New-York tribune., 1878-11-11
4 CONFESSION OF CULT

The first chapter Of translated cipher dis
matches was published on the Sth of October.
A month has passed. Not one OF the
many persons implicated in crime by
that publication has dared TO commence legal
proceedings, either TO establish his own
innocence or 10 bring n penalty upon HE
TRIBUNE. There is 10 question but that the
charges made, il not essentially true were
grossly libelious. Many men of prominence
were implicated for, il the dispatches were
genuine and correctly translated, they must
have known Of an Infamous criminal con-
spiracy, advised it. aided it, and urged ii, or
made themselves accomplces by concealing it,
Not one of the persons thus accused has ven
tured to ask vindicatlon, even from Demo
cratic court in this Democratic city. Does
ANYBODY believe that these men do not want
the exculpation which success in such
suit would give They have taken
infinite pains to publish ingenious cards,
but unsworn dcnials are cheap. If any one OF
them was able to deny under oath that the
important dispatches alleged TO have been
sent or received by him were so sent or re-
ceivcd. does anyone believe that he would
not have rushed into the courts at oncef Had
the dispatches not been genuine, had any inn
portant one of them been forged or talscly
translated, the person thereby affected would
instantly have gone before court, and held
THE TRIBUNE TO responsibility for that dis
patch alone. The coparceners knew that one
such suit would serve as an arrest OF pubic
Judgment. 1t would have raised doubt as
10 the gcnuincncss or correct translation OF
other dispatchcs. All the other cOnspirators,
however guilty, would have sheltered them
selves for a time behind one such suit, if
either of the parties implicated could have
commenced one with safety. Had THE TRIB-
ryE been imposed upon as to any important
dispatch, or had its translation been IN any
material respect erroneous, is 1t not absolutely
certain that n suit would have been COM
menced at oncel
It is three weeks since Mr.. Smith NJ.
Weed. of New York, and other prominent Dem
| ocrats, were either justly accused of more or
less participation in the schemes to capture
the vote Of South Carolina, or grossly SLAM
dcred. If q single false charge was made
either Intentionally or by THE TRIBUNE'S hav-
ing been deceived rs TO the gcnulneness of
any important dispatch or by any material
error in translation, il is very certain that the
matter would not have slept three weeks with
out an appeal to the courts. Finally. these
two publications brought home great crime
TO the door of No. 10 Gramercy Park, and
caused in the minds OF all intelligent readers
a very strong impression that Mr.. Tildcn him
self could not have been ignorant of the
transactions between his most intimate friends
and confidential agents at the South, and his
| nephew and confidential secretary in his own
house. If publications necessarily creating so
strong an impression against him were not
injuries for which he could seek redress in
| person, it would at least have been his first
desire to break their force by inducing some
| one of his agents to attack the genu!neness of
some one of the dispatches or the correctness
of the translation given. But Mr.. Tllden,
also. has confined himself to a denial not sus-
| tanned by an oath. His nephew has not even
ventured TO deny anything. His agents, while
| denying unimp0rtant scraps, have not dared
| TO dispute either the genuineness Of the cipher
dispatches published or the essential correct
ness of the translations, but have confessed
| that in many most important respects the
story told was true. We submit that
they have thereby confessed the genuineness
| of all the important dispatches published, and