Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-09-28
From the Ohio State Journa
TlLDEN.
Reasons why a Democrat who
Supported Him in 1874
Cannot Support Him =
I'm 1876.
Letter from the Editor Of the
Brooklyn Argus.
RRooKLYN. Sent. 8. 1876.

DROohL1N, iocpI' y, lOIO.
To the Editor of the Ohio State Jour-
nal:
I have noticed the following and
similar paragraphs going the rounds
of the Democratic Ohio news
papers:
"Such campaign as the Republi-
cans are making 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 a majority of over $4,000,
and that is about the way it will be
this year. He made a good Gov
ernor, and will make a good Presi-
dent"
have been requested to answer
these assertions, probably because l
am attached to the Democratic party,
and through my paper, the Argus,
helped elect Mr.. Tilden Governor of
this State in 1874. The Argus has
already answered and disproved the
point involved beyond contradiction,
in this section of the country. 1 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 Mr.. Tilden's connection with
the Northwest Railroad ring. l
never heard of the facts till l read
them in the New York Express, a
Democratic newspaper, in May, 1876.
I did not know that Mr.. Tilden had
swindled the Government by issuing
illegal currency in Michigan, until l
saw the account of the transaction in
the Cincinnati Enquirer, in June,
1876. did not know that Mr.. Til
den had defrauded the Government
on the taxes due from his income, un-
til the month of August, 1876. Of
the Judgment rendered against him
in the case of the Galena and Chi
cago 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.
2. Mr.. Tilden was not elected
Governor of this State by So, 600 ma
jority. His majority was only 3S,411
on total vote of over 100000. Over
one-third of this majority, 12,99S,
was obtained in this city by the help
of the Argus. Outside of New
York and Brooklyn, Tilden was
beaten in the State by 17,077 MAORI
ty,
The people of the State had been
robbed on their canals and on the
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 infamous ring composed of
men in both parties. The financial
panic had occurred the previous
year. Grant was planning for a
third term. In the latter part OF
1871 Tilden had repudiated Tweed's
gang and came out as refnEmer. He
vas the candidate for Governor in
1874. When the elections that yeal
came of, you well know that the tida
wave, swelled by auti-C@sarism, un
employed labor, PROSTATE industries
and the cry for change, commenced
in Oregon, swept across Indiana
Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Mas
sachusetts, and ended in the granite
mountains Of New Hampshire. 1
revolutionized all these States; mad
! Allen Governor of Ohio; Tildel
Eoyernpr of New York by chang
of IA per cent of the vote, and Gas
ton Governor of Massachusetts by
change Of 80 per cent. of its vote
In one year CASTOR was turned out o
Office in Massachusetts, Allen il
Ohio, and Tilden's State ticket wa
beaten outside of New York by owe
10000, That city gave a Demo