Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-10-19
Tilden, the Iseformer.


The Cincinnati Enquirer is the
acknowledged organ of the Ohio
Democracy; the Democrats of Gallia
County believe in it; receive and
abide by its utterances as the only
true and genuine gospel Of Democra-
cy. Should we therefore prove from
the columns of the Enquirer that
Samuel j. Tilden is a hypocrite, a
political swindler, a public plunderer,
nominated in corruption, etc., ETC., it
must not be charged to Republican
hatred, or to mere Republican abuse.
Now for the proof A few days be-
fore the nomination of Tilden, the
Enquirer said Of him:
1t could not but be that a man
educated in cunning, in hypocrisy,
in iniquity, nominated in corruption
and shameless effrontery, even
though his millions could elect him,
would give us the most corrupt adj
ministration the country has ever
known.
Again, on the 5th of June, 1876,
the Cincinnati Enquirer said OF
Samuel ]. Tilden:
He is hypocrite, political swim
dler, has long been a public plum
derer, and is really the only disrepu-
table candidate prominently named
on the Democratic side.
Again, on the same day, the Gin
cinnati Enquirer said of Samuel j.
Tilden:
He has sought this high office by
methods so unprecedentedly shame
less and disreputable that it would
be an everlasting stigma upon a
Democratic Convention to nominate
him and a reproach upon the Ameri-
can people to elect him if nomi-
mated.
On the 9th of June last, the Gin
cinnati Enquirer said:
The political jobbers, thieves and
betrayers of the people are very gen.
orally in favor of Tilden.
And on the 18th of the same
month:
Mr.. Barlow is the champion rail
way "undertaker" and jobber of New
York. Of course he's for Tilden--
all men of his stripe are. With Til
den in the White House, men of Mr..
Barlow's kidney would be very busy
and prosperous. All the vicious,
thieving, corrupt elements in the
Democratic party are moving toward
"Reform," under the banner of Sam.
Tilden.
On the 9th of June, the Enquirer
said:
The action of the st. Louis Conven-
tion will not change in the least the
truths which we have uttered about
Mr.. Tilden. He can not command
the vote of the Democrats of Ohio.
And among the truths was the fol-
lowing, which appeared in the edi-
torial columns of the Enquirer on
the 3lst of May, 1876:
If the Democratic party should es-
tablish a precedent by rewarding
such "Reformer" as Tilden with
Presidential nomination, the nation
would be disgraced, and the party
name stained like the hand of Lady
Macbeth.
This is the testimony Of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer in regard to Sam
uel j. Tilden. And since the nomi-
the Enquirer has testified to
the truth of these utterances. Read
what it said on the 9th of July-ten
days after Tilden's nomination. Here
it is:
Republican papers continue to
copy from the Enquirer uncompli-
mentary illusions to Samuel J. Til
den previous to his nomination for
President. We have repeatedly said
we have nothing to take back.
Nothing to take back" every
line and word true. Can honest
Democrats vote for such man?
Will the American people consent to
put such man in the Presidential
chair? We will not believe they will
80 disgrace the Nation, in this the
Centennial year Of its existence.