The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-07-26
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this humbug by representing Tilden as a
Chipaman beating huge . Reform " gong,
while in another cartoon John Morrissey 10
represented as offering to bot $40. 100 that tue
swindle win BIZ successful. Tilden 4 Reform
err Where and wheuf Wheu he WAS aid
ing the Rebels III the early stages Of tbs war,
or in partnership with Tweed and his gang,
or in his ioacible-feeble, nsiHESisrs And selfish
attack upon the New York Canal kings II
is easy to gabble Of /" lilaen and Reform, =
but the facts upon which any clalm that til
den is or has ever been in any sense 4 Re
former, have not yet been produced and CAN
not be. The exact contrary is the truth, as
eau be easily shown. And it Is we'll ia this
connection to look a little into his record
Leaving his railroad operations out Of sight
for the present, aud beginning at 1854, we find
that samuel J; Tilden was u delegate TO the
National Democratic Convention at Chicago
and member of the Committee ON kesolu-
tions One OF the resolutions reported by the
Committee read as follows
RESOLVED, That this convention does ex-
plicitly declare, as the SENSE OF the American
people, that after FouR YEARS OF FAILURE W
restore the Union by experiments of war, etc.
We suppose that resolution was offered by
Mr.. rilden in the interest OF what he calls
Reform" rilden at that time wanted a
"reform that would let the South go free
as GG independent nation, and have tho
American Union forever broken up.
Touching his relations with Tweed, and tho
Wholesale frauds at the election Of 1868 in
New York, the Chicago Tribune thus shows
1idcn up =
8 The official documents are In existence to
show that IN 1868, when Grant was cheated
out OF the elec,ors,i vote vi New York by a
system of fraud aud ballot box stuidng that
has never been paraileled III the poiltical his
tory OF tins country, iiiden was Chairman of
the Democratic State Comlnittee, and was as
soclated With Tweed, who helped To do the
stuliing. 1t will be furthermore Remembered
that III that year the Democrats carried their
State ticket, elected the majority of the
Legislature, anu counted Seymour in by To-
0V0 maiority, although it was proven subse-
quentl, by the Congressional investigation
that Gen. urant had clear majority OF 20,-
UUU, anu the Republican State ticket received
majority OF the legal votes cast. Tilden, rs
we have said, was the chairman of weeds
Committee. In order to stuff the ballot boxes
inteliigently, it was necessary for the conspira-
tors 70 know how many fraudulent votes
were necessary. to overcome the Republican
maJorities 1t II O'clock ON the night Of the
election. For the purpose of asceft ainfng
this the following private circular was seut
out by Tilden, the professional Reformer :
lPriyaie and strictly confdential.l
Rooms or DEMOCRATIC STATE CoMMIrTEE,
Oct. N, 1868. Ny DEAR SIN: Please AT
once ~ communicate with some reliable per-
son, In three or four principal towns and in
each city of our county, and request him tex
penses duly arranged at this end to telegraph
to William M. Tweed, Tammany Hall, at the
minute Of closing the polls, not waiting for
the count, such person. estimate of the vote
Let the telegraph be as follows
This town #ill show a Dem ,cratc gain Tor
loss, over last year Of (nunIber); or this one,
| II sufficiently certain This town will give u
Republican or Democratic) majority Of -
THERE Is OF COURSE AN IMPuRTA on
JEcT 10 DE ATTAIHED, ny A siMuLY ANGUS
TRANSMISSION At THE HOUR or CLOSING TME
POLLS BUT NOT LONGER WAITING. Oppor-
tnnity can be taken Of the usual half hour
lull in the Geographic communications. oyer
lines before actual results begin TO be declar-
cd, and before the Associated Press absorb
the legrapll with returps and Interfere with
individual messages, and GIVE orders to watch
carefully the count. ~.
/ Ncfy ttutys YOURS
4, SAMUEL j. TILpEN, Chairman.
Mr.. Tilden, when he sent this circular,
knew that Tweed was q thief and ballot
box suffer. He was his adviser and agent
in fact, his right bower. He knew that - the
expenses duly arranged for at this end y were
to come out Of the Ring 70 which he belong
ed and Of which Tweed was Boss He Knew
well enough that these "private and strictly
confidential" midnight dispatches we're for a
corrupt and unlawful purpose, and, knowing
all this, he lent himself to the corrup' and
rascally business, and the infamous fraud was
perpetrated. One year afterwards, when the
full extent Of these scoundreIlsms became
known, Horace Greeley addressed in open
letter to Tilden, in which he accused him to
his face Of completely in the wholesale ballot
box stuffing. He boldly told him: .0n the
principle That the receiver is as BAD as the
thief, you are rs deeply implicated in them
to-day as though your name were Tweed,
O'Brien, or Oakley Hail." We quote an ex-
tract from Mr.. GTeelsys indignant impeach-
ment Of Tilden, which shows how he and his
gang increased the vote in New York city
anu tpouBn our city mas largely increased
its population, the lower wards were quite as
popnlous then (lS4O) as they are 10 day sever
al of them more So.
y Now look at the vote Of
four of these wards in is4U and 1868, respec-
lively:
President, 1910 Governor, 1868
HarTr Van Repuh- Derao.
- son. Buren,. lican cyat
4 Wards T. 7D3 6,52i 2S40 20 "a
Van Buren's majority, 726; Hoffmans ma
jority, l7,443.
Mr.. Tilden, you know what this contrast
Atheists. Right well do you comprehend the
means whereby the vote of 1868 was thus
swelled out OF all proportions. There are
not II, 900 legal voters living i'd those Wards
to-day, though they gave Hoffman II, 40 ma
jority
Tilden never met these charges, never de-
MED them, never refuted them. They stand
against him to-day as they stood when Mr..
Greeley made them. They stick TO him like
the poisoned shirt Of Nessus. His own
private and strictly confidential letter, coupled
with the results Of the Congressional inyesti-
CATION, accuse him Of crimes sufficient to send
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