The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-19
THE MEANNEss OF REPUBLICAN
FALsEHooDS,

acts in eleven years Of extravaganza
aud corruption and fraud since the
close of the war; and their only hope
Of retaining power is by ignoring their own
corruptions during that time and dwelling
on the early aud better history of their
party-on matters not now in issue and
which will never be in issue again. In &C
cordance with this plan of the campaign
they lie continually and premeditatedly
and persistently in regard to past and
present issues. and no amount of refutatiOn
OF their falsehoods induces them to cease
publishing the lies or to even permit their
readers to see the answer to them. On
Sunday morning the Rock Island Union
said:
II Mr. Tilden really was loyal man during the
war, doesn't It seem little strange that no one Is
able TO recall any act or utterance OF his by whlch
he made the fact known;
The Union knows perfectly we'll that
plenty Of utteranees of the kind have been
often published 10 THE ARGUS. and which,
If the Union was an honest paper, it could
and would republish. Gen. John f.
Farnsworth, whose loyalty, on the battle
field or in congress, nobody ever disputed,
in a speech ct Aurora, Ills, said:
MIR. Tilden, throughout the war, was a
war Democrat. just as many Of you were,
throughout this county. He had just
such war sentiments as those who enlisted
in the army and helbed to fight the battles
Of the country. That was the character of
Samuel J. Tilden All these statements
that Tiden and Hendricks favored the
south during the rebellion are simply
false" Cheers.
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, member of con-
gress from New York, in reply to the
falseboods of Kasson, of lows, said:
If know of no man in New York who
was more frequently called into counsel
there and in Washington during the
troublous times of the war, and wher
there was delay 10 raising the men re
duired TO recruit the armies OF the United
States | know that twice he was called Ton
by President Lincoln and came TO Wash
ington and held careful consultation with
him, resulting in the early and raTid filing
Of the quota from the state of New York
And | know that during no period of thu
whole Of that trying time was there ever
doubt expressed in the city OF New ork
in any quarter as tn the loyalty ard patriot
ism Of Samuel j. Tilden"
In letter to the secretary of war, i'm
mediately after the firing upon Fort Sum
ter, Mr.. Tilden advised more ex
tensive preparations for the strug
gle than were being made, and
on the 23d Of June, 1861, he participated
in the presentation Of stard of colors t
the 37th regiment OF New York volunteers
as it was going to the front. Of this pre-
sentation the New York Tribune (good
Hayes authority said at the time:
THE colors were presented at the Bat
terry, the regiment then being drawn up il
line, and being at the time ready to depart
for the scene of war, which it did on the
following day. There was some ceremony
at the presentation of the flag and severa
speeches we're made. One Of the speakers
on the occasion was MR. SAMUEL j.
TILDEN, ioho made stirring appeal "a
the officers and men of the regiment,
speech not ercelled IN patriotism By dny
public speaker"