The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-10-26
The Cinhers and the testers.


Last words of Pelton: ooh my prophetic
soul, my NuHcle!'
Mr.. Havemeyer is more suspicious and has
better hearing than Mr.. Tilden.
The victim of the coparceners still delays
to bounce them.
The Retormer of the future will not keep a
confidential nephew.
Somebody ought to say a kind word for
Pelton. Why doesn't he say it himself?
There are suspicious that Pelton is an in
adequate scapegoat,
Smith Weed says he has lost his cipher
key. The Tribune found it some time ago.
We judge from Mr.. Tilden's disclaimer that
the Electoral Commission perpetrated those
cinhers.
Mr.. Tilden's explanation: "It is no such
thing. Let us now return to consideration
of the work of the Electoral Commission"
No. Is Gramercy Park is to be rugged with
fog horn in place of a door bell, so that Mr..
Tiden may know what is going on.
1t should be whispered TO Mr.. Hendricks
that it is entirely unnecessary for him 70
straddle the cipher question any longer.
Mr.. Tiden is right in getting wife. 1t is
high time for somebody to know what is 60.
ing on in that house of his.
The Graphic gives striking picture Of
Charles Frigid Adams seated on his iceberg,
but the fraud brand is not visible. Maybe
he is sitting on it.
1t would be a boon if some Democrat
would break the silence with an old fashioned
fraud yell. Just as reminiscence, the per-
formance would be entertaining.
There is a growing Democratic demand
for the Potter committee to call the copar-
ceners. 1t is Mr.. Potter's last chance for a
startling development"
When Hendricks becomes President will
he send Tilden as Minister to Russia, Pelt On
to Denmark, and make Moses Consul Gener-
al at Jerusalem?
Question for the Potter committee to in
vestigate: Did Tilden lose the whole of that
$4,000 sent to South Carolina or only the
usufruct of itp
1t is well to remember that vote for
Democratic Congressman this Fall is vote
in favor of cipher politics. The party de-
clines to repudate the cipherers.
Kearney said at Fall River on Saturday {:
81 will follow any man who opposes me into
the northeast corner of hell" 1t is moved
and seconded by the whole Democratic party
that Nephew Pelton "oppose" him.
Tilden must have been excessively annoyed
when he read those dispatches in the Trib-
une, and the truth flashed across him that
Pelton did it all under his (Tilden's) very
nose without the least suspicion.
sgKpov tba bottor hos ;,,st bro,ob1 o,,@
new tile known as the Tilden hat. Its con.
struction is simple. You just take an ordi-
nary silk hat, sit on it awhile. And there
you are!
The elevated railway doesn't appear to
trouble Mr.. Tilden particle, but he thinks
some man ought to invent cipher despatch
that wouldn't make more noise in the world
than powder mill explosion,
The Know-Nothing party :-Messrs. Til
den, Pelton, Marble, Coyle, Havemeyer,
Smith Weed and the other coparceners
Says Mr.. Manton Marble: ''Real or pre-
tended brokers overran Tallahassee, flushing
the game which Noyes bagged." That's all
right, Mr.. Marble. so long as Moves bagged
game honorably: but who in the name of
plety, early and late. flushed Mr.. MantOn
Marble when the Tribune bagged him?
Mr.. Cox made one of his funniest remarks
when he told his nominating convention that
the Democratic party is resolutely set against
speculative politics and meanness of all kinds"
As Moses put it: "Traces of money pay
ment are darkly visible"
@Manton Marble ought to sue.the telegraph
company for not delivering those messages.
They were plainly addressed to No Is Gram
mercy Park, but Mr.. Tiden declares he never
got them. Marble has got good thing on
the telegraph company-ifh he can only prove
up.
1t would be great relefto the overworked
and demoralzed Democratic editors if some
of the coparceners would pronounce the ci-
pliers forgeries and sue the Tribune for libel.
That would furnish a common ground for
defence. 1t would also contribute greatly to
the Tribune's happiness. Why don't you
try 1t, Moses?
1t is a good time for Alexander Stephens
to revive his prediction that the Democratic
hunt for fraud would result either in a farce
or tragedy. 1t has resulted in both. Mr..
Potter furnished the farce, and the Tribune
has supplied the tragedy. The Democratic
party will hold the necessary funeral just as
soon as it can decide upon the corpse