The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-11-05
POLITICAL NOTES
A GLANCE AHEAD.

Unless all signs fail, SamaelJ Tilden will
be the next President of the United States
The preliminary battle has been fought
aud won on the enemy's chosen ground
The intelligent supporters of Mr.. Tiiden at
| 81. Louis did not regard Ohio or Indiana ae
| necessary to his success. He was nominated
| on the distinct understanding that he could
| be elected without an electoral vote from
either of those States. Indeed, it was general
| ~ conceded by Democrats, and by none more
freely than the hard money men, who man
| aged his canvass for the nomination, that he
| had nothing TO hope for in that quarter. On
the other hand, Gov. Hayes was nominated
| because of his alleged strength in the Ohio
valley, aud ON the emphatic pledge of his
friends t0st be would certainly carry Indiana,
| and would have anywhere from thirty to fifty
thonsand majority in Ohio.
But the OctOb3r elections have astounded
| both parties. The reformers are amazed by
the strength of their canGidate in those States,
and the Republicans are dismayed by the pitt
full weakness of theirs. Indiana rolls MP a
round Democratic majority for the man whom
ner delegation opposed most bitterly at st.
Louis, and Coy. Hayes escapes defeat in his
Uw5 otaCe Dy Inc narrowest possible margin.
continue the policy of military repression be-
gun In South Carolina, against people peace
fully struggling for liberation from the VnL0nr
despotism of carpet bag thieves, the November
verdict may prove the practical annihilation
of the Republican party. At all events, no fu.
ture political event can be more certain than
the Inauguration of a reform Administration on
the 4bh of March, 1877,
We verify believe that in less than one
month after Mr.. Tilden's election the great
majority of honest Republ will themselves
be fully sRtisfed with the result. To promote
this smiable feeling their part, we will tell
them now what will be done by his Admins
tratiOu.
The ordinary expenses of the Government
will be reduced during the next fiscal year to
an extent which will be literally amazing to
those credulous citizens who have been put |
ting their faith in the wild figures of the !
Grant Administration. The present House of
Representatives have reduced the appropria- |
tions $50 600 coo below those of last year, and |
500 900 600 below the estimates of Grants |
secretaries. With Tilden in the White House, |
this enormous saving can easily be doubled.
The Rings, which practically govern the
country, and prey upon every department un-
der Grant, will be shivered into atoms under
TIlden. Bristow's whiskey war, which cost
him his standing in the party of Grant and
Hayes, will seem like an Insignificant skir-
mish beside the grand crusade of Tilden and
Tilden's ministers against all the corrupt rings
from Maine to Texas. The credit of the Gov
eminent will ba instantly and continuously
streDg thened. The honest and economical
ad miDistration which husbands the resources
of the country, instead of Equandering them,
must necessarily raise the public credit. Be-
sides, Mr.. Tilden is himself an experienced and
eminentIy conservative hnanoier, and under
him it 10 e. be hoped that our crude and i'll
system of taxation will undergo q
th0rongh and uoientiho revision.