Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-01-11
The Party of Fraud" and Its Aims.

Gov. ROBINSON, of New York, de-
votes a part of his annual message to
an attack upon President Hayes. No
body will be surprised to hear that Gov.
Robinson has made this blunder, for he
is known everywhere as a dull man,
who has only learned well how to obey
Samuel j. Tilden. But it is surprising
that Tilden and his advisers should per-
severe in their error. Public opinion
has not of late concerned itself much
about them or their affairs. So far as
it has found occasion to express itself,
it has said pretty plainly that it has no
sympathy with their conduct. No re-
spectacle newspaper and no respectable
man has joined in the cry of Fraud
or saluted the President of the United
States as His Fraudhlency," or at
tempted to affix the stamp of fraud
upon his brow or any other part of his
person. The movement ends and be-
gins with Mr.. Tilden, who has no repu-
tation to lose, and the only organ of ex-
preston it has thus far found is the
New York Sun, which is not strictly
rational or accountable for its Opinions.
1t is great pity, under the circum-
stances, that the Governor of New York
should be brought into the conspiracy
and made to celebrate his own. sui
serviency and f0Olishness in so con-
spicuous manner. The party of fraud
had neither character nor numbers be-
fore he joined it; and it is hardly better
off for his membership in it. But, while
he has failed to help his friend, he has
hurt himself. He has, by few strokes
of his pen, sacrificed the confidence of
the best men.in his party, and surren-
dered all chances of future politicalpre-
ferment. ..r.r
The Democratic party will never re-
ward man who proclaims its coward
ice and infidelity. This in effect is what
every man does who assails the title of
President Hayes, For President Hayes
is where he is by the grace of the DEM
ocratic party Rational Democrats,
who care more for their party than for
any man in it, see this clearly. They do
not cry f" Fraud, fraud,n where there is
no fraud, because they see that the
fraud, if there were any, would be as
much Democratic as Republican. The
Democratic party does not care to con-
fess that it was either bullied or
cheated out of its rights. A. party
dull enough to lose the Presidency
through a trick ought not to have the
Presidency, A party cowardly enough
TO abandon its rights at the bidding of
u political opponent has no rights that
good men ought to respect. The coun-
try would never consent to intrust the
Government, with all its grave respon-
sibilitles and complicated functions, to
the Democratic party if the Democratic
party were so stupid and so base as
Charles A. Dana and Samuel j. Tilden
assert that it is. Alexander Stephens,
Lamar, Gordon, and the Southern Dem
ocratic statesmen generally, who have
been taught common sense as we'll as
common chivalry, see plainly enough
that il would be suicidal for the Demo-
cratic party to question the integrity of
the Electoral Commission or dispute
the legality of its findings. The party
needs the commission and its findings
10 justify itself, and it will never give
them up. or seek to subvert them. ~
The reason for the formation of the
Fraud" party is the senile ambition
of the man Tilden to get rsnOmina-
ton for the Presidency. tbs thoroughly