Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1876 — CAMPAIGN NOTES. [ARTICLE]

CAMPAIGN NOTES.

- ft* Uncle Sammy claims that he was Uie friend of the Union soldiers. He didn't want any of them to go to the war, where they might get killed. —Burlington Hawk-Eye. E3P The Democrats have had matters in their own hands in the City of New York since which time the memory of few men runneth to the contrary. Not many years ago the city debt was $30,000,000. It is now $130,000,000. This is a specimen of Democratic “reform” in a locality where they had qo restraint upon their natural proclivities. —Albany Journal. |pf"“Gen. McClellan is for Tilden,” and Tilden was for Gen. McClellan; and the tremendous results in the one case will just about equal the mighty consequences in the other. But how the General ever made up his mind in these few months is a mystery. If he had only been as active as this, now, when he talked of taking Richmond !— lnter-Ocean. ETA well-known Eastern lawyer writes to a firm in New York in relation to TildeO and his income tax: “ I see no escape from the perjury record of Tilden. It is precisely the same kind of proof, and apparently just as decisive, as that upon which I have convicted a number of men. I never knew evidence of that kind to leave any good defense open, or to weaken upon a trial.” j£gr The negroes who were reported as riotous in Ouachita, La., appear to have been more frightened tinth the whites. The minute they saw white men they flecjThe only surprising fact about it is that the negroes did not manage to get a dozen or two of their number killed. Dr. B. H. Dinkgrave, the Republican ex-Collector of the parish, was assassinated, and that is as good as the killing of a few blacks. Cincinnati Commercial. C3F* A Democratic investigating committee investigated the administration of State affairs in Ohio covering the period Gov. Hayes was in office. The committee reported: “Your committee take pleasure in reporting that, so far as elective officers and their subordinates are concerned, very commendable honesty and fidelity have been observed, and that in the official conduct of no public officer, whether elective or appointive, his corruption has been disclosed.” ESP There is an excellent prospect that suit will be brought by the Government to recover from Sam Tilden that portion of his income tax of 18(52 and 1863 which he omitted to include in his sworn return, but of which mention was made several years later in hi 3 affidavit in the Alton & Terre Haute Railroad suit. United States Dist.-Atty. Bliss, of New York, is in correspondence with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue on the subject, and it is not unlikely that he will be directed to institute proceedings.against Tilden in accordance with an order issued by the Internal Revenue Department two years and a half ago, and exactly covering the case. Other men have been prosecuted for defrauding the revenue; why not Samuel J. Tilden? —Chicago Tribune,Sept. 4.