Daily Republican., 1886-08-11
Refiecting ON the Dead .

The Democrats are very inconsider
ate In bringing mp the electoral comnis-
sion work Of 1876 and fighting 1t over
again, over the grave Of Tilden, who
they say was defrauded out Of the
Presidency. They can gain nothing
now by resurrecting question that
was once settled by tho plan they
themselves provided fer the settlement
OF 1t. The electoral Commission was rs
strongly opposed by Republicans rs by
Democrats, believing that Mr.. Hayes
was 30 clearly and legally elected ss to
need no electoral commission to deter
mine the result. Samuel j. Tilden
has been buried with the regrets Of the
nation, and not disrespectiui word
was said about him by the Repub lican
press. In the presence Of death and
the grave q charitable people bowed
the head rs the great lawyer and leader
OF great party was lAiI away for an
eternal sleep. With Republicans death
stilled the tongue Of SANDER and the
grave covered every error.
Democrats ought to understand that
every revival OF the dead issue but re-
fleets upon the man in whose interests
the old claim is made. II Tilden was
elected President, why did be not de.
mand the Office? Why was he not
sworn In, and why did he not proceed
to exercise Its preroga ives? 1t Is true
such q course would have thrown the
country into confusion, perhaps into
another civil war. Democrats never
hafora nnthhlaa Thair IN n
peace and order did not prevent them
from plunging the country into 81
gantic civil war only fourteen years be
fore. To say that Tilden believed hi
was the legally elected President, and
not exercising the prerogatives Of such
. high and honorable office, Is but t.
stamp him with moral oowardice. HI
was claimed to be the wisest man IL
his party and yet this wise man is repre-
scented rs submitting to what Democrat
call the greatest outrage Of the age.
But IL the Democrats Insist In goini
back and fighting the campaign owe
again, over their dead and buried
candidate, all the issues must be promi
nently brought forth again. The evel
memorable cipher dispatches which
emanated from the Tilden headq uarter
and In which his nephew, Pelton, wa
the chief manipulator, must all be res
directed again. This will disclose on
OF the most disgrsceful attempts evel
made to buy the electoral vote OF Ger
tain States and it might have succeeded
had Tilden not In q misery manne
shown that though he was willing u
boy the Presidency he YVES too stingy
10 pay decent price for peril y All
fraud In his behalf. We do not wan
to speak i'll OF the dead, but 1t Is ais
becoming that the friends Of the dea'
shall refrain from .oul-mouthed abus
oil methods which they recognized q
right ct the time and which were c
their own choosing. II the Democra,
are wise they will bury their dead i
silence and let his faults be buried wit
him. Above all should they forbear
open new campaign OF SANDER owe
his grave just closed. To do so woal
only recall the old story Of the politics
turpitude OF their idol. The Republica
party can point to legal methods frol
first to last. Il neither tried to blu
nor steal The cipher dispatches (
1876 are an episode in the political hi
tory of the Z nited States never to
surpassed in the iniquity Of their pu
pose and never to be forgotten. The
have left q stain that can never be o
iiterated, and the party that IL
stituted their employment would
well to allow them to drop out of sig
instead OF recalling them as they a
now doing.