Year: 1876

OF the country, JOE tHo Iuo u1Ss0hy aAu
characteristics Of the men whom the


leaders Of the different parties select to rule


over them, and the conductors Of the jour


mails of the country have to form their e.


timation of men chosen, from those who


are acquainted with them by the intimacy
Of personal contact and mutual inter-


change Of secret thoughts. By this means
can best be tested the caliber of the two


gentlemen selected by their respective par


ties for the highest Office in the gift Of the
American people. The evils under which


the country is suffering, in consequence Of


the peculiar methods by which the pubic


service is conducted, are sadly known and


admitted by all. When it is plain to


every man in the Union, that every branch
| of the public service is reeking with cor
ruption, and the whole body Of it saturated
with foulness and putrid carcases Of slain


and mutillated honesty and uprightness;


when member of the Cabinet is discoy-
cred defrauding the Government; when
the Presidents private secretary is found
associating and operating with thieves;
when representative in foreign country


makes use Of his position to assist his
friends in swindling the people of that
country; when the President himselfis seen
on terms of the closest intimacy with
men Of the worst character, calling them


his friends, is it not time that the people
should know we'll the man for whom
they intend to cast their votes, to know
that he is man worthy of their sufrages.
Samuel Jones Tilden, the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, is a man
who will WELD the power entrusted to


him for the benefit of those by whom it
was confded; man of extensive knowl-
edge, strong personal character, we'll
known integrity, and, above all, is an
active and energetic opponent Of every


thing that savors in the slightest degree Of
corruption or dishonesty; man who
placed by party in place Of influence,
responsibility and greatness, will use the
attributes of his Office for the furtherance


of the interests of the whole country with


out respect to party, and who will while in


the Presidential chair take active measures


for the remedying of the evils under which


the country is now suffering. Mr.. Tilden


will, by his natural energy, drive out the


thieves and robbers from the public ser


vice, and cause the affairs of the admins |
tration to be regulated by men Of eharac-
ter like that of himself.


The Republican candidate for the Pres
idency, Rutherford B. Hayes, is an insipid,
indolent man, utterly inefficient in execu-|
tive ability, man, who has without the
possession Of any qualifications or merits,
had greatness thrust upon him. In the
transaction of the business Of the official
position he now holds, he is under the
guidance and dominion of notoriously
corrupt politician, one who will advise and
assist him in carrying out any scheme OF
wickedness in support of the party to which |
he belongs. Look at Mr.. Hayes standing |
among his legal friends and associates.
His business associates for more than
twenty years at the bar, know his capacity |
for business. his ability and integrity better
than any others, not one of whom will sup
port him as President Of the United States,
but on the contrary every one of them lis
now supporting Tilden. Judge Headley
who has not voted the Democratic ticket
for more than twenty years, and who was
one of the Judges Of the Superior Court Of
Cincinnati during all the time that Mr..
Hayes practiced at the Cincinnati bar will
not vote for him, but on the contrary is
now a prominent political speaker sup
porting with all his power as an orator and
debatcr Tilden and Hendricks. By all
who know Mr.. Hayes best very low es-
innate is placed upon him. Gov. Hayes as
we before stated, in his transactions as
Governor of Ohio, is under the control of
the most corrupt man in the State, man


who upon the pretense of doing some in
significant work, has taken thousands Of
dollars out of the State Treasury and put


them in his pockets, and if Governor


Hayes were elected President, the present


system of government, plundering would


be kept up. From him nothing could be


expected, he would be naught but fool in


the hands of those who have controlled and


done all they could to corrupt the Repub-