The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-08-07
THE GREAT FRAUD CRY

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THE GREAT FRAUD CRY.
The impatient Democracy of New York
could not wait to receive General Han
cocks tardy acceptance of the Presiden-
tial nomination, and in the possible hope
of inducing him to assume the empty
honor of candidacy, which by his expe-
dent delay, he seems 10th to do, they
held mass meeting OH Wednesday night
whereat, with great emphasis, they in
dorse the unaccepted Cincinnati nomina-
tons and platform. There We're many
eminent leaders and orators of the party
assisting to give eclat to the occasion, and
foremost among them all was Mr.. Samuel
j. Tilden, who was made chairman of the
meeting, and who in q brief speech pre-
sented the issue and shibboleth of the
Democratic campaign. Mr.. TiIen said,
1.-The Republican party. sitting its con-
science, has made itself responsible for
the elevation, under color of law, to the
| Chief Magistracy of our great Republic
of fifty millions of people, of a man who
was not elected by the people. 1t has set
an example which, unless condemned by
the people, and signally condemned, too,
will subvcit the electoral system of gov
| eminent, of which we are so proud, and
substitute in its place Il rule and dynasty
of Olliceholders holding over against the
will of the people,
That was made the keynote of the sell
timcnt of the meeting, one speaker after
another taking it up and piping in tune
with it. 1t was the great Fraud cry ut
tered in many forms and by many tongues
as if by preconcerted arrangement. As
New York is the pivotal State of the Pre-
sidential contest, and as it may be assum-
ed that the meeting of Wednesday night
represented the Democratic opinions of
that State. it must be recognized that the
contest is to be fought out to a conclusion
there under the personal leadership of
Mr.. Tilden. and upon the distinct issues
of the allied great fraud committed against
him in 1877, in not inaugurating Kim in
stead of Mr.. Hayes President of the
United States. 1t is natural enough that
man who, during many years of his
maturity nursed the great ambition to
become Chief Magistrate Of his country,
and, after coming so near to succeeding
in it, failing in it after employing all
means, fair and foul, to secure it, should
consider himself deeply wronged man
and even 90 SO far as to look upon his
wrong as not a mere personal, but ana
tional one. But it is Phenomenal density
of stupidity upon the part of the shrewd
leaders of the Democratic party to make
his disappointed ambition the issue of
Presidential campaign and thus deprive
the party of whatever sympathy or sup
port it might otherwise have.
If the outcome of this great meeting
and it was great in both character and
numbcrs-is to be accepted as the issue
Of the Democratic campaign, and we
think that it must be so accepted, then it
would appear that Mr.. Tildcn is the real
candidate of the party. and that General
Hancock is but shadow, posing in Mr..
Tilden's mantle, and representing Mr..
Tilden's grievance, with all the cipher
dispatches and the testimony proving the
attempts of the real candidate to buy the
oil Of tnta f>,,+ 1,a
of making himself President, thrown in.
1t was not General IIancock's name that
was most vociferously chcered at this
meeting. but Mr.. Tilden's. 1t was not
General lIancock's character that was
eulogized. but Mr. Tilden's. 1t was not
General IIancock's election in 1880 that
was so insisted upon, but Mr.. Tilden's in
1876. 1t was, in fact, less 4 Hancock
than Il Tilden meeting, and it is Mr.. Til
den and his grievance that shine forth
the portent of the coming contest.
To make the invalidity of the title of
President Hayes the issue of their cam
paign is, all things considered, about as
stupendous 4 blunder Us anybody of in
telligent men could commit. That title
is invulnerablc beyond all hope of sue
cessiul attack, and the best proof of that
is to be found in the fact that the Demo-
Gratis have never tried to attack it. In
deed, that title was invested in President
Hayes with doubly binding force. He
was fairly elected President of the init
ed States bya majority of all the Flee
tori votes of all the States, and his cleo
ton was unquestionably and unalterably
confirmed by the Electoral Commission.
| That Commission was not the creation of
Mr.. Hayes, nor of the Republican party.
1t owed its inception to the contention by
| Mr.. Tilden $ friends that he and not Mr..
| HAYES, had received the larger number
of Electoral votes. The friends of Mr..
| Tildcn. the recognized leaders of the
Democratic party, invented set up and
operated the original contrivance which
they called the Electoral Commission.
They presented their idea of it to the
recognized leaders of The Republican
party, who agreed to accept it and be
bound by its conclusions, the Democrats
previously having SO agreed.
The Electoral Commission was i'll fact
a court of Arbitration. of last resort, into
which each party took its case and which
after patient, fair and exhaustive hearing
decided i'll favor of the Republican party.
Until that decision was recorded Mr..
Hayes did not stir from his home. lie
had no share nor part i'll the court, or in
what it did. 1t declared him the duly
elected President of the United States,
and Congress, representing the whole
country and both parties, confirmed its
verdict, 1t was not a Republican, but a