The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-09-22
THE COURIER LENDS ITSELF TO
4 MEAN, CONI,EIHP7TBLE AND
DIRTY TRICK, WHICH NO RE
SPECTACLE SHEET WOULD
JUSTIFY.

by the assaults of the Republican press
have been obliged 20 resort to mos
desperate lying in order if possible tC
blacken the laracter of Hayes. One
charge after another has been invented
and as quickly exploded, becaus,
Mud will not stick to Hayes" The
meanest and most contemplate trick,
however, yet resorted to, because tht
most transparent, had its origin in the
Office of the Cleveland Plaindedler, and
the Courier, of this place, well know
ing the untruthfulness of the matter,
has given it currency just as if it be
Level it to be truth. An editor may be
excused far publishing an article which
bears the appearance of truth on il.
face, but an article which he knotOs ID
be false, IN coeyy particular, he j:
not exeusable for publishing, and
should be held in contempt even by
his own party, for his effort to mislead
them. By publishing the article he
dii, he meant to misl.ad them and gel
them to believe lie, and all this with
out even the excuse that lie did not
know the article 10 be false. The char
acter OF the papers quoted from was
evidence in itself that the quotations
were manufactured; and the nature oi
the qOotations themselves, which re
ferred, III most Instances, to revenue
returns, proved conclusively that they
were directed at Tilden, instead oi
Hayes.
The article referred to appeared in
the Cleveland PlGindeaieT of Sept.
9Th, and WAS made up OF extracts from
Republican papers, purporting to con
denim Hayes These extracts were re-
ally aimed at Gov. Tiideu, but the
editor Of tie Piaindealer manipulated
them TO make it appear that those pa
pers were down Oh Hayes. Il cut out
tue clippings, leaving out all reference
to Tiideu, and by putting head in
large type thus: ''The Crime of Tax
Dodging." Remarks of the leading
Republican papers on Hayes form of
Perjury, conveyed al impression that
the extracts were all originally aimed
at Hayes. This article the Courier
copied with the same intent as the
Piaindeqler-to deceive its readers and
lead them to believe q lie. We said
the nature of these extracts proved
they did not relete to Hayes, and we
will proceed to show it:
The latest defination of reforiner is
tax jumper Fort Wayne Qnd.) Ga
zette (Rep.)
No man can be elected to the highest
Office im the gift of this people with
perjury branded on his forchead.-Syr-
acuse Standard Rep.)
These both referred to the notorious
oatls of Tilden in 1868 and in 1876 as
proving his perjury aud tix-inmpiug
Even the State Journal expresses
itself as follows: I'VE do not see what
answer can be made. HIS
Ol0n oGihs are the matter th issue" "
Here oaths are referred to; the oaths
of Tilden in 1868 and 1876. Bat i!ers
follows most transparent fraud:
The people will not forget that Hayes
cheated the government at time
tChen the nation could III afford the
loss. This false return, says the
Rochester Democrat rep }, was made
at time when the republic needed
every dollar of its tegat recenIe at
least"
Look at the italics we have marked.
The first referred to 1868 the ''tiIne
when the nation could i'll afford the
loss" The Democracy made no charge
against Hayes except that he did not
list his property correctly in 1874, aud
that was exploded. What had the R0
ton to do with his listing of property
aud wherein would the Republic de
rive any {egaI reoenae thersfrom 2
Such bosh IS toe transparentand proves
the manipulation of silly liar. Bat
again:
The Hartford Post (Rep.) is evident
ly displeased with Hayes. 1t says,
speaking Of candidate vino frEudu-
lently seeks to escape paying iiis share
of taxes: This transaction m kes him
II recepHe rob5er. IL places him on a
par with men at tile Nest vino have
been sent 10 the pen;5entiary for lie
frauding tie government
Here you have the same thing re
peated. There has bean no effort ev-
en- by the Democracy, to SHOW that
Hayes defrauded the rsceAUe which is
National tax, but there was the di
rect charge and positive proof, that
TiIden was guilty of ''defrauding the
government" His own 0athS, as the
State Journal says above, '.,re the
matters III issu-."
The Milwaukee Sentinel has hitherto
been warm in devotion TO Hayes, but it
does not seek to shield him from ner-
tied disgrace. The proper place OF
candidate 1cito defTa,Gds tie receIstte, it
says, 'sis not the White House but a
prison, and lie belongs there quite a.
much as any of the Inen who have been
sentenced during the past year for
evading tne payment of the tax Oh dis
titled spirits-and more, because he
added perjury to fraud. :"
The whole tenor or this extract refers
to national tax not to state or local and
was meant for the Governor of New
York. TiIden.
Here we have them" says the st
Paul and Minneapolis Pioneer Press
and tribune (R-p }, IA candidate for
President who il willing to commit
perjury rather than con. ributs his LG,C-
fuI share IF the expense IF the go6ern-
aent. aud this fGcE is shown not by
unfriendly testimony, not by unsup
ported stump speeches. uIr i.y any in-
veI.tive faculties of reckless newspaper
organs. but By written public records
consisting of two sworn documents"
The same reference is here made to
government taxes, and closes with dis