Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-04-14
DIR NEW YORK LETTER.
Hall In LandOn-Tw eed-Whnt Tiide"
Is Deing-An epidemic OF Crime
Fash ons-Ea sters

OAKLEY HALL
Oakley Hall has been found, ana
it is as | wrote last week. He Is IN
London, and the reason for his he
ing there, is what | said. He was
complicated with the Ring, though
he has so covered his tracks that he
has been living for some years IN
tolcrably security. The return ct
Swceny, and the consequent dlsclos'
IRE of the inside secrets of that ei'
ganlic swndle could not but involve
him ana put him in the category OF
the worst Of the lot. This, with so
cial complications, which, in plain
English means that he has been
keeping women other than his wife
and has been living secretly an ex'
cecdingly disreputable life, while
attempting to keep up the status OF
a gentleman, all of which he knew
while the world was in Ignorance OF
it, but which the confessions OF
Tweed would bring to the surface,
so weighed upon him that he prefer
ed to get cut, abandon everything,
and go into exile, rather than to
face the friends who had SO long
..o"p u, ,nnUcence. Ana so Oak
ey Hall, Mayor of New York, ruler
Of the Democracy of this city, and
the head and front of the respecta.
ble portion of the clique that has
plundered New York so long, is in
London in disguise, and the mere
sport OF cheap actress who will
hang to him as long as he has any
portion of the money he stole and
will desert him the moment it is
gone. Oakley Hall passes into his
tory as an excellent sample of
man who has opportunities, but who
preferred present pleasure to per.
manent success. With ability suf
ticient to command any place and
any position, he permitted wine.
women and the attendant pleasures
of the moment to lead him into eX.
ceSses, which has ended as it al.
ways has and always will. | can.
not commend to the youth who read
the OPINION a more instructive eX
ample. Honesty and decency in
the long run always pays better
than the summer pleasures that fol-
low career like Oakley Halls.
Such Il summer is always foIlowe ed
by a long and very dreary winter.
Oakley Hall will, in Il year from
now. he borrowing dollar or two
from chance Americans in London
to pay for the miserable bed he will
he sleeping in. And such men al
ways end exactly in that way.
Has got tired of being followed by {
the law and is making a compromise.
He has told all he knows about his
escape and the swindle, and a very !
interesting chapter it is. He lived
in fsherman's hut in New Jersey S
he lived in the everglades of Flor /;
ida; he went h:ther and yon, a fugi- t
tive and wanderer up and down the
earth, till, sick and tired, he want ,
ed nothing SO much as to be allow {
ed to quit his wanderings and set. a
tie down to a quiet life, ont of Jail. Y
He had been hunted up and down I
the earth, branded as a criminal, t
till, weary and faint, he wanted f
peace. And so he permitted him g
self to be taken. and came home, Ii
made his statement aud accented i,
erms. He turns over to the city n
Ill that is left of the money he and r.
lis coadjutOrs stole, and will be per a
nitted to go ont and live unmolest- u
'd. The great king is now poor :,
'ld man, with no money to speak a.
If and no power, past that he z
'ares not look back upon and no il
utnrc at all. There are thousand t,
lraymen in the city who are better OF
If than he, and who could not af- O
ord to change places with him. fl
WHAT TIDEN Is DOING. q,
Whatever may be the upshOt of ri
:, Tilden wishes very much TO OF
lake another effort for the Presi- IN
ency. He never intended that u;
he verdict of the Joint Commission D;
hould be final, if it was adv erse to til
i'm, and had the administration of al
layes been less popular he would
ave commenced proceedings long
so in the Supreme Court. 1t is '"
-rtain that he has gone so far as to fo
ave skilled attorneys draw up the wi
aperS necessary to contest the cleo so
on, and proceedings will be com. nc
Fenced if the temper of the public f.,
iould change. and become adverse o,
the presnt administration. Til ed
en- staked his all upon the Pres- nc
nncy, and he has by no means re- !"
nquished his hopes. Beaten at m,
ne polls, beaten 10y a joint commits CT,
on of his own making, he still an
INKS he sees a way, through the u"
'nrts, to gain the ambition of his ppr
e; and he will make the effort ifI hi,
gets fhp SliUhtpst show I'll rh