The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-11-04

versed, he secured the nomination fol
/ President, and Mr. Hendricks, who hac
been lis most formidable opponent, wa.
chosen for the second place. The long
lapse of time between the nominations anC
acceptance of the offices by these gentle
men, is fresh in the memories of all. and
all know, that it was occasioned by irrecon
clable differences between them on the
financial question, and their letters of &C.
ceptance were only published after Mr..
Tilden had backed down from his previ.
ously expressed opinions and advice to the
New York Legislature upon the question
of Resumption. when he advocated the LIST
of January, 1879, as the day they should
fix for it. His letter is full of hard words,
winning phrases, and lengthy sentences,
beyond the comprehension of the ordinary
intellect, and bears internal evidence OF
cavlllng on the main issues of the cam
paign and desire to conceal rather than
to give an open, manly and plain expires
sion of his sentiments upon them. The
same truculent and vacllating spirit in
obedience to the behests of party has ever
marked his course. He has been proven to
have peljured himself in making his income
return for 1862 by his own oath in 1876;
and now he has also been proven to have
done the same thing in 1868, when he
returned his income at $50, 600 less than it
should have been. He has been shown to
have advised, as attorney, the Credit Mo
blier fraud in the building of the Pacific
railroad, by an investigation into the matter
! by Republican Congress. He has been
shown to have been the ally of Tweed, by
his published letters, and with him, as
Chairman of the Democratic State Central
Committee, to have concocted and carried
uiU NH
perpetrated upon the elective fran
chise. He has been shown by the records
of the companies themselves, to have been
connected with all the broken down rail
roads IN the country, either as counsel or
participant, in the gains from their ruin
General Dix, in great speech ut New
ok, the other night, showed most con-
cluslyely.that all his claims of reduction
of the taxes, in the State of New York.
were false, and were the result of the paw
ment Of much of the State debt provided
for by a Republican Legislature. His canal
reforms were mere humbugs, the reports of
that commission being issued by piecemeal,
to make capital for him and enable him to
crafty his aspirations for the Presidency:
and they cost the State of New York sew,
elal hundred thousand dollars, without the
conviction and punishment of a single man
who had been shown to be engaged in those
frauds, or the recovery of one cent of the
money lost. And yet he sails under the
colors of Reform, and thinks the people
are pastoral enough not to see the fraud
that he attempts to impose upon them.
MIR. Tiden, in all his political life. has
not shown any of those characteristics
which would enable him to oppose anything
that his party or party managers should
desire or demand. And there is not in the
Democratic party such large and iuhu-
entail element in favor of reform and hon
est government as to lead US to believe that
his counsellors would be wise and patriotic,
and his conduct of the government or ad-
mlnlStratlOn in favor of an efficient civil
service reform. Rather, does not his vacil-
lating policy in regard to the finances, re-
form and all the great issues of the cam.
paign lead us to believe that his would be
thoroughly partisan administration, and
the kelleys, and Apgars, and Morrsseys,
and that host OF demagogueS, whose pro-
ionged absence from the government pap,
upon which they used TO so bountifulIy
feed, has made so hungry, will rule in the
councils of the Nation, as they have done
in the Tilden Democratic Conventions of
the campaign. All the abuses which have
:,
eminent are the results of the doctrine
first proclaimed by the Democratic party,
that to the victors belong the spoils, and
the course pursued by the Democrats in
the distribution of the offices in the House
of Representatives., does not show that
they are any the less advocates of it than
they were in their palmiest days. They
claim great credit to themselves for re-
duction of the appropriations, and SO they
have reduced them $50, 900, 900 less than
what they were last year; but they never
tell you how much the estimates of the
several heads Of the Departments were
below those of the year before. Besides,
these appropriations are for the year begin
ming July LIST, 1876, and ending June 3Oth,
1877, and you cannot yet tell how much
deficiency there may be for the next Con-
gress to make up. But they haven't de-
creased the taxes any. The same amount
of money will be collected this year as last
year. There is no individual taxation by
the General Government, except indirectly,
as we choose to buy those lnxuries upon
which the tax is imposed, such as whisky
and tobacco The Republican party re-
leved us of all individual taxation. But
while they boast of a reduction of the APP.
preparations, they have but little to say of
taI,o fr',,, .ha y T.a.a, ""a.n "o .nu
in,vost c,Io,Iat;on cen onn OoN. ap ~; sno
tbrorn .S so, ~ ,ba 49,; aoi ;naS | r
49,: 20 sp ,o 'no ~ Soiu'oi', ~.
'a'inS nuineu my seven Vi 'he'h out OF
once. nu' tney quo" mat nine- tentns OF
t tn,s .aGnS Mou.u he.ei teaon lne soiu,eis'
.r,.',s,S IT., fou'ret oIs" .. ny, y. o,"'ai
how many bills were offered to reimburse
WV oo"sH p.ope 400 O' n .W,'e' iu.,ns Tue
VAL W. amounting W @too,ooo more .hah the
National aeoI, "hich IS more than TWO
oiilohs, out were heio IN committees to
a"ai. lhe result vi ILLS elecIloh'
Such is brief statement of the conduct
OF the democratic party during the last
siA.een ye"rs' "nu ospeS.'liy uulihg tne las'
sess si VI oonS o.In tiie characters
Vi 'iio 'no" nv "nU ioau 'ue parry aud us
nominees. me ieaueis oi the Demoeratic
parry iu'oAica'eu oy lnelr ilst lot power
"hlcn Iheir temporary success curing
"orld-"ioe panic mas revived nave INDUCED
IN orgies over thelr ahticipations OF greater
successes III the future, from when they
VIII! recover III november 10 feel the deep
ana dark oamhatlon OF Nation retriou-
tion. Aiready the handwriting is on the
wall. lie party was plaCeQ