The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-05
Shamny TiIden Shown Up
i'm HIS True CoIorS.
Letter from the Hon. Demas Barnes
Editor of the Brooklyn Argus
(Dem).
Why a Democrat Who Supported Tilden
in 1874 Cannot Support Him
in 1875.
RnooKLYN, Sept. 81. 1875.

i nave nOC1C6Q the IOuOWluS aLu slLllldT para
graphs going the rounds or the Democratic
| Ohio newspapers:
! Such campaign as the Republicans are making
i was never known to win. all the charges now
made against Mr.: TIlden were made In 1874 when
| he was candidate for Governor of New York. He
was elected by majority of over $1,000, and that
| is about the way it will be this year. He made a
| good Governor, and will make good President.
| have been requested to answer these asser-
| tons. probably because I am attached to the
/ Democratic party, and through my paper the
ATqus. helped elect Mr. Tilden Governor OF
this State in 1874. The Argus has already an
swered and disproved the point involved be-
! yond contradiction in this section of the coun-
try. will now undertake to do it for the State
| of Ohio, through the columns OF the State
! Journal.
/. The charges now made against Mr.. Tilden
were not made in 1874. The Democrats of this
State did not know of ar. Tilden's connection
with the Northwest railroad ring. l never
heard of the facts until read them in the New
York Express a Democratic newspaper, in May,
| 1876 I did not known that Mr.. Tilden had
| sw1ndled the Government by issuing illegal
currency in Michigan, until saw the account
of the transaction in the Cincinnati Enquirer
! in June, 1876 I did not know that Mr.. Tilden
| had defrauded the Government on the taxes
/ due from his income until the month of Au-
gust 1876 OF the judgment rendered against
| him in the case of the Galena and Chicago
Railroad Company stockholders, in 1865; of the
| Judgment by the same court for his land-taxes
| due to the State of Michigan in 1873, and of
his Congressional Relief" bill from penalties
| and taxes, can say the same thing
|. g. Mr.. Tilden was not elected Governor of
this State by SO, 600 majority. His majority was
only 38 All, on total vote of 100000. Over
one-third Of this majority, IL, 1898, was obtained
| in this city by the Argus. Outside of New
York and Brooklyn, Tilden was beaten in the
State by 1907 majority.
| The people of the State had been robbed on
| their canals and on their new Capitol building
at Albany; the city of New York had been
| robbed by the Tweed ring; and the people of
Brooklyn had been robbed by an equally in.
| famous ring, composed of men of both parties,
The financial panic had occurred the previous
| year Grant was planning for third term. In
| the latter part of 1871, TIlden had repudiated
| Tweed's gang and came out as reformer. He
was the candidate for Governor In 1874. When
the election of that ye'~ came off, you well
know that the tidal wave, swelled by anti.
| C@sarism, unemployed labor, PROSTATE indus
tries, and the cry for a-cbange, commenced In
| Oregon. swept across Indiana, Ohio, New York,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, and ended in the
granite mountains of New Hampshire 1t rev.
olutionized all these States made Allen Gov
ernor of Ohio; Tilden Governor OF New York
| by change of Ia per cent OF the vote; and
CASTOR Governor of Massachusetts by change
| of 80 per cent. of its vote. In one year CASTOR
was turned out of Office in Massachusetts, Allen
| in Ohio and Tildens State ticket was beaten
outside OF New York by over $4,000. The city
| gave Democratic ma ority which saved the
| State to the party by $4,000. 80 much Tor III
| denis election as Governor.
8. Has he made good Governor? When
| inaue urated, he took an oath Ito obey the
constitution, enforce the laws, and protect the
interest of the people of the State" He knew,
because a Senatorial committee appointed by
| his predecessor, Gov. Dix, had 80 reported,
that millions of dollars had been stolen from
the taxpayers by the men vino had charge OF
| erecting q new State Capitol building. He did
not enforce the laws. No legal action has bean
| commenced against the plunderers. The same
| is true OF the plunderers Of the city OF Brook
| lyn. In each case the men whom he had said
| should be in State prison, and whom he was
elected to duly punish, have become his fast
| friends by well-known arrangements, and IN
stead of being on their road to prison we found
them shouting for Tilden for President. In and
out Of the st. Louis Convention. Perhaps
these are the acts of q "good Governor"
The constitution of our State says
"The Legislature shall not pass private or
| local bill in any of the following cases: Grant
| ing to any corporation, association, or 1ndlvld-
ual the right to lay down railroad tracks. The
Legislature shall pass general laws providing
for the cases enumerated" etc.
| Gov. Tilden was interested in street railroad
| in the CITY of New York. A bill to extend the
road by special legislation, in violation OF the
constitution, which he had sworn to obey, was
put through the Legislature by the use of
money Gov. Tilden signed the bill June IL,
1875. OF it the New York World, Demo-
| c1atic newspaper said:
cit Is an eternal disgrace to the State OF New
| York that such dishonest practices are allowed
| to continue.
Members are bought up on these bills as
YOU would buy pound of beef.
4 "The bill known as the Greenwich Street
| M ~
Use of 800 each for sixty five votes Ga majority
| in that Assembly.
"A noted lobbyist, formerly public printer,
Van Benthuysen, held the stakes, $40, 900, to
paw Barber, Tweed, and Tilden's former lobby
list, when the bill became law"
Perhaps this was the act of "good Gov
ernor.'
bill adding about $50, 900 per annum TO the
| Sher1f's fees of this county-the office was
! before worth $40, 900 per annum-Was signed
by Gov. Tilden after knowing all the facts and
| being opposed by most attorneys acquainted
with them 1t was a bill in the interest OF
| ring who control delegates. Perhaps this was
an act for which the 70, 900 voters OF Brooklyn
ought to call Mr.. Tilden "good Governor
| Mr.. Wardell said, in June last, that Gov.
Tilden has appointed some of the worst men to
office who ever disgraced the State man
connected with the insurance department OF
the State was defaulter of State funds to the
amount of $50. 600. The facts were investiga-
tad and laid before the Governor by friend.
He begged that the facts might be suppressed
on the ground that the defaulter was the most
efficient agent in getting up Presidential dele
gates. He subsequently nominated this man
70 lucrative position, but the Senate refused
to confirm the nomination. In 1875, the city
of Brooklyn indicted, tried and convicted sew
eral Charity Commissioners for robblng the
people of large sums of money. The ring men
requested Gov. Tilden to appoint one OF these
convicts, who is valuable ally at election times,
to valuable position. Other men. without
reference to party, of course protested against
the appointment. The appointment was made,
however, by the Governor, and the appointee
Is now drawing a salary from the State treasu-
nv. Perhaps these are acts which become a
ssgood Governor" and man who is using ne
form as his capital.
Gov. Tilden lays claim to reducing the debt
and the taxes Of the State. In the first place,
an Executive cannot do this in the second
place, the changes in these items, which dio