Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-08-18
A Tool of the Inflationists.
Has Samuel j, Tlden undergone

his nomination II 80, what Gmits ca,
be set to his partisan subserviency, anC
what pretence is left for speaking of hin
as reform candidate in any sense what
ever? But to the record, Mr.. Tilder
has always claimed, not only to be
hard money man in the general sense o
the term, but a supporter of the resump
ton act. Soon after that measure wal
adopted he recognized the Importance o
bringing the great state of New York
into line with the new policy, and so he
prepared and had pushed through the
Legislature the following bill
SECTION /. All taxes levied and con-
firmed in this state on and after January
l, 1879, shall be collected in gold, Uni,
ted States gold certificates, or national
bank notes, which are redeemable IN GOLD
on demand.
SEC 2. Erery contract or obligation
made or implied, and payable within
this state, and made or implied after Jan.
uary l, 1879, and payable in dollars.
but not in specified kind of dollars,
shall be payable in United States coin OF
the standard of weight and fneness es.
tablished by the laws of the United
States at the time the contract or obliga-
ton shall have been made or implied.
Approved March %, 1875.
SAMUEL j. TILDEN; Governor.
This bill, it will be seen, even goes
farther than the act Of Congress in its
preparations for dag fred for the re-
sumption of specie payments The dem
ocrats of the New York Legislature,
with whom the governor was understood
to be in complete accord, also adopted
resolutions requesting the New York
Congressman Ito oppose any repeal of
the said resumption act of January IA,
1875"
Moreover, during the present session
Of Congress, and after Tildens nomina-
ton at st. Louis, it was well understood
that his influence was being exerted in
Washington against the repeal of the
resumption act, and in favor of such a
disposal of the Virginia election case as
it was thought would prevent the repeal
from being reported from the committee
having it in charge. And yet he began
during this period to come under differ
ent influences, as was seen by the extra
ordinary delay of his acceptance letter,
his conferences with the infationist,
Hendricks, the bold letter Of the latter
to a congressman urging repeal of any
kind as partisan advantage, and the
whiting course of many of the Tilden
men in the House. Finally, repeal and
Tilden's letter justifying it came out at
the same time, and his subjugation to
the infationists-th that is, to all that they
ask at the present time-was complete.
viii the people overlook this most
significant demonstration, which seems
to have occurred in the very opening of
the campaign as a test disclosure of Til
den's real amount of principle and firm
ness, whereby the danger Of entrusting
him with greater responsibility can be
perceived by any man capable of fair
judgment? The Western infationists,
at all events, recognize their man. Says
the Cincinnati Enquirer eff any
Western democrat had been nominated
for the Presidency, it is doubtful if he
would have put into his letter of accept
ance such pronounced professions in IA
vor Of the Western belief concerning the
currency" Ought not the hard money
men of the country the friends of spe-
Gle payments and the maintenance of the
public credit and of national prosperity
to be equally sagacious? With the
election of Tilden the path to a sound
currency would be closed up, and the
inhationists would compel him to 90 on
in the retrograde course into which they
have forced him as far as they might
wish. But the point is, that Tilden has
already shown that he is not man true
to his own principles; he is subservient
to the most dangerous leaders of his par
ty and is not fit to be trusted in a high
er station where the same bad influences
to which he has already succumbed
would be ten-fold greater Boston Jour
nal