Show A CASSANDRA VOICE charles A uana throne III gnu in the bush the sew york sun still deplores hildena Til dena withdrawal by iv U to the Juao rios your oct 17 the haa ft remarkable editor kl under the heading no mincing matters whereof the following are extracts tho hav an unexpected and mortifying defeat in indiana and it is disastrous and may prove fital it h illy to aake liht it and idle to try to whittle it away ty calculations an i adroit the dem are beaten whether beaten to death or not is only a question it has to mcd to u that the whole democratic campaign ans a genes of blunders the party lad anft mn only one who ei immense strength hd been demonstrated n the national field samuel J telden is the one great preeminent name in the democratic party he was a reformer indeed 04 ilia jl in the office of governor had proven he win a statesman a all hi public papers especially his letter to compete for the nomination had emphatically shown childless like washington be hail only his country to love and even tie of kindred were ruthlessly sundered by his stern and unrelenting hand if the painted bluh of improper practice rested on them so patriotic go lofty so convincing was his great letter to the convention the nomination that the most adroit and ablest of his enemies after reading it avowed his disposition to support him this illustrious man the democratic party thought it could afford i to dispense with aa a candidate there is a word of one syllable with two s in it might not gnap be inserted here the party nominated general II ancock a very good ram weighing abut pounds is not tilden then as the crowning act of folly the party went into the state ol 01 A and took another man for vice president any nam eother than that of II endricks would have boon folly enough but to go one step further they had to take a man with the most odious reputation as skinflint to overcome there used to be a fellow who made an occupation of butting hia head against a atone new england wall for twenty five cents the democratic party in making tam nomination resembled him only if the report be true they did not get the twenty five cents now we are looking the actual facts squarely in the face canno di thit without of defeat and dimiter dia iter as well as in vi tory his no tod in his mako we are beaten we are overthrown but we are not destroyed st the deaster we have ex may at be relieved |