The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-09-15
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THE NEW TILDEN TORPEDO.
From the New York Times.l
"On the goth ult., a suggestive par
agraph was published in the Ithics
Journal, and was reproduced in these
columns. The following are its essen
tial points We hold in our hands
evidence conclusive of operations by
and through the Insurance Ring of the
loaning of immense amounts of money
by certain leading life insurance com
panies of the City of New York on
what purports to be lots and tracts of
land in the Northern part of this State,
but which are about as valuable as an
equal quantity of moonshine. These
loans have been largely negotiated and
made by Smith NJ. Weed, Captain
General of the Insurance Ring The
paragraph further states that these
conclusive evidences of fraud were
placed in the hands of Governor Til
den during the winter of 1875; that
they did not prevent Tilden from NOM
mating Weed as Superintendent of
the Insurance Department, and we
may add from retaining him as one of
his most valued and trusted political
advisers. The Journal has so far left
these mysterious transactions uueX-
planned. Can 1t not be induced to
break silence on the subject nowi'
Perhaps the Journal thinks that it is
too good thing to give away just yet.
1t is a very good thing-ss a friend
writes us-"a torpedo which will blow
TiIden's Reform ship out of the
water" We really feel pity for Gov
ernor Tilden, particularly since the
vote for "a change" in Vermont. Mr..
Tilden set sail for Washington in a
''Reform" vessel which carried guns of
such long range that he was to sweep
the Islands and the main land from
Main to California. This shall be "an
aggressive campaign" said the great
navigator. But he had no sooner put
his keel in water than he was attacked
from all sides at close quarters, so that
he could not use one of his long range
guns. His vessel has been tied to the
dock and he has been on the defen-
sive, as no mariner ever before was,
since the day he undertook to embark.
In fact, the craft was so overloaded
with Congressional 'Relief" hillside
cisions of the United States Supreme
Court to restore plundered property:
false income returns, Chicago peace
resolutions, bogus shinplasters, specie
payment population letters, copies OF
containing his paid-for
puffs. New Lebanon whiskey, Albany
Capitol Commissioners and Tweed's
Ring friends, that had he moved into
deep water the craft must have capsiz-
ed and foupdered.
Every week brings him a new at
tack from the land side. Last week,
1t was Governor Seymour's refusal to
step aboard and assume the helm.
The last shot is from the Ithaca Jour
nal, which says that Tilden protected
the Insurance Ring in we'll known ras-
calities, in return for Convention infiu-
ence. The Times wants more light on
the subject. The transactions is no
longer a secret. Manton Marble
knows all aboutit, and if put on the
stand would be compelled to spring
the lever which would explode the tor
pedo and blow his friend "Tilden's
Reform ship out of the water" Gov
ernor Hendricks knows about it and SO
do many others, notwithstanding the
efforts to lie it down and suppress it
by giving valuable positions to wit
nesses. Our authority is indisputa-
BILE. 1t is partly as follows:
MARBLE commissioned M (Eras-
tus Brooks knows who M-is) to
hunt up the facts in regard to q GER
tain Insurance Officer being defaulter
of State funds to the amount of $50
600. The work was done, the proofs
were positive. M informed Gov
ernor Tilden what evidence. Tylden
begged N to suppress 1t, on the |
ground that the defdulter sDas one of
his most efficient managers in getting
up delegations to the State Conoen
ton to nominate him for the Presiden-
cy at st. Louis, for Governor Tilden
had promised to give him an appoint
uent, which he did M declined |
to suppress the information. Tilden
went to New Yerk and had an inter-
view with Marble aud other friends. |
The information was then suppressed,
but Marble retired from the editorship
of the World. l have been requested
in aOritiny, by M-not to make the
facts public. l had previously, at
M-s request, communicated them
to Hendricks"
This is not as wide as Church door
or as deep as a well but twill do. 1t
is exactly like the appointment of a
noted convict in this City to valuable
position by Governor Tilden at the re
quest of the Brooklyn Ring, and again
the protests of numerous worthy men
of both parties. If Governor Tilden
does not soon haul down his Reform"
flag, an indignant and betray people
will wrench it from his vessels pima
Gle, wrap his remains in 1t and bury
him further out of sight than did
former generation bury the traitor
Aaron Burr. Brooklyn Daily Argus.
1t was on August 8, 1866, that Gov.
Hendricks then United States Senator,
pocketed $1,000 ofback pay, given him
by the act of July %, 1866. In making
out his account for mileage, he reckoned
the distance from Indianapolis to Wash
Ington at 1,O66 miles. The distance byi
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