The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-17

the country And these are the men who
style themselves hard-money men. 1t is to
this sort of financial system that resolu-
ton commits the Democratic party These
men assert that in the Judgment of the
Democratic party resumption of specie pay
ment by the government of It's greenback
circulation should have been forced by le-
gislation long ago. No difference how much
this would have oppressed the debtor clas-
ses, no difference how much it would have
paralyzed trade, manufactures and COM
merce, still the Republicans were ''imbe-
cile and immoral, because they have made
no advance towards resumption Now
what man Of intelligence in the United
States does not know that this is political
clap-trap ? that the Republican party at no
time since the war could have forced specie
payments, if at all, without producing a
widespread distress that would have con-
vulsed the country from one end to the
other We Of the West would be the
especial and heaviest sufferers under such
a policy. 1t would have increased our in
debtedness vastly beyond what it was when
it was contracted, and would have bank
rupted thousands Of our best and most en-
terprising business men. a policy of forced
resumption would have been so utterly
heartless and unjustifable, so vicious in its
consequences as to have almost justified the
violence which in many localities it I'M
doubtedly would have occasioned. Yet
this policy the Democratic party is commit
ted to by the st. Louis platform.
PORTRAIT OF TILDEN.
Samuel j. Tilden is precisely the man
fitted by nature, associations and pursuits
to carry out their purposes.
He has spent the mature years Of his
life in a money getting professional strug-
gle. His occupation has brought him in
contact chiefly with rapacious corporations
or unscrupulous money making capitalists.
Extoring from their desperate fortunes
gigantic fees, which have swelled his
private fortune to many millions. He
has used that fortune with a lavish
hand to promote his political aspira-
tions. He is the first aspirant for Presi-
Dental honors in the history of the coun-
try who has utilized the provincial press by
advertising his qualifications as extensively
and as successfully as Helmbold advertised
his Buchu Such man, fellow-citizens
who relies upon such instrumentalities, and
who seeks by indirection to compass hi:
personal advancement, is not the man tC
lead the Democratic party to victory in this
Centennial year of the Republic.
REHABILITATION
[ have thus stated, then, substantially
the principal reasons that have impelled
me to oppose the election of Mr.. Tilden to
the Presidency.
First-Because he interfered, without
justifable cause, to bring defeat upon the
Democracy of Ohio last Fall, that he might
further his own aspirations for the Presi
dency.
Second-Because the Democratic party
had been defeated in three successive pres
idential campaigns, under the Leadership
of New York, and she had no right agar
to demand of us to take as leader a man
who has large and influential opposition
in his own delegation and an opposition
comprising men of the very highest per
sonal and official character throughout the
State.
Third-Because the action Of his friends
in effecting his nomination by the Conven
tion, was in violation of parliamentary
usage, unfair and unjust to all opposing
candidates.
Fourth-Bccause the platform adopted
by the Convention does not declare tn,
true principles of the Democratic party.
commits the party to the national banking
system as our permanent system of cur
rency and finance. 1t discredits the green
back currency, seek its entire destruction
and proposes the forced and immediate re
sumption of specie payment. Because th
| Convention, at the instance of Mr.. Tilden'
supporters, and in the interest of the New
| York gold ring, repudiated the resolution
offered by Mr. Doolittle to restore the Law
providing for the coinage of the silver dol
| lar
Fifth-Because the forced nomination o
| Thomas A. Hendricks, man of pro
nounced views, in preference for green
back currency, and in opposition to the re
sumption laws, on the same ticket witt
Mr. Tilden, and on the platform adoptet
by the Convention, is an inconsistency S
glaring as to amount to an insult to the in
telligence of the people of the country.
Sixth-Because Mr.. Tilden is not i
character or qualifications what he and hi
friends claim him to be- He has resorte
to means to promote his own aspirations t
the Presidency that are unprecedented i
this country as they are disreputable. Hi
record as a reformcr has been seriously i'm
peached, by some of his most ardent SUI
porters two years ago, His connection wit
railroad corporations and the Credit Nc
bilier swindlers, as counsellor and adviser
is not such as to reflect upon his characte
as lawyer, much less as a reformer an
as hard money man, the issue Of som
four millions of individual currency, i
violation of law, subjecting him to heay
penalties, proves him to be sham, an
will require much explanation. lie is no
in brief, such man as even New 1or