The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-05-09
miscellaneous.
Bill APPS Opinion of TiIden.

WE'LL nobody has been to see me yet
about this Presidential business, and Pm suf-
| fering for tatfy, but you can telegraph to the
New York Herald that Bill Arp is for Tilden
and that he will say in Sundays Constitution
| that he wants him nominated by acclama-
| ton and elected by the Nation for its own
salvation. For the truth is, if patriots don't
| unite on reform in the Government, the great
American Nation will go to the dogs. Pm
| for Mr.. Tilden because he has got reform on
the brain. He cleaned out the Augean stables
| in New York, and knows how to do it. He
fought corruption single handed and whip
ped the fight
He never talks about the tariff or the Nor
| risons, or Bismarck, or the heather Chinese,
but he talks about iniquity in high places,
| and corruption, and thieves and plunderers.
He is the man they swindled out of the Pres
| idency because they were afraid of him. And
! if he is nominated again they will spend
millions to defeat him for the same reason.
Mr.. Tilden said when he ran before that the
Federal Government could be administered
| safely and well for one. half it was then cost
| ing, and he would pledge himself to do it if
sustained by Congress That is what the
people want. They want reform. Why, &C
cording to the committees report, the whole
| blessed Yankee Nation is on the pension
| list, and the pensioners have quit dying and
| are Just living on and on forever. In fact
| they get more thicker, more denser every
year.
Travelled with a man the other day and rs
| he looked out of the car window ut n mer-
chant mill on n river, he said: Why don't
you people put in for an appropriation for
falls like those and build up a big manumc.
turing town. Then he explained how the
l &c lio tIatr hon &
| Congress to put their river on the pension
| roll for hundred thousand dollars to clean
it out and make it navigablc, and
as it was impossible to do that they
spent the money in making it more unnavi.
gable, for they built dam with it at st.
| Anthony's Falls and weather boarded the
river ut an angle of forty-fve degrees, and
then built up their big Touring. mills along
side, and ever since they got the river on the
roll they have been drawing fifty thousand
dollars year to open it up to navigation,
and the money is spent in working on the
dam and fixing up for more big Mills and
now they have got more mills than any city
in the world and turn out thirty thousand
barrels of flour every day, except Sunday,
and are going to do it Sunday when Bob In.
gersoll gets elected President. That is the
way they do things up North, said he, and
/
But the like of that is nothing. 1t only
shows the common idea, and that is plunder,
and now when our folks want little pension
money for the Mexican veterans they raise a
helabaloo all over the North and say: "Look-
out, them felcrs down South are trying to
get their paws in the Treasury"
| | want Mr.. Tilden because he don't banker
after the office and won't make any bargains
to get it, Most all our statesmen nowadays
are intriguers, and they form their syndicates
for Office just like railroad men do for sys
tens and lines that are to break down Other
lines, and it is all on the idea that you cam
accomplish anything by an open square
straight up and down policy. When Uncle
Sammy gets in I'll bel he makes his owr
Cabinet, and nobody else will have hand il
it. want him because he will give dignity
to the Office and to the American Nation ant
the Government. He wouldn't approve any
such fool resolution as Tom Ochiltree go
through on the sly about Lasker. Pm OF
Bsmarck's side about that and think he die
exactly right.
want Mr.. Tillen because he is entitled L
it by courtesy, and would give it to him i
| thought he would die in two weeks afte
he was inaugurated. expect he will d
before his term is out, and want first elias
man put on the ticket with him. None o
your academies like we have had In fact
the Vice Presidents Office is looming up, 70
the Presidents most all die nowadays, or ge
killed. Since can remember four have die,
: soon after they got in, and another never go
in at ALL When the convention meets, the,
ought to look into the v P's. office might,
close and give us the best man in the party |
they know him 1t won't do to holler TO
Tilden all the time 1t won't do to act lik
he was the only man that was fitten for w
have got several and are proud of 'em. w
have got faith in 'em, and faith is goo,
thing. When James X. Polk was nominated
my friend, Omberg, met me on the street il
n crowd and heard the news, and he threw NJ
his hat and said, "he is the very man--th,
very best man. IIurrah for" and thel
he stopped and said what did You say hi
name was p and when l told him he shout
ed: "Hurrah for Yames, Kaypuck-he i
der man."
This is the kind of faith to have and
every Democrat had it, we could elect MI
Tiden like daisy, and keep him alive in til
bargain. His time is most out according l.
nature, hut then they say he is from Ion
lived family, and that he still notices prett
women with alacrity, and brightens u
smartly when they come about That's
good sign. AT least il is a sign that he
willing to live.
Said Julia to Albert, holding up her pt
pug, "Isn't it perfect little love of dog