The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-09-01
Agents for the Register.
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER l. 1876.
4 FEW QUESTIONS.


1. Where were you in 1861 wher
the Union was in danger, and wher
true men were needed to defend the na.
ton against those who were armed to
overthrow it
.. Did you not encourage by speech
and by example the withdrawal of the
Southern States, and then try to dis
courage the Federal authority to pre-
serve the Union ?
3. Did you not act as chairman of
the Committee on Resolutions in the
Democratic Convention that met in
Chicago in 1864, and as such chairman,
did you not offer to the convention
resolution that was incorporated in the
platform of your party, declaring the
war failure, and demanding an imme-
date cessation of hostiiities
4. Do you think your action at the
breaking out of the war, during its con-
sinuance, aud as its close, renders you
a safe man for the loyal people to rely
upon as President OF the United States?
5. You claim to have instituted GER
tain reforms in the State of New York,
and reduced taxation III that State.
Do you not know that whatever credit
is due for these reforms should be shared
by the Republican Legislature that las
made them possible? DO you not know
that you can but execute what the law
makers enact, and that it is little short
of dishonesty to claim for yourself alone
what belongs to the Legislature of the
State?
6. Do yeu not know that your pre-
tended canal reforms have proven fail
ures, and that those who ought to have
been in the State prison to-day for
plundering the State have not been dis
turlDed, because of the moneyed influence
which. they WELD over the law officers
of your administration
7. Were you not chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, with
your headquarters in Tammany Hall,
New York city, from 1864 to 1871, the
very period when William NJ. Tweed
was in the hight of his power, and the
recognized leader III the organization
you represented i?
8. Did you not in 1868, October 27,
send out circular to leading Democrats
OF your State, requesting them to send
advance information of the votes cast in
the rural districts to William N. Tweed,
Tammany Hall, and was not this circu-
lar signed by you?
0. Do you not know that the purpose
of this circular was to inform Boss
Tweed how many fraudulent votes
would be needed in the city to defeat
the honest votes in the country?
10. Do you not know that at that
election more than 10000 fraudulent
votes were cast in the city Of New York,
and that Horace Greeley, in a letter
addressed to you and printed in the
New York Tribune October 20, 1869,
after the facts had been brodght to light
by an investigation authorized by Con-
gress, used the following language
'sOn the principle that the receiver is as
bad as the thief, you are as deeply i'm
pIicated in them to-day as though your
name were Tweed, O'Brien, or Oakley
IIali?n
II. Did you not receive aud SO ac-
dknowlege before the court in New York
city, February q, 1876, a check for s5,-
600 from William M. Tweed, said
check dated September I, 1868, and
payable to your order?
IL Do you think your associations
with Tweed and the class of men who !
him during his reign of plunder
md the training you received in the
rammany school of politics are the
light kind of Endorsements for a man
Who aspires TO be the President of 45,-
DOO, 900 Of people /?
I3. Do you think your active par
icipation ia the issuing of over $4 ,eoo,-
100 Of paper money by the mining COM
laniea Of Michigan in which you were
Interested and the evasion of The legal
Ak due the United States Government,
through your adyice, were honorable
ransactioils?
IA. Do you thiuk that your active
cooperation with the great railroad.