Year: 1876

The Brooklyn Argus is Democratic
paper, edited by Democratic ex-member
of Congress, and it has this to say of the
Great Democratic Reformer:


Governor Tildens advocacy of hard
money is as insecure as any of his positions.
As Reformer Gov Tilden is fraud ; as
a business man he is badly smirched as a
hard money man is without convictions as
an advertising adventurer and suborner OF
the press he is impudent as political
trickster he is a disgrace. He is willing to
to talk about National honor and advocate
hard money in the East, while violating the
laws Of the country by issuing an Illegal
currency in the West. He bid loudly for
reform throughout the State by attacking
Dennison in Syracuse and Lord Rochester,
where the Democrats have no strength,
while bargaining with ring scoundrels in
Albany, New York and Brooklyn, where
the Democratic machine is powerful.


And yet this sham reformer, this political
huckster, this railroad wrecker, this issuer
Of wild cat currency, this enemy of public
schools, this associate and confederate of
Tammany thieves, this business man who
is badly smirched, this advertising adven-
turer, this suborner Of the press, was the
only Democrat who could, by any possible
stretch of the immagination, be put for
ward as the Democratic Apostle of Reform,
the only Democrat in all the country found
worthy to stand upon the St. Louis plat
form, which is a screech for Reform from
one end to the other


1t shows how entirely grounrllcss is this
claim of the Democracy to be a reform
party. If Governor Tilden were the pur-
est man in any country if his record were
as fair as record could be; if he were a
genuine, earest reformer, it would still be
dangerous to elect him to the Presidency,
backed as he is by party which processes
itself without another leader worthy of re-
cognition as RefOrmer. In this country
the President is what his party forces him
to be, and the significance of nomination
is to be sought in those who are doing the
voting.


There can be no doubt that Tilden is a
most adroit politician. He has for years
practiced the arts of the politician most sue
cessfully. He believes that every man has
his price, and his first move was to put
money in his purse, which he did after the
most unscrupulous fashion. Having Sc
cured the necessary funds, he proceeded to
buy his way to power. He is the largest
specimen of the political huckster ever pro-
duced in this county. Knowing so we'll
the power of money to change mems poti-
cal opinions, he made no secret of his asso-
citation with thieves and plunderers of the
Tweed regime. During all Tweed's ascen-
dancy and control in the Democracy of New
York, Tilden, as chairman of the Democra-
tic State Committee, gave the weight ofhis
name and official action to Tweed nomina-
tions, knowing when he supported Hoffman
by assisting in stufing the ballot boxes in
the cities of New York and Brooklyn, that
he was Tweeds man, whom Tweed had
nominated for his own purposes.


All this disgraceful record Tilden's paid
supporters expect us to forget because
money had been used to silence the Demo
cratic press, with some few honorable ex-
ceptions. The nomination of such man
as Great Reformer, upon such Reform
platform is the most stupendous farce of
this age