The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-10-19
Political Affair.


hncai friends to prepare a statement with re-
ference to the New York TFibune's so-caIled
cipher dispatches. which profess to prove an
offer in November, 1876, by certain parties in
New York, to purchase the electoral vote OF
Florida for a specified sum of money. Those
certain parties are or were among Mr.. Til
denis most trusted friends, but that gentleman.
1t is now understood, declines to take any
notice of the accusation on the ground that Il
does not implicate him. lift did, he saws. he
would not let the sur go down before bringing
his accuser face to face in court of Justice.
Life is too short, he says, TO be eternaliy fight
ing windmills. The attempt 10 mix up his
name with corrupt bargain to buy the vote
OF Florida, he says, Is OF piece with the ante
election attempt to incriminate him in an en-
deavor to defraud the government out of its
income tax. The motive for persisting in
them, he further intimates, is to prevent his
denomination, and the motive is shared by a
certain class of democrats who have always
been inimieal TO him, as well as by the repub.
llcans. With eonspiritors of this class, be
further says, he can have no controversy. He
can only treat them with contempt The
correspondent conclusion is that Mr. Tilden
expects to be the standard bearer of the dem
ocraiic party in the next presidential cam
peign, and that his indifference in regard to
the cipher kilograms ''shows him to be yer
liable stoic.'i
The same correspondent, in the Ledger OF
Monday last, says The same parties who
communicated TO your correspondent, day
or two since, Mr.. Iilden's views of the 7Fi-
bnaes cipher dispatches relating to the Flo
rida business are authority for the not less
important statement that in the course of a
week or two the public viii have something
- Ill at,, Il r IL.
dispatches that were used by the ''Visiting
Republican, statesmen and their political
contederates in New York, pending the cleo
toral dispute in Louisiana. The key to those
mysterious missives is said to have been fur
nished 10 Mr.. Manton Marble mot by General
Butler, butt by some disappointed Republican
politician, and it is because Mr.. Marble has
been so busy fitting the key to the lock that
he has had no time to answer the impairment
interrogatories the newspaper interviewers
have recently been addressing hun, touching
his part in the Florida affair. Ii is nice
business, all around.
Mr.. MARBLES DEXIAL.-Mr. Manton Mar
bic has addressed letter to the New York
Herald stating that the Tribune imputes to
him kilograms which he did not send. He
instances one and then disposes ofthe others
as follows: 81 shall let these thirty or forty
biO91oAAGo VI NAofAAaEGAtGuN pass Ou AAiAl
echoes more or less noisy, because there hap
pens to be no telegram imputed to me as there
can be no telegram verify mine, that conflicts
with one fact, namely IL never attempted,
furthered, or executed in any manner, direct
or indirect, or ever assented to or eoncurred
in, any proposition, purpose, scheme or eff
fort to buy the State canyassers' certificate OF
the vote Of Florida, or even to hire them to
certify that vote as it was cast by her peo.
pie for the Tilden electors
The Philadelphia, Pa. Times says Three
things may be regarded as settled beyond the
control at the November elections. First,
both branches of the next Congress will be
distinctively Democratic; second, they will
both be against the present financial policy OF
the administration; and third, they will each
divide both parties on the question of resump-
ton, ofincreased currency, and of substituting
a uniform national currency for bank notes.
Secretary Sherman, who plumes himself on
his hard-money victory in Ohio, will favor the
abolition of bank notes when the issue comes;
and while the Republicans will be londest in
their professions for hard money and prompt
resumption, they will furnish large percent
age Of their votes in Senate and House to
belle their pledges in favor of our present
financial system. Outside of New England,
and probably Maryland, Delaware and the
little Pacific States there won't be delega-
ton in the next Congress in favor of what
money centres understand by honest
money" and Republicans and Democrats will
be to the front together to mould the con-
hicting ideas into some acceptable change.
all danger of reputation in any form and
of illimitable irredeemable paper may be re-
garded as past. Those we're the excrescences
Of the popular revolution on the money issue,
and they will perish without regret; but there
will be positive change in our financial pol
icy and the sooner money centres appreciate
the fact, the better it will be for all classes,
including themselves. Resumption will be
tried in january, and it will be receded from
if the country proves to be unprepared for it,
as is probable. England retraced her steps on
resumption more than once, and wewill like
" have to do it as the price of employing pol
iticians to do the work of statesmen. Bank
ing will be made free in fact as it is now only
in name; its enormous taxes will be repealed;
the machinery for money to reach solvent
business will be cheapened aud simplitied; ma
tional currency will take the place of bank
notes, and interest on bonds deposited for cir
culatiOn will be suspended, but ''iiat money
will be unheard of after this year, and the
specie standard will be reafiirmed as the I'M
alterable law Of the Republic. There will be
hard battle on the question of alegal tender
currency, with the issue doubtful, but we
regard all other changes herein indicated
as inevitable. So much, and no more, will
be the harvest of the promiscuous sowing and
tempestuous waterings of the soft-money idea
and the question will disappead from our po-
litical field, as prosperity gradually comes to
bless the industry aud progress of the Ameri-
can people.
The Detroit Post aud Tribune, in an abridg,
ed comparison of our present financial con-
dition in 1878 with what it was in 1865, notes
the fact that while our circulating medium is
now S736, 743, 600 against SSl5, 100000 in
IS65-a contraction of $50, 900, 600 in thirteen
years, or six millions a year, the coin Udtue
of our currency now, its purchasing power, its
value in exchange for land or goods, is S7S3,
306, 600 against only 1915, $50, 900 in 1866
an increase in purchasing power of Sl5S, $50,
600. In other words, while the volume of
the currency has been reduced ten per cent.
its value in use and in exchange has boen
increased tIceRty-seUen per cent.
The Republican State Committee of Iowa
met on Tuesday in Des Moines to consider
the question of a Congressional election in
November, as proposed by the Democrats
and Greenbackers. The question whether
the State Constitution required to be amend
ed to conform to the provisions of the FEEDER
al law of 1875 providing for uniform Congress
sional elections in November was discussed
by several leading lawyers, and it was unani-
mously decided that the October election was
legal, and that the Republican party will not
recognize as legal, elections held in Novem-
Der of this year. The Democrats have de-
cided not TO hold an alection in November.
Gov. Wade Hampton advises the southern
delegates TO the next national democratic con-
vention to proclaim that the South is not
fighting for place or power, but for the success
of the Democratic party, and therefore, though
having right to ask for the second place on
the ticket on account of her electoral strength,
prefers that both the President and Vice
President be taken from the North and North
west. This, he is confident, will convince
the country that the southern Democracy are
disinterested and sincere, and will cause the
North and Northwest to redouble theirssC
forts to elect the democratic candidates.
The Philadelphia Times says:-The con
troll of both branches of the next Congress is
settled beyond the possibility of reversal;
the Democrats will have a majority of from
eight to twelve in the Senate, no matter
who wins in Pennsylvania, New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut; the same party
will have an increased majority in the House,
allowing all really doubtful districts to be
carried by the Republicans in the States yet
to elect; and the financial issue is practically
settled by the clearly foreshadowed sentiment
of the next Congress on the question.