Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-07-27
HISTORY OF TILDEN.
The Great "Reformer' Shown up In his True
Light.

The Great "Reformer' Shown up In his True
Light.
Mr.. 4. A. Storrs delivered long
speech at Aurora Ills, not many days
ago, of which the following is short
extract:
Upon this platform of 1--WE, the
Democratic delegates" the Democ-
racv have placed in nomination Mr..
Samuel J. Tilden, of the City of New
York, as their exempler and illustra
tor of reform. What has he done ?
Who is Mr.. Samuel J. Tilden One
of the most expert railroad lawyers
on the continent. That is not first
class recommendation. A man thor
oughly imbued with the corporation
spirit, so completely thai, like the
client which he represents, be has no
soul. 1t has ordinarily been the case
that physicians are prosperous IN pro-
portion as they have cared their pa
TENTS. He is a great railroad doctor
the great corporation physician
but all precedent in his case is abol-
ished the patients have died and
the physician has piospered. Loud
laughter. Wherever and whenever
Samuel J. Tilden has been called to
STAND BY THE BEDSIDE OLA SICK RAIL-
ROAD.
There was a funeral 10 the near
future. He is the father of watered
stock. He is the great railroad alb
sorber and absorbent. Laughter.
He is tho author of farm mortgage
bonds, and | don't need TO explain
to you what those instruments mean.
There never yet came into the door
of his Office healthy corporation
which did not hobble out from the
other door on crutches and in band
ages. All along, up and down this
great West, are the wrecks of disap-
pointed hopes and blasted expecta-
tons that stockholders ADD corpora
tons have had, when they have pass
ed through the gentle but death-deal
ing treatment of the man Tilden.
He is Democratic
POLITICIAN OF THE HIGHEST AND THE
LOWEST TYPE.
In 1864 he was a Democratic poll
tician. We are told that our candi-
date, Gov. Hayes, is man of very
ordinary abilities. thank God that
he did not have genius enough to
have been in the Mcclellan Convep-
ton of 1865. Take the two mon
one man of genius and the other a
man of ordinary talent. In that year
the man of ordinary talent had tele-
graphed, in reply to the inquiries Of
his friends. in his ordinary way, hav-
ing merely patriotic desire to do
his duty, as follows:
have other business to attend to now
Any man who leaves the army to electioneer
for seat in Congress ought to be scalped.
[Chcers
At the same time, almost as the
wires were throbbing with Hayes
dispatch to his friends in Ohio, Sam
uel j. Tilden, the great railroad ply
stefan, put the signet of his approval
upon
THIS INFAMOUS DECLARATION
Resolved, That this convention does explicit
Y declare as the sense of the American PEG,
pie, that after four years of failure to restore
the Union by the experiment of war-during
which, under the pretense of military necess-
ity or war power higher than the Constitution,
the Constitution itself has been disregarded in
every part, and public liberty and private
right alike trodden down, and the material
prosperity of the country essentially impaired
Justice, humanity, liberty, and the public
welfare demand that immediate efforts be
made for a cessation of hostilites, with view
to an ultimate convention of the States, or
other peaceable means, to the end that at the
earliest practicable moment peace may be re-
stored on the basis of the Federal States.
Samuel J. Tilden, a war man in
time of peace, and a peace man in
time of warl Cheers Manton Mar
bic says in q letter, addressed to a
delegate from Illinois, that whilo
Tllden was on that day present at
the deliberations of the Committee
be in no way lifted up his voice
against that resolution, which he al
ways disoreetly kept to himself.
[Laughter.1 Was it true ? If as Mr..
John Farnsworth says, Tilden is q
resolute, heightened man, who spurns
all leaders, who will not be dictated
to, | think be would have risen in
his power and might, and said to the
trainers Of that resolution "Get
thee behind me, Satan. | won't
have the resolution, and make mi
norty report" But he did nothing
of the kind. When the Convention
grew FESTIVE over the fact that the
platform had not been presented,
Mr.. Tilden rose in his place and said:
1--WE ARE ALL AGREED.
There is no controversy in the Com
mittee there is no disagreement
there; we are waiting only its revis-
ion by the Sub Committee. He was
followed in that statement by other
members of the Committee, and Mr..
Guthrie solemnly rose to his Ken
lucky feet and said: "There is no
disagreement, and Kentucky declares
that we are all Kentuckyously unan-
imous for peace daughter and
cheers.
There is the record of Samuel j.
Tilden back in 1864 Let the dead
past bury its dead Don't wave the
bloody shirt [Cheers.] Yet, Mr..
Tilden, this very platform on which
you stand to-day, which you must
have written yourself, denounces the
wrongs and crimes of the Republican
party of that very timel Now, don't
you tell US to close our mouths about
your WRONGS Remember that very
period of time [Ch eers.1
Gentlemen, | might bring myself
to such q frame of mind as TO vote
for a confederate. | can understand
how man living in the South might
have voted for theSouth /; but not
until my heart has ceased to beat,