The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-08-10
why Men Should Vote Against
Tfidau-

ST. CHAnLvs, ILL.,, July "a, 1870.
To the Editor OF the nter-Ocean.l
In four next weekly addition please
give five good S why a man
should not vote for Tilden. G. +. X.
REPLY.
1. A man should not vote for Til
den, because he (Tilden) is II Democrat.
For twenty years the title Democrat"
has been synonymous with treason.
| Buchanan's Cabinet was composed of
traitors who conspired TO take States
| out of tho Union and once out by acts
of secession, the Democratic party held
| that there "a nc warrant OF power in
| the Constitution to bring them back. 2.
| A man should not vote Tor Tilden, be
cause he (Tilden,) was for many years
| the intimate associate of the most cor
rupt politician known to American his
tory-William NJ Tweed. The fact of
this close intimacy with u nan subse-
quently proven guilty of numerous fell
onies, raise a strong presumption of his
(Tilden's) completely in the crimes of
Tweed. 3. A man should not vote for
Tilden, because he (Tilden) stands con-
victed before the jury of public opinion
rs guilty of completely with Tweed in
the gigantic ballot-box frauds perpctra-
ted in the city OF New York at the
Presidential election of 1868. In an open
letter to Mr.. Tilden in 1869, the late
Horace Greeley said:
You were at least a passive %sccompllce in the
giant frauds of last November. 49, And
you, not merely by silence but by positive as
sumption, have covered these frauds with the
mantle Of your respectabiliiy. On the princi-
pie that the receiver is as bad as the thief, you
are as deeply interested in them to-day us though
your name was Tweed, o'Brisn, or Oakley
The basis of this charge is the fact
that as Chairman OF the Democratic
State Committee Mr.. Tilden sent a cir
cular letter to every district in the in
terror Of the State requesting prominent
Democratic politicians to report to his
confederate. Tweed, such estimates OF
the country vote as would enable Tweed
to stuff the city district ballot-boxes
&. with enough votes to overcome outside
Republican maJorIties. Tilden never
= dared to deny the truth of Greeley.
charge, and 1t sticks to his (Tildeu's
forehead to-day as the ineffaceablt
brand of an infamous crime. 4. A mar
, should not vote for Tilden because III
(Tilden) believes in the right OF scces
SION. In 1860 he said: They (the rev
dictionary iathers) recognized no RICH
OF constitutional secession, but they lief
revolution organized when it should b.
n demanded by the public opinion of
Statc-left it with power to snap tn
, tie of confederation rs a nation Nigh
l. break a treaty, and TO repcl coercio
as q nation might repel invasion" {
A man should not vote for Iildcn be
cause he (Tildon) was, during the lat
war for the suppression Of the rebellio
and the restoration of the Union, guilt
III of misprison of treason. First, in thi:
Il, that he said: "This war is q perfct
ne outrage, and ! will lend no assistanc
- whatever to its prosecution !" and, Sc,
u ond, in this, that as q member of I'll
ne Democratic National Convention
1864, he declared the war q failure, an
to demanded that the nation should ST
the rebels in arms for peace. 6. A ma
should not vote for Tilden because |
ed (Tilden) is placed before the count
or on a false pretense, namely, tho pr
tense that he Is a reformer. His clai
to be considered a reformer is base
Gu first, on the allegation that he brol
down the Tweed ring he was a mel
Der of 1.-THE most guilty member of
not excepting Tweed himselt-and
merely turned States evidence agar
BY it when it became apparent that its ST
walton was impossible. The New 70
iu. Times is good authority in everythi
of relating to the destruction of the TIVE
tly ring. Ofthe impudent claim that 1
lip. den had any part, however small,
Jo- that great reform movement, 1t says
ing He CTilden) saw Hoffman sign the Erie cl
but silcatiUn act for the benefit of Fisk, Gou
of and Lane in 1859, and made no protest. he 8
Wholesale plumber, put through, and he CO
Itly tinued TO work side by side with the men v
80 drafted them, and 10 greet with mlsOme CO
TOO pliment the pliable instrument OF the y
who signed them. lie made n speech befoi
nv legislative committee against the charter
more dangerous Legislation which gave
Der thieves unlimited power to concoct bogus clai
~ and 10 issue bonds having thirty years TO r
On, lie talked by the hour at Rochester In
led about GENERALIZATION" and the military q
hat potisms of Europe, but said no word OF
thieying gang who dictated the course OF
Ieet convention, and made the Chairman of
the State Committee a mere puppet in their han
as He remained silent under the daily appeals
! ns the Times to withdraw his name and innue
rye from the support of organized robbery, ant
,ins allowed his absence from the fret public III
onstration against the ring, early In 1911, y
MI used as a ~reproach against the indepene
sign when the Times completed Its. war
against the ring By the publication. OF the crt
n, ing evidences Of their guilt, and when, net
All six weeks after that publication, the great
dignation meeting out OF which grew the "
bile mlttae ofseven,y WAS held IN Cooper insn.