Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-05-10
Fraudulent Sammy.

DAY by day the American people are
becoming more and more convinced
that Samuel j. Tilden is not only no.
torious moral coward, but that he is
good deal of a sneak and fraud. The
opportune moment for him to have
foisted himself into the Presidential Of
flee was before the passage of the Elect
oral-COmmission act, when the Demo-
cratic majority in the House had it in
their power to declare him elected. and
to either seat him in defiance of the
Senate or to precipitate civil war, or to
force the Republicans to accept some
advantageous compromise. If Andrew
Jackson, or his little prototype Andrew
johnson, had been standing in Tilden's
shoes, the opportunity for a first-class
row would not have been permitted to
of the Democratic popular majority at
the last election, and the abnormal con-
dition of affairs in Louisiana, and the
underground held by the Democrats
in the House of Representatives were
not made available because of Samuel
j. Tilden's cringing cowardice and de-
ticiency of power as successful leader
of a great party. AS great sneak he
is much more of success; and with
others aid he may yet develop into
some kind of character really so con-
spicuously bad as to become historic.
1t is already pretty woll scttled in the
public mind that he swindled the Gov
ernment out of the major portion of his
income tax, which no doubt constituted
part of that "bar'r' of money which
enabled him to purchase the nomina-
ton at st. Louis and get the support
of impecunious Democratic newspapers.
He next dickered with Grover, of Ore
gon, for portion 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 dispute about the constitu-
| tionality of Mr.. Hayes election has
been settled according to lava law
which Tilden's own personal and polit-
ical friends in Congress voted for and
! sanctioned-the poor old man has
yearned for the bauble of the Presiden-
! cy worse than ever, and his insane de-
sires have been stimulated by hearing
every Democratic State Convention
continually harping upon "the great
fraud that the Electoral Commission
perpetrated upon popular institutions.
Hence the efforts of the conspirator
Blair and his co-conspirators to uproot
what has been done under the sanction
and form of law, and to get Sammy S
case reopened 50 that, if he cannot be
seated in the Executive Mansion, he
can at least obtain a sort of pre-emp-
ton upon the Democratic nomination
in 1880 by being constantly held up be-
fore the eyes of his admiring country
men as the victim of a fraud and mar,
tyr to good order, because he was toe
big "A coward to vindicate his rights, il
he had any. To this end the recent
disclosures in regard to the Florida
election have been concocted, and, al
though the drunken dead-beats and in
dicted criminals who have appeared be
fore the public with their " confessions
seem to be acting from the stings of &
quickened conscience, it is gradually
leaking out that Tilden's money has
had more to do with quickening those
periured rascals than the pricks of re-
morse. 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 con
fession are quite as much entitled tC
our respect as the men who stand be
hind the curtain TO inspire their tools
with bad motives and fill their mouths
with cunning lies.
Mr. Tilden was bred in politica
school that was remarkable for its
craftiness and corruptions. He seems
to have constructed his public career
after the model of Martin Van Buren
whose crafty conduct acquired fol
him the SObriQuet of the little sly fo>
of Kinderhook;" but little Vans
political intrigues were often crowned
with success, while little Sammys are
always destined TO end in defeat and
disappointment Even the late William
Nj. Tweed, with whom Tilden was fol
"a long time intimately associated il
political deviltry, found Sam a dul
scholar in the very direction where HI