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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07

from twice to eight times as much as
they were worth before.
The present managersof the road, who
are not the persons who employed Mr..
Tilden, and have, 50 far as it appears, no
relation with him of any kind, new make
a claim upon him and the members of
the Committee for an account, to which
he and the other members reply that it
is none of their business. One of the
members of the Committee has very
| frankly told the plaintiffs that he does
otpretend to understand the legal rights
of the matter, that he has a number of
the bonds, and is perfectly willing to sur
render them if ordered to do so by any
competent authority. The only ques-
tion apparently involved in the case is
one epurely legal, whether there isany rela-
ton of principal and agent
or trustee and beneficiary existing be-
tween the Purchasing Committee and the
road, as it at present exists, which
authorizes an accounting between them,
and the litigation is'of q kind to which
any lawyer might uHavoidably become a
party. The road says there is Mr.. Til
den and the other members of the Com
mittee say there is not, and naturally de-
cline to give up their books. 1t is
obvious that in doing this they simply
act SO as to guard their own rights, for it
must be remembered that they admit the
existence of persons to whom they did
stand in the relation of agents; and if
they have any property in their possss-
sion for which they owe any account, it
may be to these principals that they owe
it.. and if they do not want to pay it
twice over to two not Mt sets of people
they must resist with every means in
their power the claim now made upon
them. There are no indications of fraud
about the case, and, so far as appears,
its use by Republican organs in its present
unsettled state, to prove Mr.. ,Tilden a
railroad robberV or shark is a scan
dalous abuse of the power of the press.
We have gone into this !" CHARGE at
considerable length, because, it illustrates
the straits to which the Republicans
have reduced themselves for campaign
powder. In the present campaign all the
benefit that can be extracted from
charges will be reached by Democrats,
who can prove by undeniable evidence
corruption in the dominant party of the
most gigantic extent, widespread
throughout all the departments of
Government, and practically encouraged
by its head. SO, lssb sis5 ~ - 0.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07

authority as a despot, who was far re-
moved from responsibility to any ono for
what he did, and he looked for third
term to establish his power upon per-
manent basis. According to his idea the
people we're made to obey, and he to
govern. Is
The third term being quito the ques-
ton, it remained to devise a plan by
which the autocrat's ambitious designs
might be carried out with another in the
Presidential chair. Everything was
therefore done to defeat Blaine's aspira-
tions for the succession. He would be
President de fdcto as well as de j,ve, and
would therefore not do. A-lucky hit
was made in the choice of Governor
Hayes. He would be pliable enough and
sufficiently easy to manage. Indeed, he
was just the man, andinow that Grant 60.
sees it, he is straiDing every nerve to Sc.
cure his election.
Hayes's success can only be obtained
through the work of Grants civil ad-
yisers. If this be achieved he. will be
supported in his position by the same
men. They will control and he will do
as they decree. Then either Sherman
will be removed and Grant put in his
place, or the command will be divided,
and Grant given rank and authority
equal to Sherman. He will be in full
accord with the men who have pledged
themselves to his designs, and together
they will, under the cloak of Hayes,
apply to the whele country the same
principles of government as are now en-
forced upon the South. The plan will
work much better when it can be carried
out ostensibly under the orders OF
another. ait ..,-n n.,sis.. {. i i.!.i,f,'
The people, who do not wish to
undergo another bitter struggle to re-
ls lease their country from the iron grasp
working now. If Governor Tilden be
moi, the next President of the United
States, it may be long time before the
ballot shall again decide who shall occupy
the seat of Government. -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07
Williams and Harrison.
New York World.

