The daily gazette., 1878-08-07
Vindicating MIR. Tilden.
A REVIEW OF THE ELECTORAL
MUDDLE BY MAN
TON MARBLE. .....r

A REVIEW OF THE ELECTORAL
MUDDLE BY MAN
TON MARBLE. ....-..
INSIDE HISTORY OF THE PRESIDENTIAL
NEGoTIATIoNs-MR. TILDEN's
f TELEGRAMs, tC.
Mr.. Manton Marble late editor OF the
New York World, has published letter
purporting to give true and full account
of the relations of Mr.. Tilden to the
electoral bill under which Mr.. Hayes was
given the presidency. This work of Mr..
Marbles grows out of the controversy be-
tween Messrs. Watterson and Hewitt,
and President Tilden's position is stated
authoritively with the accompanying
declaration from him: VI have never
questioned the good faith and patriotic
purposes of Mr.. Hewitt, or of any whose
counsels and guidance he thought it his
duty to follow" Mr.. Marble begins by
giving history, of what he terms the
"republican conspiracy of force and
fraud" which was conceived on the
morning after the election when the re-
publican managers were astounded to find
Mr.. Tilden the President-elect, and which
is familiar to the public.
WHERE AND HOW TILDEN AssAILED
CONSPIRACY.
"The plan which he had matured and
was now preparing for its defeat was
quite different. 1t was neither ransom
of the presidency nor a Dutch auction
for it. 1t did not even put up prices to
the final purchasers by competition. 1t
did not involve the dehauchment of a
fellow citizen. But it was mortal stroke
aimed at another yet vital part. 1t was
checkmate in one move. So soon as the
venal infamy of each returning board at
the three garrisoned capitals had combin-
ed to make his action necessary, Mr.. Til
den took immediate pains to advise his
| friends foremost in the House of Repre-
sentatives that the final success of the
complot was impossible if that House
would stand firmly and immovably on the
unbroken series of precedents formed by
the twenty-five presidential counts, from
1893 to 1872.
"The ground was we'll chosen for the
first engagement. Mr.. Tilien, IN Decem-
ber, had prepared two resolutions making
the sagacious and far reaching issue upon
which he chose to rely, which were sent
to the House committee on the privileges
powers and duties of the House of
Representatives in counting the electoral
votes. The modified resolutions finally
adopted and reported by that committee
to the House for its passage had in ad-
vance been submitted to and approved by
| him.
NO OoNGRESS-FORCE DHBATE-C o N :
PEI VOTE.
sit is no secret now that upon this
issue Mr.. Tilden conseled many of his
friends in the leadership of the House,
who visited him at New York during
the Christmas holidays, not only to stand,
but to force the debate; first in the
| House, then in the Senate. he accepted
all responsibility for the outcome. lie
assured them that were their tempeIs
stiff and rcsolute the conspiracy would
break down In process OF execution
that in any event it was for the interest
of popular elective government not td
yield to the mere menace OF usurpatloi
all that actual usurpation could take fol
itself if completely successful. He fore
warned them that the conspiracy musl
therefore never he allowed to gain any
thing by the least concession or undel
ANY deceptive guise put should be fought
at the threshold and fought inch by Incl
and thus forced TO make exhibition be-
fore all mems eyes of the real character
of the revolutionary violence in aid OF
the revolutionary usurpation by which
alone it could advance single steI
towards success" ........
MIR. Marble explains tile sagacity and
simplicity of this plan at great length
conIending that the democratic House
OF Representative in the then existing
state of facts and law was rightly per
ceived by Mr.. Tilden to be an impregna
)ble fortress for the rights Of the peo
lple. An infiexble House, always stand
ing fast in the final citadel of power, the
kte en-. bright sunlight of publicity through
the long day of such debate, Mr.. Mar
BILE contends, would have shrveled ant
consumed the conspiracy root aud
branch.
| A CHANGE OF BASE AT WASHINGTON.
"But," says Mr.. Marble, .'there were
inexplicable delays at Washington. MI
Tildi MS plan was supplanted, and the re
snonsi bility elsewhere assumed of other
wise enconntering the republican conspi
| racv and the first ste d in such encounte
taken irreyocably by the entry of anoth
ar committee of the House and the an
: nonncement of q democratic comprom
ise Public opinion, under illusision
:, that are specified, and under the inspira
: ton of able men in Congress, now rel
: dered compromise in some form inevlts
I BILE. 1t was evident that these Illusion
]. rendered everything else impracncapi'
"But be that as it may" says MT; MA