Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-22
For President OF the United SiateS:
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES,
OF OHIO.
For Vice President:
WILLIAM A. WHEELER,
OF NEW YORK.
S0NE VIEWS OF a CONPEDER.
ATE GENERAL WHO SUPPORTS
HAYES AND WIGEEEEN.
For Vice President:

airy leader, to an old comrade of his
1t is dated at WaTrenton, Virginia
August 6, 1876. i. strikes us that thu
letter is one of the abicst and cleare>
statements OF the leading features u
the day that We have seen anywhere
We regret that we have not the space
to reproduce shis letter in full. We
must be coutent Will, some extracts
conveying its more salient points. Ia
reply To his friends urging that hC
shouId SO cast his vote Is 10 sustain
the sectional ends III the South, III
says: The sectional unity of the
southern people has been the govern
ing IDEA and bane OF their politics. So
thing it has been the cause OF most of
the evils they have suffered. 81 long
as it continues the war will lac Il con-
trolling element of politics, for any
cry in the South that unires the Con
federates re-echoes through the North
and rekindies the war fires there.
Thus, every Presidential canvass be-
comes u battle between the two sec
lions, and the South beng the weaker
must be the losing party" We think
that in the following sentence the De-
niocracy is as sharply criticised as by
any writer we have noted. Says he:
"Do you not see, then, that as long as
We keep up the fight on the old lines,
with the same allies and the SAME bat
tie cries, the North will be suspicious
of our good faith, no matter in what
form We protest it I! All that the repub-
licans propose is to preserve what they
have accomplished; the democrats are
pledged not to disturb what the repub-
licans have done. You cannot COM |
plain that the sincerity of the pledges !
Of Governor Tilden to execute certain |
laws is distrus;ed when his supporters |
justify their opposition to Governor
Hayes on the ground that his party
has enacted these laws. To be consist
ent they should go for repeating them
if they come into power Colonel
Mosby pricks the bubble of Lamar's
pretence and hypocricy when he says:
- For instance, air. Lamar, in the
very able speech he recently delivered
in the House OF Representatives, said
that hat the South wanted was local
self-government. I thought the South
had it. If it has not, how did he get
into Congress? If Mississippi has not
local self-government, what sort OF
is it which controls Mis-
sissippi and has iust elected him to the
United States Senate ?" He pays his
respects to Little Sam Tilden in the
strain of well-directed re-
view of that "Refor;nsr'sn associa-
tons and career: "But the democrats
are going TO rebuild everything if they ,
get possession Of the government.
t..ey say. Have yon ever known
party out of power that did not prom i.
Use reform to get in? Has there been ,
one single abuse exposed for which ! !
the democrats have not established &
precedent? Do you think that high
er standard OF morality would prevail
in public life by transferring the in'in- .
ence of Tammany Hall to Washington? |
Has that been proper school TO edu- d
cate reformers? l know nothing OF
Governor Tiideu except that he has =,
long been the leader of his party III I
New York, whose colossal robberieS $
have been the opprobium of American
politics. When Governor Ti!den has |,
purified politics i'll his own State 1t :
will be time enough then 10 turn his !
attention to the national admInI>tra i
ion. II was only about twelve months
,ro that Tweed was released from p
prison on habeas corpus by decision I
Of the New York Court of Appeals. a
of seven democratic Judges. T
Mr.. Charles O'Conor, the Nestor OF !;
he New Yosk bar, in a letter pub
ished at the time, charged that the
decision was procured through the y
corrupt influence of Tweed's money. {,
Here was a splendid case for an inves- d
isation, far exce.ling in enormity the r
ale of a sutlership; yet those judges a
remain unimpeached and are still v
wearing the ermine of justice. al
ude to this fact to show the tone OF :.
,oliticai morality OF The party of which
Governor Tilden has been the ac-
head erer since tho re-
irement of Tweed. He proposes to
eform the civil service; but how?
~ a change in the system of appoint .
nents? No: at all; but by filling the u
ffices with his partisans, who will "
lock to Washington 'as fierce as fam /"
ne and hungry as the grave When W
he Offices have thus been all filed al
omebodv will have 10 reform the
elorners." The pen is nightier than N
be sword; and this valiant ex-rebel r
rites with scarcely less force than he g.
night when he led his fierce troopers =,
rainst orr battle-lines.
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