Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-09-20


Who Is making the hue-and-cry
Not the bond and stock holder
who employed these gentlemen
No complaint has been heard from
that quarter. So far as beard from
they are well satisfied, even CRATE
ful. 1t Is a new company that L
making the fuss-a company Il
which Mr.. Tilden and his associate:
are no more responsible than t.
the Boston and Albany. The whole
question Is in the courts, and viii
doubtless be decided in good time
Meanwhile, it is proper to remark
that Messrs. Tilden, Bayard, But,
Ter and Sage appear, on the sur.
face Of the transaction, to have
helped themselves to generous pay
for important and onorous work.
They may or may not have been
greedy; that is a question by it.
self. But we fail TO detect here the
quality of corruption.
Chat he was in cahoot with
Tweed, until honesty became the
best policy. He and Tweed lived
in the same city, were citizens of
the same State, were members and
officials of the same party. While
Tweed was boss of Tammany, Mr..
Tilden was Chairman Of the Demo
cratic State Committee. Necesssr-
lily they had more or less to do with
each other in politics. But there
is not the first particle of evidence
connecting Mr.. Tilden with Tweed's
rascalities. On the contrary, no
fact in recent New York political
history is better established than
the tacit antagonism of those two
men before the explosion Of 1871.
The man who did the most, gave
the most time, spent the most money
out OF his own pocket to collect
the proofs of Tweed's guilt and |
put him in Jail was Samuel j. Til
den. Mr.. Evarts is only one of
several prominent Republicans who
ire competent witnesses ON this
point. Ample corroborative evil
1ence could be found in the files of
he New York Times. There is no
nan living whom Tweed hates to-
lay as he hates Mr.. Tilden. The
abored and malignant effort of his
counsel, Mr.. David Dudley Field,
o connect the governor with the
fugitive boss, unsuccessful as it
vas, showed what the feeling was
n that quarter. The animus fairly
stuck out"
THAT he cheated the govern
nent in go, by swearing to false
eturn of his taxable income, there !
" committing the double crime of /
raud and perjury. "If it were so, it I
vas grievous fault" The ques- I
ion is, was it so! The New York (
Zines is positive that Mr.. Tilden :
guilty as cbarged-the New
'ork Times which did more by its =
iolent and unmeasured opposition '
} the income tax to make it odious 7
nd incite people to evade it than '
ny other half-dozen journals in the :
ountry. 1t has certainly made .
ut prima facie case, and we are 7
lad to hear that Mr.. Tilden in t
,nds to meet it "in his own time s
nd way" He has no right to- = =
ROW himself back on his dignity. .
rivate character, business, In :
'me, are the proper subjects of {
quiry when a man asks his fellow e.
tizens to elect him president of y
'e United States. Facts to be re- n n
embered are that it was the first 6
ear the tax was collected, that it to
as net-not gross-income which q
as taxed, and that it is quite i'm v
ossible for the Times, or any other at
an, to know with accuracy what ?,
ere Mr.. Tilden's losses, that year. CO
'e find his failure to make returns g.
subsequent years much more
screditable and ugly-looking, on 6
Ie face Of it, than his return In co
2: since it warrants the inference s M
lat his income in those years was an an
} large he could afford to let the sssr
SCISSORS estimate and add the per- IN
'ntage for delinquency, and still 3, :,
we money. But, as to the other / !.
after, the convicting evidence is ne
i'll to be produced. p
A man like Tilden is not to be OF
'nvicted except upon that sort of
7idence. He is not q new man. :,
e has lived over 30 years among &