The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-07-20
TILDEN, THE REFORMER.


Tweed were running the Democratic party
in New York Tilden as Chairman of
the State Central Committee, Tweed as
the high-toned reiormer," and general
stealer of six million dollars. They were
intimate, worked together, and Tilden
could not possibly have failed to know of
the rascalities of Tweed. At that time,
Grant and Seymour were the Presidential
candidates, and it became absolutely
necessary for the life of Democracy tdat
New York should cast its electoral vote
for Seymour. The gross frauds in The
election of 1868 are too we'll known to
need comment, and by Democracy are
never denied, neither dare they deny that
Tilden was the chief mover therein. The
last Democratic Presidential candidate,
Horace Greeley, char ged them repeatedly,
again and again, and adduced such proof
as to satisfy any one that the grossest
frauds only had given that State to De-
mocracy. Greeley said to Tilden: "On
the principle shat the receiver is as bad
as the thief, you are as badly implicated
in them to-day as though your name was
Tweed, O'Brien or Oakley Hail." And
Tilden dared not deny a word, neither
would single organ of the party dare
defend him. AS we said, he was the
boon companion, the associate Of such
men as Tweed Sweeney and others, and
to show that he was as much intere Sted as
any of them in the frauds on the ballot
box, we publish the following secret circu-
lar sent out by him by his tools:
Private and strictly confdential.l
Rooms OF DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE,
October 81, 1S6S.-MY DEAR SIR: Please at
once to communicate with some reliable person
in three or four principle towns and in each
city in your county, and request him. (eXpenses
arranged at this end to telegraph TO William NJ.
Tweed, Tammany Hall, at the minute If closing
the polls, not waiting for the count, s lch per-
sons estimate of the vote. Let the 'elegraph
be as follows:
This town will show Democratic gain, (or
loss) last year of lnumber); or II is one, if
sufficiently certain: This town will give q Re-
publican or Democratic majority Of.
There is, of course an important objeit to be at
tanned by simultaneous transmission at the hour
of closing the polls, bit not longer lCGittng. OPP
portunity can be taken of the usual half hour
iull in the telegrapic communications over the
lines before actual results begin to he declared
and defOre the Associated Press abs orb the tel
egraph with returns and interfere ith indivd-
ual messages, and give orders to wa tch careful
ly the count. Very truly, yours,
SAMUEL j. TILDEN Chairman.
Can you not see the desi gn of the
above They felt certain the State would
be largely Republican outside ofthe city,
and by knowing just about how much
majority Republicans would have, they
could easily arrange, through their currupt
tools, to have enough votAs counted in
for them to beat any majority Republi
cans could get. Our readc s will remem-
Der the history of these frauds-where
thousands and thousands of illegal votes
were cast. Greeley in ar open letter to
Tilden says "You vel know there are
not 10000 voters in the -four lower wards,
and yet they gave the d emocratic ticket
l7,443 majority In other words there
were thousands who stayed away from
the polls, refusing to vote on account of
the rough mob about the polls, yet nearly
every name on the re gister was voted by
some repeater in the pay of Democracy.
These are few of the things that recon-
mend Tilden to the ex-rebel Democracy,
but do they, can they, recommend him to
the West as "reformer." These things
recommend him to the roughs of New
York as a suitable ring king, but do they
speak well for a candidate on reform"
basis, Such reform as he would give the
country can fad its peer in every prison
in the land.