The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-10-25

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Republican. one or more Democrats
we're found in trap.
But how about the Democratic
frauds not being investigated by Con
sress? While the Potter committee
were industriously at work examining
into alleged Republican frauds and
utterly ignoring all Others, the New
York Tribune with most commendable
enterprise and entirely upon its Own
responsibility. was diligently engaged
unravelIing the condemning cypher
kilograms traced directly to Tilden's
residence. Its work has been done
most successfully; and we may add to
the entire satisfaction of the country.
These kilograms prove beyond ques-
ton that attempts were made to pur
chase electors, members of returning
boards, &C., in South Carolina and
Florida, and that immense amounts OF
money were ready to be paid over for
this purpose-SS0, 900 in South Caro-
lima, $50, coo in Florida and ss0Oe in
Oregon.
Tilden in lengthy, superfuous aud
irrelevant card emphatically denies all
knowledge of any such bargains, and
attempts to shift the responsibility to
the shoulders of his friends. But the
idea of all this infamous work going
on under his own roof, by his most
trusted emissaries, without his know
ledge is preposterous. The card is
very unsatisfactory even to his former
ly most staunch supporters, and on
the whole the ambitious old gentle
man of Grammercy Park places HIM
self and party in a very unenviable
position. The Democratic press of the
country almost universally accept the
evidence against him, and denounce
the work in very plain terms. Annex
ed will be found few extracts upon
the subject from leading Democratic
papers.
In ell candor, the close friends of
Mr.. Tilden seem to be engaged in SOL
emn tomfoolery when they treat the
Presidential fraud as though it were
the subject o. o personal, or at most a
party, vendetta, whereas to the people
at large it is now only important as
indicating & dangerous rock im bedded
in a complex, cumbrous and undeme
cratic elective system, on which the
republic has already come near split
ting. Galveston (Teras) NeWs.
When package after package of stol-
en- goes is traced to the residence of a
man, no matter what his previous
character or reputation, he must not
merely deny that he is the thief, but
account for their presence there, or
at least engage most earnestly in assist
ing the officers of the law to ascertain
the facts, If really ignorant of them. The
same rule will apply in this case. Dis
graceful dispatches duplicating some
body in base crime have been traced
to the hand of Manton Marble and the
house of Samuel J. Tilden. Neither
denies the authenticity of the dis
patches nor questions the accuracy of
the translation, but each denies any
knowledge of the dispatches or the
plot they reveal, and then appears to
think his duty in the premises done,
without even betraying ordinary cur
iosity as to who had thus used his
name, much less the fierce wrath and
indignation and unremitting zeal for
the discovery of the full facts which
innocence would seem to demand.
Wilmington (DeD Eoery Evening.
Mr.. Tilden's letter, disclaiming all
knowledge of or completely with any
corrupt arrangement or bargaining in
Florida or Louisiana, comes to hand as
our paper goes to press. He declares
that he knew nothing of the offer to
sell the vote of Florida till December
6, and then the proposition had been
rejected. He also declares that he
knew nothing of these ciphergrams
until be saw them in the Tribune.
And he dwells at length on the frauds
by which he was deprived of the Office
TO which he was fairly elected. The
letter will be read with eager interest.
but it will strike most people as too
diffuse in irrelevant matters, and too
brief and inexplicit on the vital points
at issue.-N. Y EUening Express.
Elk Gov. Tilden. you will observe.
has deyiated from his expressed de-
termination, as communicated to the
Ledger correspondent few days since,
not to answer the Tribune's cipher dis
patch articles, unless they took the
form of specific charges of corruption
against him personally, in which case
he would bring his accusers into court.
| understand now that he was moved
to change his mind by the South Car
olina revelation published yesterday,
and also by the urgent representations
of prominent Democratic leaders that,
unless he came out with a statement
of some kind, the effect would be
very prejudicial to Democratic pros
poets at the approaching elections
These gentlemen, it is understood,
were in consultation with him up till
near midnight last night, and when the
letter was written they gave it their
unanimous approval.
As to its effect on the public mind,
it need only be said that, while gen
orally satisfactory, regret is expressed
by Mr. Tilden's friends that he did not
confine himself exclusively to the
cipherdispacthes instead of beclouding
denials with a great deal of what u
le gal mind like his must have known
was irrelevant. la this respect the
impression seems TO be that he has
needlessly weak ned an otherwise
strong case Such Republicans as |
have had opportunity of conversing
with accept the statement with many
qualifications and reservations. They
say it is more like special plea by an
attorney for the defense than an
utterancs of guileless innocence, and
they will wait to see what more the
Tribune has to say before making up
their minds about it.
The Tribune people, it is said. have
been holding back some of their am
munition which is of kind to bring
the charge directly home to Mr.. Tilden
p rsonally. If that 9 so, they have
now al excellen' OPP ortunity to use it
to substantiate their position if they
can.-Nei0 York Letter to the Phlladel
phia Ledger.
A DRILL Which B0kES SQUARE
HOLES.
One of the novelties of the Paris