The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-03-05
TILDEN AND HENDRICKs.
Their denomination in 1850 Necessar
for Democratic Success.

Their denomination in 1850 Necessar
for Democratic Success.
Correspondence st. Louis Republican,
The denomination of Tilden and Hen
bricks means Democratic success. To re-
ject that ticket means Democratic defeat
these propositions are true, else every
principle OF human nature will have
changed in 1880 and history viii have
become lie. Let Us coolly confront few
facts and carefully weigh them.
First-Four millions of Democrats believe,
with reason. that they have been wickediy
wronged. Avenging wrong is an lgnoble
motive. Very true, but while moralists
theor'ze and theorists moralize, your wise
politician takes human nature as it
wrong supplies a motive of ire
mendous strength, and furnishes
an incentive SO powerful that we may call
it volcanic. Let US rouse in 1880 the i'm
mense activities which underlie the wide
spread belief in an immense wrong. Under
such inspiration an army of four millions is
irresistible. Give us the old ticket, give it
freely, give it on the first ballet; or, still
better, give it by reclamation, without bal
lot, and four millions of impatient freemen
spring at once full armed into the fight
The uprising will be instantaneous, wonder
full, grand. No power on the continent can
withstand it. The Puritan and the blackeg
defeated Jackson. the Democratic choice in
1924, and the result was a whirlwind in
1928. and Jacksons victory. The Puritan
and the blackleg defeated Tilden, the Demo-
cratic choice, in 1876. Now let president
makers stand aside, and history and human
nature will repeat themselves, and we shall
see in 1880 tornado and Tilden's over
whelming triumph.
II Tilden deserved Democratic support
in 1876 he infinitely more deservesit in 1850.
We stood by him when he was charged with
every misdeed on the political calendar,
and while a mountain of c1ntumely was
heaped on his private character. -Four years
will have passed, and his enemies not have
proved nor even reiterated their charges
against him. The whole world will know
that they were campaign falsshoods. We
shall have nothing to defend. Republican
attacks upon his character would simply
proclaim the Republican party a self-con-
victed liar.
3. The refusal of the Democracy to nomi.
nate the ticket will much impair popular
confidence in our party. The last cam paign
is singularly fresh in the minds of the people.
We went, IN 1876, far above the high water
mark of cam paign lsudatiOn in praising that
ticket. We were in earnest, too. We meant
it all. We believed and proclaimed it 10 be
an old fashioned. honest Democratic ticket.
We averred that the ticket meant economy,
simplicity and reform. Those politicians
who would have us discard that ticket now,
nothing at all having occurred to change the
popular eStlmat6 Oh either l1lQen or Hen
bricks, would simply put us before the
world IN 1880 as having been hypocrites IN
1876. My fellow citizens" says Blaine in
the summer of 80, they claimed that their
candidates four years ago were pure men,
aud yet they dared not renominate them;
they claimed that they were legally elected.
and yet they dared not submit the question
to another vote"
4. Confidence in Tilden's integrity is if
possible stronger now than then. History
will write, indeed the world now knows,
that here is a presidential candidate who
could have bought the presidency, and to
bis great wealth the purchase money would
have been song, and yet he comes forth
from those terrible days of shame and cor
ruption undefled and untainted! Is not his
the honesty and the integrity the people
want now? Is not such q man the one to
bring to us again the better days of the re-
public? In politics enthusiasm is the twin
sister of success. From the sea-coast to the
prairies. across the prairies to the mountains
over the mountains and down the argent
slope to the sea-coast again would roll tide
of popular feeling unr aralleled
bearer be the man who, though a
liberal millionaire, would not corruptly use
one dollar to secure the highest political
prize on earth
Condolences in Tilden's patriotism is
stronger now than then. In the gloomy
winter Of two years ago he held in his hand
the fate OF this country. One rash word
from him meant war, and war beside
which our last one would have seemed mer-
ciful. Day by day, like the slow coiling of
a huge serpent, there was being perpetrated
upon him and bis party, under the forms of
law, an unspeakable outrage. But calm,
stea Oily poised self possessed andldignifed, he
stood by the law and with consummate self
control proved himself every inch an unset
fish patriot. 1t passed the bounds of all
patience to hear men of sense talk of Til
deus course as cowardly. Name an act he
could have performed; refer to law he
could have enforced; tell us of a single word
he could have uttered; mention a single
thing he left undone. He was simply pow
eriess to act IN his own behalf. But his po-
sition made him all powerful for his coun-
try's ruin. His wisdom and his love of
country inspired course of action which
history shall approve and patriotism shall
applaud.
6 The Genus OF 1880 will transfer the
seat of political power west of the ALLIE
ghanies. but meanwhile the political map
shows that New York is still indispensable
for one more campaign. No political
gymnastics can dodge that fact, irritating
as 1t il to us in the West. Those. and the
writer 10 one, who wants to see Hendricks
president must wait. He can only be presl.
dent after Tilden. Events have bound their
fates together in that order. 1t is a sequence
ordained by history. He must in the nature
OF things, abide the vindication of the DEM
ocratic party, and in the very nature of
things, that party can vindicate itself only
by renominsting Tilden and Hendricks.
REUBEN.