Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-09-30
GREELEY AND TILDEN.

confound Mr.. Iilden and the democracy
of the Empire State. If the "old philoso-
pher" himself had arisen from the grave
and made himself felt in the columns of
the Tribune as of old in his denunciations
of the democracy, the effect would not
have been greater than that caused by the
temperance of his epistle to Mr.. Tilden.
This letter was published in the Tribune
in October 1869, just previous to the State
election. 1t was signed by Horace Gree
ley, and addressed to Samuel j. Tilden
Chairman of the Democratic State Com
mittee, the same who is now the demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of New
York. In it Mr.. Greeley called Tilden's
attention to the fact that the State election
had been carried by the democracy the
year before by gross and palpable frauds
practised at the polls in New York
city, and an appeal was made to the
latter to use his position and influence
as chairman of the democratic state COM
mittee in favor of fair and honest cleo
ton. To show the tenor and spirit of 1t
we copy the following portion:
Mr.. Tilden, have been voting here for
thirty-seven years, and ben an active politician
for more than thirty of them, and l appeal to
God for my sincerity and to my public record
for q witness that in all those years have
earnestly sought and labored to have our
elections decided by legal votes and none 9th
er. seeing now great are me temptations and
iachii'ies, uhuef high1 oi ouHrage SO general
as ours, 70 poii iiiegal Votes, nave openly
anu Acu,eiy favored every eHort 10 smut thein
U I'M anu Aeep .ne suhraee pure anu iegai,
tnat every iesai voter shouiu nave iull and
ian opportunity " .o'e once ~ each elecuon ;
INA. no one snouia De enabled 70 vote more
u'an once, anu 'hA' none out iegai voters
shouiI oe aNo"ea vi empowered 10 yote az all.
confined myself to barren professions but
have shown my faith by my works.
M. now .i !! WIN you lou nola almost respon-
You could make thai narty content ;tself W,
polling legal votes if you only would. In our
Iale ocns.i'u.lonai convention tried TO erect
Did YOU? The very little that I was ensbled
to effect in this direction shall try to have
I M.1 oy the people az the ensuing election
NJ Tilden-yo, o,rno, eso.no .;
bility by saying. with the guilty Macbeth,
"Thou canst not sayI did it; never shake
Those CORY locks at me-"
for you we're at least passive accomplce in
the giant frauds of last November. Your
name was used without public protest on your
part, in circulars sowed broadcast over the
State, whereof the manifest intent was to
'make assurance doubly sure" that the frauds
here perpetrated should not be overborne by
the honest vote of the rural districts. And
you, not merely BY silence but bv positive as
sumption, have covered these frauds with the
mantle of your respectability. On the princi-
pie that "the receiver is as bad as the thief"
you are as deeply implicated in them to-day
as though your name were Tweed. O'Brien.
or Oakley Hall.
Esr,bor =, ~ H.. ,a,,o. r,.oo,o.. ,o..,
WV "'eo'eS P'o'."
MS asseIliohs Vi hehocratic fraud by
figures. He stated that while the fou~tb
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~" ""'"' ma"
Aot 1-'VO0 iegal voters, they gave Hot-
man, the democratic candidate for cover.
,o, i, 1890 . r,;or;,,, IS 100
' ""lV'Ny VI 'ff'' anu
might have gwen 100000 had the day
been long enough and the money held
nm, Thep no adds and c,osos
Nox NJ, Tide, Ic.u m 90, ., ~,
stop to this business You have but to walk
into the Sherins, the Mayors and the Super
~, ,Ssra 80, :" =, ."r NY niat arr anu say
that there shall be no doubt that you mean it
and we shall have tolerably good fair
.eo ecu onoe noe Iooaoly goou par. OF
uralizalion certificates will offer to register
and to vote--some OF them pretending not to
Hrn,,a . S .ney are no more ci'2ens OF Inc
but very few will vote reneatedlv unless maid
for 1t; and We shall not be cheated more than
,ea ,ps, ,ho nyou simply teii me poss work
ing instigated and paid for.
VIII you do ii? Your reputation is a, stake
nc e'"a''.y e'ai' S.ich