Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-07-31
TiIden the Political Keynote

TiIden the Political Keynote.
AS, day by day, the fact becomes
palmer that there is a great likelihood
of Mr.. Tildon's being the Democratic
nominee for President in 1884. 1t Is
amusing to notice the antics Of the Re-
publican press, There Is just one man
the Republicans fear beyond expression.
(which his name is Tilden." Their tone
OF persiAage really ccnceals the deadly
certainty that his nomination would
arouse the country rs it has never been
aroused bsfore, save in the year 1927,
when the indignant people of the
United States rallied, like stone wall,
around Andrew Jackson, whom they re.
garded rs having been cheated out of
the Presidency by union of the friends
Of John Quincy Adams and Henry
Clay. There is, also, a great deal of
play upon Tilden's 'barl, in this mat
ter. No one knows better than the av-
orage Republican that, the moment his
party Is antagonized by an adversary
who commands equal or greater pecunia-
ny resources, the game isup. For at least
eight years the Republican party has
triumphed by the use Of the sack, pure
aud simple. While the "God and
Morality" organization has been exhaust.
ing nll the superiine phrases of the Eng
lish language, in characterizing its pur.
poses and aspirations, its leaders have
applied themselves most diligently to
the prostitution of the right of suffrage.
They have sought every opportunity to
degrade it in order that, when so de-
graded, they might purchase it the more
readily. Millions OF black men, with.
out single preparatory experience, were
made voters simply that their votes
might be made an instrument in uphold
ing royal schemes OF Republican plumber.
This enormity was perpetrated by men
who pretended to entertain the most ex-
allied ideas of the rights OF suffrage; and
who had, for decades upon decades,
been shocked by the admission to this
electoral privilege of Caucasian Irish
men and Germans. The American PEG.
pie are now pretty well informed as to
the agencies which were used to carry
Indiana and Ohio In the Garfield cam
paign. According to the declaration OF
President Arthur Indiana was carried
by the liberal use OF SOAP" asdispensed
by Dorsey. II was at complimentary
banquet TO Dorsey in the city of New
York, extended to him after he had done
his work SO effectually, at which "Chet''
Arthur presided, that the President made
this flippant and compromising remark,
which gave the whole game away. As
result of their own experiences, the
Republicans are always in fright, at a
white heat, whenever it is proposed to
nominate Mr.. Tilden for reelection.
They affect to fear his "bar1, but this
is the merest hypocrisy. They know,
as well as do Democrats, that Mr.. Tilden
would disdain to throw his purse into
the scale. Their real state of mind is
better described by IN experience of q
friend of the writer, the editor OF
leading Eastern newspaper, who Wis
tied New York shortly after the Presi-
dental election OF 1880 had been so
iniquitously decided. He was an un.
compromising Democrat. and he was
brought into communication, in social
way, with that Republican war.horse,
Mr.. Sheridan Shook, successful both as
a political "boss" aud theatrical man.
ager. During their intercourse Mr..
Shook said: "Your people made terri
BILE mistake in not nominating the old
man, +" meaning Mr.. Tilden. "Why. .
resumed Mr., Shook, 'ff Tilden had
been the nominee of the Cincinnati Con.
vention, we could not have gone down
into Wall street and raised cent to
elect Garfield. l am not sure but that
might have voted for him myself. .
Very much in the same line is a recent
declaration of Gen. Hustled, the bald
Eagle" OF Westchester county, who led
the Empire State break from Grant, in
company with Collector Robertson, at the
Chicago Convention. He was encoun.
tered by newspaper reporter at Chica.
go, the other day, and he unbosomed
himself without any reserve. II pity
the man." said this experienced New
York politician, "who would run against
Tilden. The Sage of Creamery Park
would sweep the country" There is
nothing of exaggeration in this ass ump.
ton, and the Republicans know it.
While the party of fine professions, of
immaculate pretences and infamous per.
formances, is shocked to the innermost
of its hypocritical marrow at the idea Of
Tilden's ''bar'l, all the same, in every
Presidential contest, they scrape the las
dollar from every tide-waiter in the
service of the United States, to buy the
election. They peddle out, in advance,
appointments to Judgeships of the Su
preme Court of the United States, and
to foreign Ambassadoyships, and so OF
down to the end of the chapter, to get
the money to buy the base elements il
doubtful States. Ii the Democrats
had had sense enough TO go il
out Of the rain in 1880 they
would have blocked this Peter Funk game
They ought to do it now, when they can
do it so easily, and without sacrifice Of
principle or honor. As Sheridan Shook
said, Wall street would be closed to the
Republican party if Mr. Tilden were
nominated, and the leaders of that
organization would be compelled to fall
back upon the jay Hubbell appliances.
In view of the tremendous tide which
would at once rise 10 favor of the man
who was cheated out OF the Presidency
in 1876, were he nominated in 1884, the
poor clerks and other officials, falling
back upon the "Snivelp Service cant
would decline to contribute their hare