The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-09-02

ment and origin of the Credit Mobiler
fraud. During the crest rebellion he
was an anti.war Democrat, and was .
member OF the committee on resolutions
in the Chicago convention in 1864 that
pronounced the war q failure and de-
manded an ignominious peace. As an
attorney for corporations and monopolies
he was not then such an eminent re-
former-he amassed q fortune which is
estimated by millions, but there is no
evidence that he ever gave one cent in
aid of the Union cause or for the Support
of the orphans and widows of Union SOL
diers.
The gravest accusation, however, and
one that has caused CONSERVATION in the
Democratic ranks, is that by perjury in
swearing to the amount of his income he
defrauded the government. In COM
menting on this charge the New York
Times says:
If suit is brought we can suggest to
the government where it will find some
conclusive testimony. On Dec. 26, 1868
Mr.. Tlden swore to a return, under oath
in which he said: 'Ihereby certify that
the following is true and faithful state.
ment of the gains, profits or income Of
Samuel J. Tilden, of the city of New
York, and county of New York, State of
New York, whether derived from any
kind of property, rents. Interests, divi-
dends, salary or from any profession,
employment, or vocation, or from any
other source whatever, from LIST day of
January to 31st day of December, 1862,
both days inclusive, and subject to an
income tax under the excise laws of the
United States. Income from all sources,
$7.11S."
In other words, in December, 1863,
Mr.. Tilden swOre that his entire income
liable to tax during the year 1862 was
7,l1S, and upon that sum, and that sum
alone, did he pay any tax. But in his
answer to the complaint in the circuit
court of the United States, in the suit of
the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute
railroad company against himself and
others, which answer was filed few days
ago. Mr.. Tilden swore under oath as
follows: "That for such service the de-
PENDANT Tilden made a charge of &c. 900
against said second mortgage boudhold-
ers, and the said charges were paid by or
on behalf of said second mortgage bond
holders, on the 18th of October 1862;
that the defendant Tilden,
for part of his services aforesaid, also
made charge Of the like sum of ten
thousand dollars on account of profess
sional services rendered to the first mort
gage bondholders and the receivers,
which was paid to him by the said Aza-
riah g. Flagg, and which
payment appears under date of Nov. I,
1862, in a statement annexed to the first
report aforesaid. "a having been receipted
for by the said Tilden, 'on account of
professional services
In other words, having sworn in 1868,
that his entire income for the year 1862
from all sources liable to taxation-coun-
sci fees, dividends, rents, profts-was
only S7,1lS, he, in 1875. swears. that
during the same year. 1862, he received
from two sources alnne-his services to
a single company-S20.000 BY his own
sworn admission, therefore, Mr.. Tilden
stands indebted to the government in a
considerable sum for unpaid income tax
for 1862, and we have two oaths by Mr..
Tilden, utterly inconsistent with each
other. And yet this man is the honest
man, the reformer of the country!
The explanation made by Democratic
journals in reference to this matter is
that the fees received from the railroads
in 1862 were for services rendered prior
to 1862 and before the enactment of the
law raising a revenue by taxing incomes.