The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-07-21
SLIPPERY SAMo
More Plain Talk from the Truth Teller.

lCincinnatiI EnquireI
In speaking of the duties of National
Democratic Convention about to as
semble at st. Louis, there are a few
facts which should not escape the no
tice of that body. There is the ques
tion of the candidate. There has been
a shameless expenditure of money and
an unprecedented advertisement of IA
quack candidate in promoting the polit
ical fortunes of SamuelJ. Tilden. He
is antagaonized by nearly one half ofthe
Democrats of his own state. His sup
posed strength outside OF his own State
is based on his supposed strength at
home. He appears as a refornaer and
dissoloes partnership toith Toeed TO as
sumet hat role. He appears rs n hard
money man, speedy specie-man, and he
abandOns the lawless, private issue of
paper money, when forced to do so,
just before he begins to preach forced
and immediate resumption. 1t is not
only true that Sam Tilden is SO hostile
to the sentiment of the West and
of the South that he could not
carry a Western or Northern State,
but his nomination would kindle OPP
position of another sort. HIS candidacy
is the most shameless and indecent in
OlIr history. Its methods have kindled
the Just Indignation of the American
people, who can never be persuaded to
reduce the Presidency Of the United
States to the level of white pine ex-
tract recipe Tor stomach bitters. The
quaek candidate is obnoxious to other
objections 1t is not only the fact that
Sam Tilden spent his money TO defeat
the Democratic party in Ohio in 1875,
which blow was aimed at the Democrat
ic party itself, which fortids his nom
ination at st. Louis. 1t is not alone
the fact that he is the advertised enc
my of the Western interests which will
lead to heis defeat. Ii is not simply
that he will go into the cow ention
with the incumberance of broil in his
own State and the enmity of the
Democrats in all other States where
the seductIveness of money, or the
belief in its efficacy, is not omnipOtent,
that commands his rebuke In the
National Convention. His currency
sins, his sectiOnalism sins, and his sins
of notorious and obnoxious self seeking
are not the only charges that will be
brought against him. The Republican
party will not quit fighting the war OF
1861 this year The bloody shirt is TO
be waved. The Republican party has
always won upon that issue, and 80
long as that issue is by common con
sent admitted to be the uppermost and
only one, the Republican party will
continue to carry the country.
The most determined attempt will be
made to fight the war over again in
1876. If, by the wrath of God, Sam
Tilden should be nominated at St
Louis, IA little announcement would be
made by the Republican press Of the
country, following close on the heels
of his nomination, which would De ex-
eeedipgly troublesome. Ii wOuld be
charged that Mr.. Tilden was chiefly
responsible for the introduction and
adoption of the platform of the Dem
ocratic party in 1864, which is known
as the peace Platform" in time Of
war. We are not now discussing the
wisdom of that platform. 10 the
| Democrats who are anxious for success
we simply desire to say that it is fact
\ that that platform did not win. The
| commanding member of the committee
| Oh Resolutions in the Democratic Con
vention of that year was Samuel j.
| Tilden. The Committee on Resolu
| tions reported that after four years OF
4 failure 10 restore the Union by the
| experiment of war, during which the
Constitution had been disregarded and
public liberty and private right alike
trodden down, the public welfare de-
| manded that Immediate efforts be
| made for "A cessation of hostilities- -
| Without debating the doctrine, 1T Is
sufficient to say that it was not yicto
| rious. and Sam Tilden will be more OBJ
| noxious to the people of the country
than the platform which lie represent
| ed in 1864. The martial aniInosities
| are not banished- The batreds engen-
| dered by the war are not gone. The
ssbloody shirt" the only hope Of tie
Republican party, will still iiutter IN
the breeze. IL WAS the platform not
the ticket that was rebuked in 1oG4.-
Whether that platform is right or
wrong, it is stained with the odinn OF
defeat, while il had noble advantages
from the ticket. Sam Tiiden, justly
CT unjustly, would be advertised over
/ the country without the assistance OF
Bates Il Locke as the persistent anthof
of the peace" declarations IN loGi.-
! IL there are Democrats who insist that
the war memories should be buried
they should not insist that the author
of the most unpopular declarations oi
that martial time should be nominated
for the Presidency. The Republicans
would gloat over this nomination.
!. Let US not delight the Republicans.