The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-06-24

The Democrats who have Joined the Re-
publicans in the war Of defamation can not
but address their reflective powers to the
words of Mr.. Tilden. Their charge against
Mr.. Tilden is that, after he was elected, nc
did not take his seat, " and therefore he is
unworthy 10 lead the party TO another VIC
tory Mr.. Tilden, in few pungent words,
dismisses that charge:
1.-THE constitutional duty Of the two
houses of congress 10 count the electoral
vote as cast, and to give effect to the will OF
the people as expressed by their sufirages,
was never fulfilled"
Answer that, if you can, oh ye Democrats
who have set upon Mr.. Tilden with the
boodhounds of inturiated Radicalism!
Who is to blame for the failure to meet the
desperate crowd of Republican burglars
and crush them by the constitutionally
provided method! There is no evasion
possible. Mr.. Tilden places the whole bus
mess of 1876 and 1877 before the party IN
its true light. His few vigorous paragraphs
on the subject destroy the basis of the OPP
position within the party. His language
is calm and dignifed. His plea is for the
party which was sorely outraged and In
jured, and in point of magnanimlty,
the letter has never been sur
passed. He seeks an honorable
discharge from his great work for the Dem
ocratic party. He points, with no jacula-
ton, but modestly, as becomes man who
has done great things for administrative
reform, to his triumphant work in New
York, before which his enemies are silent
and for which, ere he was a candidate for
the presidency, he received their loud
plaudits. The letter is well calculated to
engender reflection in the minds OF all
Democrats. 1t is certain 10 draw to him
with redoubled affection, those who have
followed him, believed in him, trusted him,
defended HIM, through the last three years
and half Of inimical comment.
Let Us mark the result OF the withdrawal
of Mr.. Tiiden, of that withdrawal IS &C
cepted by the Democratic party The Re
publican organs have always declared that
"the refusal TO renominate Tilden will be a
confession that he was not elected in 1876,
and that the cry of fraud, which has been
the watchword Of the party since the deci-
sion of the electoral commission, had no
other basis than a falsehood." That has
been the stereotyped utterance OF the or
gans for year. They will anfphty it al!
through the campaign; they will charge
the Democrats with insincerity in their as
sertion of the commission Of the great po-
litlcal crime of 1875. which violated the
great principle that the majority Of citizen
voters shall prevail in the government of
this Democratic republic. They will reiter-
ate the Democracy unite in indorsing the
proceeding by which defeated candidate
for the presidency was seated in the white
house in defiance of the will of majority
of the people This they will do with all
the noise and mendacity of which their rev.
dictionary party is capable. They who ig-
more the strength of the persistent main
tenance by the Democratic party of the
charge, backed by overwhelming proof, of
the megatherian outrage on constitutional
liberty perpetrated by the Republicans,
must be growing careless Of the fate of the
republic. 1t was and is mighty tower Of
strength in the party, and abandoning that
issue, il will not take q man Of giant dis
cernment to perceive that the party has
weakened its power to the usurping Repub-
lcan party, as the waves proclaimed,
"Canllte, retire"