The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-21
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object ofyuspicion and finally OF detests
tion.
Mr.. Davy rose.
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York; viii
not be interrupted more. have shown
a disposition to answer all reasonable
questions, and I decline to be interrupt
ed any more. Now thegentlemsn from
Iowa
Mr.. Lspham-The gentleman is
speaking by the grace of this side OF the
House.
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York; am not
speaking by the grace of anybody but OF
my own colleague sand my constituents.
Now, the gentleman from Iowa INDUCED
in one insinuation of so mean and des-
picable a character that almost hesitate
to refer to it. If he could have blushed
and I looked into his face rs l sat near
him on purpose-if he were cspa.
Bile of blushing he would have blushed
then, but be did not. He insisted that
the private fortune of Governor Tilden
had been acquired by some dishonorable,
and he did not dare to say dishonest, but
he implied it, dishonest practices in con-
nec.ion with railways and corporations.
Now, when man makes an ins'nuatlon
of that sort be should be prepared with
the proof. 1t is mean, unmanly, dis
honorable charge for any man to make
behind the back of another man who ID
Lot here 10 answer. But l can tell that
gentleman, and l hope his own record is
as clear and as good, that Governor Til
den was called from 1857 to 1860 into
almost every broken.down railway cor
poratlon in tie West; that while he found
them unable to pay even running ex.
penses, he took them in hand and
so administered them that in every case
the bonds, whether first, second or third
mortgage, and the stock, preferred and
common, all ultimately went above par;
and be enriched the people that were
wise enough and fortunate enough 70
have secured his services. am person
ally among the number OF those who
were benefited by his wise and saga.
cious management; and l say, SO far
from having been overpaid in any of
these transactions, that his legal fees and
his personal services were the cheapest
and most poorly rewarded have ever
known in long business career, dealing
in large transactions in all parts OF this
country and in Europe.
DEFY these gentlemen to lay their
hands on dishonest dollar in the pos
session of Samuel j. Tilden. say the
people whom he served are his friends
today, and his best friends. And it is
the service there which he rendered to
the West, Notwithstanding the insinua-
tions of the gentleman from Iowa,that will
give him the vote OF those great western
states within whose borders ne recon-
structed highways which are t. them to-
dsy the arteries of commerce and public
blessings, the value of which cannot be
properly estimated.
And az through the whole of his re.
msrkable career he has been the wisest
of men, he has been the truest of friends,
he has been the most Jealous and earnest
of patriots, 30 TO day he is the wisest, the
most accomplished statesman in the land,
and he will by the blessing of God be
one of the greatest, perhaps the greatest
of the Presidents of the United States,
because be will have the opportunity to
rescue this government from the hands
OF the incompetent and dishonest men
who have controlled it so long and made
it reproach in the eyes OF the civilized
globe. [Great applause.]