The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-08-24
FIFTEEN QUESTIONS.

SIallu up ana answer q lew VieG11OnS.
1. Where were you in 1861 when the
Union was in danger, and when true
men were needed to defend the nation
against those who were armed to over
throw it?
2. Did you not encourage by speech
and by example the withdrawal of the
Southern States, and then try to dis
courage the Federal authority to pre-
serve tic Union ?
3. Did You not act as chairman of the
Committee on Resolution in the Dem
ocratic Convention that met in Chicago
in 1864, and as such chairman, did You
not offer to the convention n resolution
that was Incorporated in the platform
of your party, declaring the war fail
IRE, and demanding an Immediate ces-
sation of hostilities ?
4. Do you think your action at the
breaking out of the war, during its con-
tinuance, and at it's close, renders you a
safe man for the loyal people to rely up
on as President of the United States
5. You claim to have instituted GER
tain reforms in the State of New York,
and reduced taxation in that State. Do
You not know that whatever credit IS
due for these reforms sh 3uld be shared
by the Republican Legislature that has
made them possible? Do you not know
that You can but execute what the law
makers enact, andthat it is little short of
dishonesty to claim for yourself alone
what belongs to the Legislature of the
State
6. Do you not know that your preten-
ded canal reforms have proven failures,
and that those who ought to have been
in State prison to day for piundering
the State have not been disturbed. be-
cause of the moneyed influence which
they WELD over the law officers of your
administration
Z Were you not the chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, with
your head quarters in Tammany Hall,
New York city, from 1864 to 1871, the
very period when William NJ. Tweed
was in the height of his power, and the
recognized leader to the organization
you represented ?
s. Did you not in 1868, October u.
send ont circular to leading Democrats
of your State, requesting them to send
advance information of the votes cast in
the rural districts to William 81. Tweed,
Tammany Hall, aud was not this circu-
lar signed by you?
8. DO you not know that the purpose
of this circular was to inform Boss
Tweed how many fraudulent votes would
be needed in the city to defeat the hon
est votes in the country
10. Do you not know that at that elect
ion more than 10000 fraudulent votes
were cast in the city of New York, and
that Horace Greedy, in q letter address
sed to you and printed in the New York
Tribune October 20, 1869, after the
facts had been brought out by an in
vestigation authorized by Congress, used
the following language, son the prin-
ciple that the receiver is rs bad as the
thief, yon are as deeply implicated in
them to day as though your name were
Tweed. O'Brlen, or Oakley Hall 2"
IL. Did you not receive and so aG-
knowledge before the court in New York
900 from William M. Tweed, said check
dated September 7, 1868, and payable to
youf oFder2
H. Do you think that your associa-
tions with Tweed and the slisss of men
who followed him during his reign OF
plumber and the training you received in
right kind Of Endorsements for man
000,0 900, Of peoples
10. Do you think your active paFttcl-
patton IL the issuing of over 81, COO, 900
of paper money by the mining com.
panies of Michigan in which you were
Interested and the evasion of the legal
tax due the United States Government
through your advice, were honorable
transactions
Il. Do you think that your active CO.
operation with the great railroad eorpo-
rationS of the country, one OF which
paid you over 1000, 900 in less than
two years for pretended legal and pro
fessionGl services, fit you for the high
position to which you aspire, and sus-
tain your claims as an honest man and
practical reformer?
You know, Mr.. Tilden, that an honest
answer to each of these questions would
be condemnation from your own lips.
We ask you one more question, and
then leave you in the hands of your
friends, who may Try to excuse your re-
cord, but who can never blot It out from
the memory of the American people:
Is. Do you believe that party whose
whole strength lies in the ex-rebel ele-
ment that supports it, qna to which
every disloyal man in the Union now
belongs, is better calculated to admins
ter the laws and to protect and advance
the national Interests than the party to
whose wisdom and patriotism and cour-
age we now owe the existence of the
Union
AIr. TIden these questions will be
asked on thousand stumps during the
campaign, and no eyasive answers Will
satisfy the people that you are the man
for the Presidency, or that the party
you represent would be safe one TO
administer the affairs of the Govern
meEt.-Hepu6lic