The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-07-20
Mr.. Tilden's Auto Biography.

The New York Timee of the It'll has the following
in reference to the auto biography OF Hon s. j. Til
den, which is now being industrously circulated
by the Democratic press:
4 In the biography of Samuel J. Tilden prepared by
himself and reproduced by Democratic newspa-
pers all over the country the statement is made
1857 creating the elective Board of Supervisors In
Mr.. Tildens recent evidence before the Supreme
to make it appear that late 1864 after this board
had been seven years in existance, Tweed was a
notice Of the Chairman Of the Democratic state
Committee Yet he had been an Alderman fourteen
years before, and two years later Mr. Iden adj
dresses him as very truly your friend" The lying
%dh @ t6r me biography OF the
with the peace came to Mr.. Tiden the most impor-
tant political labor Of his life It happens that
more intimate fellowship with the most disreputa-
BILE gang OF public thieves with which any commu-
nifty was ever cursed. The evidence of his biogra-
ply contradicts his evidence in the as to the
date at which Tweed attained political power, and
the facts OF history contradict both as to the time
when Mr.. Tiden saw fit to desert the fortunes of
his quondam friends. He acted as the mere tool of
Tweed at the Rochester Convention in 1870 he re-
fused to participate in the public movement against
the Ring in the Spring of 1871, he appears beside
Judge Cardozo, Andrew j. Garvey, and Tom Fields,
as member of the Committee of Arrangements OF
the eighty-third celebration Of the Tammany So
1t was in July, 1871 that the Times published it's
extracts from the Controllers books and completed
the ruin of that colossal structure of fraud which It's
already undermined. Yeti it was nearly two months
after Tweed and his allies had been proved to be
the boldest and most successful thieves of modern
times that Mr.. Tilden found courage to come out
publicly against them Nevertheless he has the
monstrous impudence to declare in his biography
that, "As always happens to those who battle for
the right, Providence came to has aid The thieves
fell out and one of their number betrayed them A
clerk in the Controllers office copied series of en-
tries-afterward known as secret accounts-and
handed them to the press for publication AS MI.
Tilden was at that time on the side of the Ring.
Providence would have obviously helped the thieves
the right after its triumph had been assured he
simply appears as a wiful and deliberate impostor
in trying to steal the credit for act with which he
had nothing whateverto do. Mr., Tilden knows very
well that the thieves did not fall out till they had
been confronted with evidence OF their guilt which
were certainly not obtained from zone Of their mum
ber. He is equally well aware that the claim made
in his biography about his planting himself on
the tradition OF the elders, on the moral sense and
forces OF the Democracy" &C., is both hypocritica
cant and transparent falsehood. Yet he sends it
through the country to do duty political history
and endeavors to make people forget how much OF
an impostor he has been in the past by showing that
he means to push his fortunes in the present bv
humbug and false pretenses.