The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-11-02

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and having lost your prosperity through
governmental misrulc, regain that pros:
perity through governmental reform
We commit this great issue to the intel,
ligence and conscience of the American
people, with an -unfaltering trust in the
wisdom and Justice of their decision.
- AMOS IS. HEWITT, Chm'n.
| FREDERICK O. PRINCE, Sec. z
Neao' York, October 13, 1876 .e
THE PEACEFUL REVOLUTION.
THE CAUSE OF REFORM rs MARCHING
ON, CoNoUERING AND TO CONQUER.
WASHINGTON, October %, 1876.
The gloom and dependency which
settled on the Republican managers after
the full returns from Ohio and Indiana,
still continue, and the desperate efforts
to throw off this feeling and to replace il
with hope have signally failed. Instead
of improving it has become more and
more confirmed. Chandler finds himself
in the condition of a commander who
staked whole campaign on the fate of a
single battle, and came out of it
with broken and demoralized army,
much inclined toHrevolt without dis
cipline, and nearly without ammunition.
Nothing reveals weakness like defeat.
Then it is that discomfort, jealousy, envy,
malice, and disappointed ambition speak
out. This is the sort of refreshment with
which Chandler's committee has been de-
luged for ten days. No word of comfort
has come. but complaint from every
quarter at the false issues of the cam
paign; the waving of the "bloody shirt
as national banner; the putting for
ward of Blaine and other corrupt leaders
as the representatives of reform inside ;
the fabricated charges against Mr.. Til
denis personal character, and the false
figures made in the Treasury to deceive
the country.
There has been no rally fthc party in
the sense of recovery from stunning
blow, or as illustrating any confidence in
success. On the, contrary, there is q
panic here now which is far worse than
that first witnessed, because the reports
received from Wisconsin leave hardly
any doubt that Tilden will carry that
State largely, while Michigan isthreaten-
ed in way to give Chandler the most
serious concern and alarm for the result
In fact, the reaction, since Ohio and
Indiana virtually decided the Presidency
for Tilden, would be amazing if the noble
army Of neutrals; numbering perhaps
half million of voters, and scattered
chiefly over twenty States, did not pro-
verbally rush over to the strong side,
and thus explain this wonderful change
in the aspect of the campaign in less than
a fortnight, All over the Northwest the
Republicans are throwing off the yoke ot
party rule, so that Illinois has become
nearly doubtful State, and there is
rebellion in Minnesota and parts of Iowa
This revolution has spread into Penn
sylvania, and the awakening there is
| causing Cameron and his crew ananxiety
they have never before felt. But what
troubles the managers most here, is. the
intelligence from the city and State oi
New York. The large accessions to the
reform ranks from among solid men who
have never before cast any but Repub.
lican vote, and who are now determined
to deposit their ballots for the Democratic
candidates, are fully reported to Chandler
and his confederates, and make them
very blue indeed.
But this is not the worst by any means
Chandler has found in his frequent jour
neys to New York, and especially the
last, that the merchants and bankers who
used to contribute thousands, will mol
give dollar to help the Republican
ticket. They know that the effect of the
calumnies of Blaine, Morton, Ingersoll
Boutwell,, and the outrages of the Admin.
istration against the South, has been te
react on their material interests. While
this warfare is kept up there can be nc
real peace; and without peace prosperity
| is practically impossible.
If a Republican Administration, head
ed by Hayes should come into power
Grantism would not only be continued
but at the end of four years this same
sectional strife would be- again renewed
| as it was in 1864, 1868, 1872, and 1876
| perhaps even more intensely than now
and with the most disturbing effects on
trade and the relations of the two sec
tions. This agitation iii the interests o.
politicians alone cannot 60 on without
serious arrangement of business, to be
felt more directly and severely in New
York than in any part of the Union.
Hence1it is that the Republican mer
chants and bankers will not aid to, keep
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their best interests, and threatens new
dangers to the tranquility of the Union
They see that the only mode. of removing
the Southern question from politics is by
the election of Samuel J. Tilden. Polit
ically, they may not prefer him to other;
on their own side, but he can do in this
great matter what he did in regard t.
Tweed's Ring end the evil and provide
a remedy.
| Letters from inside the Republican or
ganization in New. York, represent it:
condition as hopeless, confused and dis
mayed. It is stated that Mr.. Morgan ha.
emphatically refused to answer the de
mands for more money, that his peculiar
friends regard the prospect as cherries
| and that the probable falling on In the
Republican vote by conversions to Til
den, and by refusal to 60 to the polls al
all, reaches to every part of the State
and will swell up to very many. thou
sanGs. IN
The Administration has lost all head
| if it ever had any. There is no direction
no steady hand: at the helm, and no soune
sense of any kind. The last experiment
of sending the army to South Caroline
under false pretences, has reacted to the
injury of the very cause it was intended
to promote. The splendid submission O.
the Carolinians to this daring ouSrage
was exactly what the conspirators die
not expect or desire. They melted re
sistance to their own troops, but the
scheme did, not succeed. In spite of this
infamous proceeding, which will. ye
bring its authors to grief, if the House ol
Representatives does half its duty mex
winter, Wade Hampton will probably be