Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-08-13

I of the state. In both of these bod
+ les Mr.. Tildcn was a conspicIou
i. authority, and left a permanent i'm
preston upon the legislation of th
year, and specially upon all the ne,
constitutional provisions affectin,
F the finances of the state and the man
agement of its system of canals.
The defeat of MIR Wright in tn,
fall of 1916, and the GOODNESS whicI
had grown up between the friends O
President Polk and the friends Of
the late President Van Buren result
ed fortunately for Mr.. Tiiden, if no
for the country. IN Withdrawing hi;
attention from politics and concen
trating it upon his profession. Il
was not many years until he was as
we'll known at the bar as he prev oIs
ly had been IN politics. His business
developed rapidly and though he
continued to interest himself in
public affairs he did not permit
them 10 interfere with his profession
until after 1857. Gov. Tllden was
altogether opposed to the rebellion.
He attended the meeting of the lead
ing men of both parties in New York
in 1860 to consider what could be
done to avert hostlIitIes. He
pleaded ably for peace, urging re-
Cancellation and forbearance upon
the north and respect for the will of
the majority and the constitution up
on the south.
When President Lincoln called for
$4,000 troops Tilden attended the
meeting at the house of Gen. Dix.
He then stated it as his opinion that
the country was on the eve of
tremendous struggle and that instead
of 75, 600 the president should have
called for 100000 troops. To Sec
retary Chase Mr.. TIIden insisted that
the war should be carried on under
system of sound finance, which he
believed the people would sustain
If the government would have the
courage to propose 1t. At later
period he was invited to give his
advice on the conduct of the war to
the authorities at Washington. The
statement to the secretary of war
was: "You have no right to expect
a great military genus to come-to
your assistance. They only appear
once in two or three centuries. You
will probably have to depend upon
the average military talent of the
country. Under such circumstan-
ces your only course to avail your
self of your numerical strength and
your superior military resources"
When peace came Mr.. Tilden be-
gan the chief political labor of his
life. With the assistance of Charles
O'Conor he broke up and scattered
to the four corners of the earth the
Republlcan-Democratic ring which
ruled and plundered New York.
Under the law of 1857 the board of
supervisors of New York had power
which enabled them to laugh at JUS
tice. Millions of dollars were stolen
from the state and divided among the
Things grew worse and
worse until 1870, when the theft
reached 50 per cent. Of the appro-
priations. All hope of rescuing the
city from the hands of the freeboot-
ers depended upon recovering the
legislative power of the state in Sc
curing majority of the senate and
assemblymen. To.this end Mr.. Til
den directed all his efforts. The
thieves fell out, and one of their
number betrayed them. A clerk in
Ihe comptroller's office copied Sc
ries of entries-afterwards known as
Secret accounts '-and handed them
to the papers for publication. They
showed the frauds plainly. Mr..
Tilden at once began the campaign.
He arranged to be sent to the con-
vention from his native county, Co
Iumbia. He issued an eloquent adj
dress to the Democrats of the state,
and worked with such ardor that the
whole complexion of the legislature
was changed.
Gov. Tilden's crusade against the
Tweed ring thus inaugurated crush
I'd it utterly. 1t was in pursuance
If this work that he accepted the
fer governor of the state
Of New York, an office to which he
vas elected over John A. Dix by a
plurality of 53,315.. Mr.. Dix had
been elected two years previous by a
of 53,451. TiIden's record
IS a reformer is known to all. AS
governor he applied TO practice those
theories which had made him fa-
nous. SO high grew hls repute that
for months before the presidential
of 1876 he was univer-
sally conceded to be the strongest
candidate before the people. In that
which met in st. Louis,
June 27, 1886, he was nominated on
he second ballot, receiving 5S5 vot-
IS. The best elements in the coun-
sry rallied to his support, and in the
following November Mr.. Tilden
vas elected president of the United
States.