Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-08-31

future can ii give? Does it plead
the character of its candidate? We
cannot accept such plea until Mr.
Tilden has answered some questions
" hich the American people now pre-
pose 10 him.
MIR. TILDEN, PLEASE ANSWER:
Did you not, with Vallandigham
Dean and Miller, endorse the peace
resolutions of the Democratic Con-
vention Of 1864, and vote the war a
failure
Did you not, all through the war,
act and sympathlze with Tammany
and others in sympathy with the Re-
bellion?
Have you not for thirty years been
the attorney of corporations whose
stock holders were the flies and you
the spider?
Please furnish list of the farm
mortgages, the execution of which
you have persuaded, and the confsca-
ton of which has been your agreeable
task ?
How many bond and stockholders
have you been trustee for who have
filed bills in chancery against you, to
compel an accounting
How many thousands of dollars Of
shinplasters have you kept a1oat in
the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in
violation of law, whereby you saved
the interest on them while 10 circula
ton and made clear profit on all that
were worn out, lost or destroyed?
Have you not been associated with
Boss Tweed in many political con
ventions, and been cheek-by-jowl with
him in Democratic rascality =?
Is it possible that, during all the
long years of your intimacy with that
Immaculate pattern, you did know he
was robbing the people of New York
If you did not, are you the honest re
former you pretend to be?
Did you not, now that you are sc
years old, commence the reform busl-
ness a little late in the evening of life
And did you not go INTO that business
suddenly for the purpose of saving
your own reputation F?
While Chairman of the State Central
Committee-Tweed and gang then
stealing-did you not instruct your
Committees in the country to report
to Tweed, to the end that his gang
could stuff ballots sufficient to over,
come an honest election
Did Horace Greeley ever mention
the subject to you? And did you ev.
err dare reply to him ?
Did not Tweed 81 Co furnish you
the money with which you carried on
your campaigns, agreeable to assess
ments made by YOU?
Did you not, in March, 1875, send
message to the New York Legisla-
ture, stating that canal claims were
allowed for work done largely in ex-
cess of the contract price and, with
others, cited the case of William
Johnson, the contract price being
S37, s7I, and the amount fraudulently
allowed $l10,320? And did you not
actually sign a bill in the May follow
ing to pay $50, 900 on this same fraud
ulent transaction, stating that it was
valid claim against the State?
Did you not pretend to inaugurate
raid on the New York Canal Ring
resulting in the conviction of only one
or two little fellows, while you, know
ingly, allowed to escape the larger
and more guilty thieves /? Were not
the indictments dismissed by your or
der or connivance And is not the
Canal Ring supporting you to-day?
Do you not know that Tweed es-
capped through the connivanoe of a
Democratic Sheriff in New York, and
that as Governor you had the power
to remove that Sheriff? Have you
removed him?
Did you earn your vast fortune in
the legitimate practice of law, or did
you earn it as the representative Of
the stock jobbers of Wall street?
Did you not send John Morrissey
the celebrated gambler, to st. Louis,
as the especial representative of your
interests in the Convention, and is he
not, with all his freinds-the short
boys, the ballotbox suffers and
ronghs of New York, and the Ku.
Klux gangs in the Simultaneously
supporting your claims to the Presi
dency on the ground of reform?
Mr. Tilden, you wrote a letter Of
acceptance. Did you not purposely
obscure your views so that common
people could not understand them,
and were you not in the attitude of a
gentleman who once answered an ug-
ly question which be desired to dodge,
in the following lucid manner
Sir, can | close my eyes to the
ever varying exigencles of the con
stantly changing circumstances ?"-is
not this about the English of your
letter ?
When Mr.. Tilden has Faithfully an
swered these questions, the American
people will be prepared to decide hi:
case.
Now, does the Democratic party
promise anything good, the fulfillment
of which is justified by its record, OF
by the character of its candidates, Oh
by the utterances of Its leaders !?
Isit reliable guarantee to the Amer
lean people that the horrors of Ander
sonville are both denied and justified
Or that there are Sso,oo0,000 o
Southern claims on file in the differen
departments of government?
Are we to believe that peace vii
prevail in the South under Democrat
| ic rule, and that the rights of all mel
will be preserved when in the very
face of Presidential campaign, anC
while only victory is anticipated, in
nocent men are shot down in thu
| streets
What may be expected if the.
achieve victory, and the power OF thi
government passes into the hands o
| those who have attempted to destro,
it? We must look to see the slave
paid tor-tor testimony is now eein!
taken to prove their loss and value.
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