Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20

IA voicc-"rcll who prosecuted
A republican Attorney General
prosecuted them-before Judge Da-
Wis, republican Judge. Tweed was
convicted by a republican jury; his
case was reversed by democratic
court of appeals of which Judge
Church was Chief Justice and who
is one of the most radical democrats
of New York City [Chccrs] and
when it was reversed Tweed was sent
back from prison in care of demo-
cratic Sheriff of the City of New
York and that democratic Sheriff put
him in room without regard to law
allowing him to go away. And nei-
ther Tilden, that democratic Cover
nor, nor that democratic Sheriff, nor
anybody else in that democratic gov
eminent ever instituted suit or ever
attempted to get him again to justice.
Prosecuted in good old republican
way, convicted in a good old repub-
lican way, and running away in a
good old democratic way continued
cheers. Have you any idea now
who prosecuted him? Tilden never
prosecuted anybody. He caused
suits to be instituted, but never caus-
ed anybody to be convicted of the
wrong said to be done in that city.
This man Tilden was educated
among thieves-yea, more The edu-
Gated the thieves. If a man lives near
ly century surrounded by an atmos-
phere of that kind, with no restraints
or influences to keep him back, (fcr
he was always given to not getting
MARKEDLY if there is nothing to re-
strain him from rushing into the prac-
ticc of iniquity, he is not the man we
would wish to write out for us COR
rect morals and politics. There is not
a single man in the Tammany society
whose name to-day is not odious as
politicians by reason of the politics of
that society. And Tilden was chief
of that society and chairman of the
Democratic State central committee,
and the veW fact that we have got
such man is sufficient, as If we had
stamped on his forehead the words
''beware, be cautious" and this prcsi-
ident of the Tammany society is to-
day the embodiment of the word Gre
FORM lie is "reform" personified-
| that is. as the party goes and as the
| platform goes. Some one has said
that he is nothing else but ''demur-
rer," or "more specific statement"
BY the way have you heard
from Vermont? They had an cleo
ton there the other day and it was
unanimous the only fellows voting
the democratic ticket came over from
Canada. A voice. Have you heard
from Arkansas?
/ Arkansas is just as certain to be
democratic-just as certain as the sun
will shine on the next election day
just as certain as she armed, equipped
and sent thirty regiments into the
Confederate army to destroy the
Government-just so sure she will go
democratic. AS sure as the sun will
rise next election day, just SO sure
they will vote the democratic ticket
the Democratic ticket by large ma
jority, and Just SO sure every other
State that did so will do the same
thing. Long continued applause.
Tilden said every man who goes
across the southern soil is liable as q
tresspasser in suit for damages al
law, and now he is performer"
He read an extract from q letter tt
Mr.. Kent by Mr.. Tildcn reiteratine
the doctrine of secession and stating
that the Government had no power
to cOerce State.
In 1860 he was sometimes called {
secessionist, he then said there was nj
: power known or recognized in thu
federal constitution, to enable thu
t government to exercise force to pre-
vent secession. Now suppose he hat
been President. entertaining that sen
t timent. what would have been tn,
: consequences And if he was no
!. fit to be President then, if he enter
9 tanned wrong principles then, he doe
now, and is not now fit to be presi
dent. He was then, secessionist il
1860. Some people say that amt true
2 thar it is a republican lie.
The speaker then read an eytrac
from the proceedings Of a convention
r of democrats, held in Albany, N. y
in Jan. or Feb, 1861, where Mr.. Til
! den and Thomas Field were dele
! gates from Tammany and introduced
the resolutions passed unanimously
by the Tammany society, discounte
nancing any attempt to make an,
armed aggression on the south t.
preserve the Union.
Gen. Dix three weeks ago write
that in April, 1861, after the rebellion
; was organized and open hostilities
T commenced,a public meeting was held
in New York city for the purpose OF
: taking into consideration the state OF
: the Union, and giving the Govern
ment moral support. Samuel J. Til
den was asked to sign the call for tina
meeting when every prominent citi
: zen had signed it-Stewart, Belmont
Fields and Everetts, and nearly al
the prominent citizens Tilden refused
f to do SO because he didn't approve OF
| the object of the meeting. And this
: was charged against Governor Tilden
J during the canvass two years ago land
he didn't deny it. The devil himself
would laugh at such a reformer, for
he could get his place filled with such
men.
} Horace Greeley in an open letter in
1865, charged him with being the
author of frauds to the extent Of thir-
ty thousand illegal votes polled in
the city of New York.
Tilden was the author of the Credit
Mobilier by which the Pacific Rail-
road was built and all the stock was
stolen, and Cakes Ames testifies to it.
Here you have the impersonation OF
reform in the Democratic party. APP
plause.
In 1864 he and Hendricks both
were members of the democratic con-
vention at Chicago and both voted
for the famous resolution denouncing
the war as failure. Tilden was a
member of the committee that wrote
and offered the resolutions. You can
not point to single instance in which
he contributed anything either in a
public or private way, neither in
word, act, or deed to suppress the
rebellion.
He is a "rcformcr." His income
tax for 1862 was only $7,l1S and he
is millionaire. Most of it was made
since 1861 to 1866 and 1866, when he
was o railroad lawyer and railroad
wrecker. The other day, in answer
to a lawsuit against him for having
stolen $4,000, he swears that he
charged $4,000 attorney fees, $4,000
to the first mortgage bond holders
paid November I, and another $40,
600 to the second mortgage bond
holders, paid Oct. II, 1862, and he
swears IN making out his return Of
income to the United States Assessor
that during that year his income was
only 81, lis. Now which time does he
tell the truth. Both cannot be true.
1 would like to see the performer"
who can prove the truth of both these
statements. One of them is false,
and both of them sworn to. He has
perjured himself in one if not
10Th the statements. Is he a
fit man to be president of our nation,
to fill the highest Office on earth, to
be president of forty-five millions of
free people? [Sensationl. And this
man, who is the candidate of the re-
formers, sw"ars to two different
things at two different times, and he
certainly had more than one law suit