New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-04

Already the boat touches the shore of Resump-
ton. We have but to step out, stand on the
solid rock, and advance to sure prosperity
The people are not fools, and will not push
bac, the boat again into the wild waves and
thick perils from which they have escaped.
They are honest, and will not vote to cheat
each other for the comfort of broken gam
blers. the satisfaction of vindictive rebels, or
the convenience of ravenous demagogues.
II. The Republican party stands for free
speech and equal rights at the South. 1t came
into being because freedom was throttled in
Kansas Worse deeds are done to-day in
South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana, and
other Southern States and now, as In 1886,
Democracy defends every crime perpe-
trated to get Democratic maiOrities. The
country was told that if troops were removed
Southern Democrats would obey all laws, but
they trample upon the fundamental laws OF
free government. Put Democrats OF the
South upon their honor" it was said. They
have had fair trial. No sabre has clanked
for defence of enfranchised men to whom the
Union guaranteed equal rights. what are the
results? United States officials have been
shot Armies in red shirts have dispersed he
publican meetings. If in any locality thou
sands of Republicans have hoped to out-vote
hundreds of Democrats, tav rvs have dis
froncbised them. or 30 registration has
robbed them of all rights; or, when all else
failed, "iiring began, and twenty-six negroes
"were killed" The South is solid. Districts
in which Republicans are to Democrats as ten
To one return Democratic members. lhe
country knows why, and remembers Kansas.
ILL., The Republican party stands Tor govern
ment for the people, and not for partisan
thieves or sectional jobbers. What Northern
Democracy is, Tammany teaches. Its drnm-
mers and bummers fatten at the public CRIB,
and the commerce of the Empire City is half
strangled by debt and taxation. Mr. Kelly
would like 20 do better, but the machine Is
stronger than the man. The party is an
utterly unprincipled conspiracy to plunder the
people, and an angel of light, If chosen Its
leader, would have to help its punderng or
get out of it. What Southern Democracy Is
taxpayers will find out, if ever that party has
power in the House, the Senate and the White
House, and can get passed the claims and
Jobs now on file, and the far more dangerous
bills still kept under matches. For every farm
on which Union soldier trod, every meal OF
food taken to feed an army. every house oc-
cupied, every bale of cotton burned, every
creature on hOofs that escaped or was driven
away. there will be leak in the Treasury if
the Solid South can put Democracy into
power. The country is not blind. 1t VIII
trust pack of half-starved wolves in sheep
fold. sooner than the Democratic party in the
Treasury.
". The Republican party stands for honest
elections and no bribery. In spite OF bull
doing, III spite of systematic assassination,
il elected a President in 1876. Honest en-
fOrcement of law framed to prevent violence
gave il a fair and legal majority i'll Louisi-
ana. In Florida, South Carolina and Oregon
it had a majority on the face of the returns
1t did not need to buy votes. It's committee
had no money. No office in its gait would
have paid as much as Democrats are proved
to have offered in cash for a single vote.
The overwhelming proof brushes the cOparce-
ners they deny, as any criminal pleads " Not
guilty" but dare not sue for libel, or chal-
lenge under oath The genuneness of cipher
dispatches or the accuracy OF TRANSACTIONS.
They are dumb, and best know why. II any
responsible man darcs to say the dispatches
are forgeries, no knows that perjury and
jail lie that way in his path. If any dis
putes the TRANSACTIONS, he knows that the
world will instantly demand production of his
KEYS Unchallenged. the fatal kilograms bring
home TO the party or its candidate the most
infamous crime in American history. From
Oregon. from Florida, from South Carolina,
sure chains of proof go straight to No. 10
Gramercy Park, and fasten there upon
nephew of the candidate and the confidential
secretary of the National Committee of the
party. Either for the candidate or for the
party, he ordered votes bought III three States,
through intimate friends and trusted agents
of the uncle and prominent members of the
party. In South Carolina, $4,000 WAS Of
fered in Florida, $685. 900. Mr.. Pelton never
was worth either sum, and the agents knew
it, but they knew that he spoke by authority.
Thus foul crime lies at the door of those
who, with impudence beyond parallel, have
been bowling fraud for two years. Having
fished for months with a drag-net, and found
one confessed peIjurer who would swear that
he had once seen a letter promising to take
care of officials who did their duty, the
Democrats find even their hired witness
ashamed of his abortive lie. and of the party
which buys periuries only because it failed to
buy votes. With this record of Disgrace and
shame, which no American can read without
pain, the Democratic party goes before the
country, a criminal in the dock, pleading
"Not guilty" and half inclined to make its
candidate for the Presidency the scapegoat of
its crime. But Mr.. TIlden alone enabled the
party to wear the mask of Reform, aud the
exposure of the crime tears off that mask
forever.
The people hate sneaks and despise hypo-