The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-11-22
What the Papers Say About the
Election.
GOV. TILDEN's OWN WORK.

The overwhelming triumph in this
State is partly owing to the fact that
Governor Tilden himself supervised
the political canvass. His sagacious
brain sketched out its outlines, and his |
keen eye scanned it's particulars. In
the management of the campaign in
New York-the key of the national po-
sition-he was admirably seconded By
the Hon. Daniel Magone, Jr., and his
associates and assistants of the Demo-
cratic State Committee. The mode in
which they performed their work mi ght
serve rs model for State committees
all over the Union; while their tabular
statement of the condition of the vote
in the various counties and towns might
in its details and in it's exactness, be
emulated by the compiler of an official
census.
Gov. Tilden may properly feel proud
of the majority cast for him by those
who have known him so long and SO
we'll.
As already remarked, this has been
Governor Tilden's home for 40 years
This long period few men in the me-
tropolis were better known than he.
He has always taken an active part in
it's business affairs, and has stood
among it's leading politicians. For
most of this time the city has been torn
by factions, in which, on the one side
or the other, Mr.. Tilden has borne
prominent share. It was in this city
that the hottest and most envenomed
shafts we're hurled at him throughout
the contest. Yet in the face of all this
the people here have conferred upon
him the tribute of the largest majority
they ever cast for a candidate for a ma
tional Office. ~
We need hardly say to Field Mar
shall Halstead, Sittiag Bull Morton,
and noisy Jim Blaine, that the electo-
raj votes cast for Tilden and Hendricks
will be quietly counted in the presence
of the two houses of Congress in Feb
ruary next. The threats Of revolution
which the desperate Republicans play
ed as their last card in losing game,
will only cause their authors to be very
much chagrined that they ever uttered
Nm. Y. Sun.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE WHOLE COUN-
With last nights counting of the
votes Gov. Tilden ceased to be the can
didate of a party; to-day he is the cleo
ted President of the whole country.
AS such, and until he has done some
thing to forfeit his claim thereto, he is
entitled to our respect, confidence and
support. However we may have
doubted him or his party, or his policy
heretofore, let US now accept the stu.
alton and hope for the best. Our op-
position to the election of Gov. Tilden
has been based chiefly upon three con.
siderations. First, under distrust Of
the party behind him, md the fear
that his election, instead of being fol-
lowed by reform in the civil service az
he promised, would be the signal for a
revolution of the service which, while
it might be the means of dismissing q
few corrupt and incompetent officials
would at the same time let loose upon
the government places as incapable
dishonest, and vile an army of cormo.
rants as ever robbed by authority o,
stole under license. Second, distrust
4 of his position upon the financial ques
tion-not 80 much of his own individ
ual views and opinions, as of the opin
ions of the party leaders, who having
once already driven him to serious
modification of his views might b,
evually successful in an effort to die
tate the policy Of his administration
Third, well-grounded apprehension o
a purpose, distinct, we'll defined, ant
too powerful for Gov. Tilden to resis
on the part of his supporters, to revers
so far as possible the results of the wa
by reducing the negro to practical sub
lection and denying him the free exer
else of the ballot, but also to compe
the General Government, in one form
J or another, to pay the vast amount o
f Indebtedness incurred by the Southern
States in carrying on the rebellion
Looking over these questions now, ant
3 the probable effect of Mr.. Tilden'
, election upon them, We shall be onl,
: just to him, while we indulge in til
! most hopeful view the situation offer
: if we remember that he has strenuous
I. ly denied every promise of bis oppo
!, nents with regard to his and his party
position upon those issues. The cam
paign has been more a discussion Q
8 questions Of fact than ofopposing prin
ciples or theories; it has not been char
acterized SO much by argument IS b
assertion and denial. The hopeful as
pect of Mr.. Tilden's election then lie
in the possibility that all our fear
were groundless, our suspicious an