The Republican brethren seem to be
getting disgusted with Indiana and the
Hoosiers. One of Deacon Smith wicked
partners gets out of temper in contem-
plating the popularity of Blue -JeausWil-
liams, and abuses him for his unpreten-
tious ways, his hard hands aud bis
country manners, and the people of his
State for nominating him. In this way
Romeo Jaffier jenkins Reed relieves his
pent-up feelings:
They hate q man of better character or
condition than theirs. They. say he is "stuck
up only because he don't lie down and wal
low with them. They call him a "cold-
blooded aristocratn because his life is de-
cent and brains well schooled., They don't
like to feel shamed by the contrast with him.
And they viii oppose him, as the Athenians
called "good.n "Blue-J cans" is the nomina-
ton to suit this element. He can't offend it
by superiority. He has no quality that will
not mix with it as easily as mud with ditch
water. ~
Uncle Jimmy William" is simply a
shrewd, honest, successful farmer, who,
like all good men of his class in this
country, has studied politics carefully.
he Is man VINO means 10 40 wnat Is
right, and such men seldom fail to fnd
the Tight thing to do. he Affects no cul-
ture or accomplishment that ne does not
possess, and is somodest that he is much
more likely to be underrated than over
rated by casual observers. he Is genuine,
every inch ct him. and may be taken as
one of the best types OF American man
hood. racy of the soil. The silly snob OF
the Gazette may spare mis- blushes for his
private use, and not redden with shame at
the thought OF having I" Blue-Jeans VIII
liams presented to foreigners and
strangers" " For our part, We are more
ashamed 10 find an American journalist
talking about Afi=tides without knowing
what the epithet was to which the Athen-
ians objected. The praise which the Ga
sette bestows upon Ben Harrison is as
absurdly Inappropriate as the censure
which it passes upon Jimmy Williams. 1t
says: ~ e. g
He is big-brained, big-hearted man, who
has cultivated every faculty by exercise, and
every generous feeling by Tree indulgence.
Inc truth is tnat Mr.Harrison Is an
ao,e lawyer. ana patrlotlc, honora6le,
hlgn,spirlteo put ratner na,ro"-mlnoeo q,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07

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dated in 1864. That is two years after
the income return which the Times i'm
peaches. - 1g;5 So s.snd
Not only that; in the report of COM
mittee of directors published in the
Times the other day, August 10, it is spe-
ci6cally stared that the bonds in ques-
ton remained in the hands Of Mr.. Robert
Bayard up 10 March IA, 1870. That Is
eight years atter the period when a portion
of them ought to be accounted for asin-
me, on the assumption that they were
divided. liia 70,
Nor does it appear that they ever were
in fact, up to,this.time, actually disposed
of, or that they ever have been in a
situation to form part of anybody's in
come. III !. sssJ1fTs.I esHsg,
The very documents which the Times
quotes and relies upon thus dispose of
all the specific charges of the Times, dis
pose of everything that has. the appear
ance of proof or the semblance of proba-
| I,lsk~x A-sft = sif
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07
The ColOred Men In the South Coming
iiOut for, Tilden and Reform.
JBaltimore Gszette.I

The colored men are beginning to have
their eyes opened to the political rotten
ness and rascality of the rascals who have
been go long trading upon them. In Vir-
ginia and other Southern States colored
clubs have been organized in favor of
TiIden and Hendricks, and tits safe to
say that thousands of black men will this
year vote the Democratic ticket for the
first time. This is the death blow to
Radicalism, South and North. Itmeans
the obliteration of the color line in poll
tics, the end of the outrages, the last
of the bloody shirt" In Virginia, and
especially Richmond. this movement is
very strong, and is growing every day.
In that city the black President of one
of the Tilden clubs was challenged by q
black Republican debating club to dis
cuss the question whether colored men
are justified in voting for Tilden to which
he tersely replied:
RICHMOND. Aug. 7, 1876
To the Colored Debating Club: ~
SIRs-Your challenge to me to debate the
subject whether colored men are justified in
voting for Tlden, Hendricks, and Reform il
before me. In reply, would assert that ]
think all colored men ought to vote for the
people who give them work to do and feed
and clothe them, and not for men who have
robbed them out of all their money deposited
in the so-called Freedmen's Bank. Our col.
ored citizens are tired of supporting men
who are carrying them to destruction, For
these and other reasons too numerous to
mention, 1 feel justified in severing all con.
nection with this destructive and doomed
party. The time has come when we should
bury all past differences and work in union
with our true friends in saving our common
country from ruin, misery, and poverty. The
sensible, free,thinking colored people are
tired of the Radical yoke and its injustice
to us and its insult to our brave and well
disposed fellow-citizens of the South.
earnestly believe division of the colorel
vote will act benefcially upon our people
and be the means of driving out of the Stat,
all evil-disposed persons of whatever color
Myself and other oolored men are going t,
exercise, our own free will and vote for mel
| who will give them peace, harmony and goo,
will. / call upon the whole people who de
sire to see business open and blossom as tn
rose, to vote for Nlden, Hendricks, and Re
form. am very truly yours, Z p1lig Il
w. 81. L COOMBS,
| President 7. and II. C.
1 " q
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07
The Alton and Terre Haute Matter
- Clearly Stated.

