New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-28
WASHINGTON, February 90; 1877.

WASHINGTON, February 20, 1877.
The Democratic decentralization is COM
plete. Said the Sunday Herald, an old
Democratic sheet here, in an angry editorial
headed:
NO MORE TILDEN IN OURS
As some of Mr.. Tilden's friends have al.
ready placed him IN nomination for $780,
we think it will be wholesome to review the
campaign just closed to see whether the
Democratic party owes its candidate any
gratitude. 1t may be Urite but none the
less useful in this connection to re-
peat the wise maxim that, Though
experience is dear school, fools
will learn in no other" The campaign be-
sured that we shall have a Republican
President for four years more, it will be
quite as profitable for Democrats to look
back and see what mistakes have been
made.
We charge that the nomination of Mr..
Tilden was obtained by disreputable means.
In this case the Cffice did not seek the man,
but the man sought the Office by the use of
the agencies with which wealthy and un-
scrupulous politicians are familiar. Paid
emissaFies, some of them, at least, we'll
known in the Washington lobby, were en-
gagged at the different State capitals for
months before the st. Louis convention
met, working up the Tilden interest.
Besides lowering the tone of the contest
from the high ground which the many
glaring iniquities of the Radical party had
enabled it to occupy, this idea Of cam
paign to be won with money was the most
demoralizing which could possibly have
been thrown into the Democratic ranks at
such junCture. Every one of the venal
class OF working politicians at once wanted
to get his hands into that barrel of money,
and was dissatisfied that it did not come
along. The belief that such an element
might be working wonders in some mys
teriOus way, spurred the Republicans to ex-
tIaordinsry exertiOns, while it naturally
drove away from the Democracy cOnsid-
erable number of pure eminded men who do
not believe in encouraging the use of such
agencies in election matters.
Having gone on in this way until the
scheme of an Electoral Commission was in
cubated, we were told that this would
bring everything out right; that fearful dis
closures were to be made of the ways of the
desperate Radicals and that everything
was lovely all round.
Then came the decisions of the commig-
sion, alongside of the Oregon kilograms,
which, it is needless to say, had they come
to and from the residence of Governor
Hayes, would have been denounced by
every Democrat in and out of Congress as
the acme Of political rascality; and after
such an ignOminlous and disastrous expe-
rience as this. we are asked to tram under
Tilden in 1880.
Says the leading Democratic organ, the
Washington Union, of this morning, in
despairing leader;
Hayes can not desert Packard without
confessing himself a usurper. He and
Packard hold BY the same title. If the one
is not the legal Governor of Louisiana, the
other can not be the legal President.
The whole drift and burden of EVarts' ar
gument in the Louisiana case was a direct
appet1 to the Radical eight, as the repre-
sentative of the party that gave the negro
the suffrage, not to desert him and suffer
him to be butohered, as the orator repre-
sented, by thousands, for venturing to ex-
ercise that suffrage. The suggestion was
unutterRbly false and vile, but it was effect
i've; and does any man in his senses think
now that Hayes, made President to rescue
the negroes from their 'murderers," accord
ing to John Sherman and Evarts, will begin
his administration by turning over the gov
ernment Of Louisiana TO the "murderers ~
Why, Hayes himself in his own canting
way, has said that he should regret the loss
of the Presidency, not for himself but only
for the poor negro. Hayes must sustain
Packard.
The same paper oounsels the Democrats
to employ every form of protest and method
of delay to protrsct the count; but even
could obstacles be interposed by its func-
ton, the count will be completed early and
Hayes duly installed