The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-07-27
From the Brooklyn Argus CDem.) July l0.l
TILDEN AS A REFORMER.
His Nomination Procured by a Bargain
With Some of the Most Corrupt Men
Out of State Prison"

Governor Tilden's speech reads beauti
fully. 1t is a middle chapter Of his vol
ume on Reform" the preface to which
was the paid.for reform advertisements
and the introduction to which was the
eight reform planks in the st. Louis
/ platform. Governor Tilden and Tally.
rand enjoy the distinction Of holding
similar views in regard to the use Of Ian
| guage. Reform, reform, reform rings
out in all of Governor Tilden's campaign
documents, from the opening advertise
ments to the speech Of acceptance. But,
very singularly, when we look for his ex.
pected order to arrest the thieves who
stole S2O0O,O00 from the new Capitol
building, for the impeachment of the
officials who liberated Tweed and for the
punishment of the men who have stolen
100000 from the people Of this city,
we lind nothing of the kind. Some may
say that Mr.. Tilden overlooked these lit
tie matters Of reform in detail" and
others may say that there is nothing in.
consistent in man with Governor Til
den's antecedents talking and acting in
this way. We beg leave to differ from
them Mr.. Tilden is not the man who
overlooks details when gathering up the
ends of threads leading to success. Ii is
said that his money supplied carriages in
over seventeen hundred election dis
tricts in this State to bring the stay at
home vote" to the polls in 1874 He did
did not forget to telegraph the inspectors
Of every Democratic District, in regard
to sending to William NJ. Tweed. Chair
man, the probable vote in 1868, immedi.
ately after the closing of the polls. by
reason of which information the ballot
boxes Of New York City were stuffed
with the requisite number of votes, and
Hoffman was counted in over John A.
Griswold. No. Mr. Tilden is decidedly
a man OF detail and a man who knows
that the sutferings OF the American peo-
pie at the present time incline them to
worship the banner which has reform"
inscribed upon it. We commend him
for his sagacity. We have frequently
recommended his example in this res
pect to Governor Hayes, as worthy his
emulation.
But when it comes down to the true
meaning OF the thing, there is not a well
informed man in this section OF the
State who does not believe that Governor
Illden procured his nomination through
a bargain with some Of the most corrupt
ring men out Of the State Prison Three
OF his chosen delegates from this city
were men wlD are now defendants in
ring suits. for fraud and conspiracy
Others of them sTc NOTORIOUS for being
the pals. dividers with and abettors o.
the Albany, the New York and the
Brooklyn rings Every man i'm Brook
lyn knows that "a vote for Tilden Is a
vote for Mclaughlin to the Navy Yard,
Murphy to the Custom House, Kinsella
to the POstoffice, Jacobs to the United
Ill II
trict Attorneyship. Fowler to the Collec-
torship Of Internal Revenue, and Kings.
ley to the Harbor Repairs in general II
is this ticket which the seventy five
thousand electors Of Brooklyn are to vote
this coming fall. They believe that Mr.
Tilden was pledged to prosecute ring
men in this State. They knew that he
has not attacked the worst Of them, and
that instead of their being in the docks
on his motion, they were his delegates to
the st. Louis Convention by his special
solicitation. A man elevated to the
Presidency upon such shoulders, would
not, in the estimation Of those who know
the facts, be exactly situated to intro
duce practical reform" Almost every
third man we meet says: 81 am going
to vote against the Brooklyn Ring at any
hazard. / voted for Tilden two years
ago, but he is now the candidate of the |
Ring, and down he must go; for to sle-
vate these men to Federal power would |
be equal to surrendering Brooklyn over
to plunder." This is not our language,
and we, too supported Mr.. Tilden for |
Governor in 1874. in a county which gave
him one-third of his entire majority |
This is the language of earnest men
to be encountered. Ii is
what they think of Governor Tilden as a
'reformer."