The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-06-12

ii State. AS a corrollary to this propo
sition, it is equally true that yo
should weigh all your political utter
" ances before giving expression t
10 them. We are now going to call yol
to the bar OF public opinion for a fey
! moments, and see if you have "mad
- out" your case in the indictment
"The People of Mississippi vS. S. J
Tilden.u
l. Your first count in the Indictment is
y Mr.. Tilden is the weakest man thu
e National Democratic Convention, soor
to assemble at Cincinnati, could nom
mate" This we deny in toto. and
: call upon you for your proof. Plainly
= stated, Mr.. Tilden is either the strong-
est man before the Convention or he is
not We will put it in this shape if it
, will suit you. We unhesitatingIy
, affirm that he is the strongest. Now
for our proof: New York, the great
Empire State, and the home of Mr..
oolllC UllllC SluCC uClit lUS lJeliI-
ocratic State Convention at Syracuse
Mr.. Tilden's friends there wished the
delegates appointed to the National
Convention to go u,einstructed. Mr..
John Kelly, Tilden's great opponent,
wanted them to go instructed not to
vote for Tilden. The result is, they
are to go nljastrWcted-one element
of strength. A short time, since the
great State of Pennsylvania held its
Democratic State Convention at Har-
risburg. Mr.. Tilden's friends there, as
at Syracuse, wished the delegates to
go to the National Convention mai1a-
Stucted Senator Wallace, of Penn
sylvania, another of Mr.. Tilden's op-
pOnents, wished them to go instructed
to vote for Hancock, (your candidate,
| gentlemen, and the one for whom you
are trying your level best to work up
"boom"). The result is, the del
egates are to go uninstyucted-another |
element of strength. The same way |
in New Hampshire she too, sends an
uninstructed delegation. So does
Wisconsin. Ohio will cast her first
vote for Judge Thurman-purely a
complimentary one, as she well knows
that her rugged old Senator, to-day
the peer of any public man, either in
the halls Of Congress or out of it,
stands no earthly show for getting the
nomination for President. Her second
choice is unquestionably Tilden.
Here we might rest our case, for all
we have said are matters of fact, and
are upon record, but we propose to ad-
vance our standard into your territory,
and see if we cannot unearth the un
derlying causes of your opposition to t
MrrTilden. Personally, you can have |
no objection to him, for not one of you, G
we dare say, ever met him. You say :
that he was once elected to the Pres Y
idency, but did not have the nerve, l.
(call it what you wlll,) to {
take his seat. Is that so? What
legally appointed tribunal ever told
Mr.. Tilden he was elected President?
You think he was elected l think SO
too. So do Il great majority of the
American people to-day think. But il
loes that make it so? Circumstantial ii
evidence is not positive proof. A man II
,uns for some petty county office ; he Il
lares not qualify unless some legally fo
tppOinted tribunal declares him to be Of
entitled to his seat. Your legally ap- u
pointed tribunal, the Electoral Com II,
declared Mr.. Hayes entitled fiji
o the Office of President. What was bt
Ir. Tilden to do? Raise an army and ~ ~
AXE possession of the "White House" Or
" force? That is sheer nonsense. al
What authority ever told him he was III
lected received a majority of the T,
lectoral vote? Where, gentlemen, tn
vas his title-his bill of lading? No, sic
Whilst Mr.. Tilden felt morally sure ;,
hat he had been fairly and squarely 81
lected President, yet he knew that M
e had no legal right under the broad da
lnopy of heaven to enter upon the Il m
ischarge of his duties, for no legally 40,
instituted tribunal had ever told him IN
G was elected to the Presidency over
Ir. Hayes. You know 1.-THE people tra
f Mississippi know it-and this is
-hy they think 50 strange of you in del
butting your heads against Tho
stone wall Besides, gentlemen, ma j
hilst our people may not all be an lea
lucated people-may not all have sat to
the feet of Gamaliel-therc is yet a his
nse of justice, rugged though it may ,,o
:, deep down III thelr heirts, Uiia' the
volts AID will ever revolt at all at
mpts to stihe it. They know as well ing
YOU do that it is not Mr.. Tilden per 81 81,
i'm himself, whose manhood has Vol
en- outraged, who has been defraud- ser
out of his rights, but that il is their
IN manhood which has been outrag-
- themselves upon whom the ser me
mt has left its Shiny trail-they who Gre
We been defrauded out Of their rights "
the most gigan ic swindle known lire
long men. Nississippians know a ;
at it is their imperative duty to as typ
{ in rectilying that great wrong, and sire
4 assured, We knights Of the Quill, tbs ,s
ay are going to do it, not by NOM dni
ting Hancock-HOt by nominating a
/. Bayard, or Mr., Anybody else--b't y
nominating, and not only that, but IT
electing, and not only that, but by ton.
falling in the Presidential Office the sold