f 30 = l.
These charges against Mr.. Tilden de-
serve some attention, because they affect
the character of man who, it is not at
all unlikely, will be for four years Pfesi-
dent of the country. They are supposed
to go to the root of his character, and to
show him to be not merely unfit for pub
lie life, but for decent position of any
kind. They are said, in fact, to show his
whole career TO be one of chicanery,
fraud, audarobbery, and TO exhibit him
as only different from man like Fisk,
jun, or Jay Gould in not having openly
thrown of. all restraint. We have care
fully examined the principal one of these
charges, in fact the only one brought for
ward in tangible form, which relates to
the st. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute
Railroad, and find that it rests on these
facts: #
In 1850, some twenty-six years ago,
there was Western railroad called the
Terre Haute, Alton and St. Louis Rail-
road, which got into difficulties and could
not pay The interest on its bonds. The
bondholders determined to foreclose the
mortgage under which tile bonds were
issued, and reorganize the road. They
accordingly appointed Mr.. Tilden and
several other gentlemen, who were Sc
lected ON account of their knowledge ot
law or their skill in railroad matters, to
do their business for them. These gen
tiemen, forming what was called the
Purchasing .Committeeo of the.road
bought the road in at foreclosure sale
and sold it again to a new reorganized
company, Ieceivingin returnnew securi-
ties, which they were to distribute among
their principals ON the basis of agreement
madewith them.f They issued these new
securities to the old creditors as long
as any creditors appeared to claim
them. The1e were at the end of these
proceedings number of securities still
undistributed, which the Purchasing
Committee divided among themselves
either for their services or for other rea
sons satisfactory to the.paIties concerned
1t does not appear that there was any
concealment of these facts, or sny1com
piaint made by anybody TO whom Mr.
Tilden or his co-purehasers stood in thu
relation of trustees.
Indeed, so far from this being the case
the Purchasing Committee, Withdrawing
under their agreements, the right to ex
clude any persons from the benefits o
the reorganization alter june, 1861. tool
no advantage of this ri hts but admitted
| claimants down to 1868. and have neye
excluded any body. Besides this. the!
say that in purchasing the road in thei
own name, they assumed heavy iabili
ties, some of which are still outstanding
that they performed many services 10
I which they could get no remuneration
except from the surplus in their hands
thatthe INSTRUMENTATION arising from
this surplus would not pay each membe
/! of this Committee, at the outside, three
quarters of one per cent. of the nomina
amount ofthe securities which passe'
through the hands of the Committee
small remuneration that the net resul
of the whole operation Eas to greatl
J benefit the road, advancing the securit
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07
an opponent, but avery different afail
to carry itout in ones own party.

