Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
Prof. Sufnner, of Yale College,
fer Tilden.and..H Hendricks.
WAY He AbandOns His Former POlit-
ical Associates! 'n
Sees No Hope Of Reform in the
Election of Hayes.
But Thinks Tilden Has Proved Himself the
Man for the Times.
from the New Haven Palladium. !

[From the New Haven Palladium
observe that most of the public discus
sions turn upon the antecedents, the acts
and the characters of the one and the Othe
party. Those considerations have no fore
at all for my mind. / know my neighbors
One is a Republican by habit, and the othel
g Democrat by habit, and neither OF then
can define his party name. When, there
fore, / read the descriptions that party
newspapers and party orators give OF the
opposite party, l look around me for the
demons who seek the national ruin, and
do not find them. I find ~neighbors, some
of whom are under one banner and some
under the other, but in their general tone
and will and intentions those Of one party
are just as good and just as bad as those OF
the other. Especially when [ remember
that the social distribution Of the two par
ties in the Northern States is exactly oppo-
site to what it is in the Southern States, ii
seems to me that the national parties are
very equally adjusted in regard to the So
cial, Intellectual, and moral elements which
they contain. Now, an historian or a for
eigner, reading the accountsiwhich the par
ties give of each other, must infer either
that these accounts are all false, and that
they simply constitute a depraved method
of electiOneering which
OBsCUREs THE ISSUE
and prevents the people from really using
sound judgment, or else that they are all
true, in which case the people of the United
States are so unpatriotic, corrupt, disloyal
unjust, murderOus, and venal that it makes
little difference what is the result of any po-
litical struggle.
regard the good sense, sound patriotism
and correct intention of the masses Of the
people in either party as substantially equal.
regard the evil elements in the parties as
substantially equal, and / turn for nv
grounds of 1n6Dmnnf RI tho annSiHnrnfln IN
which l think genuine. find these in men.
L can not trust a party. | can trust a man.
l can not hold a party responsible. | can
hold a man responsible. / can not get an
expression of opinion which is single and
simple from a party. / can only get that
from a man. A party can not have charac-
ter, or conscience, or reputation. 1t can
not repent, nor endure punishment or dis
grace. L know very well that we are in the
habit of predicating all these things of par
ties, but | should think our experience had
offered the fullest proof that we can not
properly predicate any of these things of a
party, except in a broad, half-metaphorical
sense, under which all the sharpness and
efficiency necessary to practical politics are
lost. The proof is, at any rate, satisfactory
to me.
l have no information other than what the
newspapers have given us all. From their
story L do not see how any one can feel re-
Spect for
II CANDIDATURE OF GOV. HAYES.
1t appears that Mr.. Cameron was piqued
because some members of his delegation vio-
lated a sacred political tradition and did not
throw the State vote as a unit, and he there
fore refused to give the State vote as a unit
for their candidate at the decisive moment.
The Senatorial aspirants cOuld not see the
prize go to either one of their own number,
and agreed only that it should not go to
Blame. These two things combined gave it
IN Ilnunn " H.
opinion that this course OF events, when one
reflected that the business in hand was the
selection of a chief magistrate of the nation.
was a ''farce.' | did not then, and do not
now, deny the possibility that Hayes may be
the man for the crisis. | can not deny the
possibility that, If you shake up the names
or eight million voters in a box, and draw
one by lot, you may get the one out of the
eight millions who is best fitted for the Presi-
but we are assumed to be rational
beings, making a selection on rational
grounds, and / think we did ourselves little
credit on that occasion in that point Of view.
Of the gentlemen there came home re-
)olclng and trlumphing over the party ma
chine. They defeated the machine in its
hrst intention, but it doubled upon them
With It's we'll known suppleness and activity.
Mr.. HAYES SEEMS TO BE THE CREATURE
OE THE MACHINE,
md to have no other public claim to the
residence He must feel that his selection
$ arbitrary, that he has every thing vet TO
10 to justify public confidence, that he is the
'eciplent of an ''honor.' He can not act
With the assured independence of a man
Who has advanced by we'll earned steps, to
whom the Presidency comes as the highest
rust at the end OF a career, to whom it is
an honor than a recognition and a con-
eSSion.
Mr.. Tilden's nomination was opposed nv
IL the worst elements of his party, and was
Imported by as honest, pure, and intelli-
ent men as ever led in any political con-
entlon In this country. There were MANY
l tnem young men, representing the hope,
IRE iaith and purpose OF the younger
all OF this generation, to which I turned
ing ago with all my confidence for the
ational future. ]
THE QUESTION OF THE
me, stands before any other. It apnears
me that Mr.. Tilden has shown a more
Orrect, detailed, statesmanlike knowledpe
the evil, the remedy and the process of {
ire than any other public man who is eliei- c
L am, ~of>ceurse, utterly opposed to the
peal OF the Resumption act or any part of e
, and L disapprOve of any concession on
lat point, in form or substance, by Mr.. +
llden or any body else. n
L know that the soft-monev Democrats p
ave claimed that MI. Tilden has surren-
7Ieu on tne currency question, and the L
epublicans have fastened to accept their d
lthority as conclusive on that point. Mr.. j
llden's opinions on this point are notnew, a
'r were they first placed before the public
his letter, but if he does not in that doc m
nent lay down hard-money doctrines, q
en- language has no meaning, and L could q
1t express hard-money doctrines myself. v
soft-money men have, within a year or
70, begun to use some hard money phrases p
forced, artificial, and impossible applica- p
They find those phrases in Mr.. Til :
ms letter, and that is the ground on -
llch they claim his surrender. III III
Mr.. Hayes has made a very distinct B.
oval That he will resist the repeal Of the &C
sumption act unless something better is r.
I In It's place, and if he is elected I shall at
rtalnly await with generous confidence a ii
lniiment OF that pledge. The difficulty is al
't the newhieh seems to me radical in
candidature. between two candidates.
e OF whom is recommended to nae on the II
lnion OF his friends, the other of whom y;
a record OF action and achievement mn L.
I my knowledge and Inspection, my most u
L desire attaches IL the latter l.