The Worthington advance., 1876-07-27
POLITICAL,
Tilden Racily Reviewed by An. STAIRS,
= Illinois. -.

Storrs gave the following picture Of
the Democratic candidate for Presi.
dent: - :
"Upon this platform of 1--WE, the
Democratic delegates - they have.
placed in nomination Mr.. Samuel j.
Filden, of the City of New York, as
their exemplar and illustrator of re-
form. What has he done? Who is
MIR. Samuel j. Tilden! One of the
most expert railroad lawyers on the
continent. That is not tirst.class re.
commendation. A man thoroughly
imbued with the corporation spirit,
80 completely that, like the client
which he repre- esehts, he has no soul
1t has ordinarily been the case that
physicians are prospered in proper
lion as they have cured their patients.
tie is great railroad doctor-the
great corporation physician; but all
precedent in his case is abolished,-
the patient have died and the physic-
ian has prospered. Wherever and
whenever Samuel J. Tilden has been
called to stand by the bedside Of a
sick railroad, there was a funeral in
the near future. He is the father of
watered stock. He is the great rail-
road absorber and absorbent. He is
the author of farm mortgage bonds,
and I don't need to explain to you
what those instruments means. There
never yet came into the door of his
office a healthy corporation which did
not hobble out from the other door on
crutches and in bandages. All along,
up and down this great West, are the
wrecks Of disappointed hopes and
blasted expectations that stockholders
and corporations have had, when they
have passed through the gentle but
de;th-dealing treatment of the man
Tllden. He is a Democratic politician
OF the highest and the lowest type.
| In 1864 he was a Democratic poll
tlcian. We are told that our candi.
date, Gov. Hayes, is a man of very or.
binary abilities. thank God that he
did not have genius enough to have
been in the Mcclellan Convention of
1864. Take the two men--one man
of genius and the other a man of or
binary talent. In that year the man
OF ordinary talent had telegraphed, in
reply to the inquiries of his friends, in
his ordinary way, having merely pa
triotic desire to do his duty, as fol.
lows:
have other business to attend to now.
ANY man who leaves the army to electioneer
Cheers.
At the same time, almost as the
wires were throbbing with Hayes dis
patch to his friends in Ohio, Samuel
j. Tilder, the great railroad physician,
put the signet of his approval upon
THIS INFAMOUS DECLARATION
Resolved, That this convention does ex-
plicitly declare, as the sense of the American
people, that after four years Of failure to re-
store the Union by the experiment Of war
during which, under the pretense of military
necessity or war power higher than the Con
atitution, the Constitution itself has been dis
and private right alike trodden down, and
the material prosperity of the country essen
italy, impaired Justice, humanity, liberty,
ate efforts be made ior a cessation OF hostil-
tiles, with view to an ultimate convention
OF the States, or other peaceable means, to
the end that at the earliest practicable mo
ment peace may be restored on the basis Of
the Fedora States.
SamuelJ. Tilden, a war man in time
Of peace, and peace man in time of
war! Cheers. Manton Marble says
in a letter, addressed to a delegate
from Illinois, that while Tilden was II
that day present at the deliberations
of the Committee he in no way lifted
up his voice against that resolution,
lyet down in the bottom of his heart,
MIR. Marble says: there was a deep
feeling against that resolution, which
he always discreetly' kept to himself.
Was it true! If, us Mr.. John Farms.
worth says, Tilden is a resolute, high
toned man, who spnrns all leaders,
who will not be dictated to, think he
would have risen in his power and
might, and said to the trainers of that
resolution: ''Get thee behind me, Sa.
tan. won't have the resolution, and
will make a minority report But he
did nothing of the kind. When the
Convention grew restive over the fact
that the platform had not been pre-.
sented, Mr.. Tilden rose in his place
and said: ''We are all agreed. There
is no controversy in the Committee
there is no disagreement there; we
are awaiting only it's revision by the
Sub Committee" He was followed in
that statement by other members of
the Committee, and Mr.. Guthrie SOL
emnly rose to his Kentucky feet, and
said ''There is no disagreement, and
Kentucky declares that we are all Ken
tuckyously unanimous for peace -
Laughter and cheers
There is the record of Samuel j. Til;
den back in 1864. Let the dead past
bury it's dead Don't wave the bloody
shirt!
Gentlemen, I might bring myself to
such frame of mind as to vote for a
Confederate. can understand how a
man living in the South might have
voted for the South; but not until my
heart has ceased to beat, not until my
whole being is changed, will I ever,
on any ticket, nor under any circum.
stances, cast my suffrages for man
living in the North, who, in 1864, de.
nounced the War as an experiment, as
a failure, and abjectly sued for peace
Loud cheers.1
follow him still further, back to
the State of New YOrk-worse than
that, back to the city of New York
back to the embrace of Hoffman and
Tweed-back to the associations he
seemed to love so well.
During the time when millions and
millions were shamelessly plundered
from the people of New York, the
Chairman of the State Central Com.
Imittee. the recinient Of Tweed a hOlin.