The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-07-13
The Candidates.


President may be reasonably judged by the
circumstances attending their nomrations.-
Gov. Hayes had net uttered q word or
committed or instigated an act. with
reference to his nomination at the Cincinnati
Convention. There were no rings, or even an
organization in his interest. He was chosen
as the representative of the better impulses of
the Convention, without tricking, without the
employment CT any doubtful agencies, but as
the result of a conviction that his character
and record would meet the demands of the
times. His public and private life has been an
expression of the most exalted virtues, without
blemish and above suspicion. As citizen,
soldier aud civil officer, he is without rcproach
true and faithful in all the high trusts to
which he has been called, respected by all, re-
gartlless Of political utilization, and inspiring
confidence i'll his integrity, his patriotism and
his courage.
How is it Will, Gov Tlden, the democratic
candidate? 1t is known that he has been
scheming and intriguing for the nomination
he has secured for two years past From the
day that he was declared the elected Governor
OF New York his mind and endcavors have
been directed to the Presidency. The agen
cies employed to create popular sentiment for
him have been in consonance with the clarac
ter he has sustained heretofore, as photograph
ed by his own party friends. A system Of
putting and advertising was instituted by
| Bureau of correspondence established for that
purpose and paid out of his purse. There was
not 4 paper, scarcely, i'll the United States that
did not receive propositions from this patent
medicine-like organization. Small paragraphs,
laudatory of Tilden, were inserted among the
reading matter and paid for as advertisements.
The Democratic party were not very particular
as to the nominee. The delegates from the
South went to the Convention with 70 opin-
ions that they wanted to press. They were as
clay in the potter's hand, and were willing to
do anything the Northern delegates suggested.
Tlden had we'll paid and q we'll drilled or
ganiZation. His men were chosen for their
address and adroitncss, and they pressed the
interests of their patron with remarkable per-
sistcncy and diplomacy. They defeated their
opponents in detail and forced their man up
on the Convention by the influence of tactics
| and brute power combined. 1t is stated that
1ilden's money was freely used, and many
honest men left st. Louis thoroughly Disguised
with the standard Of morality that exercised a
controlling influence with q Democratic Ma
tional Convention.
The platform adopted and the candidates
nominated, are evidence of the dishonest pur-
poses of the Convention. The platform is con-
Trajectory and inconsistent with itself, rs the
candidates are opposed to each other upon the
most essential principle of government admin
| israton at this time. II Tilden were an hon
esL man he would not accept the nomination
on the platform and with the candidate for the
WIGS Presidency. The platform was framed
to deceive, as the candidates were nominated
| to mislead and delqde.
Ti.den's whole life, according to the showing
of his own party friends, has been marked by
duplicity, intrigue and eYtortion. He has
been connected with rings and associations
which plundered for the sake of plrinder-has
accumulated a fortune amounting to millions
cut of his legal association with railroad corDo-
fations, and was one of the pillars Of Tamma-
ny when tweed WAS in the zenith OF his pow
er and pelf. And although exposures had
been made CT the corruptions OF Tammany
which would have shocked any sensitive mo-
rality, Tilden retained his intimate reations
with Tweed until the persistent exposures OF
the New York Times aroused popular resent
ment to such an intense pitch that he saw that
Tweed and Tammany must fall. 1t was then
that he deserted bis old fricndand ally, Tweed,
and Joined in with those who were determined
to crush him.
These ara the gentlemen whom the respec-
tive parties of the country have presented fol
the Presidency of the United States. The
Democratic party has selected "Reform" as its
watcllword, and placed Tilden in the front to
lead under that banner, The party itself is a
. fraud upon the country, an organization Of
sham and false pretenses, devoid Of princi pie
or conviction. The candidate fits the party,
/ and the people will rebuke and silence both.
The Republican party simply stands where
it has always stood-sTle Union, the Consti.
tntions and the Enforcement of the Laws, .
!, being its motto. It presents candidate whose
character and public services eoIstitrtea guar
antee of honesty and purity in government
His name is implicated in no doubtful OF sus-
picoHs transaction. He stands in his private
and public life, without spot or blemish-hon-
est, capable and braEe-trHe to himself, his
country and his God. He is associated on the
ticket with gentleman of equal merit and
claims upon the honest sentiment of the pao-
tple. They agree in opinion upon all essential
questions of public policy, and stand upon a
platform neither evasvcn or deceptive.
i Take the mep of the two parties, and deter
mine which gives fle greater assurance OF
honesty and economy in government. Hayes,
with his record as Congressman. Governor and
General-meeting to the fallest satisfaction
all the high demands that have been made up
on him, and inspiring the confidence of politi-
cal friend and foe. Or Tilden with his assoca.
ton with railroad sings, Tammany and Tweed.
and his colossal fortune of millions accumulated
out of his connection with rings and corpora
tions-selsh. despoIic, and tyrannical, whose
friendships are mcrcenary, whose ambition is
corrupting, and whose Whole life has been an
intrigue.
!, Such is the man who is to reform the gov.
eminent, and Tammany Democracy the ruling
agency to effect the reform.
Let the people ponder and then determine