Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-09-29
POLITICAL NOTES.
TILDEN AT THE CENTENNIAL

TILDEN AT THE CENTENNIAL.
(From the Richmond State,)
Mr., Tilden went to the Centennial on
Thursday, 21st instant. A small matter
Mr.. Grant was there that day. A small
ler matter.
But the comparison between the recep-
ton given those two citizens is significant;
is, in fact, if we may quote profane SOLE
cism, 'ominous Of id good sign"
1t was the "New York day." and the
largest assemblage had gathered that has
vet been seen on the Exhibition grounds.
MI Grant had occasion more than once
to appear before crowds of twenty or TWEEN
ty-five thousand people in a single build
ing. Not hat was lifted to him, not
cheer was raised, and he passed in full
view, no longer the observed OF all obser-
vers, but simply Mr.. Grant who does not
particularly adorn a private station.
When Mr.. Tllden appeared the scene was
far different A hurricane OF cheers fol-
lowed him DIS he went, and a vast crowd
pressed to do him honor by personal greet
ing and Ey the shouts OF applause that
greet none but trusted leaders and ap
proved servants of the public.
A citizen Of Richmond just returned
from Phiadel. hla assures us that this pop
ular elth lSlaSln was a revelation to him,
and that Oh western trains, carrying ONO
people, it was so universal as TO Surpris-
him intu the confident belief of a great
triumph for Tilden in that State in Octo-
Der.
All signs point the same way. We shall
have Tilden for OAR President.
GOVERNOR WALKER IN INDIANA.
A dispatch from Mitchell, Indiana, to
the Louisville "Journal" says:
| at an early hour this evening a large
crowd assembled at Biggs' Hall, Mitchell,
Indiana, where they had the pleasure of
listening to the most eloquent and logical
speech of the campaign by Governor Wal
prevailed. and the Republicans looked ter
ribly blue, many admitting that it was the
best speech they had listened to during the
canvass, and some on leaving the hall ex-
pressed their intention of voting for Blue
Jeans and the entire State ticket in Oct0-
Der. The ladies in Mitchell all fell in love
with Governor Walker, and pronounce
him the handsomeSt man in the United
| States.
A dispatch dated the 22d says: Cover
nor G.. G. Walker addressed monster
meeting at Washington to-day. He dealt
only in cold, hard facts, and appealed to
His speech had a telling effect.
THE MEDICATION OF MR.. TILDEN.
(From the Philadelphia Times" Ind.)
At last, and none too soon, we have the
answer of Gov. Tilden to the grave accu.
sation made against the integrity of his
income return for 1852; and the diSpassion.
ate reader will be amazed after perusing
it at the mendacity that has characterized
his accusers. Coming from journal of
assumed and heretofore acknowledged
responsibility, the country paused to con.
slider the charge, and had it not been con-
clusively answered it must have cost Mr..
Tilden tens of thousands of votes; but we
now have the answer item by item, with
q minuteness of detail that forbids the
possibility of evasion or cOncealment, and
no unbiased mind will fail to regard the
regard the Democratic candidate for Presi.
dent as fully indicated. Not only does
the letter of Judge Sinnott clear the skirts
of Gov. Tilden of all reas enable suspicion
of falslfying his income, but in connection
with the predatory letter OF Mr.. Hewitt it
places the national authorities as we'll as
the New York s'Times" in most pitiable
condition before the country. While Mr..
Hewitt's formal applications toathe Treas
ury Department were not only unansWer-
ed, but unnoticed in any wa. and all &C
cess to the records practically denied him,
those who were fabricating the falsehoods
were permitted to garble the official &C
counts and photograph such as served
their studied efforts to defame an honest
citizen. Take all in all, the assault upon
Gov. Tilden has been the most systematic
malicious, and atrocious ever invented in
the desperation of political campaign,
and it will cost journal like the 'sTimeS u
MANY years to recover the character for
candor and manlineSS 1t has lost by its mad
partizan defamation.
from the Richmond STATED
The calumny against Governor Tilden
in regard to his returns to the tax collector,
has never seemed to us worthy of mention.
The bare facts, sufficiently stated, are
these: Governor Tilden returned his net
| income in given year, followed the law
and did not include sums received that had
been long due and that were not paid for
services of that year, but for work done
years before. Such sums are not required
by the law to be returned. Certain Radi-
cal papers and politicians have made a
great pother over the matter, falsely de-
claring that Nh. Tilden received Que hun
dred thousand dollars in 1862 while paying
tax on only seven thousand. MI. Hewitt,
weeks ago wrote to the Secretary of the
Treasury for an official copy of the return,
but it was refused. The Treasury officials
refuse to sue, as they ought by law to do
| if the charges against MI. Tilden are true,
and finally, minute and elaborate state
ment is made by Mr.. Sinnot of Mr. Til
denis income in the year in question.
| Mr.. Sinnott was the confidential clerk of
Mr.. Tilden's law Office and fully acquain~
ted with his business, keeping the books,
&c. He states the account in detail. and
proves beyond question, what we knew be-
| fore, that Mr.. Tilden's income was in
| 1862 just exactly what he made it in his
sworn return, that is ,118.
The whole charge was mere SANDER,
known to be such by those who made it.