The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-05
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 20, '7e.


Dishonest Sam. 71iden, etc.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 20, '78.
The answer of Tilden to the char
ges of systematic defrauding of
the revenue for ten years, is gen.
orally considered "too thin" and
will utterly fail to shield Slippery
Sam from total defeat at the hands
of the country. Doubtless nine out
of every ten Democrats will throw
up their hats and declare it COM
plete vindication; such men would
vote for him if he had stolen the
whole United States Treasury, but
the difficulty is with the tenth man.
At least one man in ten of the Dem.
ocratic party has some claims to
honesty, and believes in real reform.
Even this class will swallow him if
they can get him down at all, with
the greatest difficulty. But admit
ting that many will do so, still it
may be safely determined that at
least one in a hundred of the entire
party will not take him and, will
vote for Hayes. This will be all
sufficient to defeat Slippery Sam,
who must now take his proper place
along side floss Tweed, Boss Shop
herd, and the hundreds of defraud-
ers of the people both in and out of
the penitentiary. Since the publ
cation of this letter the duty of the
government is plain. The proper
officers should Immediately COM
mcncca criminal prosecution against
Tilden, and let the trial be brought
on before the election. No nice
drawn diffidence on account of the
high position of the Democratic cam
didate for the presidency should
shield him, no more than it has
shielded hundreds of lesser lights
for dcfrauding the government. But
all other feature of the canvass is
now openly spoken ofby many Dem
ocrats in this city, which is to call
| the National Convention together,
drop Tilden and substitute Hancock
or Hendricks. They feel that with
Tilden defeat is certain, while with
one or the other of these well-known
candidates there would at least be
u chance of success. But, doubt
less this even would fail, as the time
is too short to make the change,
and the canvass in favor of a differ
ent candidate could not be made.
10 change commanders just before
a battle has nearly always proved
disastrous and would prove so in
this instance. Whatever course
the Democracy may take, their de-
feat is now certain.
When the charge of defrauding
the revenue was SO distinctly made
and found by the N. Y. Times and
copied into near the entire Repub-
lican press of the country, the effect
upon the public was SO marked that
the Democracy saw that unless this
effect was counteracted in some way
that Tildcn's defeat was certain, and
as the facts could not be refuted,
hence the trick was invented of
trumping up a counter charge
against Gen. Hayes of also defraud-
ing the income tax, as if this, if it
could ever be proved, would excul-
pate Tilden from the positive evil
dcnce against him. But Hayes
promptly answered every item Of
these charges, and in so plain and
concise manner, that they were
all proved false, had not the shadow
of foundation, and were all weak
inventions of the common enemy,
and so complete was this refutation
that the Democracy have not since
even alluded to them. Gen. Hayes
is found by the whole country to be
an honest man in every respect
But, on the contrary, the lame and
impotent letter of Tilden, in place
of being refutation, or even the
semblance of q refutation, has had
the effect to prove to every homes,
man in the land, that in place OF
Tildcn being true reformer and
an honest man, that for ten years
he cheated the Government out oil
large sums due from him on his en-.
ormous income. And that while
comparatively poor men were hon.
estly paying on their small incomes
and even very poor men were enor
mously taxed during all of this tim,
if they CHANGED to use whiskey
beer, tobacco, or cigars, on the con
trary the millionaire Tildcn was con
stantly cheating the Government
on his enormous and profitable in
como. From these facts of the pos
tive evidence of the scrupulou
honesty of Hayes, and the equally
positive evidence of the dishonest,
of Tilden, their sobriquents may
: now be presented to the people il
! a brief form, upon which they Cal
, intelligently cast their ballots a
, the coming election. 1t is HOMES,
GEN. HAYES and Dishonest Sam
7ildcn. Every newspaper with TIT
name Of Rutherford B. Hayes at tn
head of their columns for President
should now put the word Homes
preceding the name Of Hayes, ant
in view Of the recent developed
5 facts in relation to Tilden, see if tn
Democracy will dare to insult tn
5 common intelligence of the peopl
by following suit. If so it woul'
o.l,, ovo;to Tho ridicule IF all homes