The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-05
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TH & SiNKINC OF THE NIP.

Newspapers, full, we imagine, of the
divine affi atus Of poetry ard prophecy,
propose to make Hendricks president
in 1880. Nobody objects, and every
one confesses his ability and conserva-
tism. Bot the world moves and men
grow old and die and new issues will
arise and new antagonisms must be
aroused, and the new of to day will he
very old in 1880. 1t is needless now
to talk of candidates for the presi-
dency. This policy of steady, terrible
ss4RRtfnsstiqR1 sRetmsh qR1,dR dRHstaafd5 bE As SscSstaEy
ity, that sees and feels and hears moth
ing, and is unconscious of the ruin of
the rich and sufferings and compulsory
idleness of the poor-this rejection of
silver and Gxaction of gold, given a
preternatural value that the many may
suffer and the boudholders be aggran-
shsttcr parties and must make the
next President. Tllden is q bondhold-
ing Democrat. He differs in sympathy
and in opiuion from Hendricks. The
two concurred on paper after fashion,
when gathered in, the one from the
East aud the other from the West, and
set upon the same broad platform cf
pleasing generalities. They assented
to an indefinite scheme of tinsLce; but
nobody ever believed that Wall street
and 1ilden would ever cooperate
practically with Indiana and Hen
bricks. But then the platform was
built to catch votes, and the joineIs'
work was deftly done. But this plat
form, like all others, was kicked aside
on election day, and in 1880 we must
have the politicians rear wholly diff
ferent temple in which to set up the
little gOdS Of the hour. The West
will bow before no altar on which the
words "Tilden and gold" are inscribed,
and if we have no foreign war to distract
popular thoughts from domestic ques-
tions, this of paper ana silver and gold
will supplant all Others. Tie Presi-
dent rapidly removes the South from
the arena III which political and parti-
san bull-baiting is practiced before
the bowling mob, and as the South
goes out of sight the gold dollar be-
comes, in the eyes of party
leaders, "bigger than a cart wheel"
It signifies very little to US of the South
what may be the issue or who may be
the candidates in coming conflicts if
the South be no more the victim of
selfish demsgogues, caring nothing for
the country if they may win office and
power. OF this class are those who
stand in pablo places and in front of
corner groceries and wiring their filthy
hands while tears bedew their blood
shot eyes and trickle down their rusty
cheeks. They are weeping that Tilden
was "cheated," never rejecting that
however much the party lost the couu-
try, and especially the South, was the
winner. Tllden could not have done
for the South what Hayes has effected,
and if Tilden had achieved such re-
suits there would have been no peace.
Butler and Morton and Blame would
lead Republicanism and Radicahsm
solidly against the party in power and
against the South. Inter Oceans and
Gle6e-Democrats would pursue this peo-
pie and these States with demonisc
fury, and the corner grocery fellows of
the South and the tempestuous chivalry
who opposed the grand electoral com
mission, would rave and roar and
spout over the country, ,denouncing
Blaine and Butler and Morton. He'll,
in state of steady eruption, would
then be quite as delectable an abode
of decency and order and industry as
this. Happily the two classes of ex-
trcmists find their occupation gone.
They are discontented and rcstivc un-
der restraint, and there is NO relief save
in the renewal of violence and confusion
aud bad feeling when Northern politi-
clans may win power by reviling the
South and popularity by legislatlng
against Southern States and restricting
the freedom of Southern people. Under
Tilden We hoped for the Liberation of
these States. The end is achieved by
Hayes, and Tilden is dead. The end
he nigh: have subserved has been
more perfectly and peacefully attained,
and in nsught else is Tilden in sym.
Psthy with the West or South. Hen
dricks may, but Tii1en will never
more, lead . party in America. He
may be good and great and vlrtueus
and unselfish and never have wrecked
Q railway or paid for an editorial or
| tampered with Oregon. he may be
generous and kindly and unselfish and
incapable of dealing with knaves of
Tammany, but will never be the leader
of his party. We have moved away
from him. The ship freighted with
his fortunes was stranded fiuslly on
hard money in Wall street. Sherman's
dead weight SINKS it out of sight.