Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1876-09-27

ported Him in 1874 Cau Not supper
Him la 1876.
Letter From the Editor of the Brooklyn Argu
Brooklyn, September 9 1876.
To the Editor Of the Ohio State Journal:
l have noticed the following and similar
paragraphs going the rounds Of the Demo
| cratic Ohio newspapers:
'SHch a campaign as the Republicans
are making was never known to win. All
| the charges now made against Mr.. Tflden
| were made in 1874, when he was candidate
for governor of New York. He was elect
! ed by a ajOrity of over SO, 600, and that is
about the way it will be this year. He
made a good Governor and will make a
| good President"
| have been requested to answer these
assertions, probably because l am attached
! to the Democratic party, and through my
| paper, the Argus, helped elect Mr.. Iilden
! Governor of this State in 1874. The Argus
| has already answered and disproved the
! point involved beyond contradiction in
| this section Of the country. l will now un-
| Gertake to do it for the State of Ohio
| through the columns of the State Journal
l. The charges now made against Mr.
| Iilden were not made in 1874. The Demo-
Gratis of this State did not know of Mr.. Til
den's connection with the Northwest Rail
| road ring. | never heard of the facts until
l read them in the New York Express, a
Democratic newspaper, in May, 1876. l
did not know that MI Tilden had swindled
the Government by issuing illegal curren-
cy in Michigan, until | saw the account of
the transaction in the Cincinnati Enquirer,
in June, 1876 l did not know that Mr..
Tilden had defrauded the Government on
the taxes due from his income, until the
month of August, 1876. OF the judgment
rendered against him in the case of the
Galena and Chicago Railroad Company
fhe" same cGGrt Tor his land taxes due to the
State of Michigan in 1873, and Of his Con-
gressional Relief bill from penalties and
taxes, l can say the same thing.
2 Mr.. Tilden was not elected Governor
of this State by 5000 majority.
total vote of over 100000 Over one-third
of this majority, L. 998, was obtained in
this city by the help of the Argus. Out
side of New York and Brooklyn, Tildsn
was beaten in the State by 1907 majority
The people of the State had been robbed
on their canals and on the new capitol
building at Albany; the city of New York
had been robbed by the Tweed Ring, and
and the people of Brooklyn had been rob
bed by an equally Infamous ring composed
of men of both parties. The tnacial panic
had occurred the previous year. Grant
was planning for third term. In the lat
ter part of 1871 Tilden had repudiated
Tweed's gang and came out as reformer.
He was the candidate for governor in 1874.
When the elections that year came oil,
you well know that the tidal wave,
swelled by anti-C9sarism, unemployed
labor, PROSTATE industries and the cry for
a change, commenced in Oregon, swept
across Indiana, Ohio New York, Connect
lieut., Massachusetts,, and ended in the
granite mountains of New Hampshire. 1t
Tevolutionized all of these States; made
Allen Governorof Ohio; Tilden Governor
of New York by change of IA per cent of
the vote. and CASTOR Governor of Massa-
chusetts by change of 81 per cent of its
vote In one year CASTOR was turned out
of Office in Massachusetts, Allen in Ohio,
and Tlden's State ticket was beaten out
side of New York by over 10000. That
city gave q Democratic majority which
saved the State to the party by $4,000. So
much for Tilden's election as Governor.
3. Has he made good Governor When
inaugurated he took an oath ito obey the
constitution, enfOr zee the laws and protect
the interests of the people of the State"
He knew, because a Senatorial committee
appointed by his predecessor, Gov. Dix, !
had so reported, that millions Of dollars
had been stolen from the tax payers by the |
men who had charge of erecting new
Stote Capitol building. He did not en-
force the laws. No legal action has been |
com 'nenced against those plunderers. The |
same is true of the plunderers of the city of |
brooklyn. In each case the men whom |
he had said should be in State prison, and |
whom he was elected to duly punish, have |
become his fast friends by well known ar !
engagements, and instead Of being on their
road to prison, we found chem shouting for
Iilden for President in and out of the ST.
Louis Convention. Perhaps these are the
acts - good Governor"
TlaK constitution of our State says
TIE Legislature shall not pass private
or local bill in any of the following cases:
Granting TO any corporation, association or
individual the right to lay down railroad
tracks. The Legislature shall pass general
laws providing for the cases enumerated"
etc.
Gov. Tilden was interested in a street
railway in the city of New York. A bill
to extend the railroad by special legisla-
ton, in violation of the constitution, which
he had sworn to obey, was gotten through
the Legislature by the well-knOwn use of
money. Gov. Tilden signed the bill June
18th, 1875. OF it the New York World,
a Democratic newspaper, said:
1T is an eternal disgrace to the State Of
New York that such dishonest practices
are allowed to continue.
Members are bought up on these bills
as you would buy pound of beef!
The bill known as the Greenwich
Street Elevated Railroad bill was passed
by the promise of S1O0 each for sixty-fVe
votes "a majority in the Assembly.
"A noted lobbyist. formerly a public
printer wan Benthuysen) held the stakes
$1,000 to pay Barber Tweed and Tilden's
former lobbyist when the bill became
law"
Perhaps this was the act ola good Gov
ernor"
A bill adding about $780, 600 per annum
to the sheriff fees of this cOunty-the Office
was before worth $4,000 per annum-was
signed by Gov Tilden after knowing all
the facts, and being opposed by most attor-
neys acquainted with them. 1t was q bill