Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-11-02
Reasons why TIIden should Not be
Elected

Reasons why TIIden should Not be
Elected.
The following are good and sufficient
reasons why Samuel j. Tilden should not
be elected President of the United States /:
LIST. Prior to 1861, he was in full sym
pathy, personal and political, with those
Southern leaders who cOnspired to de-
strOy the Union.
I'd. He encouraged rebellion in 1860
and 1861, by declaring that the Govern
ment had no constitutional right to coerce
the South into obeying the laws.
I'd. He made false return of his income
in 1862, by declaring under oath that his
income did not exceed 81, ,118; whereas in
1876 he made oath that in 1862 he received
from one railroad a fee of $4,000.
4th. He allowed the assessor to add the
penalty of 80 per cent. to his diseOVerable
income from 1868 to 1872 rather than
make oath to the amount he received. BY
this means he paid tax on only $15, 900
While his yearly income was rot less than
| $4,000.
| : 5th. He was the legal adviser of, and
largely interested in two mining compa-
Eies in Michigan, that issued many mil
lions of dollars in paper money, on the
circulation of which not dollar of tax
was paid, while every branch of business
and both national and state currency were
t:1Ned for the money needed by the Gov
efnment.
9th. He was the man who advised
I Oakes Ames to form that swindling COM
pany known as the Credit Mobilier.
! 18th. He was the chairman of the Com
mittee that framed that infamous resOlu-
tion which declared the war failure, and
which became one of the planxs in the
Democratic platform in 1864.
8th. He has been opposed to every
| leading measure of reconstruction since
the close of the war, including every
amendment to the Constitution.
9th. He has been for the past twenty
| years an active politician, schoOled in all
the tricks of Tammany Hall, and during
| this time has been the friend and conf
dart OF those notorious leaders that have
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fiiom Rynder's striker to Tweed the rob-
! Der.
10th. He presided over political con-
vention in 1871 wherein Tweed sat as a
recognized and honored leader, and this
more than one year after the extent of his
robberies had been published to the
world.
1lth. While he was Governor of the
State of New York he allowed Tweed to
be placed under the charge of sheriff
who had been warm personal friend of
the ''Boss," and from whose custody he
soon after escaped. Although the people
were loud in their denunciations of this
outrage on justice, the Governor made no
effort to capture the fugitive, or to re-
move the sheriff who permitted him to es-
cape.
18th. He has made pretensions of re-
form, and put forth claims to the break
ing up of the Canal ring of the State of
New York, and yet the official records
show not one of the ring punished nor a
dollar of the stolen money recovered.
18th. He has assumed to himself the
credit of reducing State taxation for 1876,
whereas the reduction was first proposed
and the laws necessary to effect it enacted
by Republican Legislature.
18th. He is surrounded by the most I'M
scrupulous politicians, the Kelleys and
AIorrisseys of New York, and if elected
would have the ear of the most dangerous
and corrupt class of men that ever dis
graced politics.
18th. He is the representative of the
disloyal element of the South, the cop
perhead element of the North, and his
election would lead to the recognition OF
claims in the interests of the South; the
advent into power of men and measures
which cost the Government four years OF
war and billions of treasure to defeat; anj
would mark the beginning of decline in
our national credit that would end in uni
) versal bankruptcy.
These are but a few of the many rea
sons why Tilden should not be elected
Any one of them ought to be sufficient tC
defeat him, for the nation cannot affOrC
to entrust its vast interests in the hand
of any one whose record is not clear an(
clean. The man for the Presidency mus
not be a Tammany politician. He mus
be above reproach, and not open to sus
picion; such a man is Rutherford d
Hayes. His past record is without stain
His career has been a noble one, such
, one as would give promise of true reform
everywhere. His election will be a publ
blessing in whose train will come pros
perity, protection to all, even handed jus
tice North and South, and that lastin;
peace for which the nation has waited s.
long.