The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-27
THE CIPHERS.
A REVIEW OF THE CAUSES THAT LED
TO THE COUNTING OUT
OF THLDEN.

OF TaLDEN.
The Gramercy Park COterie-Ets Make UP
Lacking I'm Back RsOne-The Answer
That Should Have Greeted the Chantg-
Ter Dispatch.
Especial Correspondence Of the Democrat
WASHINGTON, October %. 1873
suppose that the readers of the DEMOCRAT,
In common with the rest Of American mankind
have recently derived some amusement from
the New York Ttibu1le's publication Of the al-
legged
"CYpHER TELEGRAMs'
of Mr.. Tilden's young men during the agony Of
the electoral count, together with the current
comment Of the press In general thereupon. I
say amusement advisedy. for presume that in
your latitude. as in this cooler cline. nobody
has been seriously disturbed, either by the dis
closures that have been made or by the threats
of others yet to come.
Meantime Mr.. Tiden and his young men all
together. from Charley Woolley and Manton
Marble down to Smith Weed and the elongated
Pelton, have set up vociferous chorus Of de-
nial; whereupon it may be said that the denials
excite as little interest in Democratic circles
generally as the original disclosures did appre-
hension. It appears from these publications
that the men whom Mr.. Tiden selected as his
advisers, as soon as Zach. Chandler developed
his plan Of campaign to steal the votes of the
three States after the election, meekly accepted
the situation on Mr. Tilden's behalf and Joined
Issue with the Radicals on
A COMPARATIVE TEST OF STEALING CAPACITYl
These observations appear trite in this cor
respondence. for have been iterating and re-
iterating them In substance ever since Mr..
Hewitt's speech on the, floor Of the House In
FEBRUARY, 1877 foreshadowed the surrender of
~, Esory E,.rE 0ftS rfn
In order to completely understand the ne-
ture and significance Of this cipher correspond
enee n it Is necessary to knoW TIE TIE men whom Mr.;
by him in selection. The elderly and opulent
Samuel J. is known to fame as sly sort Of per-
to speech making In low whispers to very small
audien es. Naturally enough, for Mr.. Tilden's
career has been that of New York office law
off his clients. Common rumor and current
supposition have invested Mr.. Tilden with the
attributes Of intense application, keen sagaoity
thodical selfshness, cold, blooded avarice and
ICY eRotism of soul. But this estimate is only in
part correct With all his keenness and shrewd-
ness,
MR.. TILDEN HAS BLIND SIDE;
with all his methodical selflshness and his
frtgid avarice there Is a soft spot In his heart ,
why he is not now President OF the Unitsd
states de facto as we'll as de juge. The blind
side, the weak spot in the make up of this
IL
vanity as subtle and peculiar as he other els
ments OF hls a. nature are: vanity which has a
alWays played the n? n most awkWard Ky pranks with
unmaking Of many q we'll laidscheme prior to
1876. I don't exactly know how to describe this
peculiar vanity of Mr. Tilden so as to press MT
him to your readers rs understand him.
Perhaps the best way to illustrate it would be
TO say that if he were the Sultan Or the Shah of
State would be eunuchs and his amusements
would bel 'ng to the Category OF those which are
said to have Drematurely sapped the tremen-
dous energies of that terrific conauaror, Nadir
Shah.
We'll. 1t was upon such g. principle Of selection
that Mr.. Tideh organized
HIS PERSONAL STAFF
for the campaign of 1876. The roster Is itself
Suggestive. Hewitt. lean, stopping and dispep-
tic; Pelton, elongated, thin and sinuous Man-
ton Marb g, dapper. dainty and effeminate,
the grandioquence of the sophomore in his
diction--a veritable terror to photographer g !;
Old dain1 p9nderous perauasive ra ani i plntltu,
the lail end. q dminulve little chimpanzee
from the mountains Of Delaware county, N. z,
Billy d9rdon by MAJ sGa Of a. an 4sa sa Tedera,
Of private secretary or chief eunueh, in case
Tild1n III y m had not been counted out.
with an e1osedingly fue-tooth rake yoa
| may say but after all. We cannot understand
this cphee correspondence" half as eadily by
the use of the alleged key as can by review
ing the traits of the small persons in moment
GUS places who concoc ed it. While the cam
paign was In progress this
BEvV OF MALE BOTTLE NURSES
whom TiIden had about him piddIed and put
tor ed leaving the stalwart work OF the canvass
in Ohio, diana and elseW her Q to mon who bad
heen raj n cd in conflict and knew bow to fight.
when s''t came 10 n New York fresh m o'f from u fhe
counts Of tho way Louis, the, Fourteenth
used t" 20. u war-in his kid Slippers after
Turenne and his iron camp bed In the open air
had Vnuquished the enemy. The votes were
cast and counted, and the morning Of November
8, 1876. behed Joyous crowd at the inner head
quarters; the palace OF the Oriental candidate
In Gramercy Park, Among others Marble was
jewelled little finger: ,Pelton. slim, solemn and
important; Hewitt with a smile struggling in
Wzened visage lik @ fire smouldering in the re-
cesses of q brush heap: and the diminutive
chimpauzee, OF Delaware county. n. Y. bobbing
about like an apple dumping on the surface OF
| q boiling Kettle The battle that other mon had
THE VICTORY THAT OTHER MEN HAD WON
was in the air. Suddenly a messenger brought
sent out the following dispatch:
A-'' ~ ''''' I'' III q. oHANDLER, Chairman.
Then Tilden looked at Marble and Marble
looked at Peiton and Peton looked at Hewitt
q aad HeWtt vi 10 Looked @ at the floor llke man who
utive chimpanz OF Delaware county, n. T..
bobbed qp and down - more vigorously ,,aanl
| q cocktail to brace him up"
Right then and there was when the, victory
that the sturdy Democrats Of the nation had
won vanished in thin air; then and there was
the theft of the Presidency made possible and
the deb4uch of fraud provided for. Had there
been at Gramercy headquarters at that moment
one man with the pluck OF Thurman, the nerve
| Of Hampton. Or the das h Of Ned Burke even, the
paltry device Of the Chambers, Zach and Bill
would have been turned before sundown
| into an enoeute too ridiculous to find record
| in sober history. Upon the heels Of that
| impudent dispatch signed ~. Chandler. chair
| man. another should have gone forth in these
words:
Il have 2oa electoral votes, and shall be inau-
gurated President Of the United States On the
/ fourth Of next March.
s. ]. TILDEN, President Elect"
| That would have settled things. The mon who
had given, Mr.. Tilden 8 popular majority OF
| 300 600, and
AN ELECTORAL MAJORITY OF THIRTY SEVEN,
would have translated such cipher telegram
| to mean that Mr.. TiIden intended to have his
rights and to vindicate the rights Of the Demo
cratic party, Deaceably il he could but-well, tc
| have and vindlcate them anyhow. There was