The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-10-07
BRooKLyN, September o, 1876.


10 he Editor ef The Ohio State Journal.
have noticed the following and sim.
liar paragraphs going the rounds Of the
Democratic Ohio newspapers:
such a campaign as the Republicans
arc making was never known to win. All
the charges now made against Mr.. Tildcn
were made in 1874, when he was candi-
date for governor Of New York. lie
was elected by q majority of over SO 600,
and that is about the way it will be this
year He made good governor, and
will make good president"
| l have been asked to answer these as.
sertions, probably because l am attached
to the Democratic party, and through my
paper, the Argas, helped elect Mr.. Tilden
governor Of this state in 1874 The Ar.
gus has already answered and disproved
the point involved beyond contradiction
in this section of the country. l will now
undertake to do ii for the state of Ohio
through the colums of the State Jour.
nal.
l. The charges now made against Mr.
Tilden were not made in 1874. The
Democrats of this state did not know
of Mr.. Tildon's connection with The
northwest railroad ring. never heard
oil the facts until | read them in the New
\ ork Express, n Democratic newspaper,
in May, 1876. did not know that MIR.
TiIdeD had swindlcd the Government by
issuing illegal currency in Michigan until
| saw the account Of the transaction in
tho Cincinnati Enquirer, in June, 1876.
L did not know that Mr. Tilden had de.
fraudcd the Government on the taxes due
from his income until the month of Au.
gust, 1876. Ofthc judgment rendered
against him in the case OF the Galena and
Chicago Railroad company stockholders,
in 1863 ; OF the judgment by the same
court for his land taxes due to the State
of Michigan in 1873, and orhis congress.
sional "rclicf bill'' from penalties and
taxes, | can say the same thing.
2 Mr.. Tildon was not elected govern.
or Of tho State by $4,000 majority. His
majority was only 39,4l1 on a total
vote Of over 100000. Over one third
of this majority, l2,99S, was obtained in
this city by the help of the ArguS. Out
side Of New York and Brooklyn Tilden
was beaten in the state by l7,077.
The people Of the state had been rob
bed on their canals and on the new capi.
tol building al Albany; the city of New
Yord had been robbed by the Tweed
ring, and the people Of Brooklyn had been
robbed by an equally Infamous ring com.
posed Of men Of both parties. The f.
nancial panic had occurred tho previous
year. Grant was planning for third
term. In the latter part Of 1871 Tildcn
had repudiatcd Twecd's gang and came
out as rcformer. ic was the candi-
date for governor in 1874. When the
elections that year came off, you well
know that the tidal wave, swcllel By an.
-CNsarism, unemployed labor, PROSTATE
industries, and the cry for change, com.
menced in Oregon, swept across Indiana,
Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Massa.
chGsotts, and ended 10 The granite noun.
!aius of New Ilamp p.hire. ttrevolution.
ized all OF those states made Allen gov.
ernor of Ohio Tilien governor Of New
York by a change Of fourteen per cent
of the vote, and Castor governor Of
Mas s-aehusetts by change Of thirty two
per cent OF its vote. In one year Castor
was turned out of Office in Massachusetts,,
Allen in Ohio, and Tilden's state ticket
was beaten outside of New York by over
10000. That city gave Democratic
majority which saved the state to the
party hy 1900 So much for Tildcn's
election as governor.
3. Has he made 4 good governor
When inaugurated he took an oath "to
obey the Constitution, enforce tho laws
and protect tho interests of the people Of
the state He knew, because senate
rial committee appointed hy his prcdeqcs-
sor, Governor Dix, had so reported, that
milliors Of dollars had been stolen from
the Taxpayers by tho men who had charge
of erecting new state capitol building
lie did not enforce the laws. No legal
action has been commenced against those
plunderers. The same is true of the plum.
derors Of the city of Brooklyn. In each
ease the men whom he had said should
be in state prison, and whom he was
elected to duly punih, have become his
fast friends by well known arrangements,
and, instead Of being on their road to
prison, We found them shouting for Tilden
fer president in and out Of the st Louis
convention. Perhaps these are the acts
of good governor"
The constitution of ouT state says;
"The legislature shall not pass private
or local bill in any Of the following cases ::
Granting to any corporation, association
or individual the right to lay down rail.
road tracks The legislature shall pass
general laws providing for the cases emu.
merated,' &c.
Governor Tildon was interested in a
street railroad in the city of New York
A bill 20 extend the railroad by special
legislation, ia riolQtion Of tie consttu.
lion, which he had sworn to obey. was
gotten through the legislature by the we'll.
known use Of money. Governor Tildcn
signed the bill June IT, 1875. Oft the
New York World, Democratic ncwspa,
per, said:
at is an eternal disgrace to the state
Of New York that such dishonest prac.
tices are allowed to continue.
members are bought up on these hills
as you would buy pound of beef
The bill known as the Greenwich
Street ElC waited Railroad bill was passed
by the promise of 500 each for sixty.fyc
votes Ia majority in the assembly.
"A noted lobbyist, formerly public
= printer ivan b, hthuysen) held the
stakes, 100000, to pay Barber Tweed
and Tillcn's former lobbyi.D when the
bill became law"
Perhaps this was thc act Of "good
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