Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-07-19
The Old FraUd.

The candidate for Governor Of the
New Democracy" of Ohio, having ia
ken especial pains in his recent speech
at Hamilton, to sulogize Sam Tilden as
the "reformer who ripped up" that nest
of Democratic thieves-the Tweed gang
has induced the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser to pay its respects to the
old fraud in the following lively style:
"Macauley tells us it was a favorite ex
ercise among the Greek sOphists to write
panegyrics on characters proyerbial for
depravity. 1t is. we presume, from
disposition of the same kind that Mr..
Dana, of the Snu, and Mr.. Watterson, of
the Courier-Journal, indulge in fulsome
eulOgieS Of Tilden. We can account or
ly for the hallucinationS of our neigh
Dor of the Sun from the fact that he was
brought up ON bran bread and humbug
and graduated from Brook Farm, which
sent into the world an army Of learned
unatics. Watterson, the world knows,
takes as naturally to imposters as an
Italian to hand organ. Henry VIII.
is better deserving of the credit of being
the great leader of the Protestant Re
formation than Tilden is of having
brought TWeed and the Tammany gang
to Justice The trouble with our people
is That we make history 50 fast that it
is impossible to keep track of the
quacks, trickst6rs, cheats, pretenders,
ard political sharpers that abound.
Among the many impOsters who have
risen to high places by ways that are
L.. l. l. . Nl,,
full. To those who have known him
from the time he commenced life sell
ing grated turnips for horse radish, fifty
years ago, be must be admitted to be The
most finely veneered fraud in the cOun
try. When we recall his Legislative ca
reer and his services in the COuStitu-
tional Convention of 1916 and 1S47
where he was the butt and laughing
stock of the respective bodies, we must
smile at his claim for states manship
The searcher after truth will fail to find
in the debates paragraph that distin
guishes Tilden above the average third
rate vaporing pettifogger. 1t is known
to many Democrats VINO were active In
the party twenty or thirty years ago that
he wasnothing more than theGreature,the
tool, the puppet of Tweed and Sweeney.
He WAS used by them as Tilden used
Cooper, Smith Weed, MantOn Marble,
Col. Pelton and others in the conspiracy
to steal the Presidency in 1876. IL is
monstruus to talk OF Tilden rs an hon
est man, who was Tweeds confederate
IN the infamous election frauds Of
1868, when he was chairman OF the Dem
ocratic State Committee puppet Of
Tweed using the money stolen from the
city to hire repeaters. His friends must
take their choice, and admit that he was
either fool or a knave. Not To know
that the money supplied by Tweed for
election purposes produced 10000 Dem
Ocratic majority in this city is to con
fess that he is a stupid idiot. The his
tory of Tilden's connection with that
shameful and colossal fraud is vet to be
written. His prevarications-his want
OF memory-his subterfuge, Il dsu't re-
member when before the Congressional
committee investigating these frauds,
are buried in rubbish Of Congressional
Investigations, and are sealed book to
the public. But the bassst and blackest
crime in Tilden's history is turning
States evidence against his old pal-it
was meaner and more villainOus than if
the Artful Dodger had turned up in
court against old Pagan"