Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1882 — The Sooner the Better. [ARTICLE]

The Sooner the Better.

Our Republican authorities at Washington have been considering the propriety of abandoning the suit set on foot against Mr. Tilden to compel him to pay over an income tax whioh he paid and got a receipt for years ago, as it was assessed against him by the lawful officers of the Government,, he being at the time unable to determine what his income actually was, or whether he had any income at all. It appears that the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue have been pondering upon the subjeot and think best to get rid of it, provided the counsel of the Government and the court here do not see some very strong reason to the contrary. We opine that publio sentiment will heartily concur in this determination. This suit is one that ought never to have been brought. The ouly reason for beginning it was to persecute the man whom the Republicans had defrauded of the Presidency. Thousands of wealthy citizens had failed to make a return of their incomes for reasons not half so conclusive as Mr. Tilden’s, and nQthing was done about it afterward ; and there would never have been any thought of a suit in liis case but for Mr. Tildeu’s political eminence, and for the desire of those who had wronged him to do something to humiliate him. The prosecution of Mr. Tilden has damaged no one but those who brought it; and the sooner it is abandoned tho better it will be for all parties concerned, exoept Mr. Tilden himself.— New York Sun.