The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-10-22
tWash. Cor. Boston Advertiser.l
The Washington Standpoint.
The ssnile Tilden--Those Cipher TeIe-
grams-The Future of the Natio nails.

The Sunday Herald, which represents the
better class of Democrats here, speaks as fol-
lows in regard to Tilden aud the cipher tele-
grams: "The main comment we feel called
upon to make in regard 10 the cipher kilograms
is, that the disclosures rightly serve man
who chose to trust himself in such hands as
those Of Weed, Marble, Pelton, Coyle. Finley,
Wooley, Gwynn and the rest of that myrmy-
donian crowd who cut their wide swath 10 the
days when the Liberty street literary bureau
was at so much line, educating the people to
shout for Tilden and reform. 1t is quite imma-
terial in political point of view, whether the
authority of the kilograms Mr.. Tilden repudi-
ates with such lack of indignation is brought
home any closer to him or not, his senile cum
ming in having them sent by others is of no
avail, since the others 10 question were his bos-
ON friends, confidants and necessary agents in
the business. 1t is not pleasant to think
that the presidency of this republic was dur
ing some time up for sale at auction and beg
ging purchaser, and that, though the other
party is chargable with the monstrous guilt of
purchase, the defeated bidder simply became
so through chronic inability to act with de-
cision. The nausea that every decent person
must feel at such revelations is somewhat al.
layed by the thought that not only the party
which bore off the prize in the iniquitous ven-
due is doomed to speedy overthrow, but the
personal clique who dabbled in it are being se-
gregrated out of the Democracy, and are most
righteonsly defunct as factors in future cleo
tions."
The Tildeu Democrats here are very mach
disturbed over the hostile criticism of the
Southern press upon the cipher dispatches.
The following from the Charleston News and
Courier is a good specimen Of much that is now
arriving from the South: "This is not what
one might style exalting or improving political
work, and as Mr.. Tilden is not possibly ia
Democratic politics hereafter. there is no harm
in free speaking. MIR. Tlden bungled and
funked alternately; he could have won by
buying an honest decision. and didn't do it; he
could have won by fighting, and didn't even
make a show of it. No more of Tilden in the
Sonth, nor ANYBODY like him."
Gen. Tom Ewing, in answer to question
concerning the influence of the national party
on the present organizations, said: 81 think
and hops it will cause recast of the two great
parties. The Republican party is and will cer-
tainly remain the party of forced resumption
and bank money. Three-fourths of the Demo.
cratic p arty is already committed to the repeal
of the resumption scheme and the substitution
OF greenbacks for bank notes. These are the
foremost and vital questions of the day; no
shutting evasions of issues will be tolerated by
the people In either leaders or platform; both
parties must meet them honestly and squarely.
Hence, greenback and aDti-resumption Repub-
llcans will come to US, and bank money and
forced-resumption Democrats will go to them.
The national movement, think, will precipi-
tate this result. but if the Democracy should
attempt to go en- as the party Of the money
power and the party of the people in the West,
it will lose its grand opportunity The nation
al party will then grow formidable, aud the di-
vision which lost us Ohio will lose US the next
Presidential election or give us at least more
chance of throwing the election into the House.
The money power never did trust the Demo
cratic party aud never will. 1t has held its
control in our organizations in the East only to
insure the continued control of the Republican
party. Its tried and trusted allies, the Democ-
racy Of the West and South, at least see this,
and will act accordingly. We shall have no
more double-faced Presidential platforms or
candidates, but we will fight against forced re-
sumption and bank money as unequivocaly
and honestly as the Republicans fight for them
We will thus bring the Nationals aud Green
back Republicans to us, and, l think, will
sweep the country East and West"