The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-17
Republican National Nominations.
THE TICKETS COMPARED.

1t is a singular feature of the present
Presidential campaign, and one worthy of
special notice by the people that the Democra-
tic papers have nothing to say against Messrs
Hayes and Wheeler, the Republican candi-
dates, either as regard themselves individu-
ally or their records This can hardly be be-
cause the Democrats have not been willing
to find all the flaws in the men and their
deeds possible, but because after the most
exacting search there was nothing to find ;
their lives and their deeds having been so
perfectly correct as to leave nothing behind
which could be made available to their detri-
ment. But notwithstanding that their lives,
politically and otherwise, have been so perfect
Democrats could not afford to let them alone,
and hence as they could find nothing on which
to base charge against them already to
hand, they must needs draw invention to
their aid and manufacture against them
something which they hope will aid in secur-
ing their defeat. And what has all their
labor during the two months of the campai ign
already expired produced? Literally moth
ing, or, rather even worse than nothing They
leave Gen. Hayes with his war, congressional
and gubernatorial records alone, and, as they
have said nothing against Mr.. Wheeler, we
presume their experience in the search
against him has admonished Democracy that
it is best to ignore him altogether. Thus
contessedly without ammunition available
against Gen. Hayes personally, Democracy
seizes upon what they presume the next best
thing and as a result the sins, real and
imaginary, of others are attempted to be
heaped upon his shoulders, and these coupled
with the unfounded. suppositions of the
Democratic chiefs turn out to be the only
means they have to work with for his defeat.
What Gen Grant has done they essay TO
hold Gen. Hayes responsible for, and they
further assume to name those who will in
fuence him in the conduct Of his administra-
ton and then hold him responsible on the
very slender basis of that assumption. And
this Democracy calls treating Gen. Hayes
honestly and respectfully; and on this they
ask the people to defeat him. They wholly
ignore Gen. Hayes life of honesty, patriotism
and personal responsibility exhibited on all
occasions, and they attempt to hide from the
people the fact which they themselves so well
know that in both points they but present a
rillanious lie boldly manufactured out of the
whole cloth-a Democratic lie which hasn't
even the merit Of ignorance to excuse it.
Their conduct towards Gen. Hayes hardly
has It's counterpart for righteousness in the
whole range Of political history nor in any
other.
How different from this is Republican
treatment of Governor Tilden. Personally
Republican Editors and laymen say nothing
about him, and when they turn their atten-
tion to him politically they work only upon
the evidences furnished by the record of
Samuel J. Tilden himself Thus, when
Democratic papers claim for Mr. Tilden credit
for honesty and for extraordinary reform
prociyites, Republicans ask where are the
evidences Of this great honesty and what has
he reformed and they go to the records and
find that during the perpetration of New
York citys robberies, he hobnobbed with
Tweed, the boss thief, corresponded lovingly
with him, and helped him spend the stolen
money 10 corrupting elections, in organizing
the Democratic army ofrepeaters and ballot
box suffers, and in cheating the people out
OF the true results of elections. Nothing so
very reforming in this surely. And then
they look further, and then they find that in
she great hue about Tilden's reform of the
Canal ring, there is after all great deal of
cry over a very little wool. Three indict-
mcnts Of alleged canal robbers with one con-
viction but sentence stayed, one thrown out
by the courts because of official connivance
III the fraud, and the third held under advise
ment. No body hurt, and some ofthe canal
thieves at St. Louis working earnestly for Til |
dens nomination and the embodiment off
IiIden's reform in the government is the
result Of this search. The reduction Of New
y ork state taxes by some $4,000, 900 is the
next claim which engages the attention of the
Republicans. The records are again called
20 the trout, and reveal anything but what
Democracy claims in this respect. Instead
Of its being Samuel j. IIlden who cut down
the tax, it was the act of Republican legs-
lature, in faithfully carrying out pledge Of
the law creating the debt which made the
taxes necessary Samuel j. did not veto
the bills securing the reduction because he
dared not do SO, and hence, as in his joining
the crusade against his dear friend Tweed,
his reform in this matter was compulsory not
yoluntary-thc result Of bis fears that any
other course would damn Mr. Tlden to the
hedging Of his ambition, and lay him on the
shelf forever. And then as for Mr.. Tilden's
honesty, bis record comes up to initiate
against the truthfalness Of the claim. Take
his course on resumption, his wrecking of
railroads as samples. A year ago he was