a.,
ave been made apparent during thela
past three weeks. would be TO paralvzel l.
very energy OF trade, business or specu- "a
alton. There has not been one tenth ofja
he ordinary business Of the countrvlc
transacted since the dispute began. iii
: diminishing in volume daily. NnetvlN
business men out OF every hundred are
ouking failure and bankruptcy in the ela
nee. What worse could n war do? \
var AT least would stimulate some a
'ranchc, ct industry. while the frauds
by Mr. Hayes friends "
'aralyze all. Iv
Nothing will satisfy the people that j.
ot just aud right .in their sight, and r
ooner or later no matter how much il o
nay toe impcdrd hy trickstCr, on the one s.
and OF cowardice on thc other. such a :
will be- had II The republic %
ndurcs. Congress has only 10 t1ke the c,
land the people expect Of IT, aud the
eoplc Will see that it is sustained ~
gaiu~t all the host, which trcachcry and ii
isloyalty 10 constitutional government Ia
IN array. That il what the Times b,
lcans when 10 saws II must be either ia
ildcn or fight. II is precisely what W
le Times repeats, speaking as il does al
'r large portion Of the Western De-
'ocracy If the skim milk young man
ho edits the Tribune induces Mr.
ayes supporters 10 look upon it as G.
ere bravado. he is making himself a of
ind leader of the blind. loi