New-York tribune., 1877-06-14
THE ISSUE FOR 1880.

THE ISSUE FOR 1SSO
60 now we NAV consider the banner uplifted
and fine KEYNOTE struck for the campaign OF
1880. II was all arranged at the large and
enthusiastic gathering of standard-bcarers at
tbe Manhattan Club on Tuesday evening. Mr.
Tiden. who was the first standaTd-Dearer on
deck. and who "nOt without some reluctance
found himself "drawn from private pur-
suits stated the issue with great clearness
and distincmess. Mr.. Hendricks, the second
standard bearer, who yesterday "embarked on
can excursion to foreign lands for rest and
recreation" assented cordially to the state
ment. and all the standard-bearers who fol-
lowed, from Gov. Robinson down to the noisy
Connecticut Postmaster at the end OF the les
tiyIties, agreed that the thing to do was to
take up the issue and fight it out on that line.
This issue is that the present Administration
was elected by fraud Mr.. Tilden said
in the most noble and unseihsh manner
that he disclaimed any thought of the per-
sonal wrong involved III the transaction
that he would not by any act or word dwarf
or degrade into a personal grievance the
"greatest wrong that has stained our national
"annals y that four and quarter millions OF
veters had been defrauded just as much as he
had and ought to feel worse about it than he
does. and that nothing else should be attended
to until this is set rglt. The wrong
would grow into practice II con-
doncd This, he said, is "the question
"of questions and "until it is finally
'settled there can be no politics founded on
"inferor questions Of administrative policy
" II involves SAYS he, warming up with the
subject, "the fundamental right of the people
1T involves the elective principle. IL IN
Evolves the whole system of popular govern
"ment. The people must signally condemn
"the great wrong which has been done 10
d" them. They must strip the example OF every
thing that can attract imitatOrs They must
"reruse prosperous immunity to crime"
And this position was heartily applaudcd and
cordially approved by the other standard
bearers.
This being then "the question of questions
the final settlement of which must be reached
before we can have any politics founded on
"inferior questions of administrative policy"
it goes without saying that the campaign OF
1880 must be fought upon the single claim
that Tilden and Hendricks were honestly
elected in 1876. Never was platform more
distinctly laid down or issue more accurately
defined. MIR. Tilden does not care II copper
for himself, but lie does feel indignant that
four and a half million voters have been
wronged and defrauded. 1t is for them that
he speaks, and he will not dwarf
and degrade the transaction into a personal
grievance. There Is a degree of unselfishness
about this attitude of Mr.. Tildcn, an exhibi-
Ill xitp sod
in politics. He asks nothing for himself: his
only desire is that the fact of this great wrong
be kept constantly before the American PeO-
plo; that its full and final reparation be per-
sistently demanded. and that it be made " the
"question OF questions" That's all. Nothing
for himself. And when, three years from this
time the American People having been thor
oughly reused to the Importance OF repair
ing this great wrong, the Democratic
party begins looking about for candidates
to run on such an issue, there will be-well, OF
course Mr.. Tilden did not pursue the subject
so far as that-and no doubt he would be re-
luctant to withdraw from private pursuits-but
really, on such an issuc-whom could they
nominate but-the man whom the four and a
half millions had once been cheated out OF z
ticket: the standard bearers as well as the
standards. Mr.. Tilden stated ii modestly and
unseliShly, and with great judgment brought
his audience up and dropped them at a point
where the ticket would logically nominate
itself. And all the standard-bearers fell into
the tr- 10, fell in with his views.
These matters being now definitely settled
and agreed upon, we may look to see the Demo
cratic press and party lay aside all other issues
and give tier whole attention to this. -Four
millions and a half of voters, if we rightly un-
derstand Mr.. 1ilden's remarks, feel aggTieved
at that gentlemans defeat and will insist that
he be naugurated in 1881. Mr.. Dorsheimer
intmated that an effort would be made TO get
him in somehow during the next session OF
Congress but as he seemed to have got the
idea from Mr.. Cox, who is too ready with
"the orar to be implicitly relied on, and
rs David Dudley Field, who was present said
nothing about it, and even Beebe was silent,
the suggestion was not cordially received
Moreover, Mr. Tilden seeks rest and recreation
in private pursuits, and Mr.. Hendricks has
gone cut of the country for the same purpose
so that it cannot be seriously intended to in
augurate Tilden and Hendricks till 1881
Until that time the four and half millions
will keep up a burning sense of wrong, and
refuse social recognition to everybody con-
nccted with the Hayes Administration.
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