Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-07-07
TILDEN.
What Ono OF the Leading and Most
Honest Newspapers In the State Of
New York says Of Him.
From the Utica Morning Herald.

What Ono OF the Leading and Most
Honest Newspapers In the State Of
New York says Of Him.
From the Utica Morning Herald
Samuel J. Tilden is the outcome of
St. Louis. IF the convention had
searched the country with a drag-net,
it could not have secured candidate
whom the Republican party can more
willingly and unltedly confront, and
more easily dispose of. His one ele-
ment of strength is the power which
has won for him this nomination, in
face of the opposition from his own
State, more bitter and determined
than ever before confronted candi-
date in national convention. 1t is
his power as an organizer. In that
regard Samuel ]. Tilden has few
equals in this country. He has been
trained from boyhood up in the school
of the most adroit and cunning poll
ticlans the country has ever known.
Never until he was Governor had he
been anything but manager of the
machine, manipulation of the wires,
concoctor of the plots, an adept at
all the small, low arts which have
made various political epochs in this
country infamous. Since he became
Governor, Tilden has put to good SER
vice all the arts he learned in this
school. He has bent every energy
in the achievement of yesterday. He
conceived policy of remarkable
cleverness with that end in view
He has concentrated his energies
upon the creation of sentiment upon
which to float his canvass. He has
made constant and violent demon
STATIONS for reform; and while his
messages on the canal frauds were
not yet dry from his pen, he was using
them to complete some link in the
st. Louis contamination.
Before this canvass has long pro-
ceeded, it will be made to appear that
the sentiment and the reform which
Tilden has converted into crutches
for this race, are fictitious and sham.
Sometime over year ago, when he
began movement which appeared
then to be solely in the interest of
economy and good government, Mr..
Tilden received the warm commenda-
ton of the better portion of the Re-
publican press. On every hand SYM
pathy and sucoor were extended to
him from sources whence he had
right to expect nothing but partisan
detraction and belittlement. The
Utica Herald was prompt to attribute
sincere motives to him, and to prom
Use sincere Republican support. Its
files bear witness to Its original inten-
ton to cordially sustain him in every
right and honest movement. But the
campaign against the canal thieves
had not fairly opened before it be-
came evident that Mr., Tilden cared
nothing for the State and the people,
and was fighting only for himself and
his own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Immediate
ly he turned canal reform into an I'M
mense partisan machine. Immedi
ately he made of the canal commits
sion an lnquisition, whose first sole
object was to break down the men
not friendly to Tllden's ambition, and
to shield from righteous exposure
and Judgment the men who promised
him their aid. Immediately he con-
spired with canal thieves whom he
could manipulate, and sought to de-
stroy honest men who retained per-
sonal independence with their hon
csty. He lavished upon the people
report after report from his commits
sion during the political campaign,
which reports were mere partisan
campaign documents, prepared at the
expense of the State. Early in that
canvass it was common to hear men
describe themselves as "Tilden Re
publicans," so general was the desire
for new departure in the direction
of honest politics. But as time pass
ed, as motives began to develop, as
reform became distorted into hide
Gus intrigue, such expression grew
rare, and the end of the canvass saw
the Republican party aolidly united
against the adroit intriguer, and al
most wrestling the victory from his
hands.
Governor Tilden has overreached
himself. The cloyen foot has been
too ill-concealed. The whole pre-
vious character of the manipulation of
Iwecd's fraudulent campaigns in this
State shines out in all that Tilden has
done since he became Governor
With all his shrewdness, he has not
enough to conceal his monstrous n.y.
pocrisy. 1t is sorry burlesque upon
the American system of popular gov
eminent, when national convention
of great party will thrust such a
candidate upon platform like that
adopted at St. Louis, and appeal to
the people for his support on such
grounds.
Thus, that cause by which Tilden
hoped to create fictitious capital for
the Presidential campaign, becomes,
in fact, his greatest weakness. Hon
est men, no matter what their politi.
cal convictions, shrink from the
mockery of false pretense in the in
terest Of personal aggrandizement.-
But Tildcn has many other elements
of positive weakness, in the union
of all these elements, he is probably
the weakest candidate that st. Louis
could have selected. He cannot
carry a single Western State that is
fairly above the Mason and Dixon
line. The Ohio Democrats hate him
with an abiding hatred. When they
threw their votes for him in the con-
vention they gave him the nomina-
ton; but they bolstered him in that
emergency to create the opportunity
to stab him. Indiana sympathizes
with Ohio in financial heresy and in
Tilden hostility. These two facts,
the only two in the West where there
was glimmer of hope for the De-
mocracy, are thus surrendered. Weak
in the West, Tilden's chief weakness
is in the Empire State. The ablest
and purest men of his party here
were opposed to his nomination.
Many of them will openly oppose his
oloction Tho rank and fiIa Of the