The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-04-22
A GALE IN CANADA.
TILDEN AT WASHINGTON.

A Study Of the JObbing Influences Opposed to
Him-Plunder Schemes the Motive OF the In
cessant Libels.
Special Correspondence Of the PittsbuTg POST
Washington, April ID, 1SSO.-This is good
place to study the opposition 10 Tilden. Here,
probably, better than anywhere else, can the mo-
tive for the abuse calumny and constant Vlllih.
cation of the rightful President be best discern
ed. Here one comes into personal contact with
the men who for various reasons deiame the
character of Samuel ], Tilden. Here the repudi'
ators Of Virginia and Tennessee the adherents
of Tammany Hall and the corruptionists OF ey-
cry sort and degree meet on common ground in
the capital OF the nation. All are opposed to Til.
den and each class vies with the other In his def
amation. There is not canal thief, Tammany
thief repudiator Of debts a lobbyist a jobber,
Southern claimant, nor man who wants big
appropriations magnificent government that
is not loud in his denunoiatlOn OF Mr.. Tilden.
Those who want economical government, those
who favor retrenchment and reform, follow his
standard in Co gress but every man who disbe-
lieyes in the simple, honest government of the
fathers is his enemy and never loses an oppOrtu'
nifty to traduCe him and beSpatter him with mud
1t has been truly st i'd that when bad men con
spire, good men should unite" and the fact that
all the corrupHOnists in the country Of both par
ties are bitter against Tilden should only make
the friends Of good government more devoted to
his cause. The people who are carried away
| with the ClamO- that has been raised about
| IIlden's ears should remember that JetferSOn'f
correspondence Is filled with alusion to the ''un
| bounded calumnles" heaped upon him, and that
hnnV, AaF Hn1 NnfN
Presidency in 1924 by the Clay-Adams intrigue
mucn the same as Tilden was cheated in 1876
| WAS branded as a murderer, aduterer and an out.
| law, Parton says; General Jackson was &C.
cused of every crime otfense and improperly
| that man was ever known to be guilty Of" and
history records that Jackson's wife was literally
| killed by the slandeTs heaped upon herself and
| husband by the latters political enemies. So
with Tilden; no aspersiOn is too foul no charge
is TOO grave no accusation is too incredible to be
laid at his door, and to gain currency with those
| politicians and those newspapers whose business
| il is TO kill him off There is as much reason to
| charge Tilden with responsibility for the famine
| in Ireland, as to charge him with completely
with the dead beat Finley's threatening letter to
| Springer, in the Donnelly cas- and people here
are well aware Of the fact but that does not pre-
vent the industrious dissemination of the lie into
| remote parts of the country where through ig-
| nOTance of the circumstances, 1t will readily be
| believed OF the same character is the persistent
/
| Conventions OF the Democracy throughout the
country. Tilden has carried the three States OF
| Oregon, Iowa and Nebraska, and yet his enemies
are assiduously circulating the report that they
have all gone against him. When a county In
Pennsylvania declares for Tilden 1t ia made to
appear the other way by Tilden's detraCtors. And
| 80 with regard TO his health. Every day or SO
| the report is started 10 New York, Washington OF
somewhere else that Tilden is feeble, paralytc
| old man momentarlly expecting the approach OF
| death, and one enterprising paper even has the
| doctors engaged ih holding post mortem exam.
| inalion over his remains. This is all done for
| effect by men who have no interest in the Demo.
cratic party, whose sole principle in politics Is
| public plundeT, and whose places are In the lob
| bies Of Congress. These are the men who are
| bounding Tilden, and with reason for they know
full well that II he ever takes the Presidential
Office he will, in the language Of Judge Black
''let the water on and cleanse the augeRn sta.
bles" The cry against Tilden comes from the
corTuptionists and ought not To be needed by
honest Democrats. Let II be rmembered thai
Jefferson and Jackson were subjected 10 the
same venomOuB assaults and that every great
man who aspires to the Presidency must pass
through the same ordeal. Jefferson, speaking OF
what he terms the federal JUNCTION for lying and
hlandering," says 1t seems 10 be fixed that false
hood and Calumny are to be their ordinary en-
gineB Of opposition to candidates for high Office
So II Is with the Corruptionsts who are crying
out against Tilden because he would, II Presi.
dent, shut off their opportunities for plundering
the Treasury. T.,