Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-16

re cast upon a rock-bOund coast the
vreckers come down upon them, Of
en- numbering the surviving marin I
RS, and always robbing them of every
thing.
REFoRMER MoRRIssEY AND OTHERS.
II is well known that John Morris.
lev. the prize-fighter and world-re-
,owned gambler, was Tildcn's cham
,ion at ST. Louis, and had more to do
With his nomination than any other
lozen men, and that MOrrisscy's
yilded gambling-hell was the Tilden
headquarters at Saratoga last sum-
mer, and will be this.
1t has occurred not unfrequently in
The worlds history that the greatest
thieves and plunderers, after they had
laid in a sufficient store of wealth,
have turned reformers, and put the
world to shame by their exhibition
of superior virtue. How many Kings
and robbcr Barons after lives of muir
der. rapine, and the sack of cities,
have made atoncment by founding
churches and monasteries, thus dis
gorging small part of their blood
stained plumber, and then died in the
odor of sanctity and took their places
among the saints. Tweed, when he
was Ovcrtaken by misfortune, was
not so rich as Tildcn: but ii is an
open secret that he had in contempla-
ton, after continuing business a year
or two longer, to turn reformcr, and
become the Regeneration Of the public
and private morals of New York.
Tweed's benevolent purpose was de-
featcd by the untimely publication of
the specific evidence Of his crimes, OF
which his friends were compelled to
take notice. lie had for a number of
wears been at the head of the Tam
many Society of New York, of which
Tilden was leading member and
sachem. This Tammany Society had
for twenty-five years been regarded
by many as the most corrupt political
organization in the world--emphati-
cally a brotherhood of thieves, and q
close corporation to which none but
the most distinguished artists were
admitted. II assumed complete adj
miralty jurisdiction in the adjudica-
ton and distribution of political
prizes in the State of New York, and
aspired to extend it over the United
States, and did VIGOROUSLY control
the Democratic National Convention
in 1868. That Tweed and his gang
were the champion thieves Of the
nation had been as well known fol
years before his fall as it is now, and
was as firmly believed while Tilder
and he were in sworn fraternity il
Tammany Hall as when Tweed wa
in the. Penitentiary. But when, II
1871, the New York Times published
the specific proofs of his vast villain
les, the courts, grand juries, and ever.
man in public life were compelled Il
to take notice, and then Tilden, as
, matter of self-preservation, jumpe,
over the fence, turned States evi
, dence, and rendered valuable service
. as prosecuting witness and attorney
as he knew where to find the evi
, dence and to put his finger on tn
, different transactions. If the Grimm
!, ality of Tweed and his Tamman
! gang had not been notorious 70
years, or if Tilden had turned prose
cutor and witness before his exposure
n his character as refOrmer WOul
stand better than it does.
The Senator then gave a scathiH
: review of the public career of Thom
: as A. Hendricks. running through
: period of thirty years, in which h
: showed him up to have been origina
; iy an ingrained pro-slavery man,
+ Copperhead Of the yilest type dnrin
g the war, as having voted against a
L the Constitutional amendments toncl
! ing the negro, and now with being
!, trimmer In currency matters, and
IS every respect a thorough paced den
h agogue.
1t is a Democratic idea that the re
II les and debris of rebellion, the pa
~ doncd traitors of an inhunan civ
y war who were reared in the lap
Z Z slavery; that the graduates from Il
" high schools of the ku-Kl4x al
" White eaguers, the administrat0
. and defenders of AndersOnyille al
: Salisbury, and the alumni of Tar
:. many Hall, constitute the true reforI
y ers Of the day. To the Democrat
!, mind the education furnished
= these institions gives the highe
" guarantee for reform and intcgri
- in Office
q, Every profession in favor of Civi
At Service reform by the Democrat
Of party is utterly hypocritieal. Shou
it come into power every Republic,
= officer will at once be turned out, al
it is for this the ba tile is being fOugl
Up Tilden and Hendricks as Governe
&c have had the power to introdn
al this reform into their States, b
I'll their administrations have been !
IN morsclessly partisan. If they We
IN in earnest in their profession on tn
OF subject they could stop it any da
OF and show their faith by their worl
To me it seems highly improbal
be that q man who has for thirty yea
ct been the associate and counsel of I
1t, stock gamblers of Wall street, W
lie for many years lived with Tweed
I'd sworn fraternity in Tammany III
re and was his co-Operator in the fG
n politics of New York, and who |
D. wrecked so many railroads. can b.
" conscientious and patriotic man.
ed the published, and so far as knt
nd the nncontradicted accounts of
'es manipulation of the Chicago a
he Fond du Lac the Galena and Chica
a Kenosho and Rockford, Grand RI
in ids, Harlem extension, the Peninsl
orr of Michigan, and other railroads Il
do might be named, are true, he an(
il small ring with whom he operat
en- have under the forms of law tax
nd from the companies and stockhold
ty, millions of dollars. 1t seems imp
ey sible to distinguish the Continen
ad Improvement Company, Of which
nv he was the originator, from the Crt
he it Mobilier and the evidence of Gal
ID Ames before the Congressional Go
le- mittee in 1873, reveals Mr.. Tilden
lb- the original adviser apd counsel
en- that notorious and deadly institute
M known as the Credit Mobilier. i
asking too much Of human credul
10 believe that o man who has Il
m lived and fourished, and grown +
and gray, can have the spirit o
DO true reformer, or be governed by a
on other motive than the lust of pow
rm When greenbacks were first ere
IN ed as a war measure in 1862 Il
en- We're violently opposed by the Dc
ocracy as unconstitutional, VIII
ith they held as to everything calcula
be- to help put down the rebellion.
ID Hendricks stated in 1863 that
ity paper of the State banks was bet
currency, when he knew the v
I'D could not be carried on with 4
ties paper. In 1867, after the war ,
ces over, Mr. Pendletoa conceived
idea Of adopting the greenbacks q
ers issuing enough to pay the natiO
lag debt. This would at once repudi
no the debt and destroy the grcenba
'rd and kill off.two of the hated agcnc
~. in putting down the rebellion. IL
me bricks accepted this idea, and ms
no his race upon it for Governor in II
Inc as will appear by his speech in c.
ventiOn on the 9Th day Of January
de- that year. in 1870 Chef just
err Chase delivered the opinion o.
Or majority Of the Supreme Court of
IVA United States that the legal-tcn'
feature of the grecnbacks was unc
pa stitutiOnal. The Democracy ag