Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-07-15
\ Few Points Made Against TIL
den by a Leading Democratic
NpwSDaDer


The Cincincinnati Enquirer is the leading dem
ocratc paper of the West. We copy from that
paper the following showing, what its opinion of
Mr.. Tllden was before he was nominated. Let
the reader remember that the Enquirer is a red
hot democratic paper.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Deas.) June ., 1876.
A private letter Just received from New York,
from a gentleman of fairness and intelligence,
saws: 81 had good opinion of Tilden until
came among those that knew him, but find they
all agree that his show Of reform is humbug.
The recent Albany Conference is corroborative OF
all this testimony. The controlling politicians, as
well as the masses Of the people in the democratic
party in New York, who can draw dividing line
between an honest man and Bengal tiger or
hypocrite, are all alike well aware that Tilden
cannot carry his own State, should he, by the
wrath of God, be nominated for the Presidency.
If there are potent reasons why the democracy OF
1ildens own State are opposed to his nomination,
there more, and greater reasons, why the de-
mocracy of the West and South should be nte-
gent and honorable enough to resist his brides and
defeat his nomination. We do not apprehend his
nomination, but we are rot lnsenslbe to the power
Of money and management. There are few
facts concerning Sam Hidden which we trust, Will
sink into the minds of Yves ern and Southern
democrats.
/. He cannot carry his own State in November.
g lie cannot carry any Northern States.
8. lie is hypocrte, political swindler, las
long been punIic punderer, and Is really the
only disrepuiable candidate prominently named
on tue democratic side.
4. He did what he could to defeat the demo
cratic party of Ohio IN 1879, expanding his money
and subsdzing the Eastern democratic press TO
| that end, knowing that Ohos victory was his de-
feat, and loving L ilden more than the democratic
| patty. He has earned the enmty of the West
and South.
! D. lie has sought this high office by methods
SO upptecedenedly shameless and dsreputable
| that 1t would be an everlasting stigma upon
democratic convention to nominate him, and re-
pioach upon the American people - elect him if
nominated.
6. Upon the foremost question of the hour he
is most pitiless foe Of the interests Of the West
and South. lie is the INSCRIPTIONS oppressor Of
the great, struggling Industries OF the vast pro-
! duciHg sections of the country. No republican
administration could be more hostile to them than
| would his.
! !. Should Goods Providence, seeming es.
| tranged," permit his nomination, by whom and
! what would he be nominated BY the servile
| conscienceless tools that money can purchase ;
| by the most corrupt influences that ever entered
into Presidential nomination; by the system on
| which all other quack medicines are sold, -adyer
tsing,--and even respectable medical associations
read out of the profession the doctors" that will
advertise. 1t would seem that the democratic par
| ty should have high respect for the good
name of the party and the government as the VEN
ders of pills have for their craft. 1t could not but
be that man educated in cunning, in hypocrisy,
in inquiry, nominated in corruption and shameless
efrontery, even though his millions could elect
him, would give us the most corrupt administra-
ton the country has ever known. Neither i'm
perlal dignities nor the gloom of solitude said
Tacitus, 'could save 1berus from himself" And
Tden could not rise above himself, or above the
sources of his power.
Cincinnati Enquirer Juae 6, 1876.
The political jobbers, thieves, and betrayers Of
the people are very generally i'll favor of Tildea.
Cincinnati Enqaierer, .Juae Il, 1876.
Mr.. Barlow is the champion railway "undertak-
CT" and jobber of New York. OF course, he's
for Tilden All men of his stripe are with Tilden
in the White House, men of Mr.. Bailow's kidney
would be very busy and prosperous. All the
vicious, thievlng, corrupt elements in the demo
cratic party are moving toward reform" under
the banner of Sam Tilden.
Cincinnati Enquirer June %, 1876.
The kid glove democracy, of which Tden is
the chief, have not the confidence and cannot OBJ
tain the votes of the masses. HIS nomination will
disrupt and dsorganize the democratic party. 1t
means defeat.