Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1881 — SOME TIMELY REFLECTIONS. Truth and Honor. [ARTICLE]

SOME TIMELY REFLECTIONS.

Truth and Honor.

Republican Hatred of Tilden. [From the Buffalo Courier.] We hate the persons whom we have injured with a more intense hatred than those who have injured us; and doubtless one explanation of that constant persecution with which the Republicans follow Samuel J. Tilden may be found in that contemptible trait of human nature. The Republican party cheated Mr. Tilden out. of the Presidency of the United States, and earnest Republicans can never forgive him for having been a martyr to their party iniquity. He is a Democrat who took a leading part in crushing the worst municipal ring in the country, even though its managers were prominent members of the Democratic organization. Chosen Governor by a large popular majority, he dared to administer the affairs of the State for the good of the people, opposed corruption, reduced expenditures, and cut down taxation, exhibiting such an example of wisdom and economy in the management of public affairs that a venal or extravagant administration will not be possible in New York for years to come. Nominated for the Presidency, he carried on a great canvass, depending for success more upon an appeal to his own record as a reformer. than to party prejudices and passions. He received a majority of the popular vote, but had to undergo the humiliation of seeing liis opponent inaugurated in his place. Not only was the foremost political honor of our times snatched away from him, but the glorious opportunities of the Presidential office, which would have turned to services of untold good in his hands, were squandered on a good-natured imbecile, who was not merely incapable of reforming old abuses, but had not even ability enough to keep his own officials from stealing the public money. In the course of his public career, Mr. Tilden had never condescended to mere partisanship, and had incurred the distrust of many Democrats on account of his seeming disregard of the interests of the party ; but he met no generous consideration from Republicans at any point in his career. Whenever he accomplished an acknowledged public good his motives were aspersed. His achievements as a ring-breaker were declared to be tricks to aid him in gaining the Governorship; his virtues as a Governor were interpreted as politic devices to win the Presidency. Old slanders were revived against him, and the United States Government officials were employed to blacken his good name by prosecuting vexatious tax suits. Even when he was swindled out of the Presidency he was pursued into private life with the vilest defamation. His personal peculiarities were criticised, his character for truth and honor was made a mere mOck. The supposed feebleness of his health was a thing to jibe and jeer about. The revelation of the fact that some of the Returning ■ Board rascals in Florida and Louisiana, whom the Republicans bought and paid for, had offered themselves to Tilden’s agents, and would have concluded a bargain with them if he had not stepped in and forbidden the purchase, was treated as proof positive that he had attempted the crime which he would not allow his friends to commit even in the interest of right, and which Republican leaders perpetrated in the interest of wrong. For the four years during which another man exercised the powers of the office to which he had been elected, and pocketed the salary to which he was entitled, he had to endure the meanest abuse. The Republican press acted on the theory that he was to be a candidate in 1880, and that it was necessary to destroy every remnant of his reputation in order to justify the fraud of 1876. Even when Mr. Tilden withdrew from public life, and another man became the representative of the Democracy, political bloodhounds could not be called off, but kept bayiDg after him all through the canvas of last year. Now again, in obedience to their guilty instinct of hatred, Republican newspapers begin the new canvass with an attack on Tilden. Once more they»have set him up as a possible Presidential candidate; and, in fear lest he should be nominated by the Democracy in 1884, they are bent upon doing what they can to make the next three years of his life miserable. Was there ever an American so wronged as this man, whose only crime has been that he made ordinary politics look shameful by furnishing the people an example of pure and efficient government ? We began by saying that men hate those whom they have wronged; we cl os e by saying that men hate those they fear. This Republican hatred of Tilden may, therefore be not only a tribute to his political virtue, but an indicion of his political strength.

Query : What is the best family medicine in the world to regulate the bowels, purify the blood, remove costivenoss and b.lionsnesH, aid digestion and tone up the whole system ? Truth and honor compels us to answer, Hop Bitters ; being pure, perfect and harmless. See another column. —Toledo Blade.