The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-10-12
Record of the Democr attic Candidates

Record of the Denocr attic Candidates,
y The past record of t'Ae Democratic canit
dates for President an 1 Vice President is not
such as.to attract to them the sympathies or
support Of the pee pie, A few facts only are
noted.
ThpF as REBEL sFMPATHIEs.
MI Tide as war record began in gaerc
way on Saturday, April 20, 1861, when he re
fesed 10 be vice president at the great Eiasl
yeetiifg in New York, called 20 give eEc0ur
agement to the defenders Of the Unios. He
said: 81 have no sympathy With its object"
He declared privately that the Government
could ctemploy force to prevent secession, oil
conRtea States which had seeded tc acknowl
edR = 7Se Federal power.
Ca October 20. 1869, he published in The
N fT York 8geaing Pest letter, addressed t
EuB. William Kent, and Through all It's
tsii!ous ard tortuOHs length It was such
plea for tire preservation of slavery, such {
denial of the sovereignty of the nation, sucl
an assertion Of the sovereignty Of the States a:
John c. Calhoun never did ard never would
have dared to pea. It was an invitation and
an incentive to slavery to take up arms agains
the Union.
bc was bLG VI Inc ElgLrSFS 10 call IOE Z
meeting at Dclmonico's in Fifth avenue, New
York, on Intervening of February 8, 1868, tkt
ssyeTed purpose Of which was the ditiusioa o
political information IN that crisis. OF thu
character and purpose OF the meeting the E9eSl
ing Post of the following day said: cit was
composed Of men who lad no words of sym.
patty, but only dcnunc;ations, for their coun
try; it contemplated objects utterly inconsistent
with the welfare and vital unity of the nation
and il can reSul: only in the decentralization o.
public sentiment"
He was chairman of the committee on plat
form Of the Chicago convention, held August
go, 1864, and one of the SUB committee which
reported the resolutions to the committed
proper, the second resolution of the series de
claring the war a failure, and demanding al
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.
TIlden 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 shamelessIy did
his bidding; great mass meeting was held to
denounce the ring, and Samuel j. Tilden was
not present.
Horace Greeley publicly charged him with
the responsibility for the gigantic election
frauds of 1868; 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 TiIden consented to the
outrage.
Under Tilden's. leadership of the Democratic
party in the city of New York the increase of
the debt in little over eighteen months (from
the 1st of January, 1870, to the 18th of Sep
TENDER, 1871 was over $49, 900 eco. The fig
ures following appeared in the New. York
Times of August 3, 1871:
o. e - s,'E t e q e.
ssisS f6cr 81 ii ST. SSs Agsas De-
~ months ss0,2A7,2S7. crease in 70 months
The exposure OF the doings of the ring be-
gan in the New York Times in 1860, but II
was not until October, 1871, a month after
the grand reform demonstration at the Cooper
Institute, which he declined to attend-not
unit! the ring was tottering to its downfall
and its complete overthrow was but question
of hours, that Tildep became a convert to the
cause o! reform.
HIS WORTHLESS "cANAL REFORM"
Hardly was he in his seat as Governor be.
fore he began to beat the gong of "canal re-
form" which he has kept up ever since with
such energy that some people have been de-
ceiyed 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, 1875, to date:
Number Of suits rought...... 90
Numtor brought to trial 80. ............ 2
Number of convictions obtained..........
Number Of suits dismissed by court.... /
Number OF suits now pending ............
Amount of money recovered ............. None
Expenses OF commission aud counsel TO
assist Attorney General, (abOut)...... 800 900
Commission ...:....;........!....... 5000
stopped. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. None
Here, In compact form, are all the facts
concerning Tilden's "canal REFORM" It's net
result TO the State is S92, 900 outlay and no one
punished. Nobody has made it pay except
Samuel j. Tiiden. BY means of 1t he has
controlled two Democratic State conventions,
made renegnade Republican a Democratic
Secretary of State, and, with the help of the
Bates i Locke circulars made himself the
Democratic candidate for President of the
United States. In his canal reform, as in all
bis other roles, Tilden is the prize sham re-
former of the age.
Contrast with this beggarly result of Tilden's
Quixotic raid upon suppositious canal rings
what the Republican party accomplished In its
much shorter, but much more decisive, war
fare upon the whisky rings in the West. The
total value Of property seized, of assessments
and suits on official bonds, amounts to S3,l5O,-
600. In prosecuting the thieves 176 criminal
Indictments were found. There were 1873 con-
vietions aud pleas of guilty; ~ fed the country.
And II were acquitted. The total cost to the
Treasury of recovering all this money and
bringing all these criminals to justice was
e25,Q4S.
A swINDLER OF LABOR.
This, IN G1ccinct shape is the story Of Til
cen's scandalous operations in Michigan, which
has been summarized by leading Democratic
paper in the West in this singing way:
l. That Samuel j. Tiiden is and has been
the controlling owner Of the New York mine.
2. That it could issue no 'iron currency"
without mis- knowledge and consent.
. s. That It did issue 1t by the million dollars
to law.
S. That Samuel ]. Tilden's influence helped
TO swindie the Government out of thousands
Of dollars of taxes due on this issue OF iron
currency;
8. That Samuel J. Tilden's store pay system
debascs the working man.
, Z, That Samuel J. Tilden's hard money
professions are, in the light of the facts pre-
se2,el, a snare ami d:lus.o4,
= s. That the fglfes have been collected from
the Official books of Deputy Internal Revenue
Collector Walter Finny, of Marquette, and that
he says that they are far less in amount than
they should be in reality.
ARAnRoAD wRECK.R.
The facts summarized are:
l. That Samuel j. Tilden, q trustee of the
st. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad
Company, appointed to reorganize the same,
Issued bonds amounting to over S2S4, 900, OF
which neither himself nor his colleagues have
given an account to the stockholders.
2. That he received $40 900 for his services
In recognizing" the company, the money
being appropriated to him by three other
trustees.
3. That the stockholders have never re-
ceived from him or his three associates any
facts in relation to the issue of the surplus
bonds.
4. That when delegation of their number
came to this city some years ago to examine
him they found that he had gone TO Europe.
5. That he has persistently evaded all
questions in relation to the issue of the
bonds.
6. That by sharp practice he has kept of
the trial of the case for long period, delaying
his answer, which does not go the merits of
the case, to accomplish that end. g.
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