to carry itout in ones own party.
| This Mr.. Tilden has had the rare cour.
age and ability to do. Against great oh
stacles he commenced and carried through
the hereuiean task of fighting corruption
and pursuing the plumbers in his own
party, and it is almost superfusus to say
that the courage, energy, untiriDg per
severance and acumen Ahe displayed in
those memorable contests, prove that he
possesses in a most eminent degree the
qualities 50 much needed in our chief
magistrate in the present crisis of our af-
fairs
In regard to all questions of finance
and reform we have the sure criterion OF
his past to enable us to form positive con-
victions as to his future.
In his hands may be safely left the task
of awarding liberal justice to the South,
while jealously guarding the rights of
the North. and the issues decided by the
great struggle ended, trust and believe,
for ever
When elected / believe that he will
enter upon the duties of his high office
with the single purpose of serving his
country faithfully, and with no lower
ambition than that of devoting every
faculty to the glorious task of rendering
the nation prosperous at home, henored
and respected abroad. woul like. to
appeal to those who in civil life have
honored me with their friendship and
support, and especially and most earnestly
to those men to whom have never ap-
apealed in vain-my, comrades of the war
land to ask them to stand once more
with me in our country scause, ina civil
contest now, as formerly in deadlier
struggle, and support to the uttermost
the election of Mr.. Tilden to the Presi-
dency.
/ believe that. the issues now at stake
are similar to those for which we fought
1.-The honor and well-beingof thenation.
am very truly yours
GEo. B. MCCLELLAN.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07
The COuntry's Peril.

Ever since General Grant was first
made President, it has been evident that
he has looked upon the position as some
thing that was his due, on account of
services rendered to the country. His
taste of power has engendered such de-
sire for its continuance, that he was
greatly annoyed when he found it impos-
sib.e to secure third term. All his ac-
tions have been conceived and carried
out with supreme contempt for the wishes
or the interests of the people who placed
him where he is. He has exercised his
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07
The question and Measure of Reform.
EtOvelnOr Hendrieks's sheIbyriIe spee.eloh:: :,

fuUFeiHUf ieuufIuks oHelpyfIhe bpeech. 2
Now, my, countrymen, have to ask your
judgment touching the question and measure
of reform. What think you, is reform a
necessity OF our condition? Do we need
reform in respect to the purity of the public
service; in respect to the number and char
acter OF our public officers, and in respect
to the amount of money collected from the
people, and the economy of its expenditure
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07

90 ,on0 Ir
n.S IN Zee. 70, 1868, MI
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aoaice !. = ne sdso: .cl,..
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that tne toiiowlng .ilo is =
true ana IaltnIul state
ment OIL the gains
gronts, or income I,.,s o.
samuel n.s =: y: MIC Iiloen enc O
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county OF new 4 ork
and state OF New
I fork,wnetner aerivee
from any KIND .
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07


We are happy to oblige the Times so
easily. We have merely had to procure
and read the document from which it
quotes. IS, Indeed, it would have been
enough to read the earlier part of the
very sentence which quotes IN the right
hand column, above. The whole sentence
will give the Times plenty of "good rea-
sons" for not branding Gov. Tilden "a
knave aud a perjurer." ? lHa srt SCI
Here is the part of the sentence. which
the Times unfortunately skipped,
And they further say, touching the state
ments in said bin of complaint as to the ser
vices of the defendant, Samuel J.. Tlden,
that he had, long prior to, and at the time
suit in said bill of complaint mentioned,
been the counsel for the second bondholders,
in whose behalf such suit was instituted,
and that he was counsel also for the trustees
of said second mortgage bondholders, aud
had been from some time in the year 1851, +,
to whom the railroads of the -Terre Haute,
Alton and st. Louis Railroad Company were
surrendered, and who were subsequently
made receivers thereof; and was also the
counsel for said receivers, and that he also
acted. as the principal counsel for the said
first mortgage bondholders, in relation to
the foreclosure proceeding hereintofore men.
toned. and other proceedings connected
Herewith, and thst such services had COM
menced prior to the year 1859, and were rem
dered, from time to time, during period Of
upward of three years thereafter.
If the Times in its enthusiasm had
thus only begun few lines earlier in its
reading of the Terre. Haute suit law
paper, from which it quotes, it would
not have confronted years receipts
with a years taxable income. Nor
would the Times then have suppressed
the fact that the payment OF these
$4,000 was on account of professional
services rendered during long series Of
years prior to the first imposition of an
income tax, and during a part only Of
the first year Of the existence of the in
come tax. say -,r--5...f 1s...s.
Did the learned proprietor of the TINES
compute, in his own payment of income
tax for 1862, hisearnines for the previous
years of 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, and 1861
The Times also implies that Mr.. Tilder
received during the year 1862, and as 8
part Of the income of that year $33, ,00t
of bonds which be didnot include in hii
return. We say implies that. 1t assumes
! that. 1t discusses the subject on thai
assumption, makes charges on thai
assumption, though it -shrinks from
making a specific and definite statemen
of what it assumes. sa;teq -,
Now, on analyzihg the documents OF
which it POUNDS its charges, wefind tina
the report Of the company referred to il
the bill of complaint, and expressing tn
| opinion that a surplus of bonds may exis
at some future time, which alleged sur
! plus is now in controversy, was itsel
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07
i. An Awful Man.

