Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-07-12
TuIpEN ASA uEFORMER.

TILDEN As A nEFORMER.
There has never been any greater
farce attempted to be played off upon
the American people than that rep
resenting Samuel Jones Tildcn as
purifier Of public or private morals.
lie is one of the Wall street stock
huckstcrs and railroad corporation
attorneys and officers who have, by
the most shameless conduct, acquired
a fortune of many millions. In one
case of this kind suit is now pending
against him and others, wherein they
are now charged with swindling a
railroad company out of half a mil
lion by boldly and dcfiantly pocket
ing its bonds and converting them to
their own use. On receiving word
of his nomination at st. Louis, this
man, Tilden, had the cgotism to say
TO his friends that this was not the
work of the politicians, but of the
people; they wanted reform, and then
pointing to himself, he said, they look
here for it. that is, the people took to
him Crildem as the great reformer.
That is the sillicst, most egotistical
bombast the country ever witnessed.
Either the old bachelor must be in
his dotage or else he must belong to
the strutting peacock species. He
knows as well as he knows anything
in the world, that he did not utter a
word of truth in the above.
There is bit of history touching
the political rascality of Tilden in
1865, at the time John L. Hoffman was
fraudnlently counted in as elected
Governor of New York, and Sey-
mour was given the State by 10000,
when. in fact, it went 10000 for
Grant. Samuel j. Tilden was chair
man of the Democratic State Com
mittee, and Tweed was in all his
glory in New York, and intimately
associated with Tildcn. A few days
preceding the election, Tilden sent
out the following circular throughout
the State:
Private and strictly conddentiall
Rooms OF DEMOCRAT STATE CON-
EIrTEE. Oct. %, lS6S.-MY DEAR SIR
Please at once to communicate with
some reliable person, in three or four
principal towns and in each city of
your county, and request him (ex-
pcnscs duly arranged for at this end
to telegraph to WILLIAM M. TWEED,
Tammany Hall, at the minute of clos
ing the polls, not waiting for the
count, such persons estimate of the
vote. Let the telegraph be as fol-
lows:
"This town will show Democratic
gain Cor loss) over last year of mum-
ber): or this one, if sufficiently GER
tain This town will give Repub-
lican (or Democratic majority Of.
There as, Of course, an impo,tdn,
object TO be attained by q Simultaneous
transmission at the hour Of closing the
polls, bat not longer aroitiag. Oppor-
tunity can be taken of the usual hall
hour lull in the Geographic commun-
ications over lines before actual re.
suits begin to be declared, and before
The Associated Press absorb the tele.
graph with returns and interfere with
individual messages, and give orders
to watch carefully the count. Very
truly yonrs. SAMUEL j. TILDEN.
Chairman.
Tilden knew when he sent that cir.
cular that Tweed was the organizer
of ballot-box stuffing. Ii is fail
and legitimate supposition that hi
sent it for the express purpose of en-
abling Tweed to know how mucl
ballot-box stufling he had got to dc
on the night of election in New YOrl
City to secure a Democratic victory
A year afterward, when the enormity
of the frauds became known, Horace
Greeley wrote an open letter to Mr.
Tilden, boldly charging him with hi
rascality, and gave the figures, show
ing the grand scale upon which tn
ballot-boy stufling was perpctrated
Mr.. Greeley wrote this Samuel Jone
Tilden, this pimp reformcr, as fol
lows:
Con the principle that the receive
is as bad as the thief, you are as deep
ly implicated in them to-day as tho
your name were Tweed, O'Bricn o
Oakley Hail."
| We quote an extract from MI
Greeley's indignant impeachment @
Tildcn, which shows how he and HI
. gang increased the vote in New Yor
City.
"And though our city has largel
increased its population, the lowe
wards were quite as populous the
QS4O as they are to-day, several Q
them more so. NOW, 100
at the vote of four of these wards i
1910 and 1865, respectively: