The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-24
TILDEN CHARGED WITH ISSUING
RAG MONEY WHICH WAS NOT
REDEEMED.
The ralsehood Exposed by Repub-
licans.

Among the many notable facts which
indicate that the Republican party fails to
conduct the present campaign for public
plumber with the success which has at
tended its efforts in the past, is the fail
ure Of any OF its inventors to get single
lie to stick in the public memory long
enough to be Of the slightest USE Thus,
when the attempt was made to show that
Mr.. Tilden was responsible for the peace
resolutions Of the 1864 campaign, very
brief reference to the official proceedings
of the National Democratic convention of
that year prevented the circulation of that
canard.
The story which was industriously cir
culated alleging that Mr.. Tilden had been
engaged in a disreputable transaction
with reference to the T. H., A. & ST. L.
r. Il. Co., was suppressed by the official
fact that no such railroad company was
ever chartered by the laws of this state,
This story was revived in different shapes,
and some of them were so absurdly false
as to produce the idea that the editor who
used them was likely to lose his reputation
as political fabricator, But without any
special reference to the efforts Of indivi-
dual Republicans to do the party service,
we may say that all these efforts failed.
The latest attempt, and its subsequent
failure, is in circulating statement cal.
culated to damage Gov. Tilden'. reputa-
ton as an advocate of honest money and
business man, in that a Lake Superior
mining company, in which he was the
principal stakeholder. issued to its en-
ployes and parties from whom it made
purchases, millions Of dollars Of illega
promises to pay" sums varying from %
cents upward, for the purpose Of swlnd
ling the people. The following letter
which effectually contradicts these state
ments, is from firm which represented
Gov. Tilden in his mining venture:
mos IS TO 81 MERwrN STREET,
CLEVELAND, o., July :, 1876
ITO VIM. l.. liearn, esq, Wheeling, West Vir
GINA:
DEAR SrR-Your esteemed favor of tn,
9th inst, just received calling attention
to the statement going the rounds of tn,
press in reference to the alleged ISSUING
Of millions of dollars of unlawful pape
money by the different Lake Superio
iron mines, and especially two mines il
which the Hon. Samuel j. Tilden is sup
posed to be interested, as set forth in tn
article or statement referred to.
THE figures given and the assumption
made are so much at variance with tn
facts, easily susceptible Of proof. that W
should have supposed the article carrie
its own antidote with it. OF course, i
saying this we refer to the niue Of whic
we were the agents and the period sine
we became so, namely ia 1868.
THE so called currency is nothing els
than draft or order upon Cleveland
Brown Il Co, 10 pay certain amount
money on presentation or sixty days a
ter sight, in the following form:
,t5 90, NEW YORK Iron MINE,
MARQUETTE, MIcH.
Dec, 81, 1868,
Sixty days after sight:
Pay to the order
of G. +, Pease, superintendent or bearer Five
Dollars, value received, and charge 10 account
.Of NEW YORK IRON MINE,
W. l.. WETMoRE
Mcssrs, Cleveland Brown q Co,
Cleveland, Ohio.
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