The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-09-09
Imposture Rebuked- Democratic Opin-
ion.

one of the best and most widely circulated
Democratic newspapers in that State, in
its issue of Aug. 23d, 1876, says:
We owe an apology to the people of the
State of New York. We assisted to place
Samuel j. Tilden in the position of gov
ernor of the State. Publication of the
proofs of the New York Ring robberies
were made in July, 1871. Suits were
commenced in 1879. Samuel j. Tilden
was one of the attorneys of the commit
tee to prosecute the ring. Before that
time he was unknown outside of political
and railroad circles. He seemingly took
a bold position-it was certainly cum
ming one-and he attracted attention to
himself The following year, 1873. the
financial panic deranged business and
threw unemployed labor upon the market.
Grant had been laying his foundation for
third term. The country was ready to
repudiate anything by the name of "C@-
sarism." The next year, 1874, the feel
ing of discomfort at the administration
and hard times led to the great tidal wave,
which commenced on the Pacific coast, in
April, and swept everything before it,
down to the November elections, in the
Granite State. Oregon changed about 20
per cent of her vote; Indiana, 16 per
cent Ohio, Is per cent; New York, 7
per cent, and Massachusetts, over 80 per
cent
Anti-Grant, anti-Tweed, anti-hard
times Down with corruption and up
with reform became the watchword and
cry. Tilden secured the nomination for
governor of this State merely because he
had shown political zeal in bringing the
New York Ring to partial retribution.
The Argus advised its readers to support
Tilden. They did so. This county gave
him but two short of $4,000 majority,
while his majority in the entire State was
but 3S,441.
Tilden had pledged himself to help re-
form the State and exhaust its legal and
constabulary authority to put down plum
derers of the State and plunderers of cities.
We soon found that instead of sending
public robbers to State-prison, Tilden was
inviting them to his dinner-table, and that
instead of preparing place for them in
Sing Sing, he was making it comfortable
for them at st. Louis.
We were convinced of Tilden's in6del-
ity months ago, but the evidence was not
sufficiently plain to the public to author
ize us in its use. In the month of May.
1875, it became we'll known that Til len
had Joined hands with all the rogues whom
he could induce to join his standard, to
secure the presidential nomination for
himself, in exchange for the United States
Treasury, Custom Houses, and personal
immunity to them. Simultaneous with
these outcroppings came the efforts to sub
orn newspapers Thus leading Demo-
cratic papers, like the Cincinnati En-
quirer" "New Haven Union" 'New
York Express, memphis Avalanche"
augusta Constitutionalist," and "New
York Herald" began to publish accounts
of Tilden's career. We read, inquired,
searched legal records, and compiled the
facts herein set forth. 1t took US over one
year to become satisfied of the insinceri-
ty, hypocrisy, and dangerous character of
this man. We had been imposed upon by
his "reform" by-play. Why he finally
turned against Tweed's gang is herein
shown. We are not surprised that the
great public have been equally deceived,
and that many of the people of the coun-
try still believe that Tilden means reform,
and, if elected, would bring about the
change which all so much desire.
The facts are now out. All may see
them. 1t will require but thirty days fair
presentation of them to produce a tidal
wave against this trickster and impostor,
compared with which the one against
'Casarism" in 1874 was but ripple be-
fore gentle zephyr. Whoever reads the
disclosures in this days Argus-and they
will be read by four hundred thousand vo-
tiers in all of the States will be convinced
that Samuel j. Tilden is one of the worst
men who has ever been lifted into public
notoriety. The intelligence and sincerity
of the American people are on trial.
Claiming that principle and not partisan
prejudice should guide them, if, after
knowing the history of this arch-impostor,
demagogue, and despot, they shall show
that majority of them disregard the
warning of such facts as are here present.
ed, it will teach rejecting men that the
star of American liberty is soon to set in
the sea ofdespotism and anarchy. Tilden
has made the record not we. Read, pom