The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-02
A Hollow Cry from the Shipwrecket
Ark.

Ark.
Sober and upright citizens Of New
York have been constantly and loudT
ly upon, for two years past, tO ''reS
buke Fraud" The people ''never
will coudone Fraud" those people
have continually cried who hoped %
gather much profit from the virtlla
Gus indignation Of voters. The Re-
publicans Lave always endeavored "a
bring about intelligent and useful
discussion OF Lying and practictN
questions. 1t has seemed to them
at least as important to see that the.
country be not disgraced and ruined
by the imitation and repudiatiVil
which Democrats at the West sdv04
ciferously demand, as to express an
opinion about the election Of fsTe
The. people of this State ought to be
still Of that mind; their ballots can
not change the past, but may bring
honor and prosperity in the future.
The Democratic party, however, has
wholly refused to consider the posi-
tions or duties of parties with regard
to finance, the public debt, the cur
rency, or any other living question
affecting the material interests of this
great commercial and manufacturing
State. But that party has kept up a
prolonged and mOnOtOnOus howl
about Fraud" If asked whether
they would cOuntenanCe reputation
of public obligations, Democratic
candidates have baWled, Fraud"
If questioned in respect to the dan
gerous and revolutionary schemes of
Communists, Democrats have yelled
Fraud ~ If asked about banks, or
tariffs, or resumption, or Southern
claims, or any other thing Demo
Gratis have howled "Fraud!"
There has been a great change in
the amount Of noise produced with
in few days. "Silence like poul-
tice comes, to- heal the blows Of
sound" The Democrats have sud-
denly discovered that, if fraud is the
issue, they are going to get too much
Of it. The UIOrLd cries out, half in
amaZement and half in alarm, 1.-The
Republican party las suddenly be-
come the aggreSsOr on the record of
the last Presidential canvas Perhaps
there never was more whimsical
turning of the tables" Perhaps
not! In the card of Mr.. Tilden "the
absence of anything like warm aud
outspoken Indignation at the insult
thus offered to himself, to the great
party which he represented, and to
the principles of the American Coy
ernment," seems to that journal a
most astonishing thing. So, perhaps
it is to all those who voted for Mr..
Tilden as honest citizens, but what
, can such citizens think of the deaf
ening yell of fraud" which Mr..
Tilden and his associates, editors and
agents, set up two years ago, and
have since continued. On the whole
the most astonishing thing is that a
great political party in Mr.. Tilden's
| own State, which has been trained
under him, accustomed to his pecu-
liar methods, familiar with the char
acter Of his favorite tools, and used
by him again and again, should have
the enormous and phenomenal i'm.
pudence to go on howling about
fraud at his command for two long
years. The thing required superhu-
man brass ; it displayed "the cheek
of Hind0o god" Did it never oc-
cur to these Democrats that in time
they might incite somebody to pry
off the lid of "the- Ark" and reveal
Mr.. Tilden and his clique in "the
keen bright sunlight of publicity 2"
Thus far, the only reply that can
be called worth repititiOn or notice is
the assertion that the Republicans
probably" bought electors, because
they were for sale and the Democrats
did not buy. "You're another! is
not considered a very effective de-
fence, even among schoolboys. The
lad whose sense of honor prompts no
better response, when he is told that
he is IA thief, earns the contempt of
his fellows. 1t will be time enough
to put President Hayes on trial when
"A single dispatch or letter can be
traced to him, his family, or any of
his associates, which bears dishon-
orable or questionable meaning. Peo
pie who appear to be guilty of IA pen
itentiary offence will hardly smirch
him by their naked assertions, at
least until they have cleaned their
names little, But it is well to con-
slider one other thing, which we rec
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