Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-08-24
Fifteen Questions.


questions
l. Who're were you in 1862 when the
Union was in danger, and when true men were
needed 10 defend the nation against those who
were armed to overthrow it
3 Did you not encourage by speech and by
example the withdrawal OF the Southern
States, and then try to discourage the Fedora!
authority to preserve the Union
8. Did you not act as chairman of the Com
mittee on Resolutions in the Democratic Con-
yention .hat met in Chicago in 1854, and as
such chairman, did you not offer to the con-
venton a resolution that was Incorporated in
the platform of your party declaring the war
failure and demanding immediate cessation
, of hostilities?
4 Do you think your action ut the break
ing out of the war, during its continuance, and
at its close, renders yoa safe man for the 10y
al people TO rely upon as the President Of the
United States
s. You claim to have instituted certain res
forms in the State Of New York, and reduced
taxation in that State. Do you not know that
whatever credit is due these reforms should be
shared by the Republican Legislature that
made them possible Do you not know that
you can but execute what law makers enact,
and that it is little short Of dishonesty to claim
for yourself what belongs to the Legislature of
the State
6. Do you know that your pretended canal
reforms have proven failures, and that those
who ought to have been in State prison to-day
for plundering the State have not been dis
turbed, because of the moneyed influence
which they WELD over the law officers OF your
administration
z. Were you not the chairman of the Dem
ocratic National Committee, with your head
quarters in Tammany Hall, New York city,
from 1854 to 1871, the very period when Will
| liam NJ. Tweed was in the height of his power,
| and the recognized leader in the organization
you represented
s. Did you not in 1868, October 81, send
| out circular to leading Democrats of your
State, requesting them to send advance in
| formation OF the votes cast in the rural dis
| tricts to William NJ, Tweed, Tammany Hall,
and was not this circular signed by you?
8 Do you not know that the purpose of
this circular was to inform Boss Tweed how
| many fraudulent votes in the city would be
| needed to defeat the honest votes in the
| country
10. Do you not know that at that election
| more than 10000 fraudulent votes were cast in
| the city of New York, and that Horace Greedy
| in a letter addressed to you and printed in the
/ New York Tribune October 90, 1850, after the
| facts had been brought out by an tnvestiga,
| ton authorized by Congress, used the follow
| ing language: "0n the principle that the re-
clever is as bad as the thief, you are as deeply
| implicated in them toeday, as though your
name were Tweed, O'Brien, or Oakley Hall?"
| II. Did you not receive and so acknOwl~
edge before the court in New York city, Feb>
ruary 81, 1876, check for $4,000 from Will
| liam M. Tweed. said check dated September Z,
| 1868, and payable to your order?
h.olr @I,ok
with Tweed and the class of mon who followed
him during his reign Of plumber and the train
| ing you received in the Tammany sch DOL of
| politics are of the right kind of Endorsements
| for a man who aspires to be the President of
| As 900, 900 of people
IL Do you think that your active partci
| patton III the issuing of over "a, 000000 of pa
| per money by the mining companies of Michi-
gan in which you were interested and the eva
| sion of the legal tax due the United States
Government, through your advice, were hon.
orable transa ions
IA, Do you think that your active co-oper
| alton with the great railroad corporations of
the country, one of which paid you over ST.
100000 i'll less than two years for pretended
legal and professional services, fit you for the
high position TO which you aspire, and sustain
your claims as an honest man and practical
reformer?
You know, Mr.. Tilden, that
an honest answer to each of
these questions would be condemna-
ton from your own lips.
We ask you one moro question and
then leave you in tho hands OF your
friends, who may try to excuse your
record, bat can mover blot it out from
tho memory of the American people:
Is. Do you believe that party whose
whole strength lies in the ex>rebcl element
that supports it, and to which every disloyal
man in the Union now belongs, is better calcu-
lated to administer the laws and to protect and
advance the national interests, than the par
ty to whose wisdom and patriotism and courN
age we now oYc the existence OF the Union?
Mr.. Tilden these questions will be
asked on a thousand stumps during
the campaign, and 20 evasive ans
wers will satisfy the people that you
ar, the man for the Presidency, or
that the party you represent would
be q safe ono to admirister the at
fairs of the Government.