The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-14

,ss's hsSss%.%, y ,,ss Samuel Esrasll + sns, %
the rars of the other candldates' there
|ie4ees such spirit of 1courtesys ~ to
pgeV0At such an .Qcc0rrapoe. One
would never see Thurman lntrigufpg Ia
Delaware or Bayard' IN Indiana. Mr..
Tifden recognizes tho stredxtff Of Cen.
HanCock's 9 eAndilDacy and b deter
imfnad 10 @evsnt it hy Gsir meam 81
foul. His first attempt is on. the
PENNSYLVANIA Convention.
It has Been but too successful. on q
test vote the Tiltlen men, under the
lead ofi8peakee Randall, proved ttlemi
selves to 10 In small majority. It IA
true that their tactics is q little OBJ
sclre, but then, everything that Til
deh or Randall docs smells of mid
Hight, the dark lantern aud the cyt
,pher dispatch. II they can carry the
Atate delegation IL. is difticult to un-.
deEatand why they want the unit rule
cult to understand Why they want the
two-thids ruae -atoltsssed, while the
Til0eo Convention In, Nevvs Xork want,
ed 1t retained. But this Is neither
here nor there. :, IT, Is sufficient for Us
to know that the Tilden men had their
own way. They Will more thin have
1t IN tho district conventions. a. high
minded dgeAtlemcn, N1e HanCu0k,
with friends like-mindedl with him,
cannot cope with the experienced
trtckery which will be brought to
bear against him in the election or del
Ee9ates. The Consequence viii be- that
he will get but small part of the del
sgation., The failure to, CARY his, own
State IN the convention, will be fatal to
his nomination. "a ''''1 '''i'- ispi
'a' But the man whose nosnination ia
thu. sought % bc forced upon an un-
willing party, shoalA not he, allowed
as that Of which he has been guilty.
II he win persist In striking down the
etroneest candidate before the people.
tlsen the candidate, ~ IL should seem,
ceFtatnly has friepds enough, ,t~ pro-
vent such Q catastrophe as, his own
nomfnatiop. In this patriotic work \
Gen. Hancocl's friends will hbe' aitlsll
by the friends of all other aetni,iept
DeOoera&a who have entered Into this.
eentest and have conducted It On fStf'
and honorable principles. II the leaSll'
ting candidates cannot unite On ons oS
tiseif own number, let ehem go't0 Mr..
,Tiasaen b soswn n, door and. dsaw from his
coveted netirement.tAat epaixaeut atdtes-
nsan: HoFatio Seym9Ar,, !, ,Whpq, .,as Will
be admitted by ntnety-niqe hpndredtans
New York, which IL something Mr.
Tilden cannot do. .H His nO,ninatlon
would be. equivalent TO- an election
His election, as will be admitted ~
unprejudiced mon OF all parties, would
restore the ONCE of President to its
former responsibility aud the republic
to the dignity which it has long since
ceased to maintain. .--r. 3"
Hitherto Democrats have been IA
cllned, in consideration for eminent
services, to condone the pestinacity
with which Mr.. Tilclen clings to the
idea that. the American Democracy
owes him the Presidency. They have
felt that, though they might be forced
tegretfuliy u abandon Mr. Tileaen
Aimsslf they might gladly tasIs up his
'.man4 aas the pa pers cali tho iessndir
date whom, they say,a he intends st6
dasssis ttssifv t9 the eonxsntson S1t PER.
claims, Is toocontoa1ptible to saecat any
whatever. Mr.. Tiklen's
man Is getting to be as far out of thH
question as Mr.. Tilden himself. Mr.
Tiiden'A "man" may be- Sariuel j. |
RAsV<3all,i r4,'4 tui .it.ttG 4I4 u , |
The Cincinnati Saturday Night pab-
iisbee the following rcasons!why u hot
ter doesn't go: .tr't ai +j !iiS 4. |
Because you forgot to address it.
Because you forgot to stamp II. '''
Because you forgot to write the town !!
or State on the envelope. '4'f1 E,ttI
Because you used a. aonce casr,ellcd |
stamp. .TlCu'.. pets h4r s.fnGls ~.
Because. you cut ont an enyelope
stamp and pasted it on your letter.
Because you used n foreign stamp. !
Because yorwrote the address on the
lhe top OF the envelope, aud surely
It was the post Office
iatips,sa % reseisings AMI cancellfng
stamps. %"1
And because you put your letter in
a blank envelope, and sealed IT, and
1t to--the Dead Letter Office,
where thousands upon thousands OF
valuable letters are daily destroyed
because the people are either careless
or Ignorant Of the postal laws.
And to the above we would add a.
few reasons why an answer don't
come: O.. .rt -ls7uti',jf 'r.r. -
I,Becauae you dc, not sign your namc.
. Becauss voa sign 1t 40 indistinctIy