National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-07-18

but we believe the ticket is Tilden and Hen
bricks. Quite difference.
The sheriff who conniyed at and allowed the
escape of William NJ. Tweed, the Boss thief of
the universe, is now shouting his lungs sore
for Samuel Jones Tilden, the Bachelor and
Bogus reformer of the Democracy.
The Petersburg Inder in rejoicing over the
brutal massacre at Hamburg says it was
little affair in which Ga half dozen mutt
nous negroes lost their worse than worthless
lives" This paper flies the Tilden reform
banner, and the slaughter of negroes is its
policy of reform.
Samuel Tilden, the great reformer, has de-
serted his executive duties at Albany and has
fed to Saratoga to while away the summer
months. He does this even before President
Grant goes to Long Branch. Certainly the
Democracy should rebuke him for absence
from his post of duty.
The following points were developed in
Governor Vance's speech in North Carolina
recently: He is sorry that he laid down his
arms. He is in favor of re-enslaving the
negro. He defended secession, and felt con-
WINGED that the lost cause is not lost. He
talked treason for one hour, and then asked
the Tildcn Democracy to elect him Governor
of the State, and the request met with their
approval.
Horace Greeley, in speaking of Tilden's con-
nection with the giant frauds of Tammany and
the Democracy throughout the Empire State,
said "You, not merely by silence, but by
positive assumption, have covered these frauds
with the mantle of your responsibility. On the
principle that the receiver is as bad as the
thief you are as deeply implicated in them
to-day as though your name were Tweed,
O'Brien or Oakley Hall"
It Is said that Samuel Jones Tllden would
have given large majority of ducats annu-
ally if his parents had parted his name in the
middle with something other than Jones.
Since his nomination he has endeavored to
twist Jones into Jericho, or some other high
sounding and novel name, but unfortunately
the ink used in writing Jones in the family
Bible struck in and will not be erased. 1t is
quite appropriate, however, for, politically
speaking, he will go to Jones' locker next No
vember, and it is always wise to have such
thing, If it must occur, to do so in the family.
The time has come when those of the Ameri-
can people who aided in saving the Union
must stand by their guns and preserve the re-
suits of the war. The smouldering embers of
rebellion still smoke in the South. The old
spirit is once more assuming an aggressive at
titude. Hatred to loyalty is again unmasking
its grim visage and sounding the tocsin of sec
tional strife. The other day in Kentucky
they compelled the widow of Union officer to
pull down the Stars and Stripes on penalty of
having her house burned over her head. In
New Orleans the owners of a building COM
PEELED post of the Grand Army of the Re-
public to take In an American flag bearing the
names of Hayes and Wheeler under pain of
ejectment from the premises. This is but the
Alpha of these scenes. With Tilden in the
White House there would be no welcomed spot
for loyalty in all the wide domain of Dixie.
When we remember the disgraceful exhibit
ton witnessed in and about our Washington
hotels while the contest for a candidate for
Speaker was going on last fall, crowded as
they were with pugilists, notorious gamblers
from every section of the country, and the
lowest blacklegs, and the more recent uuheard-
of scenes at a rational convention which
transpired at st. Louis, Is 1t not time for all
good and honest men to inquire of themselves
if the time has not fully come for them to be-
come aroused, if not alarmed, at the danger
which must result to all the better interests
of our Government if they do not arise in
their majesty as people and, exercising that
right vouchsafed to them, suppress every
semblance of rowdyism, rufianism and scoun-
drelism which has taken such a deep root
within the organization of modern Democracy
as to make 1t a most dangerous combination
to the future prosperity of the whole nation!
z A wise suggestion was made the other day
by gentleman thoroughly acquainted with
the condition of Southern politics, which was
to this effect a: That the national executive
committee would find it to the incalculable in
terest of the Republican party to send into the
Southern States during the approaching cam
paign an army of our best and most prominent
political speakers, for the purpose of urging |
upon the Republican voters, white and black,
the necessity of every mans voting at all haz- |
ards at the next election. The Republican |
voters of the South should be convinced that |
If they will manfully and boldly exercise the |