The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-09
FRAUDULENT SAMMY.
Iron the Chicago Tribune.l


GUS moral coward, but that he is a good
deal Of q sneak and fraud. The OPP
perfume moment for him to have hoisted
himself into the Presidential Office was
before the passage of the Electoral Com
mission act, when the Democratic ma
jority in the House had it in their power
TO declare him elected, and to either seat
him in defiance of the Senate or to pre-
cipitate civil war, or to force the Repub-
lcans to accept some advantageous com.
promise. If Andrew Jackson, or his
little prototype Andrew johnson, had
been standing in Iilden's shoes, the OPP
portunity for first class row would not
have been permitted to pass unimproved.
But the moral power OF the Democratic
popular majority at the last election, and
the abnormal condition Of affairs in
Louisiana, and the vantage ground held
by the Democrats in the House of Rep
resentatives were not made available be-
cause Of Samuel J. Tilden's Bringing
cowardice and deficiency of power as a
successful leader of q great party. AS
great sneak he is much more of sue
cess, and he may yet develop into some
kind Of a character really so conspicu-
ously bad IS to become historic.
1t is already pretty well settled that
he swindled the Government out of the
major portion of his income tax, which
no doubt constituted a part Of that
bar'l of money which enabled him to
purchase the nomination at st. Louis,
and get the support of impecun1ous
Democratic newspapers. He next dick
cred with Grover, of Oregon, for Dor-
ton of the electoral vote of that State.
but the trade did not pan out worth
cent, and the speculation terminated
badly for all concerned. Since the dis
pube about the constitutionality of Mr..
Hayes election has been settled accord
ing to lava law which Tilden's own
personal and political friends in Con
gress voted for and sanctioned-the
poor old man has yearned for the bauble
of the Presidency worse than ever, and
his insane desires have been stimulated
by hearing every Democratic State Con-
vention continually harping upon
"the great fraud ]" that the Elec-
toral Commission perpetrated upon
popular institutions. Hence the
efforts Of the conspirator Blair
and his co-conspirator Conkling
TO uproot what has been done under the
sanction and form of law, and to get
Sammy's case reopened so that, if he
aay,~,O4 h eoa%nJ Ma
sion, he can at least obtain a sort of pre-
emption upon the Democratic nominal
ton in 1880 by being constantly held up
before the eyes of his admiring country
men as the victim of fraud and mar
tyr to good order, because he was too
big coward to vindicate his rights. if
he had any. TO this end the recent dis
closures in regard to the Florida cleo
ton have been concocted, and, although
the drunken dead-beat and indicted
criminals who have appeared before
the public with their confessions"
seem to be acting from the stings of a
quickened conscience, it is gradually
leaking out that Tilden's money has had
more to do with quicke1ing those per-
jured rascals than the pricks of remorse.
The hand may be the hand of Esau. but
the voice is the voice Of Jacob. The two
scamps that just now stand before the
public gaze as base perjurers upon their
own voluntary confession are quite as
much entitled to our respect as the men
who stand behind the curtain to inspire
their tools with bad motives and fill
their mouths with cunning lies.
Mr.. Tilden was bred in political
school that was remarkable for its craft
ness and corruptions. He seems to have
constructed his public career after the
model of Martin Van Buren,, whose Graf
ty conduct acquired for him the 8obr5-
quet of "the little sly fox of Kinder
hook" but little VANS" political IN
trigues were often crowned with success,
while little Sammy's are always destined
to end in defeat and disappointment.
Even the late William M. Tweed, with
whom Tilden was for long time init
nnately associated in political deviltry,
found Sam a dull scholar in the very d.
rection where he seemed to have a natu-
raj tendency and instinct, and, while the
great Democratic Boss stole the metro
politan city poor, his pupil could only
boast Of cheating the revenue out of q
few thousand dollars, and wrecking q
few poverty-stricken railroads. Tilden
lacks the cunning Of Van Buren, and the
oraftiness of Tweed, but possesses the
meanness Of both. If he had
half the sagacity with which some Of
his stupid admirers credit him, he WoulG
select his tools from superior
class OF rascals, and obscure
the deviltry Of his plans with the bold
ness and ability Of their execution. Mil
ton invests the fends that fell from
heaven with courage, audaoity, ant
pluck; but Tilden's imps have no sucl
manly qualities to offset against thei
inherent cussedness, Like their master
they are ordinarily sharp and shrewd
| always mean and undetermined; habitual
Ilv ',ase and hypocritical: never decent
sincere and far-seeing. Tilden's Iega
training ought to have given him
deeper insigtt into human nature thar
he seems to possess but tn6 ordinary ex