The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-10-24

while. k1o 03o NO 0ttefu8t1vo NJ sCt
but TO expend the remainder Of his ILL
gotten fortune In . desperate effort TO
Tribe the House and Senate to capture
the remainder Of Hayes term; for Mr.
Tilden has NO hopes left Of the next
Democratic convention Meantime,
his nephew, Pelton, looks to be killing
himself with whiskey,
The Iribune's cipher dispatches, It
ia said, were obtained by Mr.. Lloyd,
one Of its roging correspondents, and
an advocate of Tiiden during the Pres
identisl election. Some persons have
suspected that Moses Purnell Handy,
of the Philadelphia Times has . hand
in the matter, as be was entrusted with
the Tilden- Marble cipher in both New
Orleans and Florida. Another version
is that the telegraph operator, dis
charged after the fact, kept the dupli-
cate dispatches aud peddled them
around after the style of Anderson the
s'night editor" It is the best hit the
Tribune has made under Reid's man.
agement, aud has enraged the Times to
that degree that it says no more against
Tilden. but confines itself to attacks on
John Kelly and Jay Gould.
The evolution of the key to the diff
ferent ciphers used by Pelton. Marble,
Havemeyer, and Coyle, in buying up
the American Presidency tor Tilden
was a genuine triumph of the journal
istic art, far better than sending re-
pOrters to Africa or the North Pole,
aud it is the talk of the city. Every
body can now see that Mr.. Tilden hes
itated TO reach out and grasp the Pres
ldency because he was SO weakened
aud bewildered BY so much Of this
dark work. His conscience made a
coward of him.
Tilden is a study; he is kind OF
withered idealist, wistful and dilly-
dailying, waiting on occasion, yet up
on occasion hating. He has two or
three powers. one to make money, an
other to formulate his ideas. But the
moral qualities do not appear to re-
side in him except fitfolly. At his age
and bachelorhood what could have in
duced him to huckster and commit
himself TO such extraordinary me ans
10 seize little power? All this, too,
while claiming TO be rcformer. The
worst OF it is, that his own nephew,
his sisters son, and the constant in
habitant of his house, instead of get
ting lessons of honor from this distin-
guished old man, received polluting
instructions, aud their baud of gipsies,
Coyles, Marbles, ETC., were running up
aud down with ciphers such as Guy
Fawkes or John Wilkes Booth mi ght
have used.
Sam Tilden has no moral tone, any
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these old men who have never incurred
the responsibilities of marriage, but
-till worm and delve to make money
to buy fictitious honors with. Mr..
Tilden told me once that he never had
any youth God pity the man whose
soul was originally mature, if it pro-
crosses as his has done. This comes
If the want of youth. that Il man can
play Sir Giles Overreach with heaven
almost III view.
P.lton is a great deal Of the time
full of rum, and Havemeyer Is his
friend. Beside this parcel of gypries
the rabb.e of Florida carpet-baggers
seem toierably respectable. tor it Is
clear that not one of them would sell
out, though offered by Marble 800, 900.
Hereafter Manton Marble can go in as
good company as Mrs. jerks aud An
herson, and no better. AS for Mr..
Tilden, he NAV be expected TO replev-
in these dispatches as he replevined his
books in Michigan.
Do Won understand that Michigan
affair? Tiden went into the iron bust
ness when the bounty was enormous
about thirty dollars ton, think.
He managed by system of shinplas-
'ers, however. to pay the iron workers
only the meagre wages current in those
days, ba, ing scrip in at forty cent? on
the dollar. He then cheated the gov
ernment out of its income tax after
accepting its high bounties. On the
whole, even this country furnishes
few parallels to Mr. Tilden's intricate
career. He will serve to warn our
nominating conventions hereafter TO
look well upon rich men seeking the
Presidency.
saw Abe Hewitt yesterday, and he
smiled at the situation. Tilden is en-
deavoring to sacrifice this respectable
old friend to reinsiate himself in the
confidence of his partisans, to make
Hewitt appear to have deceived him.