The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-09-22
CLEVELAND, O., Sept. Is.

FORM"
CLKvKLAND, o., Sept. Is.
| We examined into the anteeedents o.
some of Gov. Tiiden's kentucky ''re
formers Now let US take the Other
extremity of the South, and glance al
Texas. This State sent to st. Louis &
regiment OF delegates, instructing then
to cast the vote the State wGs entitled
to as they might agree. Some of then
were prominent during the rebellion
others were regular border ruffians and
oushwhackersi but every one whose
name was recognized by your CORES
pondent wns in the rebel service, mill
tary or civil, during the war. They
maze but little cut of their "offices"
then, and have since had little chance
to hold any; but they are ravenous as
wolves for spoils, and consider that the
National Treasury will afford them
mich more substantial food than did
the Treasury of jeff. Davis.
vi the Electors at Large in Texas.
distinguish the name of D. c. Giddings.
He is a Northern man by birth and
education, outgoing South before the
war, and having little means, he de
cided that the role for him to play in
order to raise the wind" was that of
an ardent Southerner. When the war
broke out he entered the rebel service.
and was made Colonel, showing all
through the conflict, it is said, an aver
sion 70 spilling his own blood, and an
apparent disinclination to hrrt any.
body else. Since the war he has served
term in Congress, his only distin-
guished service being to vote for and
pocket s5, 009 back pay. But lis big
exploit is p recent one, and consists in
pocketing, from the school funds of
Texas, S31 200 which he claimed az
Fees for services in a pleasure trip over
the water, lasting about thirty days.
so great a reputation has he thus &C
quired as a "reformer, that the Til
denites of Texas, in addition to making
him Presidential Elector, have again
nominated him for Congress in the
Austin District, defeating for that
nomination John Hancock, present in
cumbent.
This was severe on john, for he, too,
had tried his best to be a good Demo
cratic ''reformer" like Giddings, he had
voted for and taken the back pay, and
for two years had humbly served the
Confederate Democracy in all heir
deyiltry. But he had committed the
incapable crime of being Union man
during the war; and in most of the
South no amount of public plunderingI
and wrong-doing will bring mau fully
up to the Tilden standard OF "reform. {"
unless he was also a traitor to his
country.
b. III. Epperson, the other EIector-
at-Large, was a member of the Texas
Legislature, and a Colonel in the rebel
army.
OF the District Electors, George w.
Chiffon, in the First District, was
Confederate Major. He was a pretty
effective one, too, and signalized him
self by going over into Mexico with $50
men, March IS, 1868, and capturing
Captain William Montgomery and Col
onel E. j. Davis, of the 1st Texas
UNITED States), Volunteers, who were
then at the little town of Bagdad, at
the mouth of the Rio Grande, waiting
to embark for New Orleans. Within
three hours after the capture, he caus-
ed Captain Montgomery, whom he had
distinctly promised to treat as pris-
oner of war, to be murdered by hang
ing, detailing for the purpose one Ser
geant Adams, a notorious ruffian and
and five men. He probably
would have subjected Col. Davis to the
same fate had not the Mexican author
tiles made an immediate and pressing
demand for his release. Chiffon re
luctently let his victim go, as his
superior officer, at Brownsville, con
Guided it best to comply with the Mexi
can demand. Chiffon is fully up to
the requirements OF Democratic ''re
form.n
b. ID. Martin, in the Second Dis
'rict, was also rebel Major, but did
not distinguish himself like Chiffon,
and Is not 50 influential with Demo-
,ratic "reformers."
In the Third District, the elector.
James NJ. Hunt, was a rebel Captain.
Thos. j. Beall OF the Fourth was
member of the rebel Legislature, and !
/ rebel Colonel.
Richard W. Cook Of the Fifth. was ,
also a rebel Colonel, but was distin
shed during and since the war rather Z
more for blowing" than lighting.
The Elector of the Sixth is W. H. ,
Burgess, whose captaincy in the rebel q
srmy is his only distinction. I
Such is the phalanx of "reformers" !
n Texas who will cast the electoral :
'ote ofthat State for Samuel j. Tilden.
The guilty traitors whose mischief done
o the nation will not be wholly set as ;
de for half "A century, and whose hearts 4
re bent upon nothing Tut mi-chief :.
md plunder, are Tilden's reform
riends in that section, and have prom
sed him its solid" vote. ;
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THREE MODEL REyORMERs.
MANsFIRLD, o., Sept IA. &
1t has just been definitely ascertained v
hat the three last Democratic Commis t
toner's of the Virginia school land