The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-08-03
Political Notes.

Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, and
Gen. Banks, OF massachusetts,, have ceased to
wander among the unwashed, and will throw
all their strength for Hayes and Wheeler.
An Ohio soft-money Democrat thus express
| ed what many OF his party friendsa are probably
smothering in their hearts: If / could only
vote for Hendricks and agin Tilden, could die
happy"
It row seems to be definitely settled that Mr.
Tilden's letter of acceptance is not to appear
until after Congress adjourns. His principles
are so uncertain that he will wait for the action
of Congress to find out what they are.
The Oswego Palladium. a paper which has
displayed the Democratic ticket at the head of
its columns, has taken down its colors, much
to the chagrin of the Democrats OF the vicinity.
The Palladium should be congratulated on its
newly-found good judgment.
Horatio Seymour is going to stump Indiana
for Tiden and Hendricks. 1t will be interest
ing to watch him, hard-money man from
hard-money State. trying to say honestly what
is pleasing financially to the soft-money men
OF that extreme Democratic) soft-money State.
The New Orleans Times, which supports Til
den if anybody, is still forced into the follow
ing honest statement ''The country is getting
weary of waiting for Mr.. Hendricks to saw YES
or no. He ought to have made up his mind by
this time. Stand up and speak out, Mr.. Hem
dricks.''
This is the way an Oregon paper puts it:
sHayes and Wheeler, civil service reform and
hard money; or Tilden and Hendricks, poll
teal services, and indefinite postponement of
the return to the money of the Constitution
that is the question the American people are
called on to decide.''
Referring to a demand that Governor Tilden.
in his letter of acceptance, shall tell the coun-
try what, if elected, he will do to stop and
punish the killing OF negroes at the South, the
Charleston IS. CO. Neaos (Dem) says: ''South
Carolina, by the hand of small body of her
citizens, has done great harm to the national
Democracy, and the only atonement we can
make is to determine that we shall not be
tempted again to commit what is politically
blunder and morally crime"
The home of the irreconciliables is in Terre
Haute and vicinity. There are a good many
Democrats in that section of Indiana who stub
bornly refuse to eat crow. They met in con-
vention the other day, resolved to stand by
the State and national candidates of the green
back party, and nominated o. P. Davis for
Congress, who promptly accepted, and will
make a vigorous fight for his election. Their
resolutions are Outspoken, and the convention
freely denounced every greenbacker who should
vote for Tilden as much traitor as one who
should vote for Hayes.
The Brooklyn argus thinks: eff ever two
persons set sail for the same port-one by the
way of Wall street and the Cape of Good Hope,
and the other by way of San Francisco and the
China Sea-these two intrepid sailors are Gov
ernOr Tilden, embarked in his hard money con-
traction yacht, and Governor Hendricks, in his
soft money initiation balloon-rigged clipper. AS
e
enlist the sympathy of mariners everywhere,
and as an effort of financial legerdeman they
will attract the attention Of financiers through
out the civilized world. -
Ex-Governor Dix writes as follows to an in
Xuirlng friend at Auburn, who prints the letter
i'll the 4dgeatiser of that city s'Mr. Tilden did
not unite in the call for the great Union meet
ing in New York after the attack and surren-
der OF Fort Sumter. But he refused to attend
it, though urgently solicited by one of his own
political friends. The meeting was called for
the purpose of sustaining the Government and
to provide for sending troops to Washington,
which was thought to be in danger of an at
tack by the Confederates. This fact was pub
licly stated when Mr.. Tilden was candidate
for Governor in 1874"
The New York Herald expresses the hope
that the word sscarpet baggers'' will pass out
Of the literature Of our politics. 1t is reproach
to every emigrant to the South, and has done
the South infinite harm. One of the Southern
papers says that the gentlemen OF the South do
not object to Northerners coming in with their
brain and muscle; that they will welcome
them, provided they do not interfere in poll
tics. Why should this restriction be imposed?
If q Republican goes to Illinois he can vote
as he pleases, run for office if he pleases,
and no one will rebuke him. Why should he
not have the same right in South Carolina
The Knoxville correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Commercial writes that the Tennessee
Democracy is badly demoralized, especially on
the finance question. A large faction is for in
flation as national policy, and for reputation
of the State debt, and the independent candi-
dacy of Hon. Dorsey B. Thomas for Governor
is on this basis. The Republicans, on the other
hand, are united against reputation in the
State and initiation for the nation; and there is
a large element, composed of men who were
known as Union Democrats, during the war,
and who since the war have voted the Demo-
cratic ticket, who this year will vote for Hayes
and Wheeler. An ex officer of the Confederate
army, named Reid, has pronounced for Hayes,
| and commenced the publication of a Repub-
| lcan paper at Nashville; and Emerson Ether
| idge, a leading Democratic orator, will stump
| the State for Hayes and Wheeler. The Mem
phis Avazanche Dem.), which opposed Tilden
before his nomination, has not yet acquiesced
| in his candidacy; and what with badly di-
vided Democracy and a united Republican
party, the prospects for q Republican success
are unexpectedly good.