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setts and New York, we passed the home of Governor 

 Samuel J. Tilden. Two years before, this popular 

 Democrat was elected governor, by a plurality of 50,000 

 votes above his fellow-candidate, John A. Dix. He 

 won popular attention by his strong opposition to 

 certain political abuses ; notably the Tweed Charter 

 of 1870; and by iucensant activity he was, in 1876, 

 beginning to reap the laurels of a career which began 

 while he was a student at Yale. 



