Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-28
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
OF OHIO.
WILLIAM A. WHEELER,
OF NEW YORK.
TiIslen's Confession.

p The letter of Gov. Tilden in relation to
the war claims of the South is a load con-
.fession that be considers his case desper-
ate.
No candidate for the Presidency would
ever issue such letter at such stage oil
the canvass except as great and impera-
tive necessity to prevent, if possible, the
annihila,ion of himself and party. As
Napoleon ordered up the Old Guard at
Waterloo as his last resource to prevent
the terrible defeat he foresaw coming up
on him, 80 Tilden brought out his letter as
the last measure he could take to avert the
disaster awaiting him on the 7lh Of No
vember, as the candidate of the demo-
cratic party for President.
What has frightened Mr.. TildenP Sim
ply this the prospect of nearly solid
North against him, and divided South.
Every State in the North in which cleo
ticns have been held since Mr.. Tiden was
nominated has gone against him. We do
not except Indiana, where the democrats
lost $4,000 on the popular vote for Gov
ernor, and lost four Congressman and the
legislature. All that they saved in that
election was pair of blue jean breeches,
not by majority but 10y a plurality vote,
for Williams, though elected, was in a
minority as against the other two candi-
dates of more than 1000 Vermont, Maine,
the town elections in Connecticut and New
Jersey, Colorado, Ohio and Indiana, all
have shown the drift of the popular tide
to be Enthusiastically towards the election OF
HAYES and Wheeler. Everywhere in the
North the feeling is The same. California
responds to Maine in devotion to the re-
publican cause. The States that fought
the rebels will not vote to put the govern
ment into the hands of the assassins that
pulled down the old flag and struck for
the destruction of all which it synbolizes.
At last Mr.. Tiden sees his own State
turning its back upon him. The gigantic
frauds with which he has long been famil-
lar in New York city, by which he made
Hoffman Governor in 1863 and for which
Hoiace Greeley held Tilden responsible,
will not save him this year. All his plans
to stuff the ballot-boxes with fraudulent
votes are known, and it is impossible that
he can cheat enough in the city to over
come the great and honest majority which
the rest of the State will give for Hayes
and Wheeler. The country towns and
cities are alive with enthusiasm, under
stand thoroughly the corrupt measures OF
the democracy, and are resolute and de-
termined TO poll every vote possible to de-
feat them.
Nothing but the signs of disaster to the
democratic party. observable in the poi.-
zeal skies, caused Mr.. Tilden to write his
letter of confession. 1t is the last card of
a desperate and ruined political gambler.
He promises what he knows he would not
and could not fulfill if he were President,
against the power OF that section to which
he would be indebted for his election if he
could obtain it. What James Buchanan
was in the hands If the Southern democ-
cracy in 1860 and 1861, Mr.. Tilden would
beas President in 1877 were he elected
their supple tool and obsequious servant
in whatever raid upon the Treasury or
disloyal or rovengeful schemes they might
undertake.