The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-03-13

justice, religion and piety, may be es-
tablished among us for all generations.
son,e'hing 90 be Proud OF.
From the Alabama State journal Feb. Is
Whatever may DO the issue Of the
elRtion muddle, Republicans must al
ways be proud OF Rutherford Ii. Hayes.
From the day OF his entrance into pub
lie life to the present hour, no act OF
his, public or private, has been ar
raigned 10 his discredit. Az a soldier,
he was brave, faithful and slSilful. As
Governor the State Of Ohio, ne com
mended himself to every good citizen
OF whatever political afiiliation. As q
member Of Congress, his voice, and
his vote always attested his profound
convictions. A candidate for the
highest Office in the gift OF great peo-
pie, his bearing was such as became
one who never lifted finger 10 secure
the honor. His course as candidate
was that OF an honorable, highminded
man. From the work OF u.e campaign
he held himself strictly aloof. Being
the Governor OF Ohio he attended to
the duties of his position, aud studi-
ously refrained from anything that
could be construed as an attempt to
manage the canvass. And since the
7th OF November he has kept his own
counsel aud behaved like q man whose
highest ambition was to avoid the very
suspicion OF things evil and acts doubt
ful. No uperserviceable nephew has
besmirched him with the mire of trick,
or involved him in the practice OF the
low and disreputable arts of blackleg-
ging politicians. Indeed. the men who
voted for Gov. Hayes may be proud OF
him; and whether he be declared Pres
ident OF the United States or not, he
viii be honored as one OF the best, truest
and bravest OF men, and one Of the few
Americans who have passed through
the trying ordeal Of a national cam
paign without soil or stain.
And lie looms up all the more grand
ly as man OF spotless repute because
the public and private character aud
disgusting eagerness OF his opponent
form the background OF the picture.
Samuel j. Tilden had openly and braz-
enly sought the nomination OF his par
ty for two years. II eau never be said
that the Office sought tho man even
though Mr. Tilden should, by tribunal
sitting outside Of the constitution, be
declared the President OF the United
States. No ward politician ever made
a more brazen and shameless bid for
the suffrages OF his ward than did this
man who wants to he president by
hook or crook. That he was nominal.
ed through corrupt bargaining has
been over aud over again charged by
some OF his own partisans No sooner
was lie nominated than the great fra
ternity OF gamblers, with their chief
Morrissey at their head, established
their pools and commenced 10 brow
beat aud bluster in his interest. The
grand army of political scavengers as
sembei NJ once, ard took new oath
OF allegiance TO Mr.. Tilden. And
when the conflict grew warm he, then
Governor OF the State OF New York,
abandoned the executive office aud
planted himself in the very hot bed Of
political corruption and trickery.
From that hour all disguise was put
aside, aud IL was everywhere under
stood that Mr.. Tilden was managing
HE own canvass. Such n spectacle
had never before greeted the eyes.of
the Amesican people. Every trick that
had signalized political effort was Mt
once produced from this full qaiver.
The Tlden bereau began disseminat-
ing lies and menacing appeals To the
people, and nobody is asked to believe
that Mr.. 1ilden was not cogniZant Of
every detail OF the canvass. Nobody
is.asked TO disbelieve in his knowledge
OF these disreputable details, because
Il was the pride and boast Of the Dem.
ocratio sub-mapagers everywhere that
the "old man" had the reins in his
own hand. And that was true. None
but man who had put conscience aud
have planned and directed SO utterly
disgracefnl campaign. IL has no
parallel in political history.
We do not ignore the charges OF
trickery made against some of the man.
ayers OF the Republican canvass. We
are willing 10 put telegram against tel
egran Just Rs those fnissives have come
mp before the committees OF investiga.
ton. There the .Tildsn kilograms to
and from Oregon. given verbatim, and
the public is entirely competent to con-
stsue them in the light of what hap
pened. The charge was that men were
hired TO cheat the people in Mr.. Til
den's interest The. testimony-,.direct
Affords the strongest circumstantial
evidence of tile truth 81 tile charge.
On the other hand the charge was that
Mr.. Chandlorpromised men and money
TO carry Florida for Hayes. Now,
what happened? Has anybody seen n
dispatch OF that kind. Publish every
dispatch I have sent to Florida or
Louisiana" said MIR. Chandler. But
no dispatch of that nature can be found.
Why? Because none was sent. In-
stead we have the hearsay Of man
who acknowledged that he never taw
any dispatches. And the operator
could not produce il il IL ever exist
ed? But no dispatch is produced. No
court would such testimony to be Civ
in it's presence. On the one hand, We
have the dispatches, verbatim, and ON
the other nothing pnt gossip. Bat
even were dispatches covering the
charges against the National Republi-
can committee producible, there is no
attempt Ia connect Gov. Hayes with
them. None OF them, are dated from
his home in Columbus, while on the
other band, many Of the Oregon tele-
grams went TO and proceeded from No.
~ Gramercy Park, the home OF Tilden.
We direct public attention TO these
facts in ordc. that the respectable per-
sons, Who. above NIL things, want Mr..
'Tilden for President, may, see their
idol as others see kim. and as others
will write him down. IL they want a
chief of tricksters ADD n master of the
art Of corruptiug ths ballot 20 he Pres
ideDt. they do night in espousing the
cause OF samuel j., Tilden. But don't
Jet rs hear any more about high
tone" or reform, OF "poblic virtue
from that suspicious sInarter.
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