The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-08-11
INOEpEnpeNr VIEWS.

iNOEPENDeNr VIEWS.
The Philadplphi, Times ha. occupied
An attitude Of strict neutrality bctnccn
the two rival Presidential candidates
md being one % me pbIut ~ lItom
jomml3 .t comment, ou iHa.af .ot'
ter have been looked orw'y u0re than
ordinary interest, TAo comments
come at last and me worthy o. .cpgo
luction Su- 'Ho Ju
With the witching hour Of midnight
was ushcred into the 7'mH Office the
front section of Governor Tilden5 letter
Of acceptance, and rs the wee sma'
hours logged along, the full elaborate
text of both Tildcn and Hendricks
letters finally nestled down on the edi-
tors table So fully have the positions
Of both the Democratic nttionul candi'
dates been discussed by the press dun.
ing the last six weeks, and 50 faithfully
have entcrprsing journals reflected the
political movements and tendencies OF
the day, that there il not anything
novel or startling proclaimed by either
of them, Indeed there is nothing in
Mr.. Tildcns letter that he could not
have said quite AS well perhaps much
better, and certainly with greater
effect upon the public mind
within tolty-cight hours after his
I'nomination, and the ineNcusablc delay
in furnishing his reply will be the fruit
full parent of distrust rs to the straight
iorwardness OF his declarations. He
voluntarily created the suspicion that
| he tarricd to set his sails to suit the
probable current Of the political voyage
and he has thus lost some measure OF
prestige that was rightiuIly his own, by
reason Of his record and known puI-
poses, had he been prompt in proclam'
ing his views.
Asall expected from SamuelJ, TiIdcn,
his letter is replete with rare good sense
and sound conclusions, and it will he
difficult for carping criticism to find good
| loothoId for its work. 1t is somewhat
circumlocutory and stubbomly mathe-
NAUTICAL in reaching its conclusions on
| the financial issue, but men of diverse
| theories rs to resumption will read 1t
and wonder why they find 50 little in it
to dissent from Both Tilden and
Hendricks, although presumed to rep.
| resent ntagonlstic convictions on the
financial question, plOd ON smoothly
| and pleasantly, each in his own way,
until they find themselves us 1.-TWO
souls with but single thought on
the ycXatious issue of specie payments,
They started like wandering political
apostles at the broad mouth of the
Democratic stream, where its waters are
divided by green islands OF hope and
sterile rocks of discord its banks scpa-
rated inyisibly by distance and the voices
on either shore unable to mingle with
each othcrand they have both journeycd
leisurcly toward the fountain until the
narrowing stream iamilaAcd them with
each others echoes and finally brought
them hand in hand and face to face ut the
fountain of old-time jackson currency.
Nor do they essentially differ rs to the
means they would empty to reach re
sumption Bothrepudiatc thcrcsumption
act both declare itn hindrancc to specie
payments and the enemy Of restored
prosperity without which resumption is
impossible; both proclaim severe re
trenchment and economy Ms the first
step toward the equalization OF eur
rency and gold values, and both dcpre
cate preclpitnte or violent measures tC
force resumption before the country i,
fully prepared for it 10y the gradual ano
permanent Improvement in our genera
prosperity. They write from diilrren
planes, from different impulses and to
different people--the one from til,
more calculating financial policy of tn,
East, and the other from the outspokcl
prostration of the industry of the West
but they are compelled to gravitate t
the same broad and invulncrble basi,
of resumption as speedily as it csn b,
attained without injury to our already
grcatly suffering business interests
On but a single other point does Mr.
Tilden depart from the plain lines OF
the St Louis platform. His brief but
cogcnt argument in favor of II siugl,
Presidential term is one of his happiest
and strongest declarations, and bear,
upon its face the impress of sincere con
yicton On the true relations of tn,
North and South to each other he ut
ters the views of every patriot on tn,
question of civil service reform his posi-
tive and practical pledges contrast sub
timely with the Understanding word
painting of Governor Hayes, and hi
concluding paragraph which of itscl
would have made II complete and ar
proprate letter has the ring of an earn
est man, whose tersc sentences are in
spired by an earnest purpose.
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