Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-12-14
slO.450.O00
HAUL NUMBER ONE.


purchasing Committee conveyed 70 themselves by
deed the above amount of stocks aud bonds will
addition Of S25U,Oo0 common stock whose issue was
never authorized by any body; that is thew gave
themselves ST. 600 worth of certificates OF stock
instead Of the ST. 10000 above authorized
by the charter and The resolutions the board Tins
quarter OF million overssue of STOCK says COM
paint is still outstanding part of the liabilities Of
the company, and the stockholders know no
has got II and where il is Mr. TIlden will probably
explain after the Convention lie refuses do 50 be-
| fore il.
The Trustee and surviving receiver of the old
company, who sold the property to 1iIden and his
made report to the bondholders # the cid company
In 1865 aud OF that report he report OF the new COM
pany tor the same year, signed by the Tilden Pur-
chasing Committee thus speaks:
"Ihe proceedings OF the Committee Of Bondhoders
and stockhoders on Reorrsnization-to-wit, Samuel
stated in the report Of Mr.. Fagg with such paricu.
larity as to render any further statement super
| huous."
HAUL NUMBER TWO.
The reader will please glance again at the above list
OF bonds and stock Issued. The report Of Mr. Flagg
claims By the rst mortgage BONDS of 81 2ou-
900 amounted 10 only 81 0i5 74U leaving balance
In the hands of the Tilden Pun chasing Committee Of
$751; SO. The stockholders want Mr.. TiIden 10
tell them where that to, and Mr.. Tilden has
swered in eject "Wat until after the ST. Louis Con-
vention."
HAUL NcMBER THREE
The reader VIII please look again the table
note the issue Of 45oOo00 second mortgage bonds pre-
| ferred and income. Mr. Flagg's report with
much aud cruel ''partculariiy' that The amount of
claims settled BY this issue was only ss.369,5i5 49,
leaving tribe OF Sl3u,45i ii which the stockholders
ask Mr. Tiden 10 accouat tor; bat he says he won't
do Till after the adjournment the Convention and
does not say that he will do II even then
| HAUL NUMBER FOUR
Another glance at the table above win reveal the is
sue OF 81 100000 preferred stock. With aggra-
waiting particularly" the report of Mr.. Flagg
down the amount Of Liabilities settled by this issue
S56S 200, leaving wretched margin oil SiSI 300 be
accounted acc, for by Mr. Iilden which he declares he
| iso o o IL wen
HAUL NUMBER FIVE
The annual report of the Directors, showing the
condition of the company the LIST of January 1874
slated that the handed over up to that
| time In liquidating Claims &C., Sl,9S9.5l6 S.
Please note that the company was authorized issue
above there Z s left %
OF Sl0 so3 10 TO De accounted for by Mr.. TldeD. Mr.
Tiiden says he'll do nothing of the sort until after
| will account for il then.
REcAPITULATIcs OF THE HAuLs-AN ALLEGED STEAL
OF sl,0oO,0o0.
The cry Of anguish which comes from the complaiu-
ant in the last paragraph Of his wailings before
court, Is so heart-rendns that we quote il in all IL
| naked wreichedness:
the said defendants rlden and the Pure hssing Com
| miitee) have not, nor has either OF them, ever res
mentioned surplus OF si54vuo FRS mortgage bonds
$4,000 secoEd mortgage bonds, $iSi,0O0 preferred
stock, and s36c 600 common stock, or OF any Of the
| bonds stocks entrusted them mbers OF the
said Purchasing Committee. although your has
repeatedly, by its agents duly authorized, demanded
such an account; but, the contrary, your orator
alleges and AYERS, that the said defendants OF
them, have refused TO render any such account, or TO
10 which. or the purposes for which, the said
bonds and stock were issued and disposed Of;
and you, o,a,SF Charges that the sad s1r
retained by, and divided among, the said defendants,
or issued and disposed Of by them, in violation Of
their duty mem bers of the said Purchasing Commit
and Of the Board of Directors of said urpora
ton, complainant herein, and Of the trust and conf
mary liabilities and burdens Of your orator have been
thereby unjustly and unnecessarily increased 70 ths
| amount Of more than one million dolarsl"
A SALARY GRAB.
