Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-07-20
rhat ..Honest. Good Man."

posed to vote for an honest, good
man for the Presidency of our coun-
try, and has any doubt as to Samuel
j. Tilden, of New York, being that
man, we propose to offer the follow
ing evidence, &c.-Bultetia.
This ''honest, good man for the
Presidency" has been sued in the
United States District Court of New
York, to recover one million dollars,
charged to have been fraudulently
appropriated by him while acting
as trustee of the st. Louis, Alton and
Terre Haute railroad. The New
York Herald of a recent date refers
to the case as follows:
"In the suit of Butler against Gov.
Tilden, in which it is alleged that
the defendant is guilty of misman
agement of the affairs of the st.
Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Rail
road, Judge Blatchford, of the United
States District Court, has signed
an order extending the time for the
fling of defendants answer to the
October term. The complaint was
filed several months ago, and the I'LL
ina of the dnSDer has already been
ertended a number Of times.
An "honest'' man, it strikes most
readers, would answer such serious
charge-a charge under oath of fraud
and embezzlement-as soon as made,
but not so with Tilden. He does
not want the case tried, it appears,
until after the election, and the an
swer is accordingly delayed, and the
case continued.
Again, he was the accomplice of
Tweed in the perpetration of those
stupenduous election frauds, by
which the Republicans lost the State
of New York in 1868. We have the
word of Horace Greely, the candi
date of the Bulletin for President in
1872, for the truth of this statement.
In 1869, when the extent of the
frauds of 1868 was known, Horace
Greeley, in an open letter to Mr.. Til
den, accused him fatty of direct COM
plicity in them. We quote from that
letter:
Mr.. Tilden, you cannot escape res
possibility by saying, with the guilty
Macbeth,
Thou cans't not say 1 did it; never shake
Those CORY locks at me!
for you were at least passive ac-
complice in the great frauds of last
November. Your name was used
without public protest on your part,
in circulars sowed broadcast over
the State, whereof the manifest in
tent was to "make assurance doubly
sure" that the frauds here perpetrat-
ed should not be overborne by the
honest vote of the rural districts.
And you, not merely by silence, but
by positive assumption, have cover
ed those frauds with the mantle OF
your respectability. On the princi
pie that "the receiver is as bad as the
thief" you are as deeply implicated
in them to day as though your name
were Tweed, O'Brien, or Oakley Hall
Once more. Amos j. Purdy is 6
New York Democrat; attended the
St. Louis Convention, and knowing
all about Tilden, unbosomed himself
to that convention as follower
The great capitalists claim {
strength for Mr.. Tilden by the asser
tion that he is an honest man. Lei
US examine his record and see if il
is such. William M. Tweed was
probably the greatest thief that this
country ever saw. But the larceny
was not the work of an hour, or 6
day or q month or year. During
all the time that he was carrying or
his plunder in so open manner that
the world knew it, Mr. Tilden was ac
lively associated with him, was the
chairman of all the conventions that
were controlled by Tweed, was living
in the same city and belonged to the
same political organization. When
Tweed was exposed by that eminent
reformer, Jimmy O'Brion, when he
was at the bar Of justice, shorn o.
his political power and cast down
then, and not till then, did Mr.. Til
den join in the cry against him
Applause. If Mr.. Tilden did moi
know or suspect the robberles o.
Tweed in all the years that they were
going on, / say he was not man o
any sagaeity. He was in position
to know it and to ascertain it. If he
did know of these. robberies, but
stood calmly by without lifting his
hand or voice to stop them, he was
not and is not an honest man. Th'
dilemma that you find him in is
either being fool or thief, and il
tlGucT 0NeuI uOI u HI man W UC l. iCo
ident of the United States. Grea
applause.
This is the record of this "honest
good man." These frauds upon til,
ballot box are alone sufficient, i
proven,to consigl him to the peniten
tiary. And this is the man that thl
greenbackers of Ohio have sacrificed
and surrendered their policy o
"more money to support and yot'
for.
| COMMISSIONER Pratt, of the Inter
nal Revenue Department, has re
signed.
Hon. GEORGE e. PUGH is suffering
from a stroke of paralysis, and is no
ayDected To recover.