Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-12-14
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THE GREAT REFoRMER.

THE GREAT REFORMER.
Governor Tilden is an inveterate bachelor
Of sixty-six, lifelong Democrat. and has
been for twenty years leader in his party
and closely identified with all of its most in
famous measures. Trained in the school of
New York politics, a graduate OF Tammany
Hall, disciple of the resolutions of '9S an
ardent sympathizer with the rebellion, he
completely filed the character known dur
ing the war as the Copperhead.
Mr.. Kelly, and other leading Democrats
before the nomination. earnestly described
Mr.. Tilden as q railroad wrecker q charac-
ter well known in New York and London.
who deals in broken down railroads and puts
them on their feet again, in which process
the original stock and bondholders
lose their entire investment and the
assets pass chiefly into the wreck
srs hands. They described him as a
lawyer who seldom appeared in court and
boldly affirmed that he had thus made a for
tune OF from six to ten millions of dollars
When ships are cast upon rock bound
coast the wreckers come down upon them
often numbering the surviving mariners and
always robolng them OF every valua Bile
thing.
REFoRMEa MoRRIssEY AND OTHERS
1t is well known Eat John Morrissey.
the prize fighter and world-renowned gam
bier, was Tilden's champion at St. Louis and
had more to do with his nomination than
:
gilded gambling hell was the Tilden head
quarters at Saratoga last summer and will be
this
1t has occurred not unfrequently in the
worlds history that the greatest thieves and
plunderers, after they had laid in a sufficient
store oil wealth, have turned reformers and
put the world TO shame by their exhibition OF
superior virtue. How many kings and rob-
Der barons after lives of murder. rapine, and
the sack OF cities have made atonement by
founding churches and monasteriese thus dis
gorging small part OF their blood-stained
plumber and then died in the odor of sanctity
and took their places among the saints
Tweed, when he was overtaken by misfor-
tune, was not so rich as Tilden; but it is an
open secret that he had in contemplation
sater continuing business for a year or two
longer. to turn reformer and become the re-
generator of the public and private morsls of
New York. Tweed's benevolent purpose
was defeated by the untimely publication OF
the specific evidence ofhs crimes, of which
his friends were compelled to take notice
He had for number of years been at the
head OF the Tammany Society o. New York,
Of which TIlden a leading member and
sachem. This Tammanv Society had for
twenty-five years been regarded Dy
many rs the most corrupt political
organization in the world-emphatically
. brotherhood of thieves. and close
corporation to which none but the most dis
tinguised artists were admitted. 1t assumed
complete admiralty jurisdiction in the adju-
dication and distribution of political prizes
in the State of New York, and aspred to
extend it over the United States. and did no
toriously control the Democratic National ]
Convention IN 1868. That Tweed and his
gang were the champion thieves of the na-
ton had been as we'll known for years before
his fall as it is now, and was as firmly believed
while Tilden and he were in sworn fraternity
IN Tammany Hall as when Tweed was in
the penitentary. But when. in 1871, the
New York Times published the specific
proofs Of his vast villaines. the courts, grand
5uries, and every man in public life we're
compelled to take notice, and then Tilden, as
. matter OF self-preservation, jumped over
the fence, turned States evidence. and rem
ness and attorney. as he knew where to find
the evidence and to put his finger the diff
ferent transactions. If the criminalty OF
Tweed and his Tammany gang had not
been notorious for years. or if Tilden had
turned prosecutor and witness before their
exposure. his character as reformer would
stand better than it does.
Is 1T PROBABLE OR EVEN POSSIBLE?
To me it seems highly improbable that
man who has for thirty years been the
associate and counsel of the stock gam
blers of Wall street. who for many years
lived with Tweed in sworn fraternity in
Tammany Hall and was his co-operator in
has wrecked so many railroads, can
Be conscientious and patriotic man. Ii
the published, and so far as know the un-
oontradicted accounts of his manipulation of
the Chicago and Fond du Lac, the Galena
and Chicago Kenosha and Richford, Grand
Rapids, Harlem extension, the Peninsular OF
Michigan, and other railroads that might be
named, are true he and small ring with |
whom he operated, have under the forms of |
law taken from the companies and stockbold- |
ers millions of dollars. 1t seems impossible |
20 distinguish the Continental improvement |
Company. of which he was the originator
from the Credit MobilIer and the evidence |
q Cakes Ames before the Congressional |
committee IN 1873, reveals Mr.. Tilden as the |
original adviser and counsel of that notori- |
Gus and deadly institution known as the |
Credit Mobilier. 1t is asking too much OF
human credulity to believe that a man who |
has thus lived and fourished. and grown
rich and gray, can have the spirit of a true
yeformer or be governed by any other
motive than the lust of power.
CHICAGO CONVENTION.
Tilden and Hendricks were both members
the midst of the last great struggle with the |
rebel army, when il was apparent that the
rebellion was doomed unless rescued from
the North, and united in framing that trea-
Donabie declaration that the war was fail |
IRE and ought to be abandoned That de- !
elaration made at the time and under the |
circumstances was political crime of the
FIRST magnitude, and in any other country in
the world struggling with armed traitors
would have been punished as high treason.
GREESBACKS
When greenbacks were first created as a |
var measure IN 1862 they were violently OPP |
posed by the ertire Democracy as unconsti- |
tutional, which they held as to everything |
calculated TO help put down the rebellion |
1r. Hendricks stated in 1868 that the paper o. |
the State banks was q better currency, when |
he knew the war could not be carried on with |
that paper. In 1867. after the war was over, |
Mr.. Pendle.on conceived the idea of adopt |
ing the greenbacKs and issuing enough to |
pay the National debt This would at once |
repudiate the debt and destroy the green
backs aud kill off two of the hated agencies |
IN putting. aQSp the Iebsllion. Hendricks
accepted this idea. and made his race upon