Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-13

Nast's inimitable pencil, illustrates
in Harper's last Weekly, Gov. Tilden
out of prison, long line
of reformers, preparatory to the COM
ing election. The cartoon is based
upon the following facts, which that
paper has taken from the official rec
ords:
"Pardons and combinations by Til
den in 1S75-SS.
Pardons and combinations by Til
den from January ! to July p, 1876
SO.
Aggregate of years of pardon and
Communication in l875-220 years and
8 days.
Aggregate of years of pardon and
Communication from January to July
q, lS76-207 years, months, and six
days.
Total number of pardons and COM
mutations by Tilden in one year and
a half-186.
Total aggregate Of years, 427 years,
8 months and IA days.
The above summary does not in
clude nine convicts who were sem
fenced to be hanged, but whose SEN
fences were committed to imprison-
ment for life; nor four others who
were sentenced for life, but whose
sentences were committed to impris-
onment, one for Is years, one for
eighteen years, one for fourteen years
and one for eight years.
Since the LIST of January, 1876, Til
den has restored seventy convicts to
to citizenship, the larger portion OF
them during the last three MONTHS
In each case it is marked on the rec.
ord, mot to be published
That paper covers one whole side
of its issue with the names of these
villains whom Governor Tilden hal
let loose to prey upon the people Of
New York and elsewhere, during thu
brief time that he has been in office
It's statement includes the offences
they committed, and the time fol
which they were respectively sen
fenced. They had committed all tn,
crimes in the calendar, many Of then
being in for murder, rape, seduction
manslaughter and so on dowr
through all the gradations of hienouI
crime, to the violation of the excis.
law.
1t is q remarkable showing and i
argues that this wholesale Jail deliv
cry is being made for the purpose
plainly indicated by Nast's pencil, o.
else that Governor Tilden is a chick
en- hearted sort of man, unfit to b,
Governor of New York, much less Il
be President of the United States.
Reader, do you reeollect that no
long ago pale-faced young wifi
came to the President with her CHILD
in her arms, pleading that her husband
might be pardoned out of the peni
Tertiary at Jefferson City, and how
she showed by the strongest array Of
evidence that her husband was wrong
fully imprisoned on the unsupported
testimony of fellow conspirators, who
bought their freedom by swearing
William o. Avery into prison, ani
how the kind-hearted President, be
lieving Avery to be more sinneG
against than SHINING, nevertheless
properly referred the papers to thu
law officers of the Government, and
how Attorney General Taft decided
to refuse the pardon? Do you recol
lect how these Tilden reformers from
one end of the country to the other
with great ontcry and indignation
abused Grant for even this DISPOSE
ton of mercy, as an evidence that he
was in the whisky ring? And yet
it is apparent from the official books
that Samuel j. Tilden. "the inexora
BILE foe of fraud and the terror o.
criminals" has pardoned and set free
upon the community in the shor
space of eighteen months 186 felons
And it is probable that Avery, or tn,
worst man in the whisky ring, is fl
to be called an angel of light, in
comparison with the best one of tn,
jail-birds which are now supporting
the Reform movement in New Yorl
City with Gov. Tilden's pardon ii
their pockets as their sufficient ere
dentials.