Middletown transcript., 1876-09-02

earth, and that he has been guilty Of
kinds Of monstrosities. q.
PoLITIcAL MUD-THRowING. Per
sonal abuse and slander of their oppo-
nents seems to be the plan Of operation
resolved upon by the Republicans, and
especially by their newspapers, for the
present Presidential campaign. IN
able to mention any special merit Of
their own candidates which would en-
title them to the. support. for the Presi-
dency, of the American voters. they
endeavor to make up for their defcien-
cies in wholesale abuse Of the oppos-
ing candidates. After the wholesome
and deserved rebuke which Mr.. Hewitt
administered to Representative Kasson
on the floor of the Horse Of Congress
for his unwarranted and partisan attack
upon Gov. Tilden just before the ad-
journment and the complete refutation
ofall bis charges one might have thought
that these doughty warriors would have
chosen some other method Of warfare,
but not SO, mud-throwing and slime is
their stronghold. They must make
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use Of them or they VIII have nothing
else to use. They are their only
weapons sss FssslE4ss 4szss aggegs Il
One Of the latest Of these Shiny as
saults, and one which they profess to
believe to be overwhelming, is achsrgs
Of perjury against Gov. Tilden, in that
(they say he gave in bis income rer
turns in 1862 as $7,11S. whereas BY
his own admission in later years he
actually received that same year for
professional fees. from the bondholders
Of the Terre Haute railroad $40, ,000.-
Now this is tremendous thing. The
charge was first made by the New York
Times. which has proved itself per-
feet sdspt at this low business: The
accusation is too petty and contemptible
to merit notice, yet there are plenty Of
men-men, too, who in other things
exhibit better sense -who profess to
believe that the charge is true. and
that Mr.. Tilden did make such false
return to The U s. Assessor. Had the
Times Published the whole statement Of
the circumstance on which it lays 50
much stress the case would have borne
very different phase and the truth
would have been apparent at once and
the Times would have saved itself from
the charge Of duplicity and dissimula-
ton in telling portion only Of q story,
without the qualifying part. with inten-
ton to deceive. which Prof. Upham, in
his Mental Philosophy. says is lying
as much as if he had made the lie out
and out. The truth is, as will be seen
by the ehole statement which we pub
lish in another column. the $40, 900
which Gov. Tilden is accused Of with
holding from his returns was not part
of his income Of that year at all There
Is not one Of the wiseacres who make
such q fuss about Gov Tilden's re-
turns, who would not have done just as.
he did, ,providedshey had had any income
to return Merchants and business
men generally. gave in their returns to
the Assessors from their books that
is after deducting the necessary expen-
ses, as allowed by the law. they gave
in a. their incomes the net amount re-
eeived Cor charged) for goods sold. or
work done. during that year. Had
they done otherWise they could not have
made correct returns. Now if man
thus gave in his returns one year ofthe
amount Of goods sold, many Of which
we're not paid for until the next year,
and then in the year following. when
the bills for those goods we're paid,
made return Of the money received
a. part Of his income. he would have
paid tax on the same amount twice.
Gov. Tilden was not foolish enough to
do this. but gave in Is his yearly in
come the amount earned during the
gear and as Mr.. Tilden did, SO did hosts
of others throughout the country, and
no man Of common sense was fool
enough 70 pay tax twice on the same
thing. This il all there is Of this great
bug-a-boo that the Radical papers are
trying to make 30 much capital Of
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