When quite Youth Governor Tilden
wrecked q railroad. roasted aud ate his
grandmother, aided Arnold to desert to
the British, and, If elected President will
marry DIR. Mary Walker and re-enslaye
the Chicago Hannibal Zouaves.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07
Governor TIlden,s Income Tax.
New York Sun.l

The Times asks to be shown "some
good reasons why the man who made the
two following afirmations under oath
should not be branded as knaye and a
perjurer::n 8
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07

say to the Democracy that il their investi.
cations Shall succeed in detecting any Re
publican officer in abuse OF his Office, we
pledge ourselves to correct the abuses, and
punish the offender, apd we mean to redeem
the pledge" Why must it be left to Demo-
Gratis to defeat and expose official abuses?
Why does the pledge not include that also2
But the past does not justify any confidence
in the pledge when, made for the party and
administration. When the fraudulent con-
tracts for the collection of the revenue at q
ruinous per cent we're exposed, and the in
dignation of the people compelled Richard
son, the Secretafy of the Trsssnsy, 70 resign,
was the offender punished? On the con-
trary,, within two weeks he was appointed to
a life office, in which he asjudicates claims
against the United. States, and his appoint
ment was confirmed by the Senate.
During the late session il was reported TO
the House that the Superintendent of Public
Printing had been guilty sf extravaesnce,
waste, and favoritism, costing the United
States more HAN a half million dollars an
nuaily. 80 gross were tbe--faults that the
report recommended the inquiry whether
the Superintendent was al officer of the
United States and liable to impeachment.
The result Of the report was q change Of
the law so as to discharge the Superintend-
ents and to provide fer the appointment Of
successor, Within q few days before the
same man, and the appointment was con-
frmed by the Senate. need not refer to
the case Of the present Minister TO China,
and his connection with the Credit Mobilier
before his appointment and confirmation I;
dor TO other cases 1t is very plain that the
leaders of the party will not allow their
party friends to be exposed and punished.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-07


/ In his ansaoer to The
complaint in Me Cir
cuu Court of the Uni
ted &Qtes, in the sui
lcf the ~. Louis, Alton
and Terrc Haiste Rail
lroad Company against
hin.se!f and Others,
achich anslcer aras fled
recently Mr.. Tilden
sacore under oath as
'ltoHoacs:
i " That for such serv-
.iices the defendant,
/ Hlden, made a charge
of ten thousand dol
lars against said Sec
ond mortgage bond
holders, and the said
.lcharge was paid by or
lon behalf of said Sec
.lond mortgage bond
! holders on the 18th Of
'lOcto5er, 1862; $50
that the defendant,
i Flden, for a part OF
sihis services aforesaid, T,
also made a charge of
the like sum of ten
thousand dollars on
account OF profess
iSiOnal' services rem