Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-13
SAMiyEL,S CROOKEDNESS.
More Facts and Figures Showing the FaIsi-
~ Of Ais Statement in 1S62.

More Facts and Figures showing the Falsi-
ty Of Ais Statement in 1862.
From the New York Times, August Is.
Here is the Utica Observer, for ex
ample, which makes the bold assertion
that for SO much of the $40, 600 Terre
Haute Railroad fee as Mr. Tilden
"could be said to have earned during
1862 he did pay his tax !" This is simply
untrue, as reference to his sworn state
ment will show. That statement de-
clares that,the first $40, 900 was received
by Mr.. Tilden on October II, 1852, out
of a fund constituted by the second
mortgage bondholders, under an agree
ment between themselves dated No
vember 1, 1859, and that the services
for which this sum was paid had COM
menced prior to 1859, and were
ing period of upward of
three years thereafter. Would
it be too much to assign $1,000 as the
proportion of this fee which was
" earned in 1892 The second $1O,-
900 is declared by Mr.. Tilden to have
been received on account of the costs
and charges of forec1osing the trust
mortgage under the DEGREES of the
courts of Illinois and Indiana" Mr..
Tilden is our authority for stating that
the proceedings referred to took place
IN the year 1852, and that his fee il
connection with these proceedings was
therefore " earned" during 1862, and,
according to the Democratic theoryof the
income tax law, formed part of his in
come In that year. We stated yester-
day that Legal proof had been placed in
our hands showing that on June IA,
1862, Mr.. TIden acknowledged the re-
ceipt of $4,000 from the Cumberland
Coal and Oil Company, of which he was
then a Director. Let us assume that
this was for two years services, and
that only So. 500 was earned from that
company in 1862. Making all these al
lowances, which are moro liberal than
Mr.. Tilden's apologists have demanded,
how stands the account? Briefly thus:
ST. Louis Alton and Terre Haute fees. .S11 500
Cumberland Coal Company. ........... $500
Interest on investments. ...... ....... IL, 900
Total. .s27, 900
Reductions for taxes, etc. 1852
Democratic statement of Mr. Tilden's p
hc U ~A1' no
r. Ill
Income fraudulently concealed. 80. 1880
Does this make Mr.. Tilden any less a
perjurer and swindler?
It will be observed that we not only
meet Mr.. Tilden's apolog1sts on their
own ground, but we take no note of
other items of professional income
which Mr.. Tilden unquestionably did
"earn" in 1852, but Of which we can
as yet produce no legal proof. A let
ter in another column indicates one
other source of income of which we
were previously aware, and about which
weshall furnish satisfactory data in few
days. Our correspondent refers to the
proceedings attending the reconstruction
of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chica-
go Railroad, which were commenced in
1861 and concluded in 1862. The late
J. Edgar Thomson, of Philadelphia,
and Mr.. Tilden were the chief agents in
that reconstruction, and if both were not
paid in 1862, as we think they were,
they at least earned" large share
of their fees in that year. Our
correspondent asks: "Did Mr.. Tilden
do this business for nothing ?" We are
IN pOs1t1On 70 Ssy JnaG ne corGalnIy
did not. Reputable witnesses have
been informed by Mr.. Thomson that he
and Mr.. Tilden divided half million
of dollars as their share of the plumber
of this business. But we prefer to
charge nothing which cannot be sub
stantiated by evidence which would be
received in court of justice, and we,
therefore, leave this part of the case
against Mr.. Tilden subject to further
| and unanswerable proof.