Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-22


ofthe Demoeratic Candidates.
me past record Of the Democratic eanai-
iates for President and Vice President is not
such as to attract to them The sympathies or
support Of the people. A few facts only are
noted.
THDEN's REsEt. sYMPETHIEs.
Mr, Tldeu's war record began in public |
Nsy on Saturday, April 20, 1881, when he re
fused 10 be vice president at the great mass
meeting in New York, called TO give sseeur-
agement to the defenders ofthe Union he
said: 81 have no sympathy with its oo'ses'
He declared privately zhat the GoFsrnlneh'
eould not employ force % prevent seoession' OF
rompel States which kGd seeded te acknoWl-
edge the Federal power.
IN Octsber a6, 1860, he publighed in the
New York Eveai'lg Post letteE, addressed to
Hon. William Kent, and through all its
sedio1s and tortEOus length Il was such a
plea for the preservation of slavery, such a.
denial of the sovereignty of the nation, such
an assertion OF the sovereignty Of the States Is
John G. Calhean never did E1d never Weal9
have dared 70 pen. Il was En invitation IN. ~ |
an incentive 70 slavery to take up sfhls q
the Union. -, c,
He was one of the sigaers to a cal Tor
'mestino-'st Delmonico's n Firth ayenuss Ne"
York, on the evening of February y TO, en1
avoved purpose Of Wh5ch was Ine uiiEtstOn 81 ~, ~
political information n that cIisls' VI rlI 1ne
character and purposeof the meeung Sal6 hoe''-
Saa Posf of the following day said: 1t was
,,,y,,-,osed of men wko had no words OF sym
S,atIv int only denuncistionsy for their ooun-
nv. Il plated objects utterly Inconsistent
with the welfare and vital unity Of the nation,
and is can result only in the demoralization Of
public sentiment.
form of the Chicago convention, held August
90, 1854, and one of the subcommittee which
reported the resolutions to the committee
proper, the second resolution Of the series de-
clarfng the war a failure, and demanding an
an immediate cessation of hostiljties.
To young man who wished to enter the
army he said: 'fYoung man, you need not come
70 me for any such letter of Recommendation;
this war is a perfect outrage, and will lend
no assistance to its prosecution"
AN ALLY OF TWEED.
Tilden was made chairman ofthe New VOTE
State Democratic Committee IN 1900 anu heie
fFe nosition continuously until he was nomi-
mated for Governor in 1874. It was during his
.rnle.of the Democratic party in the State and
Tjt,, that the Tweed ring lourished and thrived.
Ne vras Tweed's right-hand man; all the rob-
lsries were committed under his eye; Tweed
was exposed, and still Tilden shamelessly did
his bidding; great mass meeting was held to
denounce the ring, and Samuel j. Tilden was
not present.
Horace Greeley publicly charged him with
the responsibility for the gigantic election
frauds Of 1868; declared that he was the com
panion Of ballot-box suffers and repeateTs;
that the State was robbed of its legally-elected
Governor, and that Tilden consented to the
outrage.
Under Tilden's leadership of the Democratic
party in the city of New York the increase of
the debt ina little over eighteen months (from
the 1st of January, 1870, to the 14th Of Sep
tember, 1871, } was over S49, 900. The fig
ures following appeared in the New York
Times of August 3, 1871:
Look on This Picture. And on This.
city sRs SH s1es %aroh aS sa lss
&35 2e3 e2e:Aprl 90 1871 g. SIS 457 259; August l.
Isl, 6,5lll86 Increase in iS7l s2,2sS S2s, ,S5S. De
Is months, $5O,247 ,257. crease in % months,
$242, lbs, ,4Ol.
The exposure OF Jne doings of the ring be-
gan in the New York Times IN 1869, but it
was not until October, 1871, a month after
the grand reform demonstration at the Cooper
Institute, which he declined to sttend-not
until the ring was tOttering to its downfall,
and its complete overthrow was but question
of hours, that Tilden became convert to the
cause of reform.
HIS WORTHLESS "CANAL REFORM"
Hardly was he in his seat as Governor be-
-f fore he began to beat the gong of 'tcanal re-
FORM" which he has kept up ever since with
such energy that some people have been de-
sceiged into supposing that he was really
doing something 10 stop frauds and save the
public money.
For convenience of reference we append the
record of Governor Tilden's reform suits, &C.,
Sfrom the publication of the canal message,
March, 1875, to date:
Number of suits brought. -
Number brought to trial.. -........... 2
eNumber Of convictions Obtained.-....... /
Number Of suits dismissed by COURT. !
Number of suits now pending.
Amount Of money recovered ............. None.
Expenses of commission and counsel to
assist Attorney General, tabout) ....-. 4lOO, 600
commission ..,.......i..... .tl 5000
stopped. .--.---..---..--......-..-.. None
Here, in a compact form, are all the facts
concerning Tilden's "canal REFORM" Its net
result to the State is S92 900 outlay, and no one
punished. Nobody has made it pay except
Samuel j. Tilden. By means of it he has
controlled two Democratic State conventions,
made a renegnade Republican Democratic
Secretary of State, and, with the help of the
Bates 81 Locke circulars made himself the
Democratic candidate for President of the
/, United States. In his canal reform, as in all
his other roles, Tilden is the prize sham re-
former of the age.
Contrast with this beggarly result of TTden's
QuiXotic raid upon suppostious canal rings
what the Republican party accomplished in its
much shorter, but much more decisive, war
fare upon the whisky rings in the West The
total value of property seized, of assessments
and suits on official bonds, amounts to So, ,150,-
GOO. In prosecuting the thieves 176 criminal
Indictments were found. There were 133 con-
Yietions and pleas Of guilty; IL fed the country,
and II were acquitted. The total cost to the
Treasury of recovering all this money and
bringing all these criminals to justice was
S25,000.
A swINDLER OF LABOR.
This, in succinct shape is the story of TIL
den's scandalous operations in Michigan, which
has been summarized by leading Democratic
paper in the West in this stinging way:
:. That Samuel J. Tiiden is and has been
the controlling owner of the New York mine
2. ThSt it could issue no ''iron currency"
without his knowledge and consent.
s. That It D. d issue it by the million dollars.
4. That such issue was illegal and contrary
S. That Samuel }. iI.Iden's influence helped
to swindIe the Government out of thousands
e SSolIaTs Of taxes tae tSae Oh this issue OF iron
currency.
: 6. That Samuel J. Tilden's store pay . 'S'ein
debases the working man.
T. That Samuel j. Tilden's hard-mon
professions are, in the light of the facts pre-
seuted, a snare aud delusion.
s. That the figures have been collected from
the official books of Deputy Internal Revenue
Collector Walter Finny, Of Marquette, and that
he says that they are far less in amount than
they should be in reality.
t5ss.-----'~- RAILROAD wRECKER.
The facts summarized are:
1. That Samuel J. Tilden, trustee of the
St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad
Company, appointed to reorganize the same,
Issued bonds amounting to over $2S4, 600, OF
which neither himself nor his colleagues have
given an account to the stockholders.
2. That he received $50, 900 for his services
in recognizing" the company, the money
being appropriated to him by three other
trustees.
8. That the stockholders have never re-
ceived from him or his three associates any
facts in relation to the issue of the surplus
bonds
4. That when delegation of their number
came to this city some years ago to examine
him they found that he had gone to Europe.
.. That he has persistently evaded all
questions in relation to the issue of the
bonds.
6. That by sharp practice he has kept off
the trial of the case for a long period, delaying
his answer, which does not go the merits Of