The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-08-24

meDt and the assets pass chiefly into the
wreckers hands. They described him as
lawyer who seldom appears in court, and
boldly affirmed that he had thus made a
fortune OF from $4,000, 900 to $1O,OOO,-
900. When ships are cast upon rock
bound coast the wreckers come down upon
them, often numbering the surviving mar
iners, and always robbing them of every
valuable thing .'.....-
REFoRMER MoRRIsSEY AND OTHERS.
1t is well known that John Morrissey,
the prize-fghter and world renowned gam.
bier, was Tilden's champion at st. Louis,
and had more to do with his nomination
than any other dozen men, and that Nor
rissey's gilded gambling-heli was the Til
den headquarters at Saratoga last sum-
mer, and will be this.
1t has occurred not unfrequently in the
worlds history that the greatest thieves
and plunderers, after they had laid in a
sufficient store of wealth, have turned re-
formers, and put the world to shame by
their exhibition of superior virtue How
many kings and robber barons, after lives
of murder, rapine and the sack of cities,
have made atonement by founding
churches and monasteries, thus disgorging
small part of their blood stained plumber
and then died in the odor of sanctity and
took their places among the saints. Tweed
when he was overtaken by misfortune,
was not so rich as Tilden; but it is an
open secret that he had in contemplation,
after continuing business year or two
longer, to turn reformer, and become the
regenerator of the public and private NOR,
ais of New York. Tweed's benevolent
purpose was defeated by the untimelypu
lication of the specific evidence of his
crimes, of which his friends were compell-
ed to take notice. He had for number
Of years been at the head of the Tammany
Society of New York, of which Tilden
was a leading member and sachem. This
Tammany Society had for twenty-five
years been regarded by many as the most
corrupt political organization in the world
-emphatically brotherhood of thieves,
and close corporation to which none but
the most distinguished artists were admit
ted 1t assumed complete admiralty jur-
isdiction in the adjudication and distribu,
ton of political prizes in the State of New
York, and aspired to extend it over the
United States, and did notoriously control
the Democratic National Convention in
1868. That Tweed and his gang were
the champion thieves of the nation
had been as well known for years before
his fall as it is now, and as firmly believed
when he and Tilden were in sworn fra
ternity in Tammany Hall as when Tweed
was in the Penitentiary. But when, in
1871, the New York Times published
the specific proofs Of his vast villainies
the courts, grand juries, and every man in
public life was compelled to take notice
and then Tilden, as matter of self-pre-
servatian, jumped over the fence, turned
States evidence, and rendered valuable
service as prosecuting witness and attor.
ney, as he knew where to find the evidence
and put his finger on the different transac,
actions. If the criminality of Tweed ant
his Tammany gang had not been notori
Gus for years, or if Tilaen had turned
prosecutor and witness before their expo
sure, his character as reformer woulC
stand better than it does.
Is 1T PROBABLE OF EVEN POSSIBLE?
To me it seems highly improbable tha
a man who has for thirty years been the
associate and counsel of the stock gam
blers of Wall street, who for many years
; lived with Tweed in sworn fraternity IL
Tammany Hall, and was his co-operatoI
in the foul politics of New York, and whC
has wrecked so many railroads, can be
conscientious and patriotic man. If th'
published, and so far as l know, the un
contradicted, accounts of his manipula
ton of the Chicago & Fond du Lac, tn,
Galena 4 Chicago, the Kenosha 4 Rich
ford, Grand Rapids, and other railroads
that might be named, are true, he and ,
small ring with whom he operated, have
under the forms of law, taken from tn
companies and stockholders millions O
dollars. 1t seems impossible to distin
guish the Centennial Improvement Com
pany, of which he was the originator
from the Credit Mobilier, and the evidenc
of Oakes Ames before the Congressional
Committee in 1878 reveals Mr.. Tilden a
the original advisor and counsel of tha
notorious and deadly institution knowna
the Credit Mobilfer 1t is asking to-
much of human credulity to believe tina
man who has thus lived and fourished
and grown rich and gray, can have tn
spirit of true reformer or be governe,
by any other motive than the lust of pow
er.
CHICAGO CONVENTION.
Tilden and Hendricks were both men
bers of the Chicago Convention in 1864
held in the midst of the last great strug
gle with the rebel army, when it was ar
parent that the rebellion was doomed un
less rescued from the North, and unite
in framing that reasonable declaration
that the war was failure and ought to b
abandoned. That declaration made a
the time and under the circumstar
ces was political crime of the first mas
nitude, and in any other country in tn
world struggling with armed traitor
would have been punished as high tres
son.
GOV. HENDRICKS.
OF Mr.. Hendricks, the Democrat
candidate for Vice President, it is nc
very important to speak in this con
munity. You have known him as
} member of Congress, of the Legisls
ture, of the Constitutional Conver
: ton, as Commissioner Of the Genel
J al Land Office, as Senator of tn
United States, as Governor of tn
State, for nearly thirty years, an
during all that time he has suggeste
no policy, produced no measure, star
ed no idea, which any human bein
can remember, save and except on
which we are oil asked to forge
His place of general retirement an
relaxation has been upon the fenc,
and he has never gotten down upo
the one side or the other until HI
party had taken such decided groun
as left no doubt about their position
Like Tilden, he will be the last ,
his line, and will leave no idea, meas
ure, or policy as q political contrib
ton to those coming after him. HI
official life in small things has been r'
spectacle, and successful in dodgin
larger responsibilities.
UNEQUALRD CAREER.
Perhaps no political career of equa
extent in this country can be refer
red to which. has been so barren {
good or important results. I'm tn
winter of lS60-6l he stood with Bt
chamn and the leaders of his part
in denying all right of coercion, i
iustifying the South, and throwing al
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