The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-02
DEMOCRATIC OPINIONS
SAMUEL J. TILDEN,
Expressed Prior to the st. Louis
Convention.
The True Character Of the
Man as Portrayed by
his own Partisans.
FROM THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER.

Il. He cannot carry his own State in No
ber.
"2. He cannot carry any Northern State
-. lie is q hypocrite, political swindler, has
long been public plunderer, and is really the
only disreputable candidate prominently named
on the Democratic side
90. He has sought this high office by methods
so unprecedcntedly shameless and disreputsbl
that it would be an everlasting stigma upon a
Democratic convention to nominate him, and a
reproach upon the American people to elect him
If nominated.
"Shoud Gods providence, seeming estran-
ged,' permit his nomination, by whom and what
would he be nominated! BY the serve, con-
sciencelcss tools that money can purchase; by
the most corrupt influences that ever entered
into Presidential nomination; by the system
on which all other quack medicines are sold
advertising-and even respectable medical asso-
Citations read out of the profession doctors that
will advertise. 1t would seem that the Demo-
cratic party should have as high a respect for
the good name of the party and the Government
as tfe vendors of pills have for their craft. 1t
could not but be that man educated in cum
ming, hypocrisy, and iniquty, nominated in cor
ruption and STAINLESS etfrontcry, even though
his millions could elect him, would give us the
most corrupt administration the country has
ever known. Neither imperial dignities nor the
gloom Of solitude, says Tacitus, could save II
berius from himself, and Tilden could not rise
above himself, or above the sources of his
power.
There are many reasons why Governor Til
den should not be nominated and why, if no.
minated, he will be defeated He has been too
closely identified socially and politically, and
legally-we will not say financaly--with the
Tweed regime of New York When Tweed
escaped from the custody of the Sheriff of New
York, many months ago, the Boss was not only
penltentiary convict, who had not fulfilled
one-fifth of his term but was being tried on
civil suit to recover So, 900 000--but portion of
the amount he had stolen from the city There
was every likelihood of making Tweed disgorge
but the Shcriff's officers were bribed, no doubt,
and the Boss went on his way rejoicing. Tden,
the next day, with flourish of trumpets de-
clared that the Sheriff, who was under bonds,
was liable for Tweed's escape; and further
more, to pay over TO the city 5000 900, for
which Tweed was held, and which suit, as
matter of course, must go by default. Nearly
ten months have since elapsed. Tweed has not
been caught. The Sheriff of New York (Con-
ncr) still holds his post, and his bail bond and
property, and all effort to capture and bring
back the Boss has been abandoned. The people
of New York city hold Tilden responsible for
retaining in office Sheriff who lets fly the great
thieves of the Ring who nearly bankrupted the
city. Another objection to Tlden is his aristo-
cratic proclivitics. The common people of New
York do not like him. His money helped to
elect him two years ago. He is bachelor,
with an ample fortune of four or five millions,
and spent it freely, or let his friends spend it
freely for him, in the campaign of 1874. Until
his election for Governor he was hardly known
outside of New York. Tilden and his friends
bamboozled the poor working men of New
York by tellip. them they could have plenty of
work, at good wages, if they would vote for
him for Governor. They did so. To-day there
are more idle men in New York city than when
Dix was Governor. Besides, wages have been
cut down.
FROM THE ALBANY EVENING TINES
Supreme selflshness, and a cold, unscrupu-
lous, cunning nature, are his marked charac-
teristics. The intensity Of his sefshness has
never been relaxed even by the softening infiu-
cnces of married life, and he seems to be as
destitute OF magnetism or emotion as mummy.
Having devoted the earlier portion of his life to
the study of the art of monev-making, he prac-
ticed 1t with success which, within few years,
by one means and another, put millions in his
purse. When he felt assured that the downfall
OF his former Tammany associates was ineyi-
table, he hastened to promote that result.
Having possessed himself of the party machin-
cry, he used it to secure the nomination for
Governor, and succeeded on account of the
want Of any organized opposition, and the de-
termined declination Of the man whom the
party really desired to nominate. Having be-
come Governor, every act has been performed
with an eye single to the nert step. Finding
that to attack corruption and fraud was popu-
lar and that the public mind was suspicious of
any against whom charges were made, he hesi-
tated not to promote attacks upon those in
every respect his superors, but whom he
thought were possible impediments in his path
that, as Governor, he succeeded in a Single
year in reducing the Democratic majority over
thlrty-hye thousand votes, Notwithstanding the
unquestionably popular attack upon the canal
frauds and mislnanagement is conclusive evil
dence OF his want either of capacity or tact to
successfully lead the Democratic party of the
EmDirp St3te. That he is n N inaff1piapt
ting, and unreliable public officer, is palpable
he is neither prompt, nor frank, nor generous,
nor agreeable, nor popular. To say that the
Democracy of the Union really seek such can
didate is to say that they are untitled to select
President"
Yet again the Times says:
there is great stress put upon the SER
vices OF Iilden in breaking up the Tweed Ring
lilden was co-worker with Tweed for wears,
and did not open his mouth against him until
Jimmy O'Brien and the New York Times had
furnished many of the leading facts to the
public. When it was discovered that an out
ragged community could no longer stand the
frauds Of the Rings, but were determined to
break them up, then it occurred to our great
railroad hnancier that the opportune moment
had arrived for him to make capital out of the
facts Of fraud with which for years he had been
familiar. Had the public remained Indifferent
TO the frauds Of Tweed, there is no reason to
doubt that Mr.. Tilden would have been as mum
as mouse up to this very day."
FROM THE NEW YORK ''EXPREss !"
"While New York Democrats have not
changed their position Governor Tilden has
changed his. lie is no longer for Seymour, nor
for Church, nor for any man in the land but
Samuel j. Tilden The Tribune wants
to know the reason of opposition in the country
to Governor IildCn. If it will read the ad-
dresses made at Albany it will find it's question
answered. IL ii will read the disreputable re-
cord of public opinion, manufactured and
circulated through large, advertising agency
in this city, it will find an answer. If it knew,
as we know, of the appliances used all over the
State to elect and defeat delegates for the Utica
convention it would ask for no other answer
but, beyond this, there are ample reasons.
There are better men. There are more popular
men men just as true as reformers, just as
honest, just as true to principles and to the
country, more faithful to friends, of quicker
perception, of better judgment, of more execu-
tive ability, less selfish, less ambitious, and
wholly incapable of making the bad record
which has stirred SO many thousands in this
State either to preference for some other man
or to more direct opposition to Governor
Iilden. We might add many other reasons,
but We forbear for to-day at least"
Again, June %, 1t sayst
man who has dealt so largely in railroads,
app psontsd 20 largely by them, win not be