Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-09-20
what the Springfield Republic
can IAN Hayes Paper Thinks
OF the Campaign SANDERS.

can IAN Hayes Paper) Thinks
OF the Campaign SANDERS.
suineasld Repnblican. Mass. sept. and. isse
That he was drunk the even
ing, Of his nomination. Not the
fret particle of evidence is pro-
duced; we venture to say none
ever viii be. He is not that sort
of q man. bis habits as regards
eating and drinking are Of the
simplest--necessarily so, since his
constitution is far from robust.
He has been compelled, all his life,
to take care of HIMSELF as we
say; to practice temperance very
unusual among New York politi-
clans, temperance verging on all
stemiousness.
2.-That he forced poor Michi-
gan miners in his employ to take
their pay in an impoverished shin
plaster currency, to their great dis
tress and loss. The facts are, that
money of the ordinary sort was
not to be had at the time in that
remote region in suffi cient quanti-
tiesj that the choice offered the
companies was between paying
their men in something else, letting
them so unpaid, or discharging
them outright and stopping work;
that all the leading companies is
sued their notes, payable usually
at 60 days and that, whereas the
other companies, or some of them,
redeemed in store goods, Mr.. Til
den's company, at Mr.. Tilden's in
stance, expressly bound itself to
redeem its notes IN money. For
this fact there is unimpeachable
Republican testimony. If there |
are any of these 'shin-plasters'
still out and unredeemed, it is not
Mr.. Tilden's fault The effort to
fasten fraud, accomplished or pur-
posed, upon him in this business
has been anything but success to
date.
3.-That he took a $4,000 fee
from the credit-mobilier people.
This rests upon the testimony given
by the Ameses and Mr.. Bushnell be-
fore the Congressional committee.
1t is probably quite true that they
consulted Mr.. Tilden professional
ly, and that he pocketed a very
snug fee. But there is no evidence
that his connection with them went /,
beyond the giving of this legal ad- |
vice, and the pouching of this fee. ,
There is nothing to implicate him i
in the operations at Washington :
the systematic bribery and cor
ruption. He merely did business I
with group of spectators, who 7
turned out afterward to be rascals. I
1t is an unpleasant experience, to {
which lawyers in large practice are '
constantly exposed. 1t may not I
be wholly irrelevant to remind Mr.. .
Tilden's accusers just here, that, i
in at least one instance, he showed J
himself capable of being critical v
in his clients. He refused his le- |.
gal assistance to the late James a
Fisk, Jr. in the height of that adj a
Venturer's power. We quote from C
his Apologize of three years ago: O
al have declined retainers from g
Fisk in matters involving no scan t,
iai, but in which he had not my a
ympathy, after he had informed Il
ne that he had paid counsel, du- p
ing the year, many times the CO
argest fee had received /; adding, ir
We don't want anybody else--we ci
want you" ii
4.-That he is "railroad-wreck- IN
Dr." and made his fortune in that y
,efarious and detestable avocation. "
On this head, the Republican or "
yans give rs an intolerable deal Of p
7irtuous indignation to a penny N
worth of proof. 1t is always easier W
% call names than to produce wit v
,esses and documents. The bust il
hess, or rather the speculation, Of d
abroad building had been greatly Il
,verdone. It was inevitable that g
good many people should lose Il
and that these losers should Sc
eel sore over their losses. The a,
rash found Mr.. Tiiden one of the C,
best equipped railroad lawyers at the 81
bar. Naturally his SER m
vices were in great request, and he ST
vas q conspicuous figure in the era
# reorganization and reconstruc- C.
ion which followed. It is proba- e,
Ne that he made good deal of n
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