Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-08

fippans and glib criticisms of the Dem
ocratic candidate for the Presidency, We
! are, spite Of ourselves, constrained to
re.ros psction of the field Of our recent
! national history. The burden OF Til
den letter is q sheer at these vast and
iamsntable embarrassments and an i'm
pudent prefer of himself as the
Moses who shall lead this people out of
| the wilderness of their distress. He be-
trays the rscalciirant Bourbon while dis
covering the aeuteness of a self-conscious
critic; and in his disingenUousness III
vitss the severest scrutiny and the most
scorching denunciation Of those whom
his hippancy of statement and faisiiy OF
deduction can neither silence nor mis-
lead. To revive the metaphor of orphan
angs. employed somewhat inconsecu-
lively above, Tiidens attitude toward
the financial condition OF the country
and the Republican party is not unlike
that of the mischief breeding lawyer to-
ward the bswildered and inharmopious
heirs OF rich man who has died with
out first making an adequate and salts
factory will. In other and palmer
terms, Mr. Tilden's letter deals with the
momentous subjects of which he has
chosen to treat, with the tone and in the
temper of a self-infatsd, audacious, I'M
blu.hing pettifogger. True statesman
ship deals neither in evasions nor mis-
leadings; and Governor Tilden chooses to
appear before the country in letter
brisiling with multiplicity Of such un-
worthy campaign devices. He has mis-
stated figures and coupled his mistate-
men,s with evasions of material fact He
has yoked in ono aggregate the debts OF
Democratic cities with q garbled state
ment of the national debt, and left this
fabrication of his laborious uncandor to
frishten unthinkins and ignorant people
with--inviting them TO the false eonclu-
sion of Radical misruie. He tisunts
ungenerous and unsentlemanlike inusn-
does in the face of President who
might. If be would, crush him as giant
would crush a pigmy, and proceeds to
masquerade in presence OF his party In
the thin and translucent fantasies Of
Reform He buries every debatable
question beneath an avalanche Of YER
bosity; meets vast facts and momentous
problems with a trick of rhetoric; and
jucel-s with lamentable tor!uosity OF
evasion upon the subject OF the resump-
ton of specie payments. Meantime
there is not word concerning the re-
cent massacres in the South: not a
syllable about the Indian question; no.
a congra.ulatory lire upon the Centen-
NAL year of American Independence
and absolute and ominous silence with
regard to that hobby SO dear to every !
Democratic heart upon the Pacific
Coast-the Chinese Question. His own |
candidacy fills the scope and verge OF ,
Governor Tilden horizon even while |
he pens the easy prevarication that we
must no longer be misled by the perni-
cious notion that 1.-The public service e1-
lists not for the business Ind benefit of
the whole people, but for the interest of
Office holders And he pirates Of
tender solicituds for tho people and
their poverty while himself is luxurist-
ing in tho millions which have accrued
to his bank account through the profit
gacy of which he makes a handle to be-
labor the Republican party withal.
Hendricks letter is as unworthy of the
as it is of serious consideration
and review. 1t bespeaks the man, and
illustrates the exigencies of his condition
of irksome yoke-fellowship-the har-
Messing together Of worshipper of the
G olden Calf and dry nurse of the Rag
Baby. !
The old, old issue still exists. The
subtle purposes of the Democracy
purposes whose realization looks to no
other logical result that the final tri-
umph of the enemies of national su-
premaey but thinly covered by the
ilmy tissues of words which comprise
lhs Democratic platform and dilute the
subject matters of these letters of ac-
,eptance. The Republican party, proud
If its past, and again aroused to the
exigencies of the times; con-
'cious of the correctness of its prin-
'iples and the imperative need of its
United action; laying aside all petty diff
srences, all destracting rivalries and all
selfish schemes of personal advance
mont, stands ready, as it did in the bitter
lays of war. to bat back such poor
assaults 40 have been levelled at its lines
y these false Knights of Democracy;
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