Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-06-30
WILLIAM A. WHEELER
OF NEW YORK.
FOR GOVERNOR,
SELDEN common
Samuel j. Tilden.

Samuel j. Tilden.
The nomination of Samuel j. Tilden of
New York as the democratic. candidate
for President is but the announcement of
another name to be added to the roll of
defeated democratic candidates. Mr..
Tilden is nominated to be beaten, and
beaten he will be in a very decided man
ner. Those prominent democrats from
New York who protested and fought
against his nomination at St. Louis. de-
claring that it was madness and suicide to
make him the democratic candidate, un
derstand we'll the man and the situation
1t will be seen when the campaign closes
and the vote is counted that they were
the wise men of the convention.
Mr.. Tildtn is placed before the country
by his partisans as reformer. They have
represented him as no seeker of office, q
man above resorting to anything dishon-
orable in politics or business. How far
this is from the truth is better known
in New York than in Maine or any other
State. A few weeks since Charles Fran
els Adams Jr. spoke in meeting in New
York of Tilden as a reformer. man who
did not degrade his office by ''dirty jobs
or "eager electioneering in his own be-
half" Upon this the Albany Journal I'M
dertook the task of enlightening Mr.. Ad-
ans, addressing him in an editorial as
follows:
"If there be one man in the country who
above all others fulflls your description
of what you do not want, it is Samuel j..
Tilden. He is of all men the one who is
the most eager electioneering in his own
behalf He is of all men the one who
most regards reform as "a campaign cry
and not "a matter for work He is Of
all men the one who has most shown the
impulses of the party manager Take
his record for twenty years as democrat
ic politician. He was chairman of the
State Committee during all the period of
the Tammany corruption and all the
worst epoch Of democratic profligacy in
this State. Did he ever then raise his
voice against it? Did he ever then mount
above the mere machine Democratic
manager? Did he ever lift his hand
against Tweed and Tammany till Tweed
and Tammany were down? Is that
shameful record of completely in demo-
cratic wrongs for many years your ideal
of the man who has not the impulses of
the party manager?
But blot out the past and take the pres
EMIT brings Mr.. Tilden no nearer your
standard. You may be deceived by the
crafty imposture-your distance offers
some excuse-but we in this State know
him through and through. His eager
electioneering' exceeds anything ever
before witnessed. He has his paid agents
travelling every State. He has his house
in New York full of clerks corresponding
with every district. He subsidies the
press. He prostitutes his patronage. He
unblushingly makes his appointments the
price of delegates. He VIGOROUSLY uses
all the power OF his Office to promote his
own ambition. The reform with which
he undertakes to pull the wool over the
eyes of Mr.. Adams is stupendous sham.
While assailing the canal frauds, he has
dickered with the canal thieves. While
making loud promises, he has accomplish
ed no results. No thief has been pun
ished no prosecution pushed to compile
ton no restitution effected; no fruits
shown. He denounced the canal ring and
then described its chief as an honest
citizen He stigma.ized canal job and
then privately aided the jobber to get his
money. He branded number of fraudu-
lent contracts. and then advised large ad-
yances on them. We make no random
assertions, Mr.. Adams. We weigh every
word and stand prepared to prove it.
And yet this Is your model 'reformer'
VINO regards reform as a matter for work
and not campaign cry!'
There is another interesting field. You
have given special attention, Mr.. Adams,
TO the subject of railroad management
You are supposed to be familiar with its
history. Is it possible you are not aware
of Mr.. Tilden's railroad operations Are
you Ignorant of his Galena and Chicago
Union consolidation which Judge David
Davis described as 'consummated through
rickery and fraudr Are you ignorant
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