The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-10-12

Republicans, it became a rule of the
House, that on their general appropria-
ton bills any legislation whatever may
be put, provided only it be a measure
of retrenchment.
now THE RULE WORKED.
Very we'll, that rule being adopted. we
commenced to legislate, and in due time
reached what is known as the "Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill" a bill which
contains appropriations for all the chari-
ties OF the General Government, all the
acts to ameliorate human suffering in
the power Of the Government For in
stance, all the appropriations for your
Marine Hospitals on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts, and on your great lakes,
the appropriations to disabled and starv-
ing American sailors shipwrecked on dis
tant coasts; appropriations for light
houses, the great eyes OF the ocean and
the lakes; appropriations for your life
saving institutions, and for all that APP
paratus which modern humanity has in
vented for the saving of human life.
That appropriation being under discus
sion in the House of Representatives, in
a Committee of the Whole, up rises
Democrat, under instructions from the
caucus OF the same Northern Democracy
for they generally select Northern
Democrats to do the dirtiest work-and
moves, as an amendment TO this bill.
that the law of 1869. providing for the
appointment of Supervisors at National
elections,i shall be repealed. Now, do
you see any connection between the two?
Permit me to explain, and you will see
the infamy of this proceeding In 1868,
in the city of New York, there was ac-
complished a gigantic fraud by gentle
man named Hoffman, who was declared
Governor of that State, and the electoral
vote of the State was given to Horatio
Seymour instead of U. S. Grant. The
last Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency, Horace Greeley, says that the au-
thor, and contriver, and designer, and
perfecter OF that fraud was the present
Democratic candidate for the Presidency,
Samuel J. Tilden. / want to convict the
present Democratic candidate on the tes-
timony of the last Democratic candidate,
so you cannot object to the witness. You
may remember that Mr.. Tilden, acting
as Chairman of the committee, wrote a
famous letter to a series of gentlemen in
all the counties of the State, and, al
though you have probably learned that
letter by heart / venture to read il once
more. j think it contains a complete in
dexicum of political rascality, and we can
learn to avoid it:
'ROoNs DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE,
NEW YORK, Oct. s, 1868.
My DEAR SIR-Please at once COM
municate with some reliable person in
three or four of the principal towns and
in each city of your county, and request
him-expenses duly arranged for at this
end-to telegraph to William NJ. Tweed,
Tammany Hall. at the minute of closing
the polls, not waiting for the count, only
such persons estimate of the vote. Let
the telegram be as follows This town
will 60 Republican, or Democrat, a gain
as much as so much, or so much"
There is, of course" continues Mr.. Til
den, "a most important object to be at
tanned by the simultaneous transmission
of these estimates before actual results
begin to be declared by the Associated
Press"
That is the letter. Is there any man
in the Western Reserve of Ohio dull
enough not to be able to read that letter
between lines, not to be able to give ex. |
actly what Mr.. Tilden meant? Mr.. Til |
den intended that letter to be read and |
as if he had written it thus:
"MY DEAR SIR: 1t is well known to |
you and me that the rural counties of /
New York are almost unanimously, al /
most all overwhelmingly Republican, /
and we fear that this year they will be a 4
little worse than usual. but if you will, /
at the moment of the closing of the polls, 4
just indicate to my friend, William NJ I
Tweed, the probable majority of each 4
Tweed has got voting machine /
running at Tammany Hall, that will beat
that the rural counties can
send, and if you will only give us half an
hours time" Great laughter And 4.
they ground out 10000 fraudulent votes.
And the next thing Mr.. Greeley took .
Mr.. Tilden by the throat and said
Thou art the man. 1t was your respect
ability, your position, your character,
that accomplished this great fraud, and \
beg you to join me now in reforming IT,
You see, Tilden, you and | were young
men together in this city in 1910 You
were for Van Buren and | for Harrison
We were down near the battery then, a
place full of boarding houses, where
clerks and business men lived. We can
vassed it, and that ward gave US both
9, ,405 votes. You know, Mr. Tilden, that
that ward has long since been depopu-
lated. The people have moved over to
and now contains nothing but
night watchmen and policemen, and yet
you and your friend Tweed have ground
out Of that ward, which has got no.such
number of legal voters, Democratic ma
iority of 22,OO0." Mr. Greeley then set
himself to work, and he went at every
thing with great energy (he had not be-
come blinded, as he did three years af-
to get a law passed by Congress
known as the Supervisors law" That 4
law was Whenever in any city Of 10000
people or upwards, any number of cleo
tors should, upon their oath, state that
they did not believe fair count of the
vote had been made, the general Govern
ment would appoint Supervisor to be
present when the vote was made, to see
If the votes were fairly counted and hon
estly declared. Nobody but a scoundrel
could object to that law. Applause /
Ii did not interfere with States rights,
and only applied to national elections for
for the Presidency, for the Nice-Presi-
dencys and for Representatives of Con
gress. We passed that law, and 1t lies in
the statute book to-day, and Mr.. Greeley
himself first got the benefit Of it in an
honest vote that beat him in two States
where the Tweed voting machine could
not run. Great laughter. And we
carried the States by double a majority,
because we had a fair count. i mention
this also as a matter of peculiar honor to
the Republican party. To resume where
| lett off, that when this "Sundry Civil
Bill was under consideration, appropri-
ating for all the charities of the Govern
ment, up starts some Democrat and .
moves to add an amendment repeating a
law appointing supervisors. As soon as
the amendment was made some Republi-
can said that is not in order even under
your new rule, because your new rule .
does not admit independent legislation,
unless it is in the nature of retrenchment. 4
The man who was occupying the chair in .
the Committee of the Whole. whose I