The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-08-30
MISCELLANY.
FIFTEEN QUESTIONS.

Mr. Samuel J. Tilden, will you please stand
up and answer few questions
l. Where were you in 1861 when the Union
was in danger, and when true men were need
ed to defend the nation against those who
were armed to overthrow its
q Did you not encourage by speech and
by example the withdrawal of the Southern
States, and then try to discourage the Federal
authority to preserve the Union?
8. Did you not act as chairman Of the Com
mittee on Resolutions in the Democratic Con-
veDtion that met in Chicago in 1864, and as
such chairman, did you not offer to the con-
vention resolution that was Incorporated in
the platform of your party, declaring the war
a failure, and demanding an Immediate cessa-
ton of hostilities?
a. Do you think your action at the breaking
out of the war, during its continuance, and at
its close, renders you a safe man for the loyal
p O. lie to rely upon as President of the United
States?
g. You claim to have instituted certain re-
forms in the State of New York, and reduced
taxation in that State. Do you not know that
whatever credit is due for these reforms
should be shared by the Republican Legisla-
ture that has made them possible? Do you
not know that you can but execute what the
lawmakers enact, and that it is little short of
dishonesty to claim for yourself alone what
belongs to the Legislature of the State?
9. Do you not know that your pretended
canal reforms have proven failures, and that
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to-day for plundering the State have not been
disturbed, because of the moneyed influence
which they WELD over the law officers of your
administration
z Were You not the chairman Of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, with your head
quarters in Tammany Hall, New York city,
from 1864 to 1871, the very period when
William NJ Tweed was in the height of his
power, and the recognized leader in the orga-
nization you represented?
rs. Did you not in 1868, October 81, send
out circular to leading Democrats of your
State, requesting them to send advance infor-
nation of the votes cast in the rural districts
to William M. Tweed, Tammany Hall, and
was not the circular signed by you
o. Did you not know that the purpose of
this circular was to inform Boss Tweed how
many fraudulent votes would be needed in the
city to defeat the honest votes in the country
10. Do you not know that at that election
more than 10000 fraudulent votes were cast
in the city of New York, and that Horace
Greeley, in letter addressed to you and
printed in the New York Tribune October 20,
1869, after the facts had been brought out by
investigation authorized by Congress, used
the following language: "On the principle
that the receiver is as bad as the thief, you are
as deeply implicated in them to-day as though
your name were Tweed, O'Brien, or Oakley
Hall?"
IL. Did you not receive and so acknowledge
before the court in New York city, February
~, 1876, check for $1,000 from William M.
Tweed, said check dated September 7, 1868,
and payable to your order?
H. Do not think that your associations
with Tweed and the class of men who follow
cd him during his reign of plumber and the
training you received in the Tammany school
of politics are the right kind of Endorsements
for man who aspires to be the President of
4O,000,o00 of people9
49, Do you think yodr active participation
in the issuing Of over $4,000,00O of paper
money by the mining companies of Michigan
in which you were interested and the evasion
of the legal tax due the United States Gov
eminent, through your advice, were honorable
transactions?
H. Do you think that your active coopera-
ton with the great railroad corporations of
the country, one of which paid you over ST.
900, 900 in less than two years for pretended
legal and professional services, fit you for the
high position to which you aspire, and sustain
your claims as an honest man and practical
reformer?
You know Mr.. Tilden, that an honest
answer to each Of these questions would be
condemnation from your own lips.
We ask you one more question, and then
leave you in the hands of your friends, who
may try to excuse your record but who can
never blot it out from the memory of the
American people
10. Do you believe that party whose
whole strength lies in the ex rebel element
that supports it, and to which every disloyal
man in the Union now belongs, is better cal
culated to administer the laws and to protect
and advance the national interests than the
party to whose wisdom and patriotism and
courage we now owe the existence of the
Union2
MIR. Tilden, these questions will be asked
on thousand stumps during the campaign,
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pie that your are the man for the Presidency,
or that the party you represent would be a