The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-10-26

cent, upon live stock 73 per cent, upon mer-
chandise IS per cent, upon passenger traffic
2SJ per cent. These are the RefOrmer's
operations with the Illinois &c Northwestern
Railroad [Laughter.l Now look at the
enormty of the concern. 1t took every road
running out of Chicago to the north, clear
up into the upper part of Wisconsin, Lake
Superior, Iowa, Minnesota and everything,
and there was nothing that could come to
Chicago from that direction that hadn't to
pay toll to them. And my opinion is, if Mr..
Tilden is elected President of the United
States there will be just one railroad in the
whole Union Applause and laughter, and
that railroad will consist OF all the others.
[Laughter.l This thing succeeded 50 we'll
that he went into the Fort Wayne railroad,
and gobbled that UP for the benefit of the
PENNSYLVANIA Central. Not content with
that he went into the Terre Hautc & Alton
road, and | can safely say that he has been
in every operation to consolidate railroads
that has taken place in the Northwest. Judge
Trumbull says he is the superior OF Gen.
HAYES in point of ability. He is, in just one
respect. He can sit down to his table and
draw the paper that will take more money
out Of the peoples pocket and put il in his
own than any man living. ILaughter.l
Now out OF. this grew these farmers Or
CARNATIONS, Changers, etc. Though great
many members were opposed to secret. So
cieties, they really overcame those conscien-
tious scruples, and they didn't see no other
way than to get somewhere where these
men couldn't find out what they were do
ing. All through the whole country there
has been springing up these
AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Farmers didn't know what to do. They
didn't know whom to trust. Get on to a
railroad car and there would be the Judge
of the courts, who had pass in his pocket.
There was your member of the Legislature
and he had pass. There was your sheriff
Of your county, and he had pass. And
then every lawyer of any prominence around
that could defend a farmer, why he had a
pass. Everybody had pass but the far
mers, and the railroads said they couldn't
live. They were not making any earnings.
You plainly saw the reason. Up went
freights, up went the prices of fares, and
everything else, and the people struck out
to the right and left, hitting the Judge here,
and there a member of the Legislature, and
all this time they were fighting Samuel j.
Tilden whether they knew it or not. TAP
plause.l And now this man has the impu-
dence to appear before the agricultural class
ses, and this man is a reforner GRAND every
one that starts Democratic talk says vote for
reform. [ cell farmers that they may just
as we'll sell out their land and move away
and give up farming as to place their most
bitter enemy at the head of this government.
It was his railroad operations suit on the
Terre Haute & Alton road-that was the
l.ey-note to the exposure Of his frauds i'll re-
lation to his income tax, which he tries to
get out of by stating that he expended it for
The benefit Of his poor relatives. Laughter
Now if the farmers Of this country are going
to support anybody's relatives, it is their
own poor relatives, and not Sam Tilden's.
[Laughter.l l
When man gets certificates he is half
beaten. Always when you get candidate
on the defensive he is half beaten. Set that
down. Tilden has already begun to get GER
tlficates. And l read in Il paper the other
day q cut it out but cannot give you the
nance that gentleman in New York City
these operations, and ssthey were legal -
And he says that ''as a Christian gentleman
and Republican" [Laughter.l Now your
Christian gentlemen in these financial trans
actions are all played out. [Applause.] The
first thing ever found these men did, when
was in Congress, to give character to
THEIR INFAMOUS TRANSACTIONS
was to go and get some member OF the
church to stand at the head of it, and in one
or two instances they compounded their ras-
cality by building church before starting
out with their deviltry. [Laughter.l And
then, whilst endorsing Mr.. Tilden in all
these transactions, he saws he is a Rcpubli.
can. Well, suppose he is. They are thieves
in the Republican ranks, and always have
been. [Laughter.l But there. is this differ
ence between the Republicans and the
Democrats; the Republicans are not running
their thieves for President. daughter and
applause.l ssi3
A short time ago no one supposed that
this man Tilden was going to be nominated
for the Presidency. 1t was cooked up by
these railroad rings. The first men who be.
gan to manipulate his nomination in the
| Northwest were men associated with him IN
| these rings. All through Illinois, all through
railroad men. Credit Mobilier men, and al
4 that class OF men, were at work for Sam
| Tldcn, packing conventions for his benefit
Mr.. Blaine is receiving about as much no
tice from the Democrats now as Col. Inger
| soil, and for the same reason, that he is ma
king unusually bright and effective speech
| es. The two orators sometimes speak to
gethcr, and wherever they appear there i
great unhappness among the Democrats
| Here is an extract from Mr.. Blaine's speecl
IN Ohio on Saturday night: "Whenever wv
get Mr.. Tilden's name to anything ant
| bring it up againsthim he denies it. He de
MES that he ever wrote the letter that h
sent out as Chairman Of the New York Dem
ocratic State Central Committee-the basi
of all the political rascality of 1S6S-he say
that he didn't write that; he says that Tweet
forged it. [Laughter.I Now Tweed j
coming home; we will hear what Tweed ha
got to say. [Laughter.l So when he wen
1 out to Chicago in 1864, and was membe
| of the committee on resolutions that declared
the war failure, he says that he didn't vot
for it. He did net have the courage to sa,
that in the convention, but he slippe
around the back way to McClenan's room il
the hotel and told him rot to mind tina
/ clause. lLaughter.] He has got the certlf
cate Of Manton Marble to that effect. MI
Tilden is a remarkable man in another re
spect. He has private pigeon-hole j
which are filed the speeches that he prepare
and expected to deliver, but did not deliver
And Mr.. Marble and Mr.. Bigelow say tina
Tilden said to them that he ought to hay
said so and so, and would have been glad t
say it, but the occasion never arose."
4 AS gentlemen stepped into New Yor
drug store and called for a glass of sod;
water. the boy at the fountain jokingly ske
s'Will you have a fly in it % Eyes, sir,
said the man promptly, The boy SCOPE
one off the wall, and dropping it in the syrul
drew on the water, and set it down for tn
purpose of continuing the joke. but before h
could withdraw it the stranger seized tt
glass and swallowed the beverage, fly and al
and remarked as he wiped his mouth, sI'd
swallowed that if it had been an ,elephan
rather'n have a boy with no hair on his Il
git tn best of me.n rs,
; After all family quarrels are Of some us
) much that is said to The contrary, notwitl
= standing. The first silver discovered in N
vada was by u woman, who picked up a stol
!, to throw at her husband. 1t was so hea,
that she examined it and found it to be
lump Of silver; and $50. 900, 900 was the even
full profit to the country, Women shou
not consider this any special inducement
f, throw stones at their husbands.