The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-04-23
mn. .rrLDEN's cANDnDAUY.

the list of candidates for tho nornina-
tion ut the Cincinnati Convention,
shows moro plainly than all besides
how desperately the managers Of the
Republican boom fear the quiet man
of GFammercy Park and tho tidal
wave Of enthusiasm which his candi-
dacy will be sure to invoke. These
managers know full we'll how deeply
seated In the bosoms Of an active
working majority OF the American
people Is the conviction that he was
choused ovt of tho Presidency by the
JHgglery Of tho little game Of s TO Z.
They know that his candidacy In
wolves tho remorseless probings OF
the ways and means by which that
lniqpity was engineered to a tempo
rarily successful conclusion, and with
an avldity by no means strange un-
der tho circumstances, but which
does far more credit to their cunning
than TO their sense OF honor and fair
play, they keep in motion every pos
sible appliance which can tend to the
accomplishment Of result which
they fondly but valnly imagine win
leave them in possession OF the So
crets by which their infamour design
was accomplished.
All this Is very well In It's way.
These manipulators OF election re-
turns are probably right from their
standpoint In desiring TO keep the
record of their inamy from public
view. But all this will avail them
nothing In the day of public trial for
their high crimes and mlsdemeanors.
Their struggles to postpone, for a
while; II not indefinitely, tho day OF
exposure would, possibly, be affect
ing, II they were not amusing. What
do these people suppose they VIII
have accomplished II by false reports
Of Withdrawals, false reports Of paral-
ysis and other ailments, Idle tales Of
combinations Of railroad and other
corporate interests, they succeed
In so working upon a possibly pliabie
portion Of the membership Of tho
Cincinnati Convention as to render
Mr.. Tilden's nomination unadvIsable
or even impossible? Do they sup
pose that under any other Leadership,
that of Bayard, Thurman, Fields,
Hendricks or any standard bearer,
the Democratic party viii 60 into the
contest, oblIvious of the past and un-
mindful Of tho wrongs TO which they
have been subjected? Do they sup
pose there win be any tho less n rat
Ting OF dry bones OF tho staIwart
sanhedrim because another man than
Mr.. Tilden shall happen to DO the
standard bearer: II thsy do they
are wofully mistaken. The Demo-
cratic party Is going into this contest
to win. There Il no Radical lie so
brazen that II will not be exposed !;
no Radical pretense so cunning that
the mask will not be stripped from
Its hideous deformity; no cock and
bull story about a suIlen and rebellious
South that will not be dlsprovcd no
silly ouigiving about Southern States
being retrogressive that will not be
contradicted by the facts and figures
which show In the cstton and sugar
States vast increase In the produc-
tion Of these staples, in the manufae-
turing States, Georgia, East Tennes-
see and others, the cheering evidence
of new factories built, new mines
opened, new forests invaded by the
lumbcrman and sawyer. Tho facts
and figures are being colated and the
truth is going to be made known.
These gentlemen (by courtesy win
find before the campaign OF 1880 Is
over that they have already spent q
great deal Of money uselessly in the
Uncle Toms Cabin boom that they
started some two years ago; that It is
all very well perhaps to lay In a
stock in trade of false premises and
false deductions but that their theo-
ries do not always win. Radicalism
has been tried for twenty years. In
diylduals have been pampered tu the
sore discomfort of the masses and
corporations have been fostered to
the impoverIshment OF the producing
classes. This sort of thing has gone
on almost long enough and the Amer
ican people have come to the concIu-
sion that since the powers that be do
not seem disposed to give them
fair chance they will take one for
themselves, and that Tilden or no
Tilden, they propose by the grace of
God and the force of the ballot to
have one more Democratic President,
just for luck.
In this connection we simply ad-
wise our Democratic brethren to give
but little heed to the deliberations of
the associated press about Mr.. Til
denis withdrawal from the Presiden-
tiaI race, and in the meantime keen