There Is paragraph In the document worth
quoting entire, anticipating IL does, any plea that
the defendants may offer the effect that they,
any oil her retained the sums above charged as un-
| and your orator further shows that, at a meeting
OF the said Purchasing Committee held November },
1sS2, IL resolved that the compensation OF Mr..
| Bsyard be $1,000 annum tor three years OF his
services as Chairman OF the Committees; and u was
further resolved that the compensation OF Mr. Butler
be s2 500 per annum three years in full for
special services in various capacities and MIR. lIlden
10 wit, samuelJ Tden OF the parties defendant
hereinj having stated his claim for services $4,000
against the second mortgage, and like sum against
the rst mortgage and The reorganization il was re-
solved that the be allowed said sums. In full Of
such services and that accordingly the said
paid TO the said parsies--neary $500 10 Bay
ard, $500 to Butler, and $4,000 TO Samuel J. Tie
All this Mr., TiIden has been called upon from tins
postpone his explanation, until he tnally succeeded
| In getting the Court TO grant him time to he hi,
week Alter the adjournment Of the ST. Louis Conyen-
| ton.
rilden at Home, and the Points Of the Campaign
Special Correspondence of the Enquirer.
| NEw YORK, June ~.
The st. Louis Convention VIII lie over by the time
you receive and print this letter, and H. as have
| presumed. Tideo becomes the Democratic nominee.
you will like 10 hear freshly about him. III he be de
ieated still he ,sa character Of the days nooreiy.
| SAMMY AT HOME.
| No two men, running against each other for the
Office, have reached the heads OF their parties
differently HAYES aud Tilden- Hayes is Young,
| unembarrassed, sapling growth. pushed forward by
propitious seasons aud not retarded by little blood
knot trunk, kept back by old age, and then sud-
denly towering and starting forward Something
seems to have sat upon him and kept him down until
by an accident, the yoke slipped or the pngers took
| leaf, and mankind exclaimed: Who the deuce
though, there was any vitality therel'
Mr.. Samuel Tiden has lived In New York about
forty years, and has grown rich here by acting as
aud arranger OF large corp ratons and forms
of propery-work that required the greatest patience.
versatility, and dexteriy. He had 20 End out the
condition Of such property, manage legislation con-
&c asp,. p mor,saees from beneath or
pile them top, travel. write letters slip things IA
The newspapers and money columns, go to the hiehof
Courts, COMPROMISE, sell at ion, forecl0se in
short perform he entire chcanery Of business at The
center Of The country and Al the State
capital, where the laws are made and applied.
| IILpES's CHARACTER
With pretty long experience public manhood
and career, l am at 10 understand mind hks
Tdens. He is ST once thorough and cute, small and
| profound, mean aud mighty. The work be had 10 do
often great SCALE the processes ne
| had employ sInisIer, at times, 10 de-
the Of shystering. lie lsckei the dramatic
| quality ard personal presence, a1d, although ain-
biIaus from Wood for political consideration, never
received any reward for much devotion and industry
except petty, monumental places The poiIiicians
| "sat down" on him. He gave many hint Of his
wishes receive the nomination for his that Office,
but they made n mule-driver and pack-slaye OF him,
aud grumbed that he should be kept Chairman
of the State Committee OF the party where he had To
do huge amount of factotum work. In short, he was
TO New York p litics what John q. Thompson Is 10
Ohio politics-slmoner Mordeca bottle washer, sit
ting in the receipt Of customs, and pinned 10 the coat
tails of siaiesmen-a kind Of wheelbarrov TO great
ness.
Ii cost Sammy Tilden $4,000 to ne elected TO the
State Senate Of New York late in life while
could have gone for five hundred thousand
They bed him because they thought II was
too much presumption, and he was too ready for
the sacrifice In the Legislature he wanted 10
get honorary vote to preside, aud II was regarded
AS joke Thus happened only four or five years ago
heard Hustled the ba d-headed Speaker OF the Assem-
bly,, say that Horace Greeley and sam Tilden we're y
good deal alike, both secretly of honors and
sulleD they conferred. All this