Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1885 — Grant Believed Tilden Elected. [ARTICLE]

Grant Believed Tilden Elected.

George W. Childs, the firm friend of Gen. Grant, has given to the world the information that the General believed Mr. Tilden was elected in 1876. Mr. Childs is a man of truth and reliability, and such a statement at this time from him is remarkable, for it certainly will not raise Grant in the eyes of the present generation or posterity, to hand the story down to history coupled with the name of the man who at that time was in command of the armed forces of the nation. The moral effect of an honest word from him at that time would have been tremendous. It would have stayed the rascally course of his dishonest party colleagues, who were bent on defrauding the people. But it was not spoken, and to know at this time that it was purposely withheld will reflect no credit upon Grant. The highest duty of a citizen is not that of being a thorough partisan. Mr. Tilden exemplified that in his manly, honorable course when he refused to countenance any and all measures looking to his securing the Presidency through other means than those receiving the sanction of the people. A vast majority of the people knew Mr. Tilden was elected, and if Grant knew and believed it, as his confidential friend reports, he became a party to the fraud upon the people that had so numerously honored and befriended him. Many of the pens that have apotheosized Grant the last few weeks will want to revise their writings in the light of Mr. Childs’ disclosures. They will want to write down that Grant fell snort of greatness when he refused to cast his influence for the right. —Omaha Herald. If Senator Sherman is secretly desirous of Bepublican defeat, we can immagine nothing better calculated to serve the purpose than the atrocious “bloody-shirt” harangue which formed the opening and greater part of his Mount Gilead speech. If he hon’estly wishes Bepublican success nothing could be more fatuous. It is the best Democratic campaign document that could be put forth. Every intelligent, well-informed, and fair-minded Republican must be disgusted as he reads that outpouring of “hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness,” and bp led to question the honesty or the sanity of the man who uttered it at such a time as this, and the decency of a party that chopses Jtlch a lfeadei’.— Cleveland (0.) Plain Dealer.