The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-13
POLITICAL..
Tilden and Hayes ConciselysC Con
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Scattering Tilq|e len Bari +, q Money
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The Candidates Contrasted.


Hon. John Sherman, in a speech in
Mansfield, Ohio, said: Sand now. fell
low citizens, there is but one political
topic to which I wish to call your at
tention, and that is a contrast between
the candidates of the two great parties.
| know them both very well, and have
not one word of unkindness for either.
Both are men of ability and character,
but we may draw from their personal
traits and tendencies many things that
may tend to determine your choice.
Mr.: Tilden is Il New York lawyer, rails
edln the school of Van Buren,, always
active in politics, and especially famil-
liar with the acts and agencies by
Which the city of New York, the great
Lazar House of American politics is
governed. Governor Hayes is the OUT
growth Of Ohio, born and educated
here, and governed by the purer in
luence OF Ohio politics. He was edu-
Gated in our common schools, gradual
tea IN an Ohio college, and his whole
life has been under your eye and view.
Mr.. Tilden in 1860 was SecessiQnist,
or SO near to it that it is hard to draw
the dividing line. His letter to VIM.
Kent dated Oct. 26, 1860, is full of the
very dOgmaS which encouraged the
South to rebel, for it recognized in
every State an organized rebellion. and
ne did not dream of the power of the
Union to put it down.
Hayes has always been for the Union
first. last and all the time. He nev-
er dreamed of it's overthrow by seces-
sion. and never uttered a word incon-
slstent with his supreme allegiance to
the United States. Tilden was lag
gard GROWER during the war. | have
read all that his pamphlets have said
OF him, and what Mr.. Hewitt and Mar
BILE have said, and what does it amount
to! Considering his wealth, his infu-
ence and his power, it is a sorry record
for the time when his country was in
danger. Hayes promptly enlisted in
the military service and fought
through the war. He was several
times wounded, and was always brave,
gallant and successful. Tilden in 1864
was member of the Chicago Conven-
ton. He was member of the COM
mittee, which framed the Infamous
peace resolutions, the darkest act of
infamy during the war. 1t was re-
ported unanimously without a word of
objection from him. and the assertion
now made that he advised General
Mcclellan TO repudiate the worst
phrase of that platform, subjects him
to the suspicion of duplicity. Hayes
at that time was with his division in
the presence of the enemy. lie per.
formed his full part in the great
achievements under Sheridan in the
Shenandoah Valley, and when nomi-
mated Tor Congress, at home, he n0bly
refused to leave his comrades to pro-
mote his election.
Tilden was the Chairman of the
Democratic State Committee of New
York in 1868, and under his name, and
with at least his passive silence, the
great crime was organized by such
men RS Tweed and Hall, by which the
great State was cheated out of it's vote
IN the Presidential election. Hayes
was the patriotic Governor of Ohio.
winning golden opinions from all sorts
OF men; carrying out reforms in your
benevolent institutions. and especially
seeing to it that our election should he
fair and free, without fraud or the
suspicion of it. Tilden is rich from
the plumber of railroads, not stolen
plumber, but that kind of plumber
which,, even with the sanction of
Courts. has given to railroad attorneys
such exorbitant fees as amounted to
extortion and plumber.
10 the disgrace Of Courts, railroad
wrecking has been accompanied by
such extortion under the name Of fees
as to arouse public attention. Hayes,
though practicing his profession, has
been free from such reproach. |
never have heard his name mentioned
with unreasonable charges, or harsh
practices. Mr.. Tilden is bachelor,
and our experience with Mr.. Buchanan
makes that a bad omen. Hayes in the
White House will have with him the
charm of home with wife and child
rem around him.
But, after all, the great thing is that
Tilden is a Democrat, welded to
the series of opposition measures
that have distinguished that par
ty for twenty years, with no
affirmative principles and no hope
of reform. Hayes is a Republi-
can, ardently attached to the princi-
pies and policy of that party, and
ready to lend it's advance to new meas
ures OF progress and reform. And 7
may say, in conclusion, that whatever
faults may then and there have been
committed by Republicans in office,
the Republican party have always led
the way in every reform. 1t has
frankly taken its position on every
question and has never receded, and
has never in the end been defeated.
1t is the party Of progress. It naturally
wins to it the young and enthusiastic