The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-07-26
THE Candidates ahe two Parties.

Two parties, IS as striking as the diner
ence between their platforms. II is said
that Sodom and Gomorrah would have
been saved from destruction if two good
men could have been found within its
walls; and that the Republican leaders,
in the persons of Hayes and Wheeler,
have found two men who are honest
enough to avert from their party the pent
up wrath Of the people. 1t is a rare
thing indeed for that party to boast the
honesty of Its politicians but this plea
will not save it. 1t threw overheard
Bristow, the only real Reformer who was
presented for the nomination. He re-
ceived only 1875 votes out of 1873. Hayes
may be personally an amiable man, but
he Is no Reformer He is not the man
to smash up the rings and clean out the
Augean stable. He is involved in the
crookedness Of the Administration which,
with all Its crimes, was endorsed by the
Convention that endorsed him. His
responsibility cannot plaster over such
fostering sores as Belknap, Babcock,
Blaine, and the vast army of revenue
thieves who grew up and we've fed and
prospered under the patronage and smiles
| Of the Administration. Nor will it serve
to convince the country that the party
which is responsible for these abuses is
fit to be continued in power. Gov. Hayes
does not meet the requirements OF the
! times and will 90 by the board. The
people mean business in the matter of
reforming governmental abuses and
reducing taxes, and the eternal fitness of
| things points the man for the work; that
man is Samuel J. TiIden, of New York.
He is the embodiment Of the grand CEN
trail ideas to which the hearts of the
country are clinging-the publication of
the civil service--the expulsion of the
public plunderers from the high places
in which they have entrenched them
selves-the right Of local selfgov-
eminent, and the subordination of
the military to the civil authority. After
he had broken up the powerful Tweed
ring in New York city, and sent its
master spirit, with his armor of gold, to
the penitentiary, he was elected Governor
of New York by laundering majority
of $4,000. From that position, he
assailed and struck down the Canal
ring, another agency of fraud no less
strongly entrenched than the Tweed
ring. When this blow was struck
an immense meeting was held in New
York irrespective of party to endorse and
applaud his course, and pledge him CO.
operation and assistance. This meeting
was addressed by number of distin-
guished men-among others, the Hon.
Edward Perrepont, late Attorney g en-
eral, once in the Grant cabinet, and at
present United States minister to Eng
land. He said:
"Three years ago last sumner, brave
&" and honest men, in spite of offered
q brides and threatened violence, laid
@ bare to the public gaze the frauds per
petrated in this great city by our cho-
4" sen rulers, and foremost, conspicuous
"and fearless was Samuel j. Tilden
| Then his enemies in his own party
" said his political grave was dug; but
g last fall (when the election for Gov
ernor came on) it was so filled up with
Z" Democratic votes and rounded off with
" Republican votes, that his enemies
" could not push him in. And now
4" they tell Us that this canal ring will
" dig another grave for tAig fearless mag
istrate. (said Mr.. Pierrepont1 pre-
"dict that if they do, it will be filled up
g in the same way except twice as high
"The thieves that plqn!ered your city,
9 that stole your earnings, Tho, raised
your taxes from which you groan to-
day, have been sent into prison or to
Jail, and the ether thieves whom he is
. now pursuing with equal fearlessness
g will follow those who have gone be-
g fore" The people, said Mr.. Pierre
"pont, like fearless, honest man."
+" and, "Yhen the next Presidential cleo
g ton comes around, You will not find
''that men will be much governed by
"party ties-they will want an honest,
6 intelligent, protecting power, that they
may 90 aboat their business feeling
g confident that their government is in
=" honest hands"
These are prophetic words. They
are as true as Holy Writ. The people
of the United States will demand at the
ballot box that this great Reformer,
who destroyed the rings and strangIed
corruption in New York, shall perform
the sane service for the nation.
On the question Of the right of each
State to manage its own affairs, free from
military interference, his record has been
no less Enthusiastically made up. When
a military usurper dispersed the Louis
lana Legislature and denounced her pee
PIE as banditti for claiming the right to
rescue thair State from the plunderers by
fa;" and Peacefui election, Governor
Tilden denounced the usurpatior end
called upon the Legislature Of New
York to register its emphatic condem-
nation of the act. If, as Governor of
New York, he denounced the usurpation |
of the rights OF the people of Louisiana
by military power, what will he do as
Commander n-chief of the Army and /
Navy of the United States? Upon this |
paramount issue may he not be trusted |