The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-17

The Republican party had again met st
Cincinnati and done works meet for repen
lance, they had conceded the point of the
great necessity of Reform il their own party;
this was half the battle won when o party
saw the evil and were disposed to return to
an honest government. Five candidates were
prominently before the convention. The
Liberal and Reform element we're for Bris-
tow, they constitute ed but email part of
the delegation, had but few prominent men
to urge their claims in the convention, yet
there was mighty power behind these men
1.-The great mass of the honest Reform
voters whose votes IN ust be had to ensure
success. This vote behind the convention
was posent and wrung victory from the most
popular of all the candidates, Blaine. 1t is
right that this element should come to the
front, aud he believed under Gov. Hayes
that the better and reformatery element of
the Republican party would be in the as
tendency, and bring the party back to it's
old position. Ex-GoV. Seymour of New
York, had truly said that the Republican
party bad lost the confidence of the nation,
and the Democrats had not succeeded in
gaining it. The nomination of Gov. Hayes
had restored confidence to the Republican
party in great measure. We did not get
Bristow but we got his counterpart, his equal
in many respects, did better, we got man
without reproach, man who had the coma
fidence of tie people, man who was serving
his third term as Governor of the great
ca ~ IL
whose intelligence and wisdom was first in
the nation His record was pure morally
socially, politically-the man for the place.
He was all that caesar desired his wife to be,
not only free from wrong but above the sus-
picion OF guilt. 1t was great pleasure to
support such nan for the presidency,
luxury to have man that we did not have
to defend at every corner of the street
such q man was Rutherford B. Hayes, for
whom victory was worth the having.
Again his letter of acceptance was a
platform in itself, the best ever put forth,
and his refusal of second term. a pledge of
it's honesty-a guarantee that he would car
ry it out. Had the Liberal party met in
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not have excelled the letter of Rutherford
3. Hayes under his own sign manual. He
believed him honest and would trust him, he
believed he would call about him the good
and true men CT the nation, and redeem the
party from it's present reproach.
| Mr.. j. thea paid his compliments to the
Democratic party; it Yves conservative
party, holdback party, had great drsg
net to draw behind It,. Since the days of
Jefferson it had originated no great reform,
but opposed all reforms. When in 1872 it
adopted the Cincinnati Liberal Platform he
had had some hopes for it,but it soon relaps-
ed back to its old rTt of Bo1rbonism, 1t had
not encouraged the Liberals only such as
would accept it's worst vices. Its face was
turned backward, not forward. 1t had done
what it could to drive the Liberals from 1t
and they were going he thought of the 200
in this county who had voted for Grant in
1868 and for Greeley in 1879 three quarters
of them would 60 for Hayes and Wheeler
this fall.
He did not himself seriously object to
Governor Tiden, thought him an able man,
who had done good work in New York, he
would give HIM full credit for it, let his mo-
tives be what they might, his letter of ac-
ceptance wac an able one, he had been six
weeks in loading his gun and the shot mad
gone many miles like a meteor over the
heads of the great mass Of his partisan
readers; they could not understand it, it was
rather signal gun to the great money
castles, asking recognition. A lower shot
near the earth might have plowed its way
through the hearts of the people and created
ground swell at least. Tilden had been
Tammany politician and was obnoxious to
severe criticism In the frauds of 1858. The
browning offense of the democrats
was the putting of Gov Hendricks
on the ticket. Under no circum-
stances could he support him, his record
was ad56urfng the war, his speeches in,
famous and unpatriOtic, his pfejudIces SO.
chronic that he could not treat the corpse Of
the Martyred Lincoln with common decency
besides he was a ragbaby advocate-the
representative man of the greenback ele-
ment of the great states of Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois; the vote that would elect him
would elect large representation in Con-
gress to defeat resumption at any time.
For these and other reasons he thought
the Liberals should support Hayes and
Wheeler. Governor Tilden had fired heavy
gun at the dying Grant dynasty-but none
of it was aimed at Gov. Hayes or hit him, or
touched his high position. He begged par
don, there was one pistol shot at the Ohio
Governor, who had without the request of
his party, the better to give faith TO his
declarations, declared that under no con-
ditions would he accept second term.