Statesmen . of their accuracy and genuineness. Bythe information which he obtained from thebanking institution before referred to, he estab-lished the fact that but one-third of the nominalamount of the bills audited by the city govern-ment had ever reached the persons who pre-tended to be entitled to the payments, and thattwo-thirds of this great amount had been dividedamong public officers and their accomplices, andhe traced the dividends into the actual possessionof some of the accused parties. He thus con-verted a strong suspicion into mathematicalcertainty and furnished judicial proof aga
Statesmen . of their accuracy and genuineness. Bythe information which he obtained from thebanking institution before referred to, he estab-lished the fact that but one-third of the nominalamount of the bills audited by the city govern-ment had ever reached the persons who pre-tended to be entitled to the payments, and thattwo-thirds of this great amount had been dividedamong public officers and their accomplices, andhe traced the dividends into the actual possessionof some of the accused parties. He thus con-verted a strong suspicion into mathematicalcertainty and furnished judicial proof againstthe guilty parties. In process of time the ringwas broken, its power was utterly destroyed, andthe chief conspirator, after having been broughtback a fugitive from a foreign land, was sen-tenced to jail, where he died miserably. During the entire period of the wicked ascen-dency of the Tweed ring Tilden had been con-tinued as Chairman of the State DemocraticCommittee, but he did not share in its corrupt. SAMUEL J. TILDEN 271 councils, and he was kept ignorant of its auda-cious schemes. There was no bond of sympa-thy between him and the vulgar creatures whohad taken possession of the government of thecity of New York, and when he had succeededin the work of capturing the stronghold of theTweed ring, he entered the Assembly of theState as a member and engaged in the work ofrepealing the laws that gave to this conspiracyits power, and in purging the statute books of alllegislation that had been framed to enable theadventurers to carry on their nefarious is fair to presume that it was at this timethat Tilden conceived the ambition of becomingPresident of the United States. His popularityand repute as a reformer and as an exterminatorof gross political abuses were now very thor-oughly established. His name was in the mouthsof all men, and he had contrived without appar-ent injustice to others to secure for himself greatcredit of the entire work of overthrowing one oft
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