The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-29
VOL. XI---NO. 50.

hangs in the balance, to be decided at
St. Louis. But by the nomi-
nation of Hayes the Democrats are
threatened with this danger: The hottest
battle in the coming canvass must be
fought on the soil of Ohio, and the Dem
ocratic party at large will be more than
ever disposed to make concessions to their
brethren in that State. The Republicans
haye already admitted to the infationists
that their position on the money question
is none too strong. The Democrats may
strive to overbid them for the inaationist
vote by the adoption of soft-money
platform and the nomination of either
Thurman or Hendricks on it. In this
case we believe that Hayes would be ss
sure of an election as he was last year in
in the gubernatorial canvass. The same
element that cast the deciding vote in
favor of Hayes in Ohio would rise up to
his support all over the countryside in
dependent element, and particularly
those aforetime Republicans whose allie
glance to their party had been put in
abeyance for while. ~ With
equal certainty could Democrat about
whom no taint of Bourbonism clings, and
who is committed to hard money and
civil service reform, obtain a fair share
of this independent vote.
From the Boston Advertiser.
The nominations will be accepted by
the Republican party without reserve,
and with lively feelings of satisfaction,
and the whole party can work together
harmoniously to accomplish success.
While Governor Hayes is by no means a
leading representative of Republican
principles, the circumstances under which
the convention met rendered the choice of
either of the leading candidates impossi.
BILE. What has been done has been we'll
done, and the choice made is in every way
excellent. The ticket will carry this and
every other Republican State.
From the Boston Journal
The convention has done its work no.
bly,, and has given ticket that every
Republican can support with pride and
heartiuess-a ticket clean and pure, free
from all rings, combinations and things
needing explanations, and which has
come to the front spontaneously, embody-
ing the best that could be done under the
circumstances to meet the demands and
best sentiment of the Republican masses.
1t is not only satisfactory to every true
Republican, but must command the con-
fdence and support of every friend of
reform, of official purity and sound ad-
ministration.
From the Springfield, Mass, Republican,.
This is the result of the contest between
the good and bad elements in the Repub-
lican party at the National Convention.
1t is in the nature of a compromise, but
still reform victory. The true repre-
sentative battle in the party convention
was between Bristow and Blaine; but,
in order to beat Blaine, his opponents
had to lower their standard and unite on
Hayes. Mr.. Bristow's friends led off in
the sacrifice, Morton's followed, and the
rest came tumblipg after, save of course
such of them as naturally preferred
Blaine to any reformer of however mild a
type.
1t is the shame and the condemnation
of the Republican party that majority
of its delegates could not, and did not
unite upon Bristow. He was sacrificed
because he had put reform in practice ;
because he had made enemies of the ras-
Gals in the Republican party. Hayes
was taken because he had not. This is
the plain English of the case. II is the
worst and all that can be said of the re-
suit.
Hayes and Wheeler are honorable, able
men, of experience in public life, of per-
sonal integrity, of sound views on current
public questions, and of equal Intellectual
ability with Mr.. Bristow. They belong to
and well represent the best half of the
Republican party. They will, if they
have opportunity, become efficient agents
of reform-now that reform is popular,
and is exacted alike by party interest,
public necessity and public opinion /;
but, as they have had opportunity here
tofore, they have not exposed themselves
to censure, or their party to harm, for
the sake of reform.
The, party saves its honor-after a
fashion, and preserves its physical integ-
rity in these nominations. There will be
no boiling, and if the Democratic Con-
vention nominates as fairly good ticket
there will be no third nomination in the
field. But it is at least an even chance,
to-day, that the Republicans have lost
their mower by thus compromising with
the reform spirit of the country, by con.
demning Bristow because he had practi-
cally led reform within the party, and by
passing by such men as Evarts and Adams,
who, by record and by independence and
association, had come to stand for much
the same thing in the public thought.
The case may be thus summed up: With
Blaine, the Republican party would have
been broken and defeated at the very
opening of the campaign; with Bristow,
it would been triumphant; with Hayes,
it enters upon doubtful struggle for ex-
istence, dependent upon the chances OF
the Democratic nomination aud the pop
ular humors of the campaign.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Expediencr aas come again with me-
diocrity as is Landmaid, to extricate the
once proud Republican party of the ma
ton, and Rutherford B. Hayes is its can
didate for the most important and re-
sponsible trust Of the civilized world. \
That Governor Hayes is q
respectable citizen, of average attain
ments among the politicians and rulers
of the day, as are tens of thousands OF
others in the Republic, is the simple truth
and the whole truth respecting him. =
\ And yet he may be an invinci-
BILE candidate. 1t is not so clear that he
may not, under the peculiar circum-
stances of the coming contest, defy oppo-
sition; and, indeed, it is too soon to
assume that he should not be successful