The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-08-24
Fifteen Questions.

questions
|. Where we're you in 1861 when
the Union was in danger, and when
true men were needed to defend the
nation against those who were arm.
ed to overthrow it
2. Did you not encourage by
speech aud by example the with
drawal OF the Southern States, and
then try to discourage the Federal
authority to preserve the Unionf
g. Did you not act as chairman OF
the Committee Of Resolutions in the
Democratic Convention that met in
Chicago in 1864, aud as such chair
man, did you not offer to the con-
vention resolution that was incor~
porated in the platform OF your
party, declaring the war a failure,
and demanding an immediate cessa
ton OF hostilities !
4. Do you think your action Mt the
breaking out of the war, during its
continuance, aud at its close, rem
ders you safe man for the loyal
people to rely upon as President OF
the United Statesf
s. You claim to have instituted
certain reforms in the State Of New
York, and reduced taxation in that
State. DO you not know that what-
ever credit is due for these reforms
should be shared by the Republican
Legislature that has made them pos
sible Do you not know that you
can but execute what the lawmakers
enact. and that it is little short of
dishonesty to claim for yourself alone
what belongs to the Legislature OF
the state
6. Do you not know that you pre-
tended canal reforms have proven
failures, and that those who ought to
have been in State prison to-day for
plundering the State have not boen
disturbed, because OF the moneyed
influence which they WELD over the
law officers of your administration?
7. Were You not the chairman Of
the Democratic National Committee.
with your headquarters in rammany
Hall, New York city. from 1864 to
1871, tho very period when William
NJ. Tweed was in the height OF his
power, aud the recognized leader in
the organization you represented
8. Did you not in 1868, October
81, 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 NJ. Tweed, Tamman,
Hall, aud was not this circular sign
ed by you!
0. Do you not know that the pur-
! pose of this circular was to inform
! Boss Tweed how many fraudulent
= votes would be needed in the city tc
= defeat the honest votes in the couu'
B. try!
Y 10 Do you not know that at that
, election more than 40 900 fraudulen
a votes we're cast in the city of New
. York. and that Horace Greeley, in
Y letter addressed to you and printed
in the New York Tribune Octobe
20, 1869, after the facts had beer
, brought by an Investigation author
. lied by Congress, used the following
!. language son tho principle tina
= the receiver is as bad as the THE
n you are as deeply implicated in ther
q to day as though your name wer
: Tweed, o 'Brien, or Oakley Hall I"
> II. Did you not receive and 8
: acknowledge before the court i
. New York city. February 27, 1876,
= = check for $4,000 from William n
y Tweed, said check dated Septembe
- I, 1868, and payable to your order
|. ~. Do you think that your asso
Citations with Tweed aud the class {
h men who followed him during hi
>. reign Of plunder and the trainin
% you received in the Tammany sch o,
= OF politics are the right kind of in
" ;, dorsements for a man who aspires t
a be the President OF 100000 0
,ms m people 7
!, ,r l3. Do You think your active pa,
\ ticipation in the issuing OF over "a
y 600, 900, of paper money by the mil
. ing companies Of Michigan in whic
:, you were Interested and the evasio
~ ~ Of the legal tax due the Unite
- States Government, through you
;" J" advice. were honorable trans actions
* IA. Do you think that your acti,
- co operation with the great railrod
% % corporations OF the country. one
"a which paid you over Sl,OJo,O0O
80 less than two years for pretende
q q legal and professional services,
y you for the high position to whic
70 y. you aspire, and sustain your CLAIM
40 10 as an honest man and practical r.
!. former
y e You know, Mr.. Tilden, that ,
% honest answer to each OF these que
~ ~ tions would be condemnation fro
s al your own lips
sa We ask You one more questio
=. -. and then leave you in the hands
& your friends, who may try TO excu
!. your record. but who can never bl
~ ~ It out from the memory OF the Anne
:. loan peo pie:
y: Is. Do you believe that . par
1. whose whole strength lies 10 the O.
y rsbsl element that supports II, o.