The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-08-18

CAMDEN, N. J., Aug. I, 1876
ETHAN ALLEN, Chairman Liberal National
Committee:
DEAR SIR - You ask me in your letter.
DIST ult., to Gift up your (my) voice and re-
oce like strong man for Hayes and
Wheeler"
TcdHnot do IL, and ] will tell you why:
In 1872, we fought that good fight to-
gcthcr, in which was proud of your COM
panionship. We then supported Horace
Greely for President-a pure man good
man, n statesman and patriot The De-
mocracy, at Baltimore, forgetting their ami
mostics, Joined us in endeavoring TO restore
and rebuild upon the foundation Of the
amendments to the Constitution, which then
promised, and yet promise, a re-growth of
constitutional liberty, through which pure
| law shall be the measure of perfect freedom.
| Gov. Austin Blair "a man respected and re-
vered by Mr. Greely,l says of Mr.. Tilden,
"ITe makes no compromises with corruption,
and never seeks to avoid the enmity of the
rings. As practical reiormer he has led
the way to the restoration of honest and eco
nomical government in the only possible
manner, by vigorous assault upon the pow
erful combinations of political pecuators
who have possessed themselves of the reins
of government"
But you say "Mr. Tilden is honest from
calculation and not from nature
To use homely proverb, why do you
l.. s..r q. I,, ,,,t Il, hat
right have we to go into the motives of a
statesman who has imprisoned or driven in
to exile gigantic municipal robbers land then
trampled in the dust the powerful and def
ant Canal Ring Of the State of New York
While we have been talking reform, Gov,
Tilden has been ACTING reform.
The people cried aloud for change of
measures and men. Massachusetts,, with
added thousands in every State, hungering
and thirstng for honest government, asked
. tor Bristow for President We were told
that he would apostatize and Johnsonize the
Republican party, and Morton and Conk-
t ling and Logan cunning in their extremity,
r dodging the real issue, have given us Ru-
S therford b. Hayes, unknown to the nation
! save that he was three times Governor of
Ohio. We have nothing to say against him;
p but does he fill the bill? The stream cannot
t rise higher than the fountain. The fountain
v is corrupt. The slow poison of this admin
f istraton-alas not slow enough-has pene-
A trated the great cohorts of office-holding Re-
:. publcanism, from the Cabinet to the custom
o house. Will Mr.. Hayes he stronger than
: the Convention which cried 10 7riumphe to
|. Grants administration when the people had
G repudiated it with unanimity unparalleled
|. in history?
i 1t seems to me "now The campaign of
d 1872 was based on generous sentiment and
r, sound policy. In supporting Hayes you go
= back. / go forward We are at last a ho-
1t mogeaeous people. There is no North, no
d South; but the machinery of Republican
s. politics waves over us at once truncheon
e and "bloody shirt" (as if the war had not
l. ended eleven years ago.; and seeks to kindle
5, old animosities while inaugurating policy
l. of passion.
ID To this policy, which Hayes must be pow
y erless to resist | have never given-and 1
e. never can give-my assent.
Is The people care little for the money ques-
ton.
4, That has no business in this campaign
70 Tilden and Hendricks (the latter a well-be-
20 loved statesman Of Indiana, fully abreast OF
'e the advanced sentiment of the country,
c. stand to-day where you and l stood at the
ie Cincinnati Convention of 1872. We believ-
l. ed them sincere then, when, conquering
prejudices, they joined hands with us in
u fighting a corrupt administration.
ST And | believe them sincere now when
IL they promise the people an honest admins,
p trdti0A.
l. Such platform would satisfy Lincoln, OF
y Chase, or Greely, or Sumner. But Republi.
II canism now means Conkling, and Morton
! and Sargent, and Logan AS the power behind
&c the thronc-it means the continued domina-
:" tion of an arrogant and INSCRIPTIONS aris.
re tocracy of ohice-holders; it means pore,
ie without conscience, and it mistakes duddciJ
'e for StatesmQnship Politics is not a profess
ii sion; it is a duty; and because l believe il
u my duty, | shall advocate the election oi
"TMDEN and HENDRICKS" Sincerely
$ yours,
u. T,NTre NJ ScOvrT