The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-07

PiVeneAS Tor the aHlnl WlCkeuuets Of Una
awful fraud and lie2 How many timel
since he has faithfully promised that i
forgiven for the sin Of voting for Tilden he
would never-no, never-well, hardly ever
lido so again.
The great farce failed, as all such frauds
must ever fail.
And now comes another contest. No
clarion call for reform starts into lille the
statesman OF Cypher alley. No attempt is
made to right the alleged great wrong so
much complained OF and so fercely de.
nounced. No eloquent plea for justice to
the Great Deirauder. No earnest demand
for higher political standards and better
administration. You come with no life.
long Democrat, with honored name and
experienced craftsmanship, whose service
TO your party and to the country in civil
life entities him to the support Of the party
and commends him 10 the people. You
come with professional soldier-"a man
on horseback" experience in
civil affairs, and no political record fixing
his position on the live questions OF the
day, and you ask the citizen aud the SOL
der to leave their party and support this
man in preference to the volunteer soldier,
the tried Senator, the able Congressman,
and experienced statesman whom the Re-
publican party has placed in nomination.
We wOnt do III The supreme impotence
OF the campaign OF 1876 has been matched
by the sublime audaCity OF the campaign
OF 1880. An old, willy, cunning, tricky
politician playing the role OF relormer
was simply impudence personi6ed. A
whole Democratic party, rebels and all,
masquerading in blue uniform, with an
old soldier for figure head, is audaCity
intensified. Andyet 1t was great thing
the Democratic party sought to accom-
plish at Cincinnati, and in part succeeded.
They managed in hot haste to bury Tilden,
and they thought they had put down the
ghost Of the bloody shirt. 1t Is much too
early yet to determine which gave them
the greater joy.
For fifteen years not an election has
been won by the Democratic party in the
State Of New York in which Samuel j.
Tilden's money and Samuel ]. 1ilden's
brains have not been the most potent fac
tors. We will presently see how well that
party can plan and fight battle after los
ing both.
And why were Tilden and Bayard,
Thurman and Randall, Payne and Hen.
bricks, put one side and Hancock marched
to the front. Why were long line OF
tried and faithful Democratic Statesmen
sent to the rear, and the leadership in
trusted to one who like all regular army
officers has pretended all his life to be a
partisan, but nominally Democrat?
Was 1t because he represented in greater
degree the principles Of the Democratic
party than do the eminent statesmen
named? No one Is so silly as to answer
yes.
The sstute politicians OF the party saw
only defeat with an honest Democrat on
an honest Democratic platform, or in bet
ter words q genuine Democratic on q genuine
Democratic platform. The people must
be deceived.
Thurman and States Rights would die
"bornin." Tilden and reform is not only
dead but stinketh. Randall and a return
OF rebels to power was liable to be indiCt-
ed by Pennsylvania grand jury as u
public nuisance. Payne and his barrel
was hopeful, but the spigot might run
dry. Hendricks and his rag baby would
not live TO reach the battery, and over
board they went, and the Bourbon mourn.
ers go about the streets wondering il 1t
will ever seem natural 10 hurrah for o
Union soldier.
A soldier was nominated at Cincinnati
by the Democratic party because Demo.
cratic leaders knew that without blue
coat TO hide the general 'cussedness" OF
their cause there was not the laintest hope
OF success. II is said that murder will out,
and the committee to notify the nominee
et his selection 10 be the standard bearer
OF the party could not keep the secret.
The old General was told it was not his
brilliant fighting at Gettysburg, but his
toadying to rebels In New Orleans and
Texas that gave him the victory. "Your
nomination." said Mr.. Stevenson, Chair
man OF the convention, in his letter oftici.
ally notifying Gen. Hancock OF his nomi-
nation, was not made alone because in
the midst Of arms you illustrated the high
est qualities Of soldier, but" as Col.
John W. Forney wrote in 1868, "because
in New Orleans, where he Is at present
stationed as the commanding officer OF the
Fifth Military District, he does not offend
the tastes or hurt the feelings Of the peo-
pie there by wearing the national uniform.
Would 1t not soothe the sensitive feelings
OF the patriotic Louisianians II he should
don the grayY
1t was not because Of General Hancook's
heroic bravery on the field, that in New
York In 1868 and at Cincinnati in 1880,
delegates, from solid South, gave him
their ardent support. 1t was because OF
acts Of his, while military Governor, that
showed his sympathy for the old order oil
things and a desire 10 restore rebels to
power before his own gaping wound, re-
ceiyed at Gettysburg, had firmly healed
Roll back the black curtain OF the past
twenty-five years and ask the keeper Of
the records what that party has done. 1t
tried TO extend and strengthen human
slavery by opening to It's desolating inhu-
ences the gateways OF the free and fertile
Northwest. It tried to bribe Kansas into
adopting slave constitution under which
the tyrant might live and drive his horrid
trade OF human flesh, and chief among the
bride givers was the man whose name has
taken the place Of "Reform" upon the
Democratic ticket. II tried in the very
outset 10 aid rebellion by an official
declaration that the ConStitqtion gave no
power 10 preserve the nation. Its last
President stood Cowardly by and saw
one by one the strongholds OF
the nation pass into traitor hands, and
made no effort to stem the rising tide Of
rebellion. From 1851 TO 1854 1t was in
sympathy with traitors, and gave It's whole
influence as party to schemes to embar.
rass and cripple the Government. In 1854
| It had become so emboldened by Union
losses that at the very turning point In
the warit declared that war a failure and
proposed truce with rebels in arms.
Happily for the country lis dismal notes
were drowned amid the shouts OF victory
that went up from Atlanta and the Shen-
andoah. And when the war was ovor,
and the question came whether Union
men or traitors should control or govern
| in tile South, 1t promptly arrayed itself
upon the side Of the traitor. Its whole
weight and power was put against any re:
construction that did not give the reins Of