Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-26
WHY rrLDEN SHOULD BE NOM
MATED.

WEDNESDAY : MAY TO- 1881
WHY TTLDEN SHOULD BE NOM.
MATED.
The Troy Press is one of the New York
Democratic papers which believes that
Mr.. Tilden ought to be nominated at Gin
c~innati, and it gives these reasons:
sFirst-Mr. Tilden was fairly and
honestly elected in 1876. The party that
supported him has declared at every State
Convention since then that Mr.. Hayes
was installed into the Presidency by
fraud, by a bold and fragrant outrage of
the peoples rights, by the leaders of the
Republican party ignoring and trampling
upon the dearest privilege and surest
safeguard of freemen-the right of suf-
frage. Putting all consideration of any
personal claim which Mr.. Tilden may be
supposed to have upon the party and
upon the people, it must be clear that
the Democratic party owes it not only to
itself, but to the dignity of the elective
system, in which good men of all parties
have an absorbing interest, that a firm
and unequivocal protest against the fraud
of 1876, and the rank partisan tyranny
and prostitution Of sacred trusts which
followed in the early months of 1877,
shall be made a prominent plank in the
platform. Can this be consistently and
effectively done if the immediate victim
Of that fraud and tyranny-for Mr.. Til
den, as P~resident-elect, was the accred-
tied representative of six-tenths of the
people of the United States-is set aside
without the most grave and overmaster-
ing reasons for so doing?
''Second-Do such reasons exist? 1t
is absurd to say that the judgments and
will of nine-tenths of the Democrats of
this State should yield to John Kelly and
his following; it is still more absurd to
hold that the will and judgment of the
Democratic party throughout the thirty
eight States should yield to a faction of
boilers lurking under the skirts of the
Republican party. Has this great party
that Jefferson founded, and that still
applauds the pluck of Old Hickory, be.
come so craven that it will be driven
from the path of duty and honor through
fear of defeat? Is it to be frightened by
the growing Of a pack of tricksters
whom Tilden defeated in 1874 and again
in 1875? Must everything be yielded to
a sham and temporary peace and har-
mony'? We don't want peace and har-
mony' at such a price. We want right,
and party honor and dignity. If We
cannot maintain them we would better
be defeated in our struggle to main
tain them. For the party is menaced
by a bolt by the same faction that sold
out this State to our political enemies
last fall, and if it yield now it will be
required to submit to dlctation at every
election. Such a proposition, SO utterly
destructive of party organization, is not to
be entertained for a moment. The oppo-
sition to Mr.. Tilden cannot be placed OF
high moral grounds That miserable at
tempt has repeatedly failed. The talk
about cipher dispatches and revenue
frauds and other like libels has no found
alton in fact; and susp icion, if it ever ex-
listed, has been laid at rest in the mind of
every intelligent person by sworn evil
dence and the forced admission of oppo-
nents. Mr. Tilden is not so insignificant a
person that his acts can be concealed.
For six years and upward he has been the
target of the Republican party, and not a
single arrow has yet pierced his armor.
1t is to be expected that Republicans will
shout their catch-words Of cipher dis
patches and fraud upon the revenue in
hope to divert attention from their own
crimes and errors. But it does not be.
come any Democrat to join the cry.
"Third-Another potent reason why
Mr.. Tilden should be nominated is be-
cause our opponents fear him more than
any other man. Recall how they have
fought him, day and night. by fair means
and foul, since 1874. Who is the man
they most violently denounce to-day!
Are we to take for our candidate som
man whom Republicans have ~applauded
and deiied? We tried that in 1872. If
u principles are worth anything, if they
are not a sham and q lie, we should dis
trust the public man.whom the Republi-
can party honor. The party whose lead
ers are sneering at George Washington
to-day, for the reason that the third-term
scheme can not prosper until the memory
Of the father of his country is blackened
and effaced, ought not to be the party to
select . candidate for Democrats, who are
trying to avert the danger which our fore
fathers phophesied and warned us
against"
How would John Mackay do for one Of
the Republican Presidential Electors =? His
taking Of he vote to Washington for Grant
would be better than taking 1t to Chicago.
Reno Journal.
Now there you 60 again Powning.
When you refuesd at Austin to select Mr..
Mackay as delegate to your National
Convention you said it was because he
would not accept any Office within the
gift Of the people. In less than a week
thereafter you solicit him to pull the
waning fortunes Of the Republican party
in Nevada out Of the mire.