Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-09-10
THE MEN AND THE ESSUE S.
Re narkably Clear and concise
Statement Of the situation,
by Cyrus w. Field.
Cincinnati Commercis

2 The following letter, from Mr.. |
Cyrus W. Field, seems 70 US so clear
ly and strongly to put the issues of
the presidential campaign, as they
relate to the great business interests,
that we give it to the country, though |
it was not written fer publication:
New York, Sept 2.-I have intend
ed for some days past to write to
you and express my admiration for
the spirited campaign which your
paper is making, but the pressure of
important business has prevented
me from doing this until the present
moment.
I believe that the fight which you
and others are making in Ohio and
Indiana will win, because it is earn
est, and because it goes down to
the root of the controversy.
But it seems to me that some of
our politicians fa;l to see the situa-
ton as it is seen by business nan
like myself.
What is it?
We have before us two candidates,
both of whom are worthy and edu-
Gated gentlemen. Hancock was edu-
Ca ID at the expenseof the govern
ment; Garfield obtained a much
more liberal culture, at his own ex-
pense and by his own hard labor.
10th fought to save the union. Han
cock fought, the government having
educated and paid h for that pur-
pose; Garfield, who had made hin
self a college president and state
sc lator, sacrificed apparently brill
isn't prospects and fought bis way up
to be major general.
Hancock is Without civil expert
ence. Garfield has haG ly twenty
years of service rs legislator, two
in the Ohio state senate and seven
teen in congress. II both he qr'ckly
became leader, and he has always
been di1igent student of political
economy and the principles OF gov
ernment.
Garfield has shCwn as much cour-
age in congress as he did in the fed.
In 1866, while yet young member,
and when few appreciated the dan
1 gers of our irredeemable currency,
he was bold enough to say in the
house: 600 on as you are now 60
ing on, and a financial crisis, worse
than that of 1887, Will bring us to
the bottom. I, for one, am unwilling
that my name shall be linked TO the
fate of a paper currency. I be-
lieve that any party which commits
itself to paper money will go down
e14.d the general disaster, covered
with the curses of a ruined PEG
ple." Of course he alluded to an ;r
redeemable paper currency. The
financial interests of the county viii
be safe with such me1 as president
There is no question concerning the
f lqncial policy of the government
the tariff, taxation, or anything else
on which Garfield has not a full
honorable and consistent record
The people know exactly what he VI
do if elected .a
But if Hancock should be elected
who knows what his policy would be
on any great practical question? Does
he himself know? Would he not b.
. wholly din the hands of bis friends 2
} And who are the men most Gkel,
to be called in as his advisers? VIII,
was the man he went to see after re
ceiving the news of bis nomination
Samuel j. Tilden, the hero of tn
ecipher dispatches" the uncle AM
employer of Pelton. p" .-'
Who is the only man to whom
; since then, Hancock has paid
. formal visit, and at whose house b
! remained over night? Samuel j
Tilden.
4 Who is the chairman of the demo
Y cratic national committee Tilden
right-hand man, William FL. Barnun
. the famous ':mu.e buyer"
Who is the second in command
9 William L. Scott, Tilden's bosol
n companion and confidential manager
Samuel J. Tilden has SO long di
y vided his party in this state, and Ell
J. dangered it's success to CRAFTY r
own ambitions, that it is not at a
g likely that he will support Hancoc
: in good faith until the latter is NOR
. gagged to him. Was that mortgae
. executed on the dark and storm
b night when Hancock went to Gre
: stone and remained with Tilden III
;. til the next morning?
= It is the belief of many that L!
9 den VII be Hancock's secretary
., state, if Hancock is elected and i
% den be not too irfrm to ill Il
- place. If he is too infrm for tina
y he VIII be ''the power behind Il
D throne" He WI make bis oV
D, terms with Hancock, and the latt
y viii be obliged to yield to his q
mands.
10 Who are the men with whom Ga
y. field is likely to surround himsel
in The ablest and best statesmen of t.
country, who are to be found amor
eH bis old associates in congress and
Id public life. He kaows what tn
he are, what they can do and what a