The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-10-14
Letter from Editor Of The Brooklyn Argus.
BROOKLYN, n. Y, Sept. 9, 1876

l nave noticed the following and similar
paragraphs going the rounds of the Demo
cratic Ohio newspapers:
"Such campaign as the Republicans
are having was never known to win All
the charges now made against Mr.. Tilden
were made in 1874, when he was candidate
for Governor of New York. He was elected
by a majority of over $4,000, and that is
about the way it will be this year. He
made good Governor, and will make a
good President"
l 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.. Tilden
Governor of this State in 1874. The Argus
has already answered and disproved the
point involved beyond contradiction in this
section of the country. 1t will now under.
take to do it for the State of Ohio through
the columns of the State Journal.
/. The charges now made against Mr..
Tilden were not made in 1874. The Demo.
1
den's connection with the Northwest rail
road ring. | never heard of the facts un-
til | read them in the New York Express,
Democratic newspaper, in May, 1876. !
did not know that Mr.. Tilden had swim
died the Government by issuing the illegal
currency in Michigan until l saw the &C
count of the transaction in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, in June, 1876. l did not know
that Mr.. Tilden defrauded the Government
on the tax 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
stock holders, in 1865; of the judgment by
the same court for his land taxes due to
the State of Michigan in 1878, and Of his
Congressional "relief bill " from penalties
and taxes, l can say the same thing.
2. Mr.. Tilden was not elected Governor
of the State by $4,000 majority. His ma
ior.y was only 3S,4l1 on a total vote of
100000. Over one-third of this majority,
12,99S, was obtained in this city by the
help of the Argus. Outside of New York
and Brooklyn, Tilden was beaten in the
State by 17,077.
The people of the State had been robbed
on their canals and on the new capitol
buildings at Albany; the city of New York
had been robbed by the Tweed Ring, and
the people of Brooklyn had been robbed by
an infamous ring composed Of men of both
the previous year. Grant was planning for
a third term. In the latter part of 1871
Tilden had repudiated Tweed's gang and
came out as reformer He was the can,
didate for Governor in 1874. When the
elections that year came off, you we'll know
that the tidal wave, swelled by anti Cesar
ism, unemployed labor, PROSTATE indus
tries, and the cry for a change commenced
in Oregon, swept across Indiana, Ohio,
New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
and ended in the granite mountains of New
Hampshire. 1t revolutionized all these
States; made Allen Governor of Ohio;
Tilden Governor of New York by change
of fourteen per cent of the vote, and Gas
ton Governor of Massachusetts, by a change
of thirty-two per cent of its vote. In one
year CASTOR was turned out of office in
Massachusetts,, Allen in Ohio, and Tilden's
State ticket was beaten outside Of New
York by over 100000 The city gave a
Democratic majority which saved the State
to the party by $4,000. So much for Til.
denis election as Governor.
3. Has he made good Governor? When
naugurated he took an oath "to obey the
Constitution, enforce the laws, and protect
the interests of the people of the State. "
He knew, because a senatorial committee
appointed by his predecessor, Governor
Dix, had SO reported that millions of dol
lars had been stolen from the tax payers by
the men who had charge of erecting new
State capitol building. He did not enforce
the laws. No legal action has been com
menced against those plunderers. The
same is true of the plunderers of Brook.
lyn. 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 arrange.
ments, and instead of being on their road
to prison, we found them shouting for Til.
den for President in and out of the St. Louis
Convention. Perhaps these are the acts of
"good Governor"
The Constitution Of our State says:
"The 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 rail-
road tracks. The Legislature shall pass
laws providing for tho cases enumerated
Governor Tilden was interested in a
street railroad in the city of New York.
A bill to extend the railroad by special leg
islation, in Uiolation Of tie Constitution,
which he had sworn to obey, was gotten
through the Legislature by the we'll known
use of money. Governor Tilden signed
the bill June 18th, 1875. OF it the New
York World, Democratic newspaper,
said:
"It 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 500 each of sxty-five votes "a
majority in the Assembly.
A noted lobbyist, formerly public prin
ter Van Benthusen), held the stakes, $40,
600, to pay Barbar Tweed and Tilden's
former lobbyist when the bill became a
llw."
Perhaps this was the act of "good
Governor"
A bill adding about $50. 200 per annum
to the sheriff7s fees of this county-the
Office was before worth $40, 900 per annum
was signed by Gov. Tilden after knowing
all the facts, AMI being opposed by most
attorneys acquainted with them. 1t was Il
bill in tie interest of ring who control