Ellsworth American., 1876-11-02
The Aggressive Campaign.

The WAY does not come up 70 the man
if,,to." Wa one Of Mr. Wob>tvr's iayoiitc
phrases ln speaking ca t!v "fIut uts.' '''i' e
between Democratic professions aud per-
formance- Aud the IilIcu canvass j.
most lulCruu> Illustration OF the cid fact.
Mr. T!lden himself began by proclaimius
an aggressive fight. Bu, hc has himself
been 'on tie run ever Since. According :
To Mr. Dor>h,imcr. Democratic detectives
were pa, upon Cox. HAYES, rccor! 10 d.s.
cover something wrong. Tirv could iiud
nothing. There WAS never a public mAu ia
Our history who c4uIr oai oi such Au ordeal
80 totally uu>cathed and uutucae ed a. GOV.
Hayes. OF course they a.e obliged 10 -ay
that il Is because he has uo positive force
OF character. but That l. only a confession
OF absolute discontinue Now, thrr, Wa,
no need OF Republican detectives to expose
GOV. Tiideu's record. |; pu5i. she'd Itself.
Ike Naliaudig CHAM. and Pcu,l,etou'-. And
from the beginning OF the caupaiLn down
10 the last great meeting. Mr.. rildcn
aud hi, friends have been engaged in one
long explanation aud defcnc--so long. 80
dark, and 30 unsatisfactory that th. coun.
Try is on the broad grin at the aggressive
campaign.
1t : evidently comfort to the par,i>ans
OF Mr. Illcen 10 assert that nothing has
been proved Put if hs substantially
'Copperhead" sympathy and position in
the war have not been proved, nothing can
be proved. 1t i certainly no reason that
a CoPperhead Of the war should be elected
TO the presidency by a solid South, that he
calls himself reformer If Mr.. Tiden's
party cooperation with Tweed down to the
time when the whole world abandoned him
and the Democratic party and the amb-
tiOns of Democ -atic leaders were to be
I served Icy kicking him has not been proved
nothing can be proved. Aud it i 10 rea-
son 10 choose for President a politician
who allowed Tweed to forge his name 10
( til { fraud circular. without subsequent pro-
test or denuncation, merely that he calls
/ himself reformer. II Mr.. Iiideu', prac-
Heal evasion of his jd>t income tax for sew
eral years has not been proved By hi, own
explanation. it il because every body j.
mistaken in >uPpo>ins him to have had a
large income and TO be very rich man
/ II the general conviction be true. he cyad-
cd his tax. No man who answers such
charges in the way that he has answered
them can be considered in any sense re-
: Of pnlisfcaI ,
Mr.. Tider's railroad transactions. a. they
appear in the published documents, are
plainly beyond question, they are so only
to his most Jealous adherents. Ii his
practical surrender and pandering to the
imitation element OF his party are not evi-
dent in his letter of acceptance, in the plea
for the repeal of the resumption date, then
the simple and sincere devotion of Gov
Hayes in his letter to the great question ol
reform is not evident. And why should q
hard-mouey man who argues for the repea
of the resumption date, in order TO catch
initiation and reputation votes, be made
president as a financial reformer?
The Democratic orators and papers have
been unable to show from the record o
their party in any state since their success
in the elections of 1874, or in their manage.
ment of the last House Of Representatives
any proof whatever of spirit of freform
In the States they turned out Republican
officers and turned in Democrats, and they
elected to the Senate old Copperheads or
Confederates of tAe war simply for that
reason, and without the slightest reference
to any other reform than the substitution
OF Bourbons for Republicans. In the
House of Representatives they made vir,
tually clean sweep of all the places for the
benefit of Democrats; they cut down the
appropriations about $4,000 900 although
how much less the actual expenses will be
we can tell only when we see the defcien'
cy bill; they wiped out all the pretence OF
economy by passing an equalization boun-
ty bill which would take from e20,0OO,OOO