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CINCINNATI, December 20. The following Is
the Commercials New York speciali The
decision of ice-Presideat Colfax not to ac-
cept the editorship of the Tribune renders The
future Of that paper more uncertain than
ever. Mr.. George William Curtis Is bound to
the Harpers aud cannot undertake 70 be Mr..
Greeley's successor. No great surprise would
be felt il MIR. orion should sell Quito White
law Reid. as his last resort
>, Sam Sinclair was never earnestly enlisted IN
the Cincinnati movement. and after the sep-
TENDER and October elections rendered the
defeat of Greeley absolutely certain. he began
to pave the way for OF least reconeilia-
ton with tha powers that were TO be- He
was largely interested in certain claim
which Norman was largely interested in
AGAINST the Government for some $4,000
and as publisher OF an opposition paper, there
was but little hope Of getting this job through
even this Congress. let alone the next. ward
has some good friends here who consti-
tute part Of the administration ring.
and he was very anxious 10 make peace
for Sinclair, but so long as Mr.. Greeley
was alive and the Tribune likely to maintain
an aggressive attitude toward the Grant party
this was impossible. but the very day Mr..
Greeley breathed his last the intriguing of
Sinclair began. He wrote to Mr.. Colfax ask
ing whether he would take the editorial charge
Of the Tribune if invited by majority OF the
stakeholder. At the same time Ward began
his efforts With Garfield, Colson and others
The great ambition of Mr.. ColRx. for the
last ten years, has been to run the Tribune,
and he ut once made up his mind to accept the
proposition, Sinclair said if It was ever
made he xansed so. many shares OF stock
at reasonable rates and terms, and
he also said that he wanted a big
salary. Ward had succeeded in getting the
administration interested, and pool was
made up to buy a controlling interest in the
Tribune and Mr.. Orion was chosen as the
man to dothe buying. He enjoys close rela-
tions with President Grant. to whom he sold
at low figures a large number of shares Of
Western Union telegraph stock. In the mean
time Mr.. orion went to Washington to
appear before the House Appropriation Com
mittee on Telegraph. While there he ascer-
tanned from perfectly reliable sources that
Colfax's denial, he was really !
implicated in the credit mobilier scandal. IL
seems that Colfax assured Orion and his asso-
ciates that the credit mobilier stock had been
offered him, but he rejected any such PROPOSE
ton. orion learned that Colfax had admitted
before this investigating committee that he
had purchased some Of the stock. but discov-
erinR that further legislation might be wanted
for the Union Pacific railroad, he com PEELED |
Mr.. Ames to take it back. The testimony OF
Ames fastened the charge Of holding the
,redit mobilier stock on Colfax. and this be-
ne made known, Mr.. 0rton, together with an
animation from the White House that George
William Curtis would be the accepted man,
ettles the business. i9
These facts were communicated to New
FORK. and Mr.. Colfax received a telegram
which read as follows;," Your application for
inc Is accepted as adeelination Of our offer.
mis- " as a cruel blow to Mr.. colfax, who had
,een among his friends chuckling over his
rood fortune, talking of his eight shares OF
tribune stock. what the policy ofthe paper was
o be etc. In order to break the effect ofthis fall
IS much as possible, he at once started out
n essengers tosay 10 the newspapers that he
lad finally concluded not to accept, and that
lie was going 10 retire 10 South Bend simply
o eratify5 his wife. who was very
much opposed to his going to the city OF
Sew York. Unfortunately he had publicly
iven out that the business had been definitely
.rranged only few hours before. and he had
eally written and mailed letter of accept
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