Saint Mary's beacon., 1876-11-30

taat pnstors and deacnns, we thought
we could well afford to keep silent
about them. - they would be sure to
withdraw when they saw that ssTeiorm
within the party" had actually begun.
Now comes part OF the story which
ow pen almost refuses To write. This
was flsc hast We saw OF Mr.. Hayes, OF
/ the last we heard Of the plattoen al
the letter from aoy authoritative source,
until q few DAYS before the election.-
The proceedings which took place in
church simply filed Us with amaze
ment. Little vas said about reform by
anybody. and the suspicious-iooking
deacons and assistant pastors, instead
of Withdrawing. got out packs Of soiled
cards and began playing xeven-up,' and
swearing Justify al the s'ex-rebels," and
offering to thrash anybody who in-
tcrfered with thcm- Perceising Mr..
Zach" Chandler in the pulpit, s4tellins
stories" and che wing tobacco. and ex-
ercising the functions Of a chairman,
we asked the bystanders whether they
really meant to say that zach" was a
retormer, and learned that he WASH I
much of reformer, but was a good fel-
low, had plenty of money and knew
how to '.run the machine and then
they laughed and punched us in the
ribs as if we too must enjoy the joke.
Turning TO MIR. Wheeler, the nominee
for the vice-presidency, we asked him
when the exposition of republican doc
trine was to begin, and he said he would
begin il now himself, and Zach" thege-
upon raped for silence, and we heard
to our amazement. that the campaign
was not aSout civil-sefvice reform, or
currency, or pacification at all-that il
was a continuation OF the civil war, and
that we had to vote as if we were aciu-
ally on the battlefield. Seeing Mr..
Blame, who appeared looking vigorous
and active, we asked Rim what the cam
paigE was about, and he said entirely
about ''outrages" on negroes, on which
subject he had reams OF evidence. In
quiring Of Mr.. Boutwell, if this was true,
he said, very gloomily, that it was not
half true enough. Here the editor Of
the New York Times came up, and de-
clared that the whole thing really turned
on Tilden's income and the condition
Of the once smiling village of Brady's
Bend, and became very violent and
abusive. Mr.. Blaine then added that,
now that he thought of it, he must say
the campaign was really about South
ern claims for damages during the war,
which he put down at s., 600 ,O0O. 900,
and which we should have TO paw at
once if Tilden was elected. This de-
lighted the whole company greatly. and
they all shouted Claims, claims r' at
the top of their voices.
When silence was restored, Mr.. Mu-
rat Halstead, whom We last saw at the
Greeley convention at Cincinnati irving
to pacify the South, arose, drew large
manuscri pit from his pocket, and said
he should be happy to read an essay on
claims, showing that they were almost
immeasurable in amount, and that no
earthly power corld prevent their being
paid il Tilden was made President
During The reading, however, we were
sorry TO perceive much winking be-
tween Chandler and Blaine. At this
point the editor of the Evening Post
arose and declared that the real reason
for electing Hayes, after all, was that
if we did not the conversion of the six
per cent. bonds in London would stop.
This he knew was true, because some
body in Washington had read il in
letter from some one in London, and
that he would advise an uprising OF
bankers and merchants. Mr.. Chandler
thereupon called upon The bankers and
merchants to upri>e aboat the public
credit, and ask Mr.. Evarts for speech
on it. This gentleman delivered a
speech accordingly, but said nothing in
it about the public credit, which made
the company again laugh. and they said
they supposed il was just as well, and
that they would ge. the Secretary Of
the Treasury to say when and how the
republican party would resume specie
payments. The Secretary appeared ac-
coldingly, and said that he could no:
say exactly when ii would resume, but
that it would probably be in the night;
that they would wake up and find re-
sumption going on: il they did not, they
might rely on il they would never see
him again. This caused great merri-
ment, and it was generally agreed that
nocturnal resumption was capital idea
and that Mr.. Morrill, was a great fnan-
cier. Here Mr.. Chandler and Mr.. Jaw
Gould--whom we had observed sitting
with him in the pulpit all along-both
began to look pale and uncomfortable,
and Mr.. Chandler, in answer 10 ingul-
ries as to what alled him, said good
news was coming in from every quar-
ter" that ";he skies were Frightening
all around" and that he felt that some
prompt measures must be taken 10 save
the party. On the suggestion of the
Evening Post and Tribune. ii was re-
solved, under the peculiar circumstan-
ces of the case, to publish Hayes's let
ter once more, and advocate his cleo
ton on that, and this was done for
about a week before the election.
As we came away sorrowiul, we ask
ourselves whether il in July last we
had been invited to support Hayes on
platform composed exclusively of out
RACES, claims, Tilden's income tax,
Terre and Brady's Bend frauds, danger
to the public credit, and, noctural re-
sumption, with Chandler, Blaine, Nor
ton and Bob" Ingersoll as head preach
ers and managers, we would have con-
sented, and we found we had no diff