National Republican., 1876-10-17

Record of the Democratic Candidates.
> The past record of the Democratic canii-
dates for President and Vice President is not
such as to attract to them the sympathies or
support of the people. A few facts only are
noted.
TLDEN's REBEL sYNPATHTEs.
Mr., Tilden's war record began in public
way on Saturday, April 90, 1851, when he re-
fused to be vice president at the great mass
meeting in New York, called to give encour-
agernent to the defenders ofthe Union. He
said: al have DC sympathy with its object"
He declared privately that the Government
could rot employ force to prevent secession, or
compel States which had seeded to acknowl-
edge the Federal power.
On October 2G. 1869, be published IN the
New York Eyening Pest q letter, addressed to
Hon. William Kent, and through all its
tedious and tortuous length it was such a
plea for the preservation of slsyery, such a
denial of the Sovereignty of the nation, such
an assertion of the sovereignty OF the states as
John C. Calhoun never did and never would
have dared to pen. II was an invitation and
an incentive to slavery to take up arms against
the Union.
He was one of the signers to call for a
meeting at DelmOnico's S in Fifth avenue, New
York, on the evening of February 9, 1868, the
avowcd purpose of which was the diffusion OF
political information in that crisis. OF the
character nd purpose of the meeting the EUea-
sea EoSt of the following day said: at was
composed Of men who had no words of SYM
pathy, but only denunciations, for their coun-
try; it contemplated objects utterly Inconsistent
with the welfare and vital unity Of the nation,
and it can result only in the Generalization of
public sentiment"
He was chairman of the committee on plat
form of the Chicago convention, held August
%, 1854, and one of the subcommittee which
reported the resolutions to the committee
proper, the second resolution of the series de-
Claring the war a failure, and demanding an
an immediate cessation of hOstilities.
To young man who wished to enter the
army he said "YOung man, you need not come
to me for any such letter of recommendation
this war is a perfect outrage, and will lend
no assistance to its prosecution"
AN ALLY OF TWEED.
Tildcn was made chairman ofthe New York
State Democratic Committee in 1866, and held
the position continuously until he was nomi-
mated for Governor in 1874. 1t was during his
rule of the Democratic party in the State and
city that the Tweed ring fourished and thrived.
He was Tweed's right-hand man; all the rob-
berries were committed under his eye; Tweed
was exposed, and still Tilden shamelessly did
his bidding; great mass meeting was held to
denounce the ring, and Samuel ]. Tilden was
not present.
Horace Greeley publicly charged him with
the responsibility for the gigantic election
frauds of 1865; declared that he was the COM
panion Of ballot-box suffers and repeaters
that the State was robbed of its legally-elected
Governor, and that Tilden consented to the
outrage.
H. - T. aE4 "
party in the city of New York the increase OF
the debt in a little over eighteen months (from
the LIST of January, 1870, to the 18th Of Sep,
tember, 1871, y was over S49, ,000,0 600. The fig,
ures following appeared in the New York
Times of August 8, 1871:
ey B:ssn5ss j. Fl stRss PssS $.lis & HpsS5
Ss5,5lllS6 Increase in ISL, 81 IS, ,s28, ,S58. De
Is months, S5o,Z4T,2ST. crease in % months
The exposure OF Jne doings of the ring be
gan in the New York Times in 1869, but il
was not until October, 1871, a month after
the grand reform demonstration at the Cooper
institute, which lie declined TO attend-not
until the ring was tottering to its downfall
and is complete overthrow was but a question
of hOGrs. that Tildcp became convert to the
cause Of reform.
HIS WORTHLESS "CANAL reform"
Hardly was he in his seat as Governor be
fore he began 70 beat the gong of "canal re-
FORM" which he has kept up ever since with
sucli energy that some people have been de-
ceivvd into supposing that he was really
doing something to stop frauds and save the
public money.
For convenience Of reference we append the
record Of Governor Tilden's reform suits, &C.,
from the publication of the canal message
March, 1873, to date: