Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-12-14
THEN attorney. Mr. Crawford, was dismissed, and
the ase 10 indefinitely continued

THEN attorney. Mr.. Crawford. was dismissed, and
| the { ase 10 indefinitely continued
SUMMING.
| A ,a-eful reading of the above statement
shows:
a. That Samuel ]. Tilden sells the use of his
name Tor consideration to bolster up the credit
| OF Hedging railroads.
W. That after occupying the position OF Trus-
| tee Of the indiana Southern, he betrayed his
trust oy permitting its bonds &c be taken from
his control and hypothecated for song in for
| eign capitals.
| 49, That he betrayed his trust, by employing
as attorney to represent the interests Of the road
he was supposed to be guarding, man who
was employed by its bitterest opponents to fore
| close its mortgages.
~ That while acting as the sworn Trustee Of
the Indiana Southern Road, he permitted him.
self to be used as the tool of the Liverpool. Lon
| don and Globe Insurance Company.
% That he has BETRAYED his trust to the In
diana Southern by refusing 10 remove from its
! employ man who is corruptor of Judges
Nor is this ALL The holders of the bonds OF the
original company have obtained the possession
OF numbers of the farms of the meE who sub
scribed the capital stock of the road and these
men blame Tileen for neglec;ing their interests,
AMI they will vote for the devil in preference to
him. Furthermore, it is charged that he has
bought or been presented with S. 900 worth of the
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| Railroad Company by Winslow. Lanier & Co., a
| corporation which has its rails on the road bed
| of the Indiana Southern. This, in itself, is
fraud in the eyes of :he law. In short Mr.. Til
den, AS a reformer, is n 6rst-class fzzle-"
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| From the New York Times.
| We have this year a reduction of ABOUT seven
and a half millions of dollars in the State taxes
that is il we go back to 1874 for a comparison.
| The reduction from 1875 is considerably smaller.
| Several weeks ago Gov. Tildeu issued
campaign document in the shape OF
veto, in which he instituted false and mis-
leading comparison between the taxes of this
year and those OF the last year OF Gov. Dix ln
this manifesto he succeeds in confusing ex-
penditures with taxes claims Sc, 323, ALL out OF
7,459, 256, the computed reduction of taxes, as
the result OF real economies" in expenditure,
and craftiy. insinuates that the whole
S6,323,4l1 OF these so-called savings
were effected through his agency and influence.
| In the Times OF May u. before there was any
general belief that Mr.. Tilden could dictate both
candidates and platform for the Democracy
| we exposed the falsity Of these pre;enses. But
Tiden's bulletins grow aud spread out like bis
own ambition, and we now find such traces OF
them as the following:
From the Senate Proceedings Of Thursday.1
"Mr. Salisbury, In referring to the ST. Louis
Convention. said it was his good fortune To meet
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! try. The cry OF all was for reform, and they
presented to the country a man who had re-
duced the taxes in his own State from SIS, 0OO-
| 600 to S6000000. The Democrats would hail
with JOY the day when the government at
| Washington would be reformed and purified by
the man who had purified the government Of
New York"
The following from the Utica Observer will
exhibit the proficiency and docility of the home
press:
LESS than two years ago Samuel Tilden was
| elected Governor of New York Ii was the
year after the panic. The people felt poor and
they demanded reduction IN the expenses OF
the government. the taxes for 1874 were &c.
100000. Tine taxes for 1876 are $4,000, 900
There is no humbug, no sham, no false preten-
ses about that. Ii is one Of those solid. SUBJ
stantial facts which touches the pocket and in
luences the judgment OF every citizen OF every
community In the State, for every man Is
that Republican Legislature con-
tributed to the result. The members
were in the position OF the unfortunate German
they had got TO be reconciled. At the be-
ginning OF the session, in bis annual message
he pointed out the exact way in which the re-
duction to be effected, and told them that if
they failed to do it, he would exercise the power
given him under the amended constitution, and
veto all items Of extravagant expenditure. Ii
is no answer to say that it might have happened
under another Administration. 1t did MT hap
pen. 1t happened under Tilden. lie directed
and compelled IT,"
The Governor prdes himself on the fine ap-
pearance be makes on horseback. According
to what we have just read, be really 10 the man
on horseback, who, Macauay predicts, will one
day come to us. The State of New York, as we
are told has certain forms and ceremonies, and
a Legislature, but the real power after all. is
lodged in Gov. Tilden. We saw something like
this in the last Democratic Convention for the
nomination Of State officers, and also In that at
which delegates to St. Louis were chosen. We
have seen il on a greater scale at St. Louis. At
Washington. the Delaware Senator tells US the
great dictator is to reform and purify the gov
erbment, in spite of Confederate Generals and
Western infiatonists. He is to throw down the
mighty "liadcals" from their seats, aud exalt the
humble Democrats throughout the land. A
pleasing picture but smacking somewhat of
what Mr.. Tilden used to inveigh against as "cen-
tralzation."
We shall no. stop to characterize the claims
made on Mr.. Tilden's behalf by their right
names, but shall content ourselves with briefly
stating the following facts: =,
81. The Legislature OF this State, and not
the Governor, originates all appropriations and
tax bills.
az The Legislature elected last November
and still existing, consists OF 20 Republicans
and IL Democrats in the Senate, and ~ Repub-
licans aud Sc Democrats in the House, and
| therefore Sepuoicdu
"3 This Legislature passed this year every
one Of the tax laws, and made all the appropria-
tons.
II. The Governors vetoes this year were few
and Insignificant, in spite Of all that Unsuitable
ambition and mstchless cunning could do to
make political capital out of this power.
| "5. Reform was not SO urgent that the Gov
. ernor could not find time to work for his own
nomination, and veto dill which proposed to
extract little useful work from the Democrats
conf ed on BIackwelPs Island. He might have
struck the printing ring, the prison ring, and
the Brooklyn ring, hut the Convention de-
manded his attention.
10. A large share of the taxes levied while
Gen. Dix was Governor were made necessary
to provide for deficiencies in the sinking funds
several millions of money having been diverted
therefrom in consequence of low taxes and pro-
fuse expenditures under preceding Democratic
administrations.
~. The bounty and other debts, which two
years ago required no less than FIVE million dol
lars from the taxes this year called for less than
eight hundred thousand. owing mainly to the
, extinction of those debts by sinking funds re-
quired in plain terms by the Constitution. This
single circumstance OF itself shows that the
major part of Gov. Tilden's real economies