San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08

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To tho Editor St. Louis ReDnbticon:
The denomination Of Tildcn aud
Hendricks means Democratic success,
to reject that ticket means Democratic
defeat. These propositions are true,
else every principle Of human nature
will have changed 10 1880 aud history
will have become q lic. Let us coolly
confront . f.w fac's and carefully
weigh them.
First-Four millions of Democrats
believe. with reason. that they have
been wickedly wrongcd. Avenging a
wrong is an ignoble motive. Very true.
but while moralists theorize aud theo'
rists morslixe your wise politician takes
human nature as it is. 10 men in the
mass, nveugiug wrong supplies a mo-
tive Of tremendous strength, and iur.
nishes an incentive 80 powerful that
we may call it volcanic. Let US rouse
10 1880 the immense activities which
underlis tho widespread bclief in an
immense wrong. Under such inspira.
ton an army of four millions is ire
sistible. Give US the old ticket, give
it freely. give it on the first ballof or,
still better, give it by acclamation with
out ballot, and four millions impa ticnt
freemen spring at once full armed into
the fight. The uprising will be in
stantsneous, wonderful, grand! No
power on the continent can Withstand
il. The Puritan and the blackleg de
feated Jackson, the Democratic choice,
in 1924, and the result was whirl.
wind 10 1923, and Jackson's victory.
The Puritan aud the blackleg defeat
ed Tilden, the Democratic choice, in
1876. Now Let rresident.mukers stand
aside, and history aud human nature
will repeat themselves and VIC shall
see in 1880 tornado and Tildcn's
overwhelming triumph.
Second-If Tilden deserved Demo
cratic support in 1876 he infinitely
more deserves it in 1880. We stood
by him when he WAS charged with
every misdeed on the political calen.
dar, and while mountain of contume'
ly was heaped upon his private char
actcr. Four years will have rassed,
and his enemies not have proved nor
even reiterated their charges against
him. The whole world will know
that they were campaign fulsehoods.
We shall have nothing to defend. Re-
publican attacks upon his character
would simply proclaim the Republi-
can party Il scll-convicted liar.
Third-The refusal of the Democ-
racy to nominate the ticket will much
impair popular confidence in our par
ty. The last campaign is singularly
fresh in the minds OF the people. We
went in 1876 far above the high water
mark of campaign laudation in prais-
ing that ticket. We were in earnest.
too. We meant it all. We believed
and proclaimed it to be an old fashion
ed. honest Democratic ticket. We
ayerred that the ticket meant economy,
simplicity, reform. Those politicians
who would have US discard that tick
ct now, nothing at all having occurred
to change the popular estimate OF eth
er Tiden or Hendricks, would simply
put us before the world in 1880 as hav.
ing been hypocrites iu 1876. My TEL
low. citizens" says Blaine in the sum.
mer of 80, they claimed that their
candidates four years ago were pure
men, and yet they dared not renomi'
nate them; they claimed that they
were legally e'ecte.l, aLd yet they dare
ed not submit the question to another
vote"
Fourth-Cnnfidence in TildeDs ia
tegrity is If possible stronger now than
then. History will write. indeed the
world now knows, that here is presi-
Dental candidate who could have
bought the presidency. and to his rrer'
wealth the purchase money would have
been a song, aud yet he comes forth
from those terrible DAYS o! shame and
corruption unGefiIed and un.ainied
L. not his The honesty anI the intcgri