Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-01

viii De present. dau tl0 AueoeAil5 HA1 DO az
dressed by Freeman ThOrp, of Geneva.
Some of the great Eastern cotton factO-
rieswhich have been lying idle-the Sprague
mills especialy-are about to resume work
An increase demand for goods and better
prices viii grease the wheels.
The number of visitors to the Centennial
Exhibition is growing rapidly. With
low rate of admission, and low thermom-
eter. the attendance on Saturday last equal
ed nearly one hundred thousand. The big
days are yet to come.
Tilden would no doubt give all his bar
rels Of money to be able to live over again
the last sixteen years of his life. We read
of another rich man, who no doubt felt
somewhat so when he lifted up his eyes
and saw Lazarus. Sans repentance is
late.
Has the Democratic party changed its
policy since it was driven from power by
the people fifteen years ago? If so, when
did that change take place? Is it not the
same to-day as it was under the lead Of
Buchanan? And if unchanged, as it is, can
the people safely trust it with the reins Of
Government?
Wheeler, Bristow and Jewell are waking
the echoes up in the Green Mountain State.
Wheeler, at St. Albans, set forth the true
inwardness ST the confederate and northern
Democratic coalition, and urged his audi
ence to afford no comfort to the unholy al
lance by failing of their accustomed Re
publican majority.
The more that Tilden's income business
is investigated the worse it looks. He ad-
mits the receipt of $4,000 from the Terre
Haute, Alton & st. Louis Railroad, and
now comes the statement that he received
in thes same year large sum from the Pitts
burg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago, and Chicogo
& Alton Railroad Companies seventy
thousand dollars in the aggregate.
Tlden's triumph would have the effect
to restore power to those%he- have ouce bs-
trayed the ration. and q FIR hezt TO de-
.strazz-iiff---L zmlj ksno iac goe uusnt.
over 70 the 6on5zr aerei s-og it7 -nsuIes.
Tho spirit thpt ms ned Che rebellion .
still rampant. and Jar Demands for the loss
of coieoA and slaves, clamorous and
t1erce. Who viii say that these demands
would not be met, and the Confederate
debt become a matter fer deliberation and
settlement. Should we not think Of these
things?
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
for Ohiol That is the generous bid which
Tilden's managers in the east now make
for the State. According to their estimate
5000 purchased votes viii destroy the Re
publican majority of 1875, and carry the
day for Tilden and reform And for these
votes the eastern fellows are willing to pay
$50 apiece. 1t is liberal offer, and the
State Central Committee was not slow in
availing itself OF it, in spite Of the protest
of one of its members. To such base uses
has reform come.
The chances of reform being wrought by
an old Tammany leader-a compeer of
Boss Tweed-is about as likely as it would |
be for blind mans finding black bean
in barrel of white ones. Tammany is
rotten, and the politician who got his di-
ploma in that school is not the one to be
entrusted with the destinies of the country |
mot the one whose pretentions of reform
are worthy of credence. The people have
had too much of Confederate House of
during the last term Of
Congress, to venture heavily upon an Ex-
seutiYe of the same sentiment.
Among the reforms introduced by Mr..
Tflden is an editorial reform. 1t is, indeed,
i new thing in journalism. He has organ
zed an editorial committee in New York,
harged with the important work of writ
ng and furnishing editorials for the Demo
ratio press, of the whole United States.
Hhis committee have their editorials put in
ype and printed on slips which are sent
ut simultaneously to Democratic editors
Il over the country, to appear IN their
ournals as original editorial NATTER
Yhen, therefore, anything like brains is
ound in Democratic weekhes, it may be
boxed upon as an emanation from Tilden's
nin.
Governor Tilden is in rather a tight
lace between his income oath to the Inter
al Revenue Assessor in 1852, and his oath
answer to the st. Louis, Alton and Ter 4
Haute Railroad suit in 1s76-in the first C
wearing that his income was only s7,11s, a
nd in the latter that he received in two a
ams $50, 600 the same year. His friends a
e trying to relieve him Of the pressure by a
ne subterfuge that this $40, 900 was, to be Fl
are' received in that year but that it was n
ne earnings Of previous years, and. there s.
ore did not belong to that year. This ii
ole' however, viii not let his launches a
nrough' The ruling Of the revenue de- h
~ 'i.ent on that point may be found in f
le 0lnce OF ex-Collector Fassett, which fix !,
: i as income IN the gear sghen rseeipsd h
= course It Wasnot income until received !,
his affair leaves Mr.. Tilden ir, +,o o4t;+,,.1.
I a swindier Of the government to tbo :
hief magistracy Of which he nov as,,i-a-
his income tax was war tax. and TILL I
'eing sympathizer with the rebalI;on !
robably found an apology for the swindle
nd e justification Of himself under his :
ompunetions against contributing any
hare in sustaining or meeting the cost Of ]
he .'unholy war. Can he be silent under
uch charge as thisl II he is, that 81
snce can be eonstreued in no other light
han that Of confession. In sucha light, [
lonest men-however strong their partizan '
eehngs-wil dndit hard to vote for a man I
or President who, even by implication. sd- /
ats that he has made false return of his
ncome for the purpose of swindlipe the
government and fobbing a few hundred !
ollars. Indeed, if the facts are, as thsv
sem almost inevitably to be, he stands ex- |
osed to prosecution and the penitentiary, s
nd he may yet find himself hedged in l
18th such a suit before election. This I
light appear little incongruous, though /
might not affect the vote of Tammany. ! c