The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-08-01
A Trinity of rs.

The Tildenites are wont to exhibit their
| for years before the downfall of Tweed, Mr..
| Tilden as member of Tammany Hall was
| bis political associate and co-worker. They
even undertake to show that Mr.. Tiiden was
| the David who brought the Tammany Coli
| ath low-that the discovery and punishment
of the ring was the work of that gentleman.
We propose to submit to our readers few
| facts that they may decide for themselves as
to the probability of the alleged political part
nership.
The first of the immense Tweed frauds was
perpetrated in 1867, and nearly $750,OOO
of the fraudulent bills were approved prior to
July 20, 1868 by Mayor Hoffman. This sys-
tematic stealing was continued until 1870
All this time Mr.. Tlden was at the head of
the Democratic organization in New York
state. All the while the Tribune and other
New York papers were charging the city
authorities with wholesale corruption, with
plunderingthe city treasury, etc. Could man
of Mr.. Tilden's acuteness have been ignorant
all these years of the extensive peculatons of
the Ring?
Mr.. Tiden was chairman of the Democrat
ic State Committee from 1866 until after the
overthrow of the Ring. As chairman it de-
volved upon Mr.. Tilden to appoint an execu-
tive committee for the actual management of
| campaigns. For gears Mr.. Tilden appointed
Ttceed on tLat committee, and as chairman
JoI ~ Al
in which Tilden appointed Tweed was 1868
| when he sent out that famous circular asking
that the earliest possible indications of the
| result of the election in the country be tee-
| graphed to Tweed in order to prepare the
| way for election frauds.
in 1870 when Tammany Hall was absolute
| ly under the control of Tweed, the following
were chosen ''sachems" or rulers:
Augustus Sche, James Watson,
WILLIAM M, TWEED, A. OAKEY HALL,
| PETER b. SWEENEY, ANDREW G. GARvEY.
Thomas Dunlap, Aber CardOzo,
| HENRY w. GENET, August Belmont,
| RICHARD b. CONNOLLY, George G. Barnard,
JAMES III. INGERsoLL, THOMAS c. FIELDS,
SAMUEL j; TILDEN, Joel c. Stevens,
| Cornelius Carson.
All of the above names in small capitals
are Ring thieves, while nearly all of the
others were persons holding Office under
Tammany and doing the bidding of the
Ring. A man is known by the company he
keeps, and the character of Samuel j. Til
denis company may be known from the
| above.
| In 1869 and 1870 the delegates to the DEM
ocratic State Convention were elected by
Tammany Hall. In the list for both wears
are the names of Tweed, Tilden, Garvin,
Genet, Connolly, NortonJ and the other
Ring thieves. During the time that Mr.. Til
ded's name was associated with those of the
thieves, they had robbed the city of New
York of over $70OO,O0O. Yet they tell us
that Mr.. Tilden knew nothing of it! If such
| gigantic frauds could be carried ON under his
eyes and he not know it, he is unfit to
be President.
The following letters will serve 70 throw a
little light upon the trinity of Tweed, Tiden
and Tammany. The first was written to
urge Tweed to attend the meeting of the
Democratic National Committee, showing
that as early as 1866 Mr.. Tilden considered
Boss Tweed a politician who should be
admitted to the national counsels:
| No. Is GRAMERCY PARK, \
| August u. 1866 II M
! My DEAR SIR-I decided TO 20 to Philadelphia
in the morning, and shall not be able to see Won he
fore leave. Mr., Richmond is at the St. Nicholas
somewhat ILL., If well enough he will come on the .
| p. m. train. Whether he is there to-day or not |
hope you will not fail to be in Philadelphia.
/ Very truly, your friend,
S. j. TILDEN.