The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-03-08
Ed. BORCHERDT, Editor & Publisher.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1877.
THE END.


lief has come, and peace. The weary
struggle which began N effect more
than a year ago, which took definite
form early in July of last year, which
has stifed business and clogged the
wheels of industry for many months and
pushed thousands of firms into the gulf
of bankruptcy, has ended at last. A
splendid era of prosperity gilds the
horizon with the glow of dawn. Mil
lions of patient workers have waited
with sore hearts for that better day; mil
lions of weary wives anu hungry chill
dren have lived on hope until political
wranglers could bring their long contest
TO an end. But it ends at last in tri-
umph of Justice and law, of national
honor and prosperity.
The country rejoices to-day, not only
because it does not end il success Of
Mr.. Tilden and his supporters. A great
revolution of public opinion toward him
and his party has taken place since his
nomination, and even since the election.
Disclosures respecting his own conduct
have been such as to destroy almost
completely the confidence which many
felt that genuine reform was possible
through his Inauguration. His party as
a whole, and particularly that portion of
it which represented his will most near
", has utterly disguised the country by
its behavior. Not since the darkest
days of 1861 has the Democratic party
displayed such lack of decency, honor
or patriotism, disregard of the prosperity
of the country, such INSCRIPTIONS and
revolutionary recklessness, as IN this
contest.
The country will rejoice the more be-
cause it knows Rutherford B. Hayes
bette than on the day of election. Every
day and honr he has gained in public
opinion, as Mr.. Tilden has lost, not
only by comparison but absolutely.
Thousands who voted against Mr.. Hayes
now know that they can trust him who'll
". Throughout desperate contest
which has excited so strong man as
Mr.. Tilden to hundred blunders, the
calm, strong man of Ohio has made not
one false step, uttered not single lnju-
dicious word, and preserved a manly
dignity and self-control which stand in
startling contrast to the behavior of his
opponent. But thousands honor him
not ouly because Of the wise and brave
things he has done. It was said that
Mr.. Hayes would be the mere tool of
Republican extremists. Yet his first
step after the election WAS to convince
the best men Of the South that its inter
ests would be safe in his hands. In the
face of savage opposition from despe-
rate Republicans, though knowing that
they might have power to defeat his in
.,uguration, and in defiance of the sche-
mers who were plotting to defeat it be-
cause they could not extort from him
pledges of submission, this cool, brave,
and patriotic man has reiterated in speech
by letter, and by the mouth of trusted
friends, again and again, the liberal
declarations of his letter of acceptance.
Is this the man who, Democrats be-
heye, would be the mere tool of extre-
mists ? The country knows better now.
1t knows that in Mr.. Hayes ii has elect
ell man who will be President himself,
the tool of nobody, and the President
not of party or section, but of the
whole United States.