Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-22
From the Ohio State Journal.
TILDEN.
Reasons why a Democrat who SUI
ported Him in 1874 Cannot SuPPOi
Him in 1876.

HIM IN 1876
Letters from the Editor ofthe Brooklyn Argus.
10 tie Editor ofthe Ohio STATE Journal:
have noticed the following and similar
paragraphs going the rounds of the Demo
cratic Ohio newspapers:
'sSuch eampaignas the Republicans are
mshng YVES never known to win. ALI the
charges now made against Mr.. Tlden were
made IN in 1874, when he was a candidate
for governor of New York. He was elect
ed by a majoriSy of over 5000, and that
IS about the way it viii be this year. He
made good Governor, and will make a
good President.
l have been requested to answer these
assertions, probably because am attached
to the Democratic party, and through my
paper, the ArgHs, 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. will now un-
dertake to do it for the State of Ohio,
through the columns of the State .loalsua4.l.-
= +. Inc charges now made against Mr..
Tllden were not made in 1871 The Demo-
crats of this State did not know of Mr..
FHden's connection with the Northwest
Railroad ring. Inever heard Of the facts
until read them in the New York cypress,
Democratic newspaper, in May, 1876. I
did not know that Mr.. Filden had swindled
the Government by issuing illegal currency
in Michigan, until 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 Lom his income, until the month
OF August, 1876. Of the Judgment render
ed against him in the case Of the Galena
and Chicago Railroad company stockhold-
ers, in 1866; of the Judgment By the same
court for his land taxes due to the State of
Michigan in 1878, andof his Congressional
Relief bill from penalties and taxes, I
can say the same thing.
2, Mr.. Tilden was not elected Governor
OF this State by IS, 900 majority. His ma
Jority was only 8s,411 on a total vote of
100000. Over one-third of this majority,
1898, was obtained in this city by the
help Of the Argas. Outside Of New York
and Brooklyn, Tilden was beaten in the
State by 17,O77 majority.
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 Brookya'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 third term. In the latter
part Of 1871 Tilden hadrepudiated Tweeds
gang and came out as retormer. he was
the candidate for Governorin 1874. When
the elections that year came of, YOU well |
know that the tidal wave, swelled by anti
Cesarism, unemployed labor, PROSTATE in
dustries and the cry for change; com
meneed in Oregon, swept across Indiana,
Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Massachu- |
setts, and ended in the granite mountains |
OF New Hampshire. It reYolutionized all |
OF these States; made Allen Governor of |
ohio; Iilden Governor Of New York by a |
ehange OF IA per cent, of the vote, and Gas
ton Governor Of Massachusetts, by change
OF w per cent, of its vote. In one wear
CASTOR was turned out Of Office in Massa- |
chusetts, Allen in Ohio, and TiIden's State |
ticket was beaten outside of New York by |
over 10000. That city gave a Democratic |
majority which saved the State to the par
" by 1900. So much for Tilden's elce- |
ton as Governor.
.. Has he made good Governor? When
lnaugurated, he took an oath ''to obey the |
Constitution, enforce the laws and protect
the interests of the people of the State.
"He knew because a Senatorial committee |
appointed by his predecessor, Governor
Dix, had so reported, tEat millions Of dol
lars had been stolen from the taxpayers by
the men who had charge of erecting new
State capitol building. He did not enforce
the laws. No legal action has been com
menced against those plunderers. The
same is true Of the plunderers of the CITY |
Of Brooklyn. In each case, the men whom |
he had said should be in State prison. and