Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-11-24

MIR. Tilden's Programme.
A prominent article in the New York
World is regarded as an enuncation of the
programme which Mr.. Tilden will follow
if the count in Louisiana and Florida goes
against him. The substance of this pro-
gramme is summarized by the New York
Times as follows:
Unless the Senate agree TO the demand
of the House for the exclusion from the
count of the votes of Louisiana or Florida,
the latter body will refuse to concur. The
President of the Senate will 90 on with
the count, the Senate approving, and will
declare Hayes elected. The House. act
ing on its own account, will elect Tiden.
At the proper time, Hayes will be inaugu-
rated with the usual formalities, and will
take possession of the White House.
Tilden will take the oath of Office in the
back parlor of his Gramercy Park man
sion, before a magistrate competent UNI
der Federal law to administer oaths,' and
will at once issue his pronunciamento, of
which. after two weeks cogitation, he has
already written the opening paragraph.
The country will then have two Congresses
and two Presidents. All executive ofli-
GERS. including Army and Navy officers,
will, according to Mr. Tilden and the
World, decide, each for himself, which of
the two shall have his allegiance. There
will be no Legislation. The appropriations
will in due course run out. The Treasury
will be bankrupt. What nextP Mr.. Til
den wthholds the answer. There can lie
but one. AT this stage the country would
be deep in civil war"
''Such is the programme" says the
Times, "laid down for the guidance of the
democratic party in behalf of its defeated
candidate for the Presidency. The first
reflection it suggests is, that the pro-
gramme would be more dangerous in the
hands Of almost any other man than Mr..
Tilden. He is coward. He has not the
courage of his convictions. Leech de-
picted Lord John Russell as little boy,
chalking No Popery' on wall and lun-
ming away. Mast may fad a text for a
cartoon in Tilden calling upon democrats
to rise in Instruction and lodging into a
closet, frightened at the sound Of his own
voice. He has never yet dared to risk his
own neck, and he is not likely to muster
the requisite nerve now. His tactics are
not the less infamous because others will
be left to pay the penalties. And though
we are persuaded that his timidi,y will re-
strain him from any effort to execute the
revolutionary plot foreshadowed by the
World, the fact remains that its promul-
cation must tend to ncite democratic ruff
fans to mischief, and TO deepen the dis
trust which already exists. The habit of
familiarizing the mob with ideas OF resist
ance to lawfully constituted authority is
of itself most dangerous. 1t is the first
specific attempt 10 Mexicanize our politics,
and comes, consistently enough, from the
dOiSabCu nUO Ddo u'filt MS
most to degrade the Office heis too eager
to clutch"
Since the article referred to above was
published in the World, Hon Clarkson n.
Potter of New York, prominent demo-
crat and neighbor to Mr.. TIlden, has pub
lshed letter in which he takes substan.
TALLY the same ground as the article in the
World. That letter is construed also as
an expression of Mr. Tildcn's opinion and
policy. Thus we see that the country is
dealing with the same old spirit that in
1860 and '6l hurried on the rebellion. The
chief of the party, now as then controlled
by the factious and disorderly elements OF
which il is composed, is suffering himself
to be led forward into revolutionary acts,
which the best men of his own party dep
recate and will Tot sustain