The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-09-09
THE HAYES PERJURY.
CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN TRAP!

It was an unfortunate day for Rutherford
b. Hayes when the New York 1'"'eS s'af'eu
that vllalnous campaign lie against Samuel
!. Tilden. about his swearing 10 false III
come return. While the dasardly accusa'
,op BROUGHT out a prompt and thorough re-
fulton bv the friends of Mr., Tilden, its mean
ness and dirty character provoked such a
feeling of indignation as led to prying into
the personal history Of the immaculate
Rutherford b. Hayes to ascertain, while his
friends were polling their noses into the
private affairs of Mr.. Tilden, whether like
scrutiny of Mr.. Hayes personal record, at
least as far as his tax returns were concerned,
would bear an equally severe test. Unhap-
PLY that was just the spot where the hitherto
spotesg appearing Mr.. Hayes was found to
be lcporably rotton. The facts, as uncarthed
by IL reporter OF the Chicago Times, who gave
the subject a minute investigation, are in
brief as follows:
Mr.. Hayes is known to have been OF veal
thy family, by whom lie was pampered from
his youth up, and afforded every advantage
of education, travel, &c, that wealth could
give He was sent to all the best schools IN
his youth, graduated at Yale College, anu
then pursued his law studies and finally
graduated at one Of the best and mast erpea'
S!ce law schools Of the country. Though
living at Fremont, Ohio, he put out bis first
law single in Cincinnati, and there, living
in stylish bachelor quarters, he pretended to
practice law.
HIS first tax return on record was made
while in these quarters and then he returned
his personal property, moneys, credits, &c
all he had in the world-at 81 500, though he
always had good bank balance, and was
living at the rate Of three or four thousand
n year. His annual tax return kept at this
rate-onc year 81 200 and the next 81 ,5OO-un-
til 1874, when his uncle, Sardis Burchard,
died, leaving HIM all his property, including
over 10000 in cash, and real estate, bank
stocks, horses, carriages, &c, &c, the whole
valued at 100000. The year before his
death the uncle himself had listed his per
sonal property at $9,9S2, every particle of
which was left to Mr. Hayes But IN the
first TAX return Mr. Hayes makes and sUears
To after this important accession OF wealth,
he puts down all his personal property at
$2,jSl! emitting from the list especially
$1,000 worth Of mortgages on record and
which the law required him to list at their
tay m do N
April, 1916 and this time he adds an lmpor-
tant library and valuable household goods,
bringing the aggregate up to $G,l3O; and in
his next return, in April, 1876, this aggregate
is reduced to $3.50!
No cash on hand is reported in any of
these returns by this man who always had Il
plcthoric bank account; no reference is made
to the 50, 600 mortgages on record, the inter.
Hayes, and which are worth more than their
face any day he may choose to dispose of
them; gold watches he was known to own
worth at least 81 600 are put in at $500; and
the splendid piano forte he is will known to
possess is entirely omitted. Indeed this man
Hayes, who is well known to live in luxury
and splcndor which probably no other citi'
zen of Fremont, and few in Columbus can
equal, according TO his tax return, lives in
poverty and indulgence
These, IN few words, are the simple, ire.
fragable facts, copied from the records, and
SO backed up by proofs as to be perfectly I'M
assailable. How do they look by the side of
the New York Times dirty lie as to Tilden's
perjury?