The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-29
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

weeks since, thereby affording ample
opportunity to discover the spirit in
which its action is received by the people
of the Union. There is no enthusiasm
even in the Republican party over Hayes
and Wheeler as their national standard
bearers. The nomination has nothing to
recommend it to the suffrages of the
people beyond the fact that it brings a
new element of the Republican party to
the lead in preference to taking its most
prominent men. Neither of its candi-
dates have any reputation beyond that of
local politicians, and the very obscurity of
the men thus thrust so prominently to
the front is relied upon to bear them to
victory in November. There are no
brilliant abilities nor inustrious services
to commend these leaders, and their re-
cemmendation to the people is announced
to be not that they have done something
worthy of men or of statesmen, but that
they have never done anything. The
simple fact of the matter is, that the Re
publican party is loaded down with the
sins and corruptions practiced by its
leaders for many years, and did not dare
ask the nation to trust these notorious
criminals with the government for
another term. At the same time there
was very little desire to make any real
reformation by nominating sterling re-
former like Bristow. In this strait the
Convention sought out these nebulous un-
knowns from their ranks and present them
in the guise of reformers. But the coun-
try cannot be deceived. The principles
of the party are unchanged. 1t is found
ed upon sectional hatred, and exists by
pandering to every discordant element in
the nation. 1t presents no living issue
upon public polity, but contents itself
with its own laudation and with COM
placently abusing the Democrats. The
platform taken with the candidates pre-
sents the Republican party of to-day in
its true light. This remarkable docu-
ment has been well termed group OF
platitudes. The first portion which
speaks of the equality and liberty that
has been given to all by the party is an
unbearable repetition, while the implica-
ton that these Liberties are in dispute
and subject to recall is provocative of a
sneer from all truth-loving citizens. The
plank opposing further grants of lands to
corporations is intended for promise OF
economy, but there are two objections to
it: First, the Republicans have already
voted away all the most valuable public
lands, therefore these thieves can well
afford to advise the locking of the stable
doors after they. have stolen the horses.
Second, to show how sincere they are in
making this promise and how much they
are opposed to grants ofpublic lands, they
nominate Hayes for President, who voted
for all these appropriations, and Wheeler
for Vice President, who was chairman Of
the committee in Congress which made
these appropriations. 1t will be a re-
freshing view of Republican consistency
to SCI. Hayes and Wheeler going over
the country denouncing the Credit No.
biliers of the Republican party after
voting for them. The fifteenth plank,
which deprecates sectional feeling and
warns against success of the Democratic
party because it will be by united
South, contains a most monstrous false
hood and glaring inconsistency. In one
breath it deprecates what it tries to create
in the next. The last plank is, however,
by far the most disastrous in it's effects
upon Republican prospects, for it
endorses Grant and his administration in
unmeasured terms, and thereby assumes
fairly and squarely the sins of the past
and commends them as virtues. The
Babcocks, the Belknaps and the Schencks
are therefore not repudiated by the Re
publicans, and the only element which
has received decided black eye from
the Convention is the real reformers
under Bristow.
The result of this Convention gives the
Democrats who are now in council at ST.
Louis very fine opportunity to secure
the government by prudent platform
and judicious nomination for President
and Vice President. If Tilden should
be nominated there is very little doubt
that victory will be sure-if on the other
hand, however, the statesmen, as they
think themselves, of the West are able to
control the Convention in favor of rag
money and sectional candidate, who is
weak everywhere except at home, the
Republicans may expect to elect their
candidates. Hayes and Wheeler is a neg
ative ticket, and although it creates very
little enthusiasm the ticket will command
strong party vote. We do not believe
any man except Tilden or perhaps Gen.
Hancock would be at all secure of elec-
ton upon Democratic platform. Gov
ernor Tilden would present such strong
contrast to Hayes that he would almost
assuredly be borne to victory by storm
of popular enthusiasm. He is no mega
tive, but positive character, in whose
favor the strongest arguments can be
made, for he is the greatest reformer Of
this day. He unites the splendid quail
ties Of the patriot and the scholar, the
statesman and the politician, the honest
man and the fearless advocate of the