Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-09-07

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lingly nastied its own nest. The nasti-
est Of all the nasty things it has ever
said of the nasty Reformer is not nastier
than the nasty things uttered by q
nasty sham Democratic press. No, the
Republican press has never fallen SO
low down on its belly as to lick such
dirty dirt, to bespatter its candidate
with the filthiest filth, and then turn
labout after nomination and eat such
lgarbage crow! About the time of the
Ientrance of sham and shoddy into our
world a sentence went forth against
the party of the crawling tribe-''upon
thy belly shalt thou go, and dirt shall
be thy meat"
1t is worthy of note that the charges
OF railroad swindling comes largely
from Dem mocrats-as Mr.. Griswold OF
lSt. Louis, who leads in the charge
made against Tildeu before his st.
Louis nomination, and now in court,
that every suit and charges which the
Democratic press is now striving to
make the public believe to be political
lies got up by Republicans. So tie
Democratic papers have howled their
organs hoarse with "Credit Mobilier"
vociferating, which they make the
leader and chief Mobilier counsellor
and manipulator and grabber their
Great Reform candidatei One day q
lcunning swindler, the next model re-
former! For one hundred years no
such sham has been exhibited as this
centennial Democratic Tilden referm
sham, the eulmination of political
shamming. -..ras
Can the -sTilden Reform" party press
be trusted2 Well, we confess it is
hard for us to trust either its press or
party. They ask as to put too much
shOddy over our memOries-too much
cloak over quarter of a century of the
past. We can't forget every thing.
Their war record, their secession SYM
pathy, their aid and encouragement of
rebellion, all loom up before our eyes.
And more-they have themselves, in
these and other things of the past,
walked up our memories by their own
reaction of Southern significant
pranks. They ask US to forget 100 much
too much too recently held up for
our reminiscence. They ask us above
all absurd things, to forget what they
said few days ago about the cunning
Railroad manager. Their demand
fable of the two old rats, "who after
having laid waste the cheese-room and
the pantry, asked admission to the new
kitchen, upon the ground that theywere
reformed rats, who wished to change
their business, and knew how to keep
out other animals OF the same kind"
The rats, like our Democratic reform
ing press, forget to tell the story of the
accidental circumstance that drove
them from the cheese-room. Many a
rat-thief has been wonderfully reform
ed by sudden descent of the old do
mestic cat. Some old New York jour
nal came down upon the Tammany
party. That pounce scattered the ring,
and wonderfully reformed that old
Tammany rat, so abused by the DEM
ocratic press before the ST. Louis rat
council, but now the entire sham press,
reformed, displays the significant ban
ner at every d-"TILDEN AND
REFoRM!n
We have been told of Tilden Canal
Ring smashing as an evidence of abil-
ity and will to do smashing reform bu-
siness by the simple process of giving
Tilden the office-appointing power.
Now, let the shOddy cloak be taken off
this canal reform, it will exhibit more
of the shrewd manager of finance for
lselt-interest than of the disinterested
reformer. Notice the motive power,
and facts in regard to this flourish of
trumpets about canal reform. This
smashing of canals, in which Tilden
has no ostock-interest, was made to play
into the interest Of Rail Rings, in
which he had interest. He has been
the great Railroad ring manager, from
which he had accumulated his mil
lions. In such reform any trained
swindler can play reformer.
Every week brings to view some adj
ditional case of cunning and shrewdly
covered swindle, giving constant em
ployment for sham press to weave
shoddy covering for campaign de-
mands, and 80 fit on the CLOAK as to
hide the lion (fox) under the lambskin.
Last week the Kalamazoo, Michi-
gan Railroad case looms up. The citi-
zens and stockholders are involved in a
suit for S25 600, taken out of their pock-
ct to go into the pocket of the Reformer
& Co. Then, the public mind is turned
from this little affair, and the next
week the crowning charge of all arrests
attention, with its damaging figures
and facts and records and affidavits, de- |
flying Democratic credulity itself, and
paralyzing party journalism.
The income tax swindle, e,oyertopping |
all other Tilden swindles, with daring
perjury, involving violation ofcriminal
law and the penalty of high crime,
stalks now over the stage, the attrac-
tive gaze of all. Tilden, on the 26th
day of December, 1862, swears that his
income is $7,1lS: The other day, be-
fore Circuit Court, he swears that in the
year covered by that oath, he receiUed
in two payments for professional fees,
$40, 1000. Other incomes in addition,
proved by good evidence, shows that
his income Gould not have been less
than $4,000.
But this is not all. Tilden knew
such oaths were dangerous playthings.
After 1868 he refuses to swear to his in
come for about nine years, or while the
income tax law was in force. He pre-
fered paying the penalty, the addition
of 80 per cent. The Revenue officers
could only add to the amount of in
come they could find out, which was
81, 11S. Now, will sham Democracy
tell US, if he swore the truth, and could
safely swear again,as the law required,
what proper motive could induce him
to pay so per cent more than was due?
No honest man did honestly everdo
such thing. Circumstantial evidence
confirms the perjury proved by the
paths of the perjurer. Besides the per-
Jury was the fraud by which the Gov
srnment, then struggling for its life
with rebellion, was defrauded out of
The means of suppressing that rebel t
ion, with which the perjurer sympa- {
hized. Yet shalns will swear that c
rilden approved and sustained the war |
20 crush rebellion! Can sham Democ- {
-acy so cover their reformer Cd over [
with shoddy explanations so that their '
candidate will apDear less criminal G