Year: 1876

date. If We are wise in this particular
We have this election in our own hands,
if the future can be, judged by the healthy
signs of the present. Our first aim
should be, though it costs US some per-
sonal sacrifices, to secure an unanimity
of action at our National Convention.
He who runs may read that there never
was ripper opportunity for the complete
defeat and overthrow of the Republican
party than in this campaign. Every
days history of Radical administra-
tion only tends to the destruc-
tion of that party, and even now,
such consummation seems Inevitable.
But let us be alive to this fact, that for us
to accomplish this defeat, we must first
impress our people, that in the bestowal
of political favors To Us, that in investing
us with the control of the government,
the change incident thereto will be safe
and profitable one. Without this assur-
ance the people will not be satisfied, and
the change, much rs it may be desired by
them, will not be made. Our people have
become too we'll educated to be hum
buggcd by platforms of principles, that
but conceal their ends, or by promises
unsupported by the strongest guarantees.
The press with its columns
laden with Intelligence; the
public debates disseminating liberal
Knowledge of men and events everywhere,
have elevated our people to thinking for
themselves, and the harengue Of the
demagegue,a and the ready promises ofthe
politician, have but little place in the
affections of the people, and now avail
but little as political weapons at the bal.
| box. In politics, as in everything
else, we prefer 'to bear the ills we have
rather than to fly to those we know not
Of But when a change is earnestly
needed, once satisfy lis that it will be for
the better, and you might as well try to
bind the winds, rs to prevent 1t. The
most careless observer, il he will but cast


his eyes over this country, will find a


people profoundly agitated. Alarm and


confusion consequent upon an unprece-


dented panic IN all business operations,


aud innumerable failures therefrom, are


everywhere detected, and these are


always the premonitory symptoms of u


widespread political revolution. From


lake to gulf, and from ocean


to ocean, wherever trade and bus


mess channels find their way, the earn
ct, pressing, anxious inquiry is heard;


Where in Gods name are improvement
and reform in all the departments of our
Government to begin? This exlrsordi-
nary manifestation of feeling, awakened


By profound sense of insecurity in all
their material interests, is not the pro.
duct of momentary impatience; not the
result of passion and excitement engen-
dered by a temporary suspension or en-


barrassment of their business affairs, but
it is the outgrowth of an universal feel.
ing of insecurity in political and CONNER
cial relations, and quietly beginning in
the sober, honest minds of our people
who were slow to repel a grievance, and
accumuisting rs wrong after wrong was
perpetrated upon them by those who
should have been most true and faithful
to them; IA party who had enjoyed their
profoundest contldence) it will sweep
with its resistless power every individual
member of this party who have SO
insolently violated these high and
sacred trusts, and who are respon-
BILE for these abuses, the very
moment that honest AMI faithful guardi-
ans Of their public interests can be found
to supply the places of those base betray-
ers of their trusts. l have said that mere
platforms of party will not do. But
party principles we must have in this
campaign, and for the position of Presl-
dent. gentleman who will represent the
pure principles of our party, and we
Shall find success much easier if we Sc
cure good, honest man for this office TO
represent these principles. Tho people
will fall In love much more readily with
the principles we propose, If the expo
nent of them is pure, honest and trust
worthy. Better the man we need, with
out any platform than the platform
without the worthy man. Who then
shall be the choice of the party?


Let US not forget that the people of the
Urited States are interested III the an
swer to this inquiry put to the Demo-
cratic party Of this country. Give them
n gentleman who represents their no
tions of right, of honor, of puritv-one
whose life and whose history are known,
and upon whose life and history the peo-
ple can reckon with eoDtidence-and the
selection OF such an one insures success.
Who is he ? The question is answered
bv the true Democrats of every State IN
this Union Allen g. Thurman. In
him the South has had faithful friend,
the North rs honest an advocate as ever
graced TIE halls of the Senate. Conser-
yatlve politically because intellectually,
his object, so long Ms he has been the
representative Of the people, has been to
know no North, no South, NO section,
but the whole nation.


Let us not hear, in answer to the men,
ton of Mr.. Thurman, that he is hard
money Democrat. Away with such
ronsense, Better the inquiry, can he
beat the Republican party? He may
possibly take issue with some OF the
members of his party upon the currency
question, but what OF thati HIS name
to- day is a tower of strength, and there
has been mentioned no name In connec-
t,on with this high office which has
thrown the Radical party into greater
dismay and CONSERVATION They not only
prophesy his election. but sensible OF the
worth of the man, they say, sin him we
need not fear, As he never has, and never
will, violate his trust" Not voter IN
the whole land who has read the history
of Mr.. Thurman, whether his political
enemy or not, but what will readily ad-
nit that, were he elected President to.
day, his election would inspire security
and confidence throughout the whole
country. - ~s 90


Personally, l am opposed to MIR. Thur
man upon his financial theories. be-
l. a no rA-