Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-08-25
Fifteen Questions,


please stand up and answer few ques-
tions:
1. Where were you in 1851 when the
Union was IN danger, and when true
men were needed to defend the nation
against those who were armed to over
throw it?
2. Did you not encourage by speech
and by example the withdrawal of the
Southern States, aud then try to dis
courage the Federal authority to pre-
serve the Union?
3. Did you not act as Chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions in the Demo
cratic Convention that met in Chicago in
1864, and, as such Chairman, did you not
offer to the convention a resolution, that
was incorporated in the platform of your
party declaring the war a failure, and
demanding an immediate cessation of
hostilitiesg
A, Do you think your action at the
breaking out of the war, during its con-
tinuance and at its close renders you
safe man for the people to rely upon
as President of the United StatesP
5. You claim to have instituted GER
tain reforms in the State of New York,
and reduced taxation in that State. Do
you not know that whatever credit is due
for these reforms should be shared by
the Republican Legislature that has made
them possible? Do you not know thaty you
can but execute what the lawmakers
enact, and that it is little short of dis
honesty to claim for yourself alone what
belongs to the Legislature of the State?
6. Do you not know that your pretended
canal reforms have proven failures, and
that those who ought to have been in
State Prison to-day for plundering the
State have not been disturbed, because
of the moneyed influence they WELD
over the law officers of your administra-
tion?
z. Were you not the Chairman of the
Demcratic National Committee, with your
headquarters in Tammany Hall, New
York city, from 1864 to 1871, the very
period when William NJ. Tweed was in
the height of his power, and the recog-
nized leader in the organization you rep
resented?
8. Did you not in 1868, Oct. 81,
send out circular to leading Democrats
of your State, requesting them to send ad-
vance information of the votes cast in
the rural districts to William NJ. Tweed,
Tammany Hall, and was not this circular
signed by you?
8. Do you not know that the purpose
of this circular was to inform Boss Tweed
how many fraudulent votes would be
needed in the city to defeat the honest
votes in the country?
10. Do you not know that at that elec.
a.
were cast in the city of New York, and
that Horace Greeley, in a letter addressed
to you and printed in the New York
Tribune, Oct. 10, 1869, after the facts
had been brought out by an investigation
authorized by Congress, used the follow
ing language: con the principle that
the receiver is as bad as the thief, you
are as deeply implicated in them to-day
as though your name were Tweed, O'Brier
or Oakley Hall"?
II. Did you not receive and so &C
knowledge before the court in New YorR
| city, Feb. 81, 1876, check for $1,000
from William NJ. Tweed, said checl
dated Sept 7, 1868, and payable to you
order?
~. Do you think that your associa
!
who followed him during his reign O
plunder, and the training you received il
the Tammany school of politics, are tn,
right kind of Endorsements for a maj
who aspires to be the President of 45,
100000 of people?
13. Do you think your active partici
patton in the issJing of over 81, 900, 00C
of paper money by the mining companie
of Michigan in which you were inter
ested, and the evasion of the legal taA
due the United States Government
through your advice, were honorable
transactions?
IA. Do you think that your active co
operation with the great railroad corpo
ratiOns of the country, one of which paiC
you over 100000 in less than TIVE
years for pretended legal and profession
al services, fit you for the high position
to which you aspire, and sustain you
claims as an honest man and practica
Teformer?
You know, Mr.. Tilden, that an homes
answer to each of these questions woult
be condemnation from your own lips.
We ask you one more question, ant
then leave you in the hands of you
friends, who may try to excuse your rec
ord, but who can never blot it out iron
the memory of the American people:
10. Do you believe that party who's,
whole strength lies in the ex-rebel ele
ment that supports it, and to whicl
every disloyal man in the Union now be
longs, is better calculated to administe
the laws and to protect and advance tn
national interests than the party to who's
wisdom and patriotism and courage W
now owe the existence of the Union?
Mr.. Tilden, these questions will b
asked on thousand stumps during tn
campaign, and no evasive answers vii
satisfy the people that you are the maj
for the Presidency, or that the party yol
represent would be safe one to admin
lister the affairs of the Government
The Republic.