The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-09-28
THE GREAT SHAM.
Tilden Shown In His true
ColorS.

Il letter from Demas Barnes, edito,
of the Brooklyn Argus { (Dem.) y
reason ,chy Democrat aoho sup
ported ZslRen an 1874 can not sap
port him IN 1876.
BRooKLYN, Sept 9, 1876.
To the Editor of the Ohio State Journal.
1 have noticed fhe following and
similar paragraphs going the rounds
of the Democratic newspapers:
"Such campaign as the Republi
cans are making was never known to
win. All the charges now made
against Mr.. Tilden were made in
1874, when he was candidate for
Governor of New York. He was
elected by a majority of over $1,000,
and that is about the way it will be
this year. He made good Cover
nor, and he will make good Presi-
dent"
/ have been requested to answer
these assertions, probably because I
am attached to the Democratic par
ty, and through my paper, the Argus,
helped to elect Mr. Tilden Governor
of this State in 1874. The Argus
already answered and disproved the
point involved beyond contradic-
ton, in this section of country. I
will now undertake to do it for the
State of Ohio, through the columns of
the State Journal.
1. The charges made against Mr..
Tilden were not made in 1874. The
Democrats of this State did not know
of Mr.. Tilden s connection with the
Northwest Railroad ring. never
heard of the facts until l read them
in the New York Express, a Dem
ocratic newspaper, in May, 1876.
1 did not know that Mr.. Tilden bad
swindled the Government by issuing
illegal currency in Michigan, until l
saw the account of the transaction
in the Cincinnati Enquirer, in June,
1876. I did not know that Mr.. Til
den had defrauded the Government
on the taxes due from his income,
until the month of August, 1876. OF
the judgement rendered against him
in the case of the Galena & Chicago
Railroad Company stockholders, in
1865 of the judgement by the same
Court for his land taxes due the
State of Micigan in 1873, and for his
Congressional 'Relief' bill from pen
a!ties and taxes, / can say the same
thing.
8. He has made good Governor?
When inaugurated he took an oath
"to obey the constitution, enforce
the laws, and protect the interests of
the people of the State" He knew
because a Senatorial Committee ap-
pointed by his predecessors, Gov.
Dix, had so reported, that millions of
dollars had been stolen from the tax
payers by the men who had charge
of erecting a new State capitol build
ing. He did not enforce the laws.
No legal action has been commen-
ced against those plunderers. The
same is true of the plumbers of the
city of Brooklyn In each case, the
men whom he had said should
be in State prison, whom he was
elected to duly punish, have become
his fast friedns by well known ar
rangements, and instead of being on
their road to prison, we found them
shouting for Tilden for President in
and out of the st. Louis Convention.
Perhaps these are the acts of a "good
Governor.
The Constitution of our State
says:
1.-THE legislature shall not pass a
private or local bill in any of the fol
lowing cases: Granting to any cor
poration, association, or individuals
the right to lay down railroad track.
The Legislature shall pass laws pro-
viding for the cases enumerated"
etc.
Gov. Tilden was interested in
street railroad in the city of New
York. A bill to extend the road by
special legislation, an violalion of
the Constitution, which he had sworn
to obey, was gotten through the
Legislature by the well-known use
of money. Gov Tilden signed the
bill June II, 1875. Of it the New
York World, a Democratic newspa-
per, said.
It is an eternal disgrace to the
State of New York that such dishon-
est practices are allowed to be con-
tinued.
members are bought up on these
bills as you would buy pound Of
beef.
'The bill known as the Greenwich
Street Elevated Railroad bill was
passed by the promise of $1OO each
for sixty-fve votes "a majority in
that assembly.
GA noted lobbyist, formerly pub
lie printer, Van Benthuysen, held
the stakes, $4,000, to pay Barber,
Tweed and Tilden's former lobbyist,
when the bill became law"
Perhaps this was the act of a
'good Governor.
A bill adding about $4,000 per