The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-07-20
POLITICAL NOTES.
The National Democratic Convention
to the greenback Democrats:
"Wheel about and turn about,
And do jes so,
And every time you turn about.


Eat little crow.
The indianapolis Journal says Cover
nor Hendricks position towards the NOM
ination is just this: "He will accept if
the specie resumption clause Of that act
is repealed, and having been assured that
it will be by the Democratic House a let
ter may be looked for from him before
long. But it is stated further that if the
act is not so repealed within two weeks or
thereabouts he will decline"
This is the same Tilden who was the
Chairman of the New York Democratic
State Committee during the whole of the
Tweed's shameless career of political
fraud and personal corruption, who accept
ed and gave receipts to his "dear Tweed"
for thousands of dollars which he knew
had been stolen, and used the money for
party purposes by methods as corrupt as
the source from which it came. 1t is the
same Tilden who organized the gigantic
frauds upon the ballot-box in 1868, by
which, as has been abundantly proved be-
yond the possibility of doubt or question,
the will of the people of New York was
defeated - Worcester Spy.
Cincinnati Enquirer. (Dem.)
1t could not but be that a man educa.
ted in cunning, in hypocrisy, in iniquity,
nominated in corruption and shameless
efrontery, even though his millions could
elect him, ,0ould give as the most corrupt
administration the country euer kne,c.
The New York Times thus shows up
Tilden's connection with Tweed: "The
lying production which passes FOR the
biography of the Democratic candidate
for the Presidency says that with the
peace came to Mr.. Tilden the most i'm
portant political labor of his life" 1t
happens that "the peace" brought him in
to closer and more intimate fellowship
with the most disreputable gang of pub
lie thieves with which any community was
ever cursed. The evidence of his bio
graphy contradicts his evidence in court as
to the date at which Tweed attained po-
litical power, and the facts of history con-
tradicts both as to the time when MIR.
Tilden saw fit to desert the fortunes of
his quondam friends. He acted as the
mere tool of Tweed at the Rochester Con-
veetion in 1870; he refused to partici-
pate in the public movement against the
ring in II; he appears beside Judge Car
dozo, Andrew j. Carver, and Tom Fields
as member of the Committee of arrange
ments of the eighty-third celebration of
the Tammany Society on July 4, 1871"
One of the men who in the Chicago
Democratic Convention in 1864 voted the
war failure, and demanded a cessation
of hostilities, is now candidate for Pres
ident of the United States. His name is
Samuel j. Tilden.
Mr.. Hendricks was one of the few
United States Senators who voted against
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
ments to the Constitution on their final
passage.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer Dem writing from Lafayette,
Ind, says: 1.-THE people, to man, are
for paper currency, and hold to their
doctrine with enthusiastic zeal. We have
never seen a community so unanimous
and persistent in their opinions. The In
dependents, under the leadership of Tenn
pleton, and directed by the 7ocsin, edited
by T. H. Bonham, are making strenuous
efforts to carry Benton county, and unless
both parties are more vigilant, they will
succeed. Mr.. Bon ham has a resolution
signed by ia Dem ocrats, pledging them
selves to do all in tn cir power to accom-
plish the total defeat of Tilden and Hen
dricks. This state of affairs is certainly
very discouraging, but the truth star es
us in the face"
This is what August Belmont, IA leading
N. Y. Democrat) said about Tilden be-
fore the st. Louis convention: II think
he (Tilden) cannot carry New York
Those who claim that he is unassailable
do not know him, or if they do, then they
are quite as dishonest as he is. He has
been counsel for all the broken-down cor
| porations with which New York has been
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