Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-01

given false certificate OF election,
eagerly signed Fix the dates. The
New York Times published the ring ex-
pose, July 90, 1871. At the Rochester
Convention in September, 1870, Tilden,
Tweed and eight others had themselves
and their delegates admitted, by the rul
ing of Chairman Tilden, while the dele
gates of two hundred and twenty.nino of
the Democratic Committee were not al
lowed admission. This was pretty close
connection" but it became still closer
when Tilden made his speech and ap.
proved the ballot.box stufiing and rob.
berries by which Tweed disgraced the
party and wronged the people.
The connection becomes still closer
when we see Tilden before Tweed al
Albany on April 4, 1870, assuring him in
the most unctuous manner that he had
never entertained any unkind feeling
toward him. A known thief and yet no
unkind feelings by the official head
of the head of the State;
ballot-box stufier and yet no unkind
feelings; briber of Legislators,
and yet no unkind feelings; a suborner
of the press to the extent of $4,000, 600,
paid from the public treasury in the space
of twenty months, and yet no unkind
fcelingsl This is just what Sammy Til
den said to Tweed on the 4th of April,
1870;
"I came here, sir Ito Tweed, Chair
MANI, to aid no party, nor to injure any
party man. And let me say here that l
have no feelings of unkindness to any
human being. To yourself, Mr.. Chair
man (Tweed), l am unconscious of ever
having entertained an unkind feeling"
How bad it is that Tilden should have
to face such proofs of his trickerY
through the zeal of an injudicious friend.
Fix the dates. Tilden himself said in
his letter to the New York Times of Jan.
27, 1873:
L had no more knowledge or grounds
of suspicion of the frauds of 1869, as
they were discovered three (9) years aft
crward, 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 kind regard, was but fifteen
months. But you had no grounds fol
suspecting fraud in 1882" Why dc
you say 1869, Mr.. Tildenf" You sus
tanned your friendly relations to Tweed
way down through 1869, 1870 and 1871
three months after the Times published
the documents. You sustained your re
lations with him until after you
"pressed" Connolly to resign, so that hC
could not be proceeded against as an of
fetal, and until after those U0ucherS aoer,
Destroyed Then you commenced you
sham fight with Tweed, and not till then
But you did not only suspect" yol
knew of Tweed's rascalities before tht
fall of 1871, before 1870, before 1856!
and before 1868. You were made Chair
man of the State Committee in 1866. Yol
knew that Tweed was a bankrupt chair
maker in 1860, and without any busines
he had become worth millioAs in 1866
You saw the Court House, and was dali,
reminded of the robberies then going OIL
long before 1866. You know that your
self and Tweed were responsible. TO
counting $1,000 false ballots for 7foff
man in 1868, for legal action against yol
was threatened, and Horace Creole,
warned you, through an open letter il
October, 1869, not to undertake it again
You knew the schemes for robbery whicl
went through the Legislature and Com
mon Council; you knew that certai
newspapers were suborned, because thei
bills were published by otherpapers; yo
knew that nearly $2,000,000 were adde
to the city debt in 1867, over $5,000,00
in 1868, over $13,000,000 in 1869 an
over $25 100000 in 1870. You kne'
that your tax assessments were increase
one-quarter between 1866 and 1871.
How does the following from frien
Hewitt's speech sound after reading th
foregoing:
{" No one will intimate that there wa
the slightest intimacy, personal or polit
cal, at any time, between Samuel j. Tt
den and William NJ. Tweed. There nevC
was"
We rather think that many will NJ
only eliminate that there was q sligf
intimacy between Samuel and William
but very cordial and close intimacy
! We shall furnish the proofs in yer
l few days. If those pOuchers had nc
been destroyed, after the interview b
tween Tilden and Connolly on the 15t
of September, 1871, we should have sti
further proofs. For the present We ref
to Uncle Samuel himself, who wrote
letter to the New York Times Jal
D 81, 1878, in which he clinches the Z" il
timacy" pretty well and lays M. Hewi
; out very cold. Ii that letter Mr.. Tide
said:
9 81 pressed Mr.. Connolly Sept.
{ 1871 to surrender the Office (of Com
troller). That he had less
fear from the public than from his CO
federates. The storm woul
pass over him and beat upon Others"
Who of the other thieves Tilden Co
ferred with he does not say; neither dol
= he say what other things he oppressed
: Connolly to do. But the UOuchers zoe
, soon after burnt, and Connolly took h
, departure for Egypt. 1t must also
remembered that Tweed is not in prisol
and that no one has been disturbed fC
letting him off. BY fixing the dates car
! fully it will assist to unravel many vexe
questions. Brooklyn Argus.