The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-28
r1LnEN THE nnRGANIzER 1,

The democratic party is making, and
will continue to make, a desperate effort
to carry the elections this TALL. 1t is a life
or death struggle with democrats, and they
know it. Every appliance known to poll.
tics will be brought to bear in the contest
but first they must inspire hope. Without
hope of success, without seeming to see,
not only its possibility, but its probability,
they know that no determined effort can be
made. that the only result will be utter,
overwhelming defeat. 1t cannot be dis
guised that Il proper degree of confidence
is as necessary TO victory, as over-confi-
dence is conducive to defeat. Consequent.
ly, we see, at present, the whole effort OF
the party turned toward inspiring conf
, dence in the result. TaG%kle, Ibis not by
the oadeavor "a show that tnssrepublican
candidates are unfit for the positions t.
which they have been nominated, for Their
eminent fitness, their entire capacity and
perfect integrity is conceded. Not by
holding up the democratic party as worthy
to be entrusted with power, for the whole
record of the party and of is candidates
demonstrates its utter unworthiness, unfit
ness and incapacity. They say that Samuel
]. Tilden is great political organizer
and that he will 80 " organize as to Sc
cure victory.
This is their argument, and the whole
argument. We concede that Samuel J
Tilden is great political ''organze"," that
he has been accustomed to ''organize" vic
tory, but it seems to lis that this is a bad
year for organizers" If the politics OF
the present and the past two years has had
any significance, it has been as protest
against the Tllden kind of political "organ-
"izers." The political organization of the
Tilden kind is simply machine politics ii
is the packing of primaries and nominating
conventions, to bring about the nomination
of certain men the crack of the party
whip, the enforcing OF party discipline,
the bringing men up to the polls to vote the
"straight ticket" the securing of elections
by the votes of repeaters, by the buying of
electors; the bringing into play of the old
democratic maxim of voting early and vot-
ing often and then of making assurance
doubly sure, by counting in candidates re-
gardless of the actual number of legal votes
polled.
This country has been protesting against
this kind of politics for two years. Massa-
chusetts protested when it elected William
Castor, and left Benjamin f. Butler out
of his seat in congress. Michigan protest
ed when it refused to return Zach Chandler
to the senate; Wisconsin by retiring Matt
Carpenter TO private life and Minnesota
by relieving Alexander II. Ramsey of his
arduous labors in the senate. The repub-
lcsn national convention not only protest
ed, bat placed its seal of condemnation on
organizers" when it nominated Ruther-
ford b. Hayes, in preference to James G
Blame, whose reputation as an "organizer'
was second only to that of Samuel j. Til
dem over Roscoe Conkling and OliverP.
Morton, in whose behalf primaries were
controlled by custom house officials and
the whole army OF ofiiceholders. 1t was
left to the democracy to bow to the "or.
ganzer,' as in Connecticut, when VII.
liam W. Eaton and William A. Barnum
were sent TO the senate; in Pennsylvania
when William A. Wallace was made a sen
ator in congress; in Missouri, when Cock
rell was preferred to Carl Schurz in New
York when state ticket was crammoC
down the throats of an unwilling state con
ventIon; and finally, at St. Louis, wher
the nomination of samuel j. Tilden wal
procured by the force Of sheer organiza
ton.
Yes Samuel j. Tilden is great "organ
" izer." For years he "organized" Tam
many, 80 that Tammany could "organize'
victory. He is remarkable, too, in thu
choice of his tools with which TO de hi
work. He was organizing victory wheI
he received, in 1866, five thousand dollar
of Tweed's stolen money with which t
carry New York, and when, the same year
he told Tweed not to fail to meet him il
Philadelphia. He was organizing victor,
when, in 1868, he suffered A. Oakley Hal
and Tweed to issue the circular" to chair
men Of county committees nstructin
them to seed in the country returns early
because there was ian important obj ct Il
=" be attained, and, knowing the frandu
lent object, did not even raise his voice il
protest. He was organizing victory, whe