The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-08-25
ISIT CONFESSION!
. Loud Call Nessr.. Cleveland. Brown 4 Co. to
Arise and Explain Democrat Paper After
Hr TiIden's Cleveland Partners.

. Loud Call Nessrs- Cleveland. Brown 4 Co. to
Arise and Explain Democrat Paper After
Mr.. TiIden's Cleveland Partners
The Brooklyn ATgUs, q Democrat
paper which does not support Tilden,
calls on Cleveland, Brown & Co. who
wrote a letter to the Plain Dealer in
support Of Tilden's honesty, TO arise
and futher explain, in the following
vigorous article:
Cleveland. Brown, & Co. are MANI
facturers Of iron in Ohio. They say
that they purchase iron Of Samuel j.
Tildeu, at his iron works Oh Lake Sup
erior They say that when it is not
convenient for them to pay, Mr. Til
den grants them an extension of time.
Charges were made some liz" since
that Tilden and his Lake Superior i.on
Companies were able to sell iron cheap.
aud give Ion gtime TO purchasers, be-
cause the former had Tor eleven years
swindled the Government cut of the
taxes which should have been paid on
millions of dollars of spurious curren-
cy issued 10y them. No contradiction of
these charges of turpitude had been
attempted. They could not be truth
fully denied, because they were mat
ters OF Court and Congressional record.
Several days ago, Cleveland, Brown
h Co., published a letter, pretending
to make it appear that Tilden's Iron
companies currency" was only Tor
dersD On themselves They say:
The so called 'currency' is nothing
else than a draft or order upon Cieve-
land, Brown q Co. to pay a certain
amount of money Oh presentation or
sixty days after sight.
Our business relations with
Mr.. Tilden extended through a period
OF nearly ten years. And we cheerfully
place on record the gratifying fact that
IN all our intercourse with bin, involv-
ing the disposal of many millions of dol
lars worth of ore, we have found in
him the impersOnation of commercial
rectitude and honor. He would never
consent to depart from the unvarying
rule of exacting only seven per. cent
interest for deferred contracts"
Nine days ago the Argus answered
Cleveland, Brown 4 Co., showing
plainly that they not only purchased
ore of Mr.. Tilden's Iron Companie.
but that they were his partners in one
OF the companies. The Argus showed
that their letter was written to deceive,
and that the ''sixty-day orders" which
they referred to, had not the remotest
connection with the illegal and spuri-
Gus currency issued, for which Reve-
nue. Officers Gavett and Finney seized
the books and brought fines against
the members of the companies for Ooer
one million dollars. The ArguS show
~ hot "A i l.. L
persistently violated the laws, which
violation is punishable by fines and
imprisonment. The Argus showed
that Mr.. Tilden and his partners
slipped out of both the punishment
and the fines, only through Congress
sional relief. The argus showed that
this relief was in the shape of n blind
bill, introduced and pushed through
Congress by John A. Hubbard, memb-
er of the Marguett district, on the night
of March Sd, 1875, during the confus-
ion OF an expiring Congress. Follow
ing is the bill for the relief of Tilden
and his associates, not for giving "sixty
days orders" but for issuing Illegal
currency;
''Be it enacted &C., That the Secre-
tary of the Treasury be, and is hereby
authorized and directed TO settle and
release any claims for taxes Oh circuitl-
ton of the evidences of indebtedness
made against any mining, manufactur-
ing or other corporations than against
any National Bank Association, State
Bank or Banking Association, by such
corporations paying the tax, without
penalty, &c.
Approved March Sd, 1875.
A true copy from Il copy certified by
the Chief Clerk OF the Department of
State. J. K. DOUGLASS,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue"
Marked copies of the A~guS, con-
tanning the above relations, averment
and record, We're mailed to Cleveland,
Brown & Co., and to Governor Ti!den,
and 10 newspaper which had printed the
letter of TiIden's partner Mr. Cleve-
land,
Although nine days have since
elapsed, neither they, nor any news
papers for them, have had one word to
lent as the tomb. BY raising a noise
in other directions, they hope the peo-
pie will forget. The people, just
now, are after reform, and they will
not forget candidates who have en-
riched themselves by swindling the
public.
The Courier published Cleveland,
Brown & Cos letter, and doubtless
have received 4 marked" paper con-
tanning the facts above recited, but it
don't publish such things worth cent.