New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-01
THE CLOSING ClNP4IGN.

paign for taxpayers that century OF self
government has yet produced. Substantial and
conservative citizens know what jobs and rings
have cost New-York. 1t is time for them to
see that a corrupt league, ruling by fraud
here and by force at the South, and RESPONSE
BILE to the taxpayers nowhere, threatens to
seize the Government of the United States.
"What have we to do with Tammany y ask
taxpayers outside of this city. Tammany Will
have much to do with you, if it once makes
the door of the treasury yield to its burglar 5
fools. "What have we to do with bulldOzers
60 at the South r. ask conservative men OF the
North. Only this Southern Democracy has a
little bill against the United States, which 1t
means to get paid by means OF. rlfe-ciubs
in South Carolina and Sachems here. But to
nav il would bankrupt the country.
In 1876 there was a hope that Mr. Tilden
was q refOrmer," and would resist his party.
If he had been chosen, too, there was still
Republican Senate. Now Mr.. Tilden is known,
and is dead. Democracy has captured the
Senate. If it triumphs now, it Will hold the
House, and count upon gaining the Presidency
Then Tammany viii thrust its arms into
Treasury vaults, and Southern claims ana
Jobs will swell the public debt until payment
will be forever impossible, and the yearly In
terest will become an intolerable burden.
The league is complete. A solid South can
cast 1873 electoral votes to get its claims
paid and its jobs passed. If Tammany
can carry New-York, New-Jersey and Con-
necticut, it can add more than the
forty-seven votes needed 10 elect
President VIII Tammany members refuse,
if Southern claims are made out like City
Hall bills under Tweed, large enough to yield
fat share to the ringf Will Tammany con-
tractors be out of work, if railroads, canals
and levees, costing a thousand millions, are
demanded at the South7 Cash for the ma
chinen will be plenty. A few millions a
wear to make sure of New-Y0rk, million
each for the adjacent States, and all from the
public purse, with unlimited millions for the
ring and for Southern jobbers and claimants,
| will not be easily beaten. II taxpayers mean
TO beat this league at ALL they had better begin
now and here.
| At the South it will not be beaten. Every
| Footprint of Union armies. during four years
| of war, has left behind it a claim. Every claim
buys zeal and work for Democratic victory
| But wherever hope of gain has failed, force
il used. Once Mississippi was Republican
| But sc, 900 Republican voters have found il
| safer to stop voting. Once Alabama was Re-
publican. But 90, 900 Republican voters have
chosen to lose their votes rather than then
| lives. In Louisiana, South Carolina and
| Florida, enfranchised men made one more
| effort at their peril in 1876. Now the Nation
has trusted Democratic honor, and he who
reads the news knows the result. Armed bands
have made it the rule to take possession of all Re
| nnblican meetings. Some leaders have been shot
some locked up on false charges; some warned
| TO leave the State or die. Details do not mat
ter. Openly Democrats swore that they would
carry every district in these naturally and
heavily Republican States. The returns will
| show. Great majorties, as sure and as earnest
"a NJ. Garfelds 5000 iii Ohio, have been
stamped out as one stamps out burning
match. Freedom has ceased to exist. Those
who rule are responsible TO nobody. AS long
"a " tool-chests" serve, aud there is fun al
"the fair,u the lawless few will trample down
the au-abiding many, and in place OF thu
| free will of free men we have a reign oil
| rifles.
Is New-York more freef To its cost. this
! eity knows the Tammany machine. gigan'
tic debt. and taxes which strangle the in
| dustry and commerce of the city, and loca
government which is wretchedly inefficient IL
everything except INSCRIPTIONS craftsmanship
! are the products of that machine. That II
( plumbers the city at all times, under Tweed
! for the benefit of ring, and now for the ben.
eft Of party, no one can deny. Each year
$500, 900 OF the money Of the people is spent
merely in salaries of party managers and
strikers Jobs are given at high rates
/ Men are hired by the thousand, where
men by the hundred would be enough
| A Vanderbilt, Scott the Western Union
or any great corporation, would get better
work for less pay by mary millions How car
a party care for the interests of those who
know nothing Of their own interests 7 o.
necessity, the party is corrupt. Blind voters
managers who work for plumber, and abso
lutte despotsm at the head, make n corrup
rule as surely as tho hot sun breeds
! magyots in carrion. At the will OF q chief.
knot of messengers gather IN saloon ant
nominate for member OF Congress a man O
whom not three membefs Of the so-called con