Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-21
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.


OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Tiiton, MOut0m and neeeher-F'oittteai
TIL. LAST or THE TILroS'nEscuER MATTER,
Theodore TiltOn sailed for Europe
last Saturday, with his sou ant
daughters, who are to remain III
Germany to be there educated. Ant
TiltOn aud his fast friend, MOultOn
have quarrelled Think OF that
Think of Frank MOulton's saying
that he was ia blasted fool fol
throwing over so good n friend ~
Beecher, for such q ID scOun
drel as TiltOn |" What it is nj
about no one as yet knows. TiltOl
denies it, but there Is no doubt but
that there is q GOODNESS between the
men, and one that cannot be warm
ed into the oldtime friendship
Moulton suffered terribly by his
staunch standing'by TiltOn, for il
not only threw him out of the so
ciety that he delighted IN, but it
ruined him in his business. liz
was compelled to leave the firm IN
which he had a controlling interest
and was idle during the en- tire time
of the fight. And now, to build
himself up, he has commenced bust
ness again as the agent of Liver
pool salt house, and is working Xix c
Turk. After making the sacriii.
ces he did for Tilton he was entitl.
ed to all the gratitude u man could
show, and if there is u split TiltOn
must have been very cold 'bl0oded
toward him. Bcecher's salary rs
editor of the Christian Union has
been cut down from $4,000 to
$4,000, which is still too much, con.
sidering the work he does. And
while Theodore makes his $50, 900
a year in the lecture field, and
Beecher gets $4,000 from his
church, $4,000 from the Christian
Union and $4,000 from lectures,
Mrs. TiltOn weeps over her strug
giles with boarders in u small house
in Brooklyn. She is the real suf
terer, and always will be. She has
lost her husband, the man for whom
she lost him has abandoned her,
and the society who proiessd to be-
lieve in MIR. Beecher's innocence
treat her as though she were guilty.
It's queer world.
The Presidents order compelling
Federal Office holders to abstain
from political management is Great
ing vast amount of trouble in this
city, where the Federal offices have
been held as rewards for political
work. Several Republican organi
cations in the city were Differed
exclusively by Custom House APP
pointees, and they all resign their
pOsitions-not in the Custom House
but in the clubs-and are now high
plivates. The Times growls about
this, and predicts all sorts of troub-
lie in the fall. Boss Kelly processes
to see in it an opportunity for car
rying the Republican districts in
the interest of Tammany and boasts
that he will control the next Legis.
lature. They will all find them
selves mistaken. The citizens who
are not office holders will take the
leadership, and they will do the
work more effectively than the pc.
litical bummers ever did. In fact,
the impudent and arrogant control
of the Custom House has done the
party more harm than good, from
the beginning. 1t was not pleasant
for good Republican to 60 to his
wa I'd caucus, and find the machin-
cry all set up by paid Hessians, and
a ticket arranged which to him was
as distasteful as though it had been
made of Democrats. For these
professional politicians are all of
them con the make" and they cared
very little who paid them. In the
old Tweed days they would bar
gain with the Boss as to the kind
of Republican they would send
to the Legislature, until there grew
up class of Tammany Republi
cans who had much better have
been in the ranks of the Democra,
cy, for they acted with them in
everything essential. The assump-
ton of control by tn sc men drove
out of politics the better class of
Republicans, for they saw the par.
ty in the hands Of unworthy men,
who used their power for their own
advantage, and they were unable
to cope with the trained cohorts.
l predict that the politics of the
city will be run to better advantage
than ever before, and that instead
of losing we shall gain seats in the
The work of purify
ing the Custom House goes on
steadily and faithfully. Fifty seven
dead-beats were turned out last
week, making the whole number dis
charged come very close to five
and the saving to the Gov
eminent quite 100000. And be-
sides, abuses are being stopped,
and men are being put in who will
run the business on a strictly bust
ness basis. The President has done
a splendid work for New York.
PIETRO.