The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-15
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nation
Hon. Erastus Brooks says that
Gov. Tilden's staff officers came
into his district to prevent any
unpledged TiIden delegates being
sent to the St, Louis convention.
It is well known that Gov. Tilden
packed the Utica convention, and
elected a majority of the dele
gates from this State who should
go to the national convention.
Among the men SO selected by
him are several indicted officials
and notorious ring scoundrels,
who, less than one year ago Gov.
Tilden said to us sought to be in
State prison"
Bates and Locke, q respectable
advertising firm in New York,
were authorized by Gov. Tilden's
agents to insert puffs of him, as
reading matter, in about $50 south
ern and western Democratic news
papers, which puffs were paid for
at advertising rates.
Gov. Tilden pretends to be a
hard currency man. AS stock
holder and director in two mining
companies on the upper Michigan
Peninsular, he has for twelve
years been issuing shin-plasters
and steel-plate currency notes in
violation Of the laws of Congress.
The bank tax upon tho currency
so issued, and the penalty for its
fraudulent issue amounted to over
81 100000, which was not paid.
Mr.. Tilden's companies applied to
Congress for remission of the
penalties. In May, 1874, Hiram
o. Peck, E. G. Wheeler, and j. B.
Crucial were indicted FOR forging
the currency of Tilden's jackson
Iron Company, of Negaunee,
Michigan. The trial took place
before Judge O'Grady, June %,
1874. The counterfeiting was adj
mitted, but it was claimed to be
no injury to the Iron Company to
do that which they had no right
to do. The Court held as follows:
''The Court is clearly of the
opinion that the issue of all these
notes and iron currency, so called,
is illegal, contrary to the statute
and that they are void upon their
face. They bear not only the
mark, but all the principal featur-
es of bank note, and are utterly
worthless for the purpose of cir
culation. They cannot be the
subject of forgery; they are a
spurious, worthless, bastard cur
rency. The objection is sustain
ed. The Court has been of this
opinion for the last five years,
though the question has never be-
fore been presented for its decis-
ion. This kind of paper has
driven out q better currency, just
as the clipped and sweated coin or
William the Third drove out of
circulation and use the golden
crowns of Englad."
Governor Tilden's advocacy OF
"hard money" is insecure as any OF
its other positions. AS reform.
er, Gov. Tilden is a fraud; as a
business man, he is badly smirch-
ed; as hard money man, he is
without convictions; as an adver
tislng adventurer and suborner o.
the press, he is impudent; as po
litical trickster, he is a disgrace
He is willing to talk about Nation
al honor and advocate hard mon
ey at the east, while violating the
laws of the country and issuing
illegal currency in the west. Ht
bid loudly for reform support
throughout the State, by attack
ing Dennison, in Syracuse, anC
Lord, in Rochester, where thu
Democrats have no strength, while
bargaining with ring scoundrell
in Albany. New York, and Brook
Ign, where the Democratic ma
chine is powerful. Do Democrats
think that in the present temper o.
, our outraged people they could
elect man President of the Uni
i ted States with such q record Al
. is here shown? Have they so low
/, an estimate of the virtue of Amer
lean voters, as to suppose that 6
majority of them will stand b.
party, at the expense of SO mucI
|, principle and with the possibl,
!. danger to arise from the ignobl,
ambition of such 8 man? Do they
E blame the Argus, knowing TIA
! facts, for sounding the alarm il
) time to save the party from an in
, glorious defeat? The unpleasant
duty of saying that we have, ha
!, been forced upon US by Mr.. Til
: denis persistent audacity in keep
ing himself before the pubic an,
by the undertaking lmpudence O
gang of convicts, criminals ant
! plumbers daring to say that the,
: will make nomination for homes
|, men to vote for. Mr. Tilden ha
, written his political epithet il
"Never punish a man who vii
, vote right" We warned MIR. Til
den of the treacherous characte
of the crew who were THROWN:
, planks to him. They now hav,
him by the throat and he is nearin,
the rapids with them. We vii
have accomplished a work in rid
ing the party and the country O
, so dangerous q set of men. Tilden'
ticket was only elected by 400
, majority in the State last fall. 1
, nominated now he cannot carr,
the State, but will be defeaLet
by $4,000 majority.