Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-31

to say that it embOdies more comprehensive,
history of the country than was ever befors
embraced in a single volume. 1t is a marve
OF cheapness, considering its comprehensive
ness and elegance, and we hope to see it in ev
cry household in our community.
Fix the Dates.
From the Brooklyn Argus
We fear that Congressman He ewitt's
zeal to defend Governor Tildeu will re-
suit as disastrously to himself as did
his efforts to, defend the emasculation
of records, on the Brooklyn Rings
Bridge books. He has gone so far In
his defense of Tilden as to say:
"In regard to the insinuation con-
Meeting Governor Tilden's name with
that Of William M. Tweed, he Mr..
Hewitt said that Governor Tilden had,
for more than three years, like hound
on the scent, followed the members of
the Ring patiently, secretly, diligently.
He knew Mr.. Tilden's untiring efforts
day and night; he knew how he tracked
these people to their dens of iniquity
and finally dragged them forth to pub
lie execratiOn."
The "dens" to which Mr.. Tildsn
tracked Tweed must have been the
Tammany Committee, of which they
were both officers. Also, the Legisla-
ture where Tweed was chairman of a
committee, and where he thought leg
islators like cattle in the SHAMELESS"
and enacted bills which Hoffman, the
Governor, to whom Tweed and fiIden
caused to be given a false certificate of
election, eagerly, signed. Fix the
dates. The New York Times publish.
ed the Ring expose, July 20, 1871. At
the Rochester Convention in Septem-
ber, 1870, Tilden, Tweed and eight
others had themselves and their dele
gates admitted by the ruling of Chair
man TiIden, while the delegates oftwo
hundred and twenty-nine of the Demo-
cratic committee were not allowed ad-
mission. This was pretty close ''con-
nection," but it became still closer
when Tilden made his speech and ap-
proved the ballot box stuffing and rob-
berries by which Tweed had disgraced
the party and wronged the people.
! The connection becomes still closer,
when we see Tilden before Tweed at
Albany ON April 4, 1870, assuring him
in the most unetiOus manner that he
had "never entertained an unkind feel
ing" toward him. A known thief, and
yet no unkind feelings by the official
head of the party of the State ballot
box suffer, and yet no unkind feelings;
a briber of Legislators, and yet no un-
kind feelings; a suborner of the press to
the extent OF 81, ,205, 900, paid from the
public treasury in the space of twenty
months, and yet no unkind feelings!
This is Just what Sammy Tilden said to
Tweed on 4th of April, 1870:
AZ came here, sir, Ito Tweed, chair
man) to aid no party, nor to injure any
party man. And let me say here, that
] have no feelings of un kindness to any
human being. TO YOURSELF, Mr..
CHAIRMAN, (TWEED) 1 AM UN-
CONSCIOUS OF EVER HAVING
ENTERTAINED AN UNKIND
FEELING"
How bad it is that Tilden should have
10 face such proofs of his trickery
through the zeal OF an injudicious
friend. Fix the dates. Tilden him.
self said in his letter to the New York
Times of January 27, 1878:
81 had no more knowledge orgrounds
of suspicion of the frauds of 1869, as they
were discovered three(?) years after
ward, than the Times or the general
public"
From July, 1869, to July, 1871, Mr..
Tilden, is just two years, not three
years; and from April, 1870, when you
made the Albany speech and assured
Tweed OF your kindly regards, was but
fifteen months. But you had no
grounds for ''suspecting fraud in 1852"
Why do you say 1869, Mr.. Tilden ?
You sustained your friendly relations
to Tweed way down through 1863, 1870
and 1871, three months after the Times
published the documents. You sus-l
tanned your relations with him until
after you "pressed" Connolly to resign,
so that he could not be proceeded
against as an official, and until after
those UoIchers aUere destroyed. Then
you commenced your sham fight with
Tweed, and not till then.
But you did not only Suspect" you
knew of Tweed's rascalities before the
fall of 1871, before 1870, before 1869 and
before 1858. You were made Chair
man of the State Committee in 1866.
You knew that Tweed was bankrupt
chair maker in 1860, and that without
any business he had become worth
millions in 1866. You saw the Court
House, and was daily reminded of the !
robberies then going on, long before
1866. You knew that yourself and
Tweed were responsible for counting |
81 900 false ballots for Hoffman in 1868, |
for legal action against you was threat |
ened, and Horace Greeley warned you,
through an open letter in October, 1863,
not to undertake it again. You knew |
the schemes for robbery which went
through the Legislature and the
Common Council; you knew that GER
tain newspapers were suborned, be-
cause their bills were published by
other papers; you knew that nearly /
81 200, 900 were added to the city debt
in 1867, over S5,0OO,0 900 in 1858, over
$13, ,OO0, 900 in 1869 and over $25, ,00O, 600
in 1870. You knew that your tax as
sessments were increased one-quarter |
between 1866 and 1871.
How does the following from friend
Hewitt's speech sound after reading
the foregoing:
"No one will intimate that there was
the slightest intimacy, personal or po-
litical, at any time, between Samuel j.
Tilden and William NJ. Tweed. There
never was"
We rather think that many will not
only 'sintimate" that there was slight
intimacy between Samuel and WilliaSn,
but a very cordial and close intimacy.
We shall furnish the proofs In a very
few days. If those Uouchers had not
been destroyed, after the interview be-
tween Tilden and Connolly on the 18th
of September, 1871, we should have
still further proofs For the present
we refer to Uncle Samuel himself, who
wrote letter to the New York Times
January q, 1873, in which he ciinches
the uinfimacx, pretty well and laws