New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-29
WHAT Is 10 BE DONE (?

WHAT is 10 Re DONE?
1t is proper to remind the Democratic party
that the election is close at hand and that the
disposition proper to be made of the cipher
kilograms is still matter Of dispute. 1t Will
never do for the Democracy to go to the
POLLS with this great question unsettled, one
half the party charging The crime Of bribery
upon their late candidate fOr the Presidency,
while the other half virtually throw the re-
sponsibility upon their National Committee,
which is equivalent to assuming it tor them
selves Ii is much too serious an affair to be
ignored, or TO be tossed off with a few volleys
of abuse fred at TIE TRIBUNE. The Ameri-
can pcoDle have no idea OF toleTating the
purchase and sale OF the Presidency, and if
the Democracy has any defence to make, it
ought to be made before the election.
How does the case stand noWR We beg the
few Bourbon newspapers which continue to
call the kilograms " forgeTies," TO observe that
all the principal persons concerned i'll them
slave acknowledged. directly or indirectly, that
they are genuine. The earliest to be heard
from was Mr.. MantOn Marble, who, selecting
from more than lwenty messages TO which his
name was attached one unimpOrtant dispatch
with perfectly innocent meaning, only denied
writing that, and so tacitly admitted the
authorship OF the others. Then Mr. Tiiden
declared that he had no information about the
cipher kilograms sent from aud received at
his house, except what had been derived
" from pr since the publication i'll THE
"TRIBUNE.' This is plain avOwal
that lac has made inquiries since the
exposure Of the plot; it implies that he has
questioned Colonel PeltOn, and perhaps Mr.
Smith Weed and Mr.. Manton Marble: and if
he has questioned those gentlemen at all, he
has undoubtedly asked them not only about
the authenticity of the cipheTs but the cor
RICHNESS of the TRANSACTIONS. Yet Mr. Tilden
abstams from throwing any doubt upon either
the one or the other. He does not even hint
at the possibility of the dispatches being
forged or the Interpretation false. The infer
ence is irresistible; the information which Mr.
Tilden has obtained since the publication in
"TuI TRIBUNE" satisfies him that the gen
uincncss of these kilograms cannot be at
tackled. And as Mr.. T'ilden is not man who
uses the English language recklessly, fhe IN
ference is also irresistible that this is the con-
clusion he wishes the public TO draw from his
statement. He admits that the deed was done,
but protests that he did not do it,
Mr.. Wooley recognizes some of the dis
matches printed over bis signature, and is not
disposed to talk about the others but admit
TING that the translation of one or two is cor
rect. he admits the accuracy of the keys. The
Interpretation is made upon a mathematical
system which if right IN one case must be
right all through. Mr.. Coyle initiates Manton
Marble by repudiating an unimportant dis
patch and tacitiy admitting great many
damaging ones. Mr.. Smith Weed contesses
that he did send some OF the South Carolina
"teleerams, but he has lost his KEY" and
therefore he has nothing to say about the
TRANSACTIONS. Mr.. Randall acknowledges the
authorship of the one cipher message ascribed
TO him, though he will not tell what it means.
And Mr.. Havemcyer, who seems to have been
used as q letter bOX, publicly declares that
the cipher kilograms addressed to him did
cone to his house until the multitude of them
grew to be such an intOlerable nuisance that
he refused to take them in any longer. There
is nobody else to be heard from except Colo
mel Pelton, and his continued silence is equiv
alent to full confession. The authenticity
of the ciphers therefore, aud the accuracy of
the TRANSACTIONS, are already established by
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ol Tie
independently of the evidence which THE
TRIBUNE Is prepared to furnish before the
proper authorities.
1t strikes us that this is a good time for
Mr.. Marble to get up and "ring fre-bell in
might" 1t Will be impossible for the DemOc-
racy to carry on amid public order the ark
| and shechinah of our self government if the
Reformed Democratic candidate for the Presi-
| dency is allowed TO stand fast in the final
citadel of power, the keen bright sunlight of
| publicity, and throw upon the party at large,
represented by its National Executive Com
mittee, the odium OF an extensive transaction
i'm brides, which has been detected in
his own back parlor. Somebody, as we have
repeatedly warned our friends of the other
side, has TO bear this burden of shame and il
| is for them TO select the victim. If Mr.. Til
den after all is the "ague-smitten Pariah n
who betrayed his capacity for crime by at
tempting to hide the true" let Mr.. Marble
| open the ark once more, and raise a racket
which viii fasten the responsibility of the
| 6agilous complot upon the man who. being