The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-07-13
TILDEN.
What One of the Leading and Most Honest
Newspapers In the State of New York
Saws of Him.

What One of the Leading and Most Honest
Newspapers In the State of New York
Says of Him.
[From the Utica Morning Herald
Samuel J. Tilden is the outcome of St. Louis.
If the convention had searched the country
with a drag-net, it could not have secured a
candidate whom the Republican party can more
willingly and unitedly confront, and more
easily dispose of. His one element.o1 strength
is the power which has won for him this NOM
nation, in face of the opposition from his own
State, more bitter and determined than ever
before confronted candidate in national
convention. 1t is his power as an organizer.
In that regard Samuel J. Tilden has few
equals in this country. He has been trained
from boyhood up in the school of
the most adroit and cunning politicians
the country has ever known. Never until he
was Governor had he been anything but a
manager of the machine, manipulation of the
wires, concoctor Of the plots, an adebt at all
the small, low arts which have made various
political epOchs in this country infamous.
Since he became Governor, Tilden has put to
good service all the arts he learned in this
school. He has bent every energy in the
achievement at st. Louis. He conceived a
policy of remarkable cleVerness with that end
in view. He has concentrated his energies
upon the creation of q sentiment upon which
to float his canvass. He has made constant
and violent demonstrations for reform and
while his messages on the canal frauds were
not yet dry from his pen he was using them to
complete some link in the chain Of the st.
Louis contamination.
Before this canvass has long proceeded it will
be made to appear that the sentiment and the
reform which Tilden has converted into crutch-
es for this race are fictitious and a sham.
Something over year ago, when he began a
movement which appeared then to be solely in
the interest of economy and good government,
Mr. Tilden received the warm commentator of
of the better portion of the Republican press.
On every hand sympathy and succor were ex-
tended to him from sources whence he Lad
right to expect nothing but partisan detraction
and belittlement. The Utica Herald was
prompt to attribute sincere motives to him,
and to promise sincere Republican sup
port It's files bear witness to it's original
intention to cordially sustain him in
every right and honest movement. But the
campaign against the canal thieves had not
fairly opened before it became evident that
Mr. Tilden cared nothing for the State and the
people, and was fighting only for himself and
his own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Immediately he
turned canal reform into an immense partisan
machine. Immediately he made of the Canal
Commission an inquisition, whose sole object
was to break down the men not friendly to
Tilden's ambition, and to shield from right
eous exposure and judgment the men whopro
Used him their aid. Immediately he conspired
with canal thieves whom he could manipu-
late, and sought to destroy honest men who re-
tanned personal independence with their hon.
estv. He layished upon the people report
after report from his commission during the
political campaign, which reports were mere
partisan campaign documents, prepared at the
expense of the State. Early in that canvass it
was common to hear men describe themselves
as g Tiden Republicans" so general was the
desire for new departure in the direction Of
D,,4o
tives began to develop, as reform became dis
torted into hideous intrigue, such expressions
grew rare, and the end of the canvass saw the
Republican party solidly united against the
adroit intriguer and almost wrestling the VIC
tory from his hands.
Gcy. Tilden has overreached himself, The
cloyen foot has been too ill-concealed. The
whole previous character of the manipulation
of Tweeds fraudulent campaigns in this State
shines out in all that Tilden has done since he
became Governor. With all his shreWdness
he has not enough to conceal his monstrous
hypocrisy. 1t is sorry burlesque upon the
American system of popular governments
when national convention Of great party
will thrust such a candidate upon a platform
like that adopted at st. Louis, and appeal to
the people for his support on such grounds.
Thus, that cause by which Tilden hoped to
create a fictitious capital for the Presidential
campaign, becomes, in fact, his greatest weak
ness. Honest men, no matter what their politi-
cal convictions, shrink from the mockery
of false pretense in the interest of personal ag-
grandizement. But Tlden has many other
elements of positive weakness. In the union
of all these elements, he is probably the weak
est candidate that St. Louis could have Sc
lected. He cannot carry single Western
State that is fairly above the Mason and Dixon
line The Ohio Democrats hate him with an
abiding hatred. When they threw their svotes
for him in the convention they gave him the
nomination but they bolstered him in that
emergency to create the opportunity to stab
him. Indiana sympathizes with Ohio in fnan-
cial heresy and in 1ilden hostility. These two
States the only two in the West where there
was glimmer of hope for the Democracy.
are thus surrendered. Weak in the West. I'll
denis chief weakness is in the Empire State.
The ablest and purest men of his party here
were opposed to his nomination. Many of
them will openly oppose his election The
rank and file of the party has been alienated
by his constant and offensive dictation in local
politics which were not his business There
is no enthusiasm for him anywhere. In Oneida
county there is not one Democrat in ten who
will not be disguised and disheartened when
he reads the news OF his nomination. Oil and
water can not be forced into even an artificial
union Not even the exigencies of a Presi-
Dental canvass can bridge over the party
feuds that have steadily multiplied under the
Tilden regime. M
.Tilden's whole early record will now return
to perplex and destroy him. In every branch
of business and political life his record is,
without exception, the worst that attaches to
any political man in America. His immense
wealth has been accumulated out of bankrupt
railroads at the expense of individual bond
holders He has made himself rich by making