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

whom he was elected to duly punish, have
become his fast friends by well known ar
rsngements, and instead of being on their
road to prison, we found them shouting
for Tilden 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
general laws providing for the cases enum-
Grated, etc.
Governor Tilden was interested in a
street railroad in the City of New York.
A bill to extend the road by special legis-
lation, IN viOlatiOn of the Constitution,
which he had sworn to obey, was gotten
through the Legislature by the well known
use Of money. Governor Tilden signed
the bill June 16, 1875. Of it the New
York World, a Democratic newspaper,
said:
'1t is an eternal disgrace to the State ol
New York that such dishonest practices
are allowed to continue.
Members are bought up on these ''bills
as You would buy pound Of beef
1.-The bill known as the Greenwich Street
Elevated Railroad bill was passed by the
promise of 800 each for IS votes "a ma
/ jOrity) in the Assembly.
ga noted lobb, ist, 70 .erly a public
| printer (Van Benthuysen), ED the stakes
| SO, 600, to pay (TWEED AND DTILDEN'S
former lobbyist, when the bill bcea.-e
law"
Perhaps this was the act of 'fgOOd Gov
ernor."
A bill adding about $4,000 per annun
to the Sheriff's fees to this county-th'
Office was before worth so, 900 per annun
was signed by Governor Tilden afte
knowing all the facts, and being oPpos
ed by most attorneys acquainted with them
1t was bill in the interest Of a ring VIII
control delegates. Perhaps this was al
act for which the 10000 voters of Brook
| lyn ought to call Mr.. Tilden ''good Gov
ernor."
Mr.. Warden said in June last that ''GoV
ernor Tilden has appointed some Of tn
worst men to Office who ever disgraced tn
State" A man connected with the Insur
ance Department of the State was defaul
ter Of State funds to the amount Of $50, ,OOO
T-775 were Il gl.stigated and laid befoT
Efs Governor by q friend. He begged tina
lis might be suppressed on tn
7 grounds that the defaulter was Lis mos
efficient agent in getting up Presidential
delegates. He subsequently nominate'
this same man to lucrative position, bu
the Senate refused to confirm the nomina
tion. In 1875 the city of Brooklyn indiet
ed, tried and convicted several Charit
Commissioners for robbing the people o
large sums CT money. The Ring men re
quested Governor Tilden to appoint one o
these convicts, who is a valuable ally a
election times, to available position. 9th
er men, without reference to party, o
course protested against the appointment
The appointment was however made b
the Governor, and the appointee is nov
drawing salary from the State Treasury
Perhaps these are acts which become
''good Governor" and man who is usini
''reform" capital.
Governor Tilden lays claims 10 reducing
the debt and taxes of the State. In tn
first place an Executive cannot do this, il
the second place the changes in these items
which did occur in 1875, were The result o
legislation by previous Legislature ant
by an amendment of the Constitution
adopted in 1874; and in the third place tn
State taxes were never so high in the his
tory of the State, into s56s, 600 as they ar
the present year. The annual State take