The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-09-14
Fifteen QUESTION:.

piease stahu up anu answer a few Ques
tons:
/. Where were you in 1861 wbe
the Union was In danger, and when IN
true men were needed 10 defend IN
nation against those who were arme,
to overthrow itp
2. Did you not encourage by spcccl
and by example the withdrawal of III
Southern States, aud her try TO dis
courage the Federal authority to pre-
serve the Unionp
8. Did you not act as chairman O
the Committee on Resolutions In tn
Democratic Convention that met /,
Chicago in 1864, and as such chairman
did you not offer to the convention
resolution that was Incorporated in Oh,
platform of your party, declaring tn,
war a failure, and demanding an imme
date cessation Of hostilitiesp
L.. Do you think your action ut tn,
breaking out of the war, during its con
%tinuance, and at its close, renders yor
a safe man Tor the loyal people to rel,
upon as President of the United StatesP
5. You claim to have instituted Ger.
tain reforms in the State of New York,
and reduced taxation in that State. Dc
you not know that whatever credit /.
due for these reforms should be shared
by the Republican Legislature that has
made them possiblep Do You not know
that you can but execut what the law
makers enact, and that IL Is little short
of dishonesty to claim for yourself alone
what belongs to the Legislature of the
State2
9. Do you not know that our pre-
tended canal reforms have proven fail.
ures, and that those who ought tu have
been in State prison 10 day for plum
dering the State have not been disturbed
because 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 headquarters 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 in the organization
you represented?
8. Did you not in l. 6S, October IL,
send out q circular to leading Demo-
Gratis of your State. requesting them to
send advance information of the votes
cast in the rural districts to William NJ.
Tweed, Tammany Hall, and was this
circular not signed by you9
9. Do you not know that the pur-
pose of this circular was to inform Boss
Tweed how many fraudulent votes
would be needed in the city to defeat
the honest votes in the country
10. DO you not know that ut that
election more than 10000 fraudulent
votes were cast in the city OF New
York, and that Horace Greeley, in n
letter addressed to you and printed in
the New York Tribune October 20. 1869,
after the facts had been brought out by
an investigation authorized by Congress,
used the following language: ''On the
principle that the receiver is rs bad as
the thief, you are as deeply implicated
in them to-day as though your name
were Tweed, O'Brien. or Oakley liall?"
H.. Did you not receive and so ac-
knowledge before the court in New
York city, February 81, 1876. n chez,
for $4,000 from William NJ. Tweed,
said check dated September Z 1868, and
payable to your order?
II. Do you think that your ~associa-
tions with Tweed and the class of men
who followed him during his reign OF
plumber and the training you received
in the Tammany school Of politics are
the right kind of Endorsements for n
man who aspires to be the President of
45, 100000 of people?
10. DO you think your active par
ticipation in the issuing of owe $4,000
600 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?
II. Do you think that Your active CO.
operation with the great railroad cor
porations of the country, one Of which
paid you over 81. 900, 900 in less than
two years for pretended legal and pro-
iessionai services, fit you for the high
position TO which you aspire, and suS-
tain your claims rs IN honest man and
II practical reformcr!
You know, Mr.. Tilden, that an hon
est 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
record, but who can never blot II ont
from the memory OF the American pco-
pie:
10. Do you believe that n party
whose whole strength lies in the eX-
rebel element that supports it, and to
| which every disloyal man in tho Union
now belongs, is better calculated to adj
minister the laws and to protect and ad
| vance the national interests than the