The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-08-03
OUR WASHING TON LETTER.

priatiOns for defraylng the expenses. 1t
is trusted that the Senate will continue
to stand out against encrochment of the
House.
1t is really laughable to read upon the
banner floating from Head Quarters of
the Democratic Congressional Commit
tee, f street, near the Ebbitt House, as
follows: 'sFor President, Samuel J. Til
den - and then tl1emotto, sPeJorna and
Retrenchn1ent" After ones risibles be-
came quieted down little, the inquiry
naturally suggests ITSELF" how does this
motto apply to the character and ante
cedents of the candidate?" Did Tilden
accumulate his colossal private fortune
in public service marked by integrity
and economy? Let Hon. George w.
HoucE, one of the Ohio Delegates to the
st. Louis Convention answer:
ellis record as n reformer has been
seriously impeached by some of his
most ardent supporters two years ago.
His connection with rnilroad corpora
tons, and the credit Mobiiier swindies
as counselor and adviser, is not such
as 20 reflect credit upon his character as
lawye", much less as reformer; and
as hard-money man, the issue of
some four millions of individual Gun
rency, in violation of law, subjecting
him to heavy penalties, proves him to
be Il sham and will require much eXpla-
nation.
Buchanan was q bachelor, and SO is
Tiiden. The characteristics of the for
naer were cold heart, a selfish nature,
a soul narrow within the limits OF q
subtle, calculating mind, and a lack of
that geniaLty which challenges the ad
niration of the people. His ambition
was the Presidency. He Iabored for
years to reach it. He did, after several
failures, accomplish his purpose by the
accidental circumstance of his absence
from the country during the discussion
on the Kansas-Nebraska bill. His ad-
ministration partook of the private char
acter of the man, and ended in giving
being to a conspiracy against the life of
the nation.
1t is a maxim, which is as trite as it is
true, that ''like causes produce Ike eff
fects. To elect Tilden to the Presiden-
cy would merely be to repeat the admin
istration of Buchanan. His personal
and political surroundings are similar to
those of the Bachelor Of Wheatland. !"
Ii SO great calamity should befall
this country as the election of the Cor
poration Attorney Of New York to the
Presidency, it viii be as bhghting to the
prosperity Of the country as was the Sc
lection of his prototype in 1856.
The hand OF Tilden was prominently
manifest IL the manipulation OF the
Committee on Banking and Currency on
the 25th inst, and the contest between
the Hards and the Softs as to what ac-
ton theHouse will take on the Resump-
ton Bill is becoming interesting. View
ed in the light furnished by Mcpherson
who announces that there are two dis
tinct alterations made in the original
copy Of the st. Louis resolutions given
to him for place in his Manual, Tilden' S
nomination, and the platform of princi-
pies his friends rendered the convention
for him. were literally conceived in in
iquity," for they were intended to de-
ceive. The first alteration changes the
word GO clause" for ''date" in the reso-
luton on resumption, bat the second
one, which Dorsheimer failed to read
because of its s'illegibility" insisted up
on prevention of further Monaghan emil
grafton, and this has been left out en-
tjrely. If such barefaced fraud could
be successfully thrust on the country,
why may he not hope to get bill that,
like Nast's tiger, has ''party" head at
each end? To the daring "all things are
possible
The largest sponge ever found in the
Fioridas eight feet in circumference
when dry, and twelve feet when wet,
Weighing ninteen pounds, is now on ex-
hib1tiop in New York City, and is LABEL
ed Samuel J. Tilden. The West knows
that he 'fabsorbed'' over IS, 900, 900 of
their town and county railroad sub
scription and Tilden can't find slime to
write his letter of acceptance, he is SO
crowded withs business" he says, but IA
Their prefers defending the criminal suits
brought for their recovery. His posi-
ton as a railroad robber is in perfect ac-
cord with that of his conferers a. Ham
burg, S. c., ct which the Cincinnati
Enquirer says: ssNoti4ing has occurred
since the Conshatta massacre thai has SO
stirred the public pulse, or has made
more plain the Importance of preventing
a return to power of the Confederate
Democracy For Goes not M(urdering)
Beast Butler cry: GIVE it to 'em,
damn 'em; give it to EN-
The old adage that San honest confess
sion is good for the soul" receives con-
firmatiop at the hands of Mr. VIM. Nc
Naliy, q weli-knQwii Tammany Demo
crat, who being unable conscientlausiy to
support Tilden. sends in his resignation
accompanied by an interesting letter,
commencing: Il will oppose to the ut
most of my ability the nominee of the SO
called Dem ocratic party. Seeing in him
thoroughly corrupt, vicious and bad
man, and one whom believe woEld en-
tail lasting disgrace and suffering upon
e IL 4 !. u.
Chief Magistrate. I recognize him as
the most desperate bands of ruffians that
ever cursed any civilized community
For years he aided and abetted
them in all their rascally raids with
municipal and State Treasures, and the
people by stuffing the ballot boxes and
ceiling the votes of the honest voters
opposed to them ''Men's stomicks
want a change, they do; God help 'emi''
aGiFe it to 'em, give it to EN-" cried
the Ku-Klux prisoners, while Lamar
crushed the y. S. Marshal 10 the floor,
and the court room at Macon, Miss.
was hurriedly filed with White Liners
armed to the teeth, for the rescue OF
| their fellow members, or the extinction
OF The z, S. officers holding court at
that place; and Ii was The same cry that
drove on the assassins froIa Charleston
and Savannah, when the frightened
blacks sought refuge in a building from
the fury of frenzied and Illegal mob,
summoned by the tailsmanic signal OF
the Rebel General NJ G. Butler, of S.
c., whose son in defiance of law and
precedent insisted on driving his buggy
directly through the ranks of a colored
military company who was pa5aliing on q
legal holiday. s'Giye it to 'em damn
EN-; give it to EN-" is but the echo OF