The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-10-05


1870. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 3,SA,OOO
Perhaps this is financial economy
and reform worth boasting of by a
good Governor"
In Is months Gov. Tilden has par
doned les criminals and restored 20
to citizenship.
l have confined myself to few
main points in Mr.. Tilden's Guber-
Material career, and to succinctly an
swering the statements in the text of
this communication. But / will not
close without giving other reasons why
honest Democrats, conscientiously
changed their opinions of Mr.. Tilden,
and now oppose his elevation to the
Presidency.
To our surprise, we first found that
Gov. Tilden opposed the execution of
the laws and reform in every locality
where Ring men controlled party ma
chinery and Presidential delegates
We found that he struck at Lord in
Rochester, Dennison in Syracuse, and
for time, at Tweed i'm New York, be-
cause the political machinery of the
party in those places had passed into
reform hands. Far greater public rob-
bers than Lord or Belden were rioting
in Brooklyn and Albany, but then
they controlled delegates and conven-
tions, and the Governor refused to lay
his hands upon them. In fact these
same men have been Tilden delegates
to each State Convention since the
time the alliance was entered into.
When we found that in November
last the friends and partners of Tweed
and his gang men mysteriously all be-
came Tilden men. In the early part
of December Tweed was released from
prison. The official in whose charge
Tweed was is responsible to the Gov
ernor for his place, for Tweed's body,
or for a s6,Ooo,OOo judgment, from
which Tweed absconded. No action
in any way has been taken against
the Sheriff. 1t was then believed, and
the belief has crystalized into very
general conviction, that a bargain had
been made to give Tilden the Presi-
Dental nomination, i'm consideration
for Tweed's release and Executive
protection to his pals.
Tilden's past career was then look
ed into. 1t was found that he and
Tweed had been fellow officers in Tam
many Committee for many years.
That Tilden was Chairman Of the
State Democratic Committee from 1866
to 1871, during the triumphant year of
the New York City Ring. That, in
1868, under the auspices of Tilden and
Tweed, $1,000 fraudulent ballots were
counted in the City of New York, re-
suiting in elevating the previous Ring
Mayor of that city into the Guberna-
torial chair of the State. 1t was found
that Chairman Tilden admitted
Tweed's delegation of the present out
laws and fugitives to the State Con-
vention of 1870. 1t was found that the
proofs of the Ring robberies were pub
lished by the New York Times, July
Goth, 1871. That an indignation meet
ing was held on Sept. 4, 1871. That
Tilden was still sustaining Tweed and
dare not attend the meeting. The
World, of the 5th of September, pro-
nounced the meeting failure because
eminent citizens like Samuel J. Til
den stood aloof from it,"
1t was found that Tilden and the
ring held conference on Sept. 18th
eleven days after the meeting-at
which conference Tilden says HIM
self: 81 pressed Mr.. Connolly Comp
troller, in whose department all part
nership papers were kept to resign,
that the storm would pass over him
and beat upon Others" The partner
ship papers We're then destroyed, Con-
molly resigned and set sail for foreign
shores. Then, after the Destruction
of the vouchers, and not till then, did
Tilden ever lisp word of reform"
1t was subsequently ascertained that
Tilden's relations and friends, the
Peltons and Candies, were interested
in Tweed's large jobs. 1t has recently
come out that, from 1866 to 1871, the
millionaire, Tilden, had only paid
taxes to Tweed's City Government on
personal property ranging from 5000
to $50, 600 per annum. The foregoing
were deemed good evidences of mutual
interest and partnership between Til
den and Tweed.
1t was then discovered that while
honest Democrats had been criticising
Mr. Lincoln's administration for not
hurrying on troops to make short
work of the war, and had been shoul-
dering their muskets, as over 10000 of
them did, and paying their taxes as