The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-09-07
THE TABLES TURNED.
DoWzs1AYEs AVOIDED TRE PAYMENT
? or Taxes
Did H. 11aHs rruthfui Returns
Especial telegram to the chicago Times.

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Did He Mako Truthful Returns?
q Especial telegram to the Chicago Times.l
FREMONT, O., Sept. 2.-When the
Republican press of New York started
that bugaboo about Governor Tilden
committing perjury in connection with
his income away back in 1868, they
little dreamed they were sthrowings q
boomerang that sn its return would
completely knock the wind out of
their own pet, Ruthy Hayes but such
AL event has come TO pass.A Rolitics is
said to be trade In trade there is
sometimes offsets. Here is one, and
when the organs of the bloody shirt
haye evened up the accounts let them
raise their voices and inform an ex-
pectant public how much they are
ahead. Your correspondent, skirmish-
ing about Ohio, dropped into Fremont,
the home Of 1i' -
UNCLE BIRCHARD's NEPHEW
! to-day, and in the course Of his peram.
b,iiations stepped inte the Court
House. The brethren of the Republi-
can fold having set the ample, depo-
nent asked leave to scan the records,
and ne hadn't been engaged at the task
! great while before he became liter
!. ally petrified. Could he trust is own
eyes 7! What l Ruthy Hayes, the good,
the pious,. the all that is eminently re-
spectacle, perjurer, swindler, and
not away back in 1868, but again and
again as late as 1874, 1875 and 1876?
4 y ca, verify, unless the record of SAM
duck y county is a lie, and such thing
l;isd,iy, ba,-r-, ..,s -,a,..,,... 5..s
| NONE TO BE SUSPECTED,
Governor Hayes is a fraud OF the worst
| description, a pemriOus cheat, and
came to him literally without an ef-
| fort, Bnt' to, the facts. Old Sardis
Birchard, Gov. Hayes uncle, died in
January, 1874, leaving his nephew all
his property, estimated at valuations
varying drorn $250.OO0 TO $40O, 900.
Aside from, this he beqneathed about
S4O.O 900 TO various parties, most of
them distant relatives. Uncle Birch
ard was ssw >~91q 20 n5htiih'i 'A. $50
,iHodn'aNoNE roo Liberal hit'H
in mis- estimates, but the last time he
listed his property under oath the to-
tai reached the figure OF 1882. This
was in 1879, :, In 1874 Governor Hayes
having come into possession OF every
particle OF his nncle's personal prop
erty, to which all he had previously
held in. his own name must be added,
listed the total at $2,53l. The follow,
ing year, 1874, without having made
l. ANY SPECIAL ADDITION,
he returned a total OF Sc, l2O, and last
year, i'm spite Of the addition OF a $500
piano, Of W hich no mention is made In
his return ~ whatever, though specifi.
cally required by law, he reduced the
total to S5,26O. Now note the items,
Governor Hayes has received a con:
siderable fortune from his wife, added
to which was the great ~ ealth of his
uncle, whose ready cash at the time
| of his death is estimated at from S25,.
600 to $3O, GOO, and yet
THIS CONSCIENTIOUS CHRISTIAN,
returned under the head of money a
grand total OF $I0O. The two follow
ing, years he went himself precisely
| $500 better. Is it not . curious coin-
bcidence that he should have been
worth for two years on certain day
Just precisely the same sum, to.wit
$500 I'M ready cash In the line OF
watches he returned one which he VAL
ued at $500. The, following year the
value OF this same piece was reduced
to $500 and the same this year. Now
lit is known that ""il'
g. UNCLE BIRCHARD HAD Al WATCH a.
left to Governor Hayes by will. Did
the ungracious nephew, spout it?0 IT.
is also known that Mrs. Hayes sports
such bauble. Why was no mention
made OF that? Now comes the clinch-
er. Under the head " all personal
property not included i'm the enumer-
ated items appears in 1874 81 ,OOO, in.
1875, 5000, in 1876 a total OF $4,000
In 1874 the figure was $1,000. This
covered mortgage notes still on re-
cord which should have been given
full every subsequent year, aggregat-
ing over $1,000. Added to this should
be a gallery of paintings, valued at
the lowest at $1,000, and library rep
resenting at least 50 600 more. Though
these are inside figure :, here is aItotal
Of $4,000, to which at least $1,000 to
be added, and yet the total OF 1874 is
but 81, 600, increased to Sc, 40 or $5,-
.71O, respectively, in 1875 and 1876.
The mortgage notes 96, 9 .en
PRESENT A SQUARE ISSUE.
There is no dodging them. They rep
resent = specific sum, every cent OF
which, according to law should have
been returned for taxation, but yet
Rutherford B. Hayes has affixed his
signature under oath to q statement en-
tirely ignoring this item. More than
Iik ely some unctious defenders Of the
perjurer will maintain that q man OF
@17- RUTHY's EASY WAYS
is not 70 be4Iie accountable like 9TH
er men. The $1,000 mortgage for a
term of three years may have been an
such an easy going man be fit for the
.Presidencyin these times? But hold
He is not so careless after all. He can
be quite minute and particularly
where it costs little Or nothing. aud
under the head Of sheep he bad not
failed TO list an old family bachelor
ram that !, for years browsed around
the yard and under y3d 1>iii7- "
he gives one in 1875 and three in 1876.
The officials att the. NecOrder's office,
never dreaming of such a, state, of
things, were utterly dumb founded on
becoming aware ct this discovery, and
It was acknowledged that It was as
clear a case of perjury against Gov.
Hayes as any ever presented before
court. -..
ilr A Republican Judge In Trouble.
IG Judge Garfield, of Geaugs county,
elrcted Judge Of the Count OF Conn
mon Pleas, by the Republican party, |
appears 10 be in trOable. We are i'm
formed that few years ago, about
the time the panic struck this part of
the world, a gentleman In fennsy Iva
mia thought ii best to go through |
bankruptcy, but desired to retain a
certain portion OF his property. Either
Judge Garfield or friend OF the
J Judges was made deed for certain
property belonging to the bankrupist.