The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-30

Upon this Bliss C! arge, the entire
Hayes press have been filling the air
with clamor. The very men who eyad-
ed the income return pitching their In
dignation in the most violent key.
Those who are familiar with business
and the methods of computing income
under the old law. will readily see that
the difference can be accounted for ra-
tiOnally in many ways: but il Bliss had
been less eager to smirch the reform gov
ernor, he would have discovered refuta-
ton OF the charge in the document from
which he quoted. The moneys which
Tilden acknowledges in his answer to the
suit were not the income Of the year 1863,
or 1862. They were the earnings of le-
gal services begun five years before, as
the subjoined paragraph OF the COM
piaint from which Bliss extracts his ma
terial shows. That paragraph says:
'And they further say, touching the
statements in said bill Of compl amt as 10
the services Of the defendant, Samuel j..
Tilden. that he had. long prior 10. and at
the time Of, the commencement Of the
foreclosure suit ia said bill OF complaint
mentioned. been the counsel tor the
secon1-mortgage bondholders, in whose
behalf such suit was instituted. and that
said second-mortgage bondhoiders, and
had been from some time In the year
1857. to whom the railroads of the Terre
Haate. Alton and st. Louis railroad COM
pany were surrendered, and who were
subsequently, made receivers thereof :;
and was also the counsel tor said re-
ceivers. and that he also acted as the
principal counsel for the said frst-mort-
gage bondholders in relation TO the fore
closure proceedings herein before men-
toned, and other proceedings connected
Herewith. and that such ser, ices had COM
menced prior 10 the year 1853, and were
rendered. from time to time during a
period of upward OF three years there
after"
Ii ia not at all likely that the presses in
New York which gave and are giving
this disreputable person Bliss the use OF
their columns, were for moment de-
ceived as TO the real standing OF the in
come exhibit. As business men. they
must have known that the earning Of a
man like Tilden varied. and that between
the receipts Of the year and the taxable
income there was q wide distinction.
They did know it. but they furthermore
knew tina. lie well told and well stuck
TO will gain some credence from a certain
class, and that even when exposed there
will be no chance OF wholly dissipating
the first impression. Such supplemental
misstatements as Bliss publishes In his
paper, based on the foregoing false as
sumptions, fall to the ground by the evi.
dence which the documents themselves
furnish. He prudently selected but
one year to convict the governor
| OF dishonesty-as if man who
would cheat the tax one year would
not cheat II every year during its impo
sition. Bliss goes further to insinu.
ate that the bonds awarded Tilden that
year by the stockholders of the reorgan-
lied oad-amounting to $50, 900 or more
were income which he suppressed In
his exhibit, while the documents them
| selves explain that these bonds were no,
received until two years later, 1864, and
some OF them he has not received yet.
| During the early years of the war, i,
| appears from the records. Tilden's bust
ness though good gave him no extraor
binary income. Great amounts becam,
| due him which have not until recently
been realized. and many commercial ven
lures which have enriched him OF lat,
were sources Of loss rather than incom,
during the first two years OF the war
All these facts accompany the dOcumen
printed first In Dtcoy Bliss New YOrl
organ, and recOpied through the Who'll
following OF partisan servitors. Not on
OF them will take the trouble to confes
the fraud they have put upoa thei
readers.