Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-09-17
SOME TIMELY REFLECTIONS.
Republican Hatred of Tilden
From the Buffalo Courier.

injured Win n more lulouso uotiSu Su"u
those who have injured us; and ooubt-
less explanation OF that constant
persecution with which the republicans
follow Samuel j.. Tllden may be found
in that contemplate trait OF human ma
ture. EFlf5fz /
The republican party cheated Mr..
Tllden out OF the presidency OF the
United States. and earnest republicans
can eve forgive him Tor having been
a martyr to their party iniquity. He is
a democrat who took a leading part In
crushing the worst municipal ring in the
country, even though its managers we're
prominent members of the democratic
organization. Chosen governor by a
large popular majority, he dared to ad-
minister the affairs OF the state Tor the
good OF the people, opposed corruption,
reduced expenditures, and cut down
taxation, exhibiting such an-example OF
wisdom aud economy in the managesj
ment ofpublic affairs that a q or OK
administration will mol be pos
sib!e ia NewaY York for years to come. i
& Nominated for the presidency he car
|riedEonsaf great canvass, depending Tor
success more upon an appeal to his own
record as q reformer than'to party pref
udices and passions. He received a ma
jority OF the popular vote, but had to
undergo the humiliation of seeing his
opponent inaugurated in his place. Not
orly vas the foremost political honor OF
our times scratched away from him, but
the glorions opportunities of the presi-
dental, Office, which would have turned
to ervlces of untold good In bis hands,
were squandered on Q g~uod-natured inn
beetle, who was not merely incapable OF
| reforming old abuses, but had not even
| ability enough to keep his own officials
from stealing the public moneys-In the
course. of his public career Mr., Tilden
had never condescended to mere parti-
Esanship, and had incurred the distrust OF
| many democrats on account OF his SEEM
ing disregard of the interests Of the
party but be met no generous consid-
| Grafton from republicans at auy point in
his career. Whenever he accomplished
an acknowledged pubic good his mo-
Etiyes were aspersed. His achievements
as a ring breaker were declared 10 be
tricks to aid. him in getting the COVER
Worship; his virtues as a governor were
interpreted as political devices to win the
presidency. Old slandersswere revived
against him. and the United States gov
eminent officials were employed to
blacken his good uame by prosecuting
vexatious tax suits. Even WREN he was
swindled out OF the presidency he was
pursued. into private lite with the svilest
defamation. HIS personal pec1liarities
were criticised, his character Tor truth
and honor was made a mere mock. The
supposed feebleness of his heath was a
thing to jlbe and jeer about. The re-
violation OF the fast that some of the
returning board rascals in Florida and
Louisiana, whom ther republicans bought
and paid Tor, had offered themselves to
Ii denis agents, and would have con-
cluded a bargain with them ii he had
MT stepped in and forbidden the pur-
chase, was treated as proof positive that
he had attempted the crime which he
would not allow mis- friends to commit
even in the interest OF right. and which
republican leaders perpetrated in the in
ter est of wrong. For the four years
during which another man exercised the
powers OF the office to which he had
been elected, and pocketed the salary
10 which he was entitled, he had to en-.
dure the a. anest abuse. The, republic
can press acted on the theory that he
vas to be q candidate in 1880, and that
it was necessary to destroy every rem
nant of his reputation in order to justify
the fraud of 1876. Even when Mr.. Til
den withdrew from public Lille, and an
other man became the representative OF
the democracy the political b%loodhounds
could not be called of. but kept-bnying
liter him all through the canvass of last
year. Now again. in obedience to their
guilty instinct of hatred, republican
, newspapers begin the, new canvass with
an attack or TiIden. Once more they
/ have set him up as a possible presiden
! tiai candidate; and in their lear lest he
should be nominated by the democracy
IN 1884, they are bent upon doing whal
t they can to make the next three years o
t his lite miserable. Was there ever ar
, American SO wronged as this man.
whose only crime has been that he mad
: ordinary politics look shameful by iur
: finishing the people an example OF pur'
o and efficient government. -
3 We began by saying that men hat,
those they have wronged; we close BY
J, saying that men hate those they fear
This republican hatred of Ti!den may
therefore. be not only a tribute to hi
3 political virtue, but an indication OF hi
g political strength.