New-York tribune., 1878-10-24

"if necessary was the answer; but try
"tO use future prospects for some part
Board demanded $75, ,000," was the report
on the 10th what shall dOp "Should be
"willng to accept" replied Denmark, "if ex-
"pense was made dependent on final success
"of Tilden in March," "Where do you want
"me to go2r "What do you say to my pro-
"posal7" "Shall stay here or start Tor
"Floridaf' Telegram received; will see
"par:ies instantly and get conditions
cam anxiously waiting your telegram; until
"its receipt am powerless"; Must get
definite answer before O'clock ;-such are
the dispatches in which Smith NJ. Weed made
daily reference to his principal at Gramercy
Park. advise instantly progress and re-
"sults"; keep fully advised often .;
keep me advlsed"; "Tele2raph result
"and what you want done"; "Give me
exact condition tonight in these and
similar phrases the personal conductor"
asserted in every telegram from New-York to
Columbia his responsibility for all the details
of the enterprise. In the Oregon expedition
the management was just the same. 1t was
the electric machine Mt No. Is Gramercy Park
that dispatched Patrick from Omaha to
Oregon in quest of a purchasable RepuDh-
can elector; it was from Gramercy Park
that the money was sent to Salem 10
cover Patrick's contracts. Patrick forwarded
minute daily reports to Colonel Pelton, ana
received from that gentleman minute daily
instructions; and the burden of PeltOn's ex-
hortations to him, as to Marble apd Weed,
WAS "Teegraph here" ANSWER qmck,"
"Advise promptly"
Who was the Cook g. jenkins of these per-
sonally conducted toursl The dispatches
were addressed TO four persons in New York:
1. To Mr. Henry Havemeyer, who has de-
carcd that his name was used only as blind,
and without his consent; that he did not
know what was in the kilograms, and could
not read them that he never answered any
of them; and that "Other persons" for whom
they were really intended sent to his house
and took them away, until he refused TO receive
them any longer. 2. TO one Morris X. King, who
was merely clerk at the Democratic commit
tee rooms, and who neither replied to any OF
the dispatches nor received any cOmmunica-
tions of special importance. 3. To George
w. Smith. who was a clerk of Governor Til
denis at No. - Gramercy Park, and who
seems 10 have been used only once or twice
as a medium of correspondence with more
important men. 4. To Colonel W. I. Pei
ton. who was the nephew and private secre-
tary of Mr.. Tilden and also the secretary of
the Democratic National Committee. That
none Of the first three of these persons took
responsible part I'm the management of
the campaign may be regarded as certain.
How was it with the fOurth7 He was
young man, unknown in public life,
except as the secretary of q committee and
the nephew of his uncle, without money and
apparently without the means of raising
money, without any recognized standing in
the Democratic party, without political ex-
pericncc, and without ability as a political
manager. The Tourists" with whom he cor
responded at the South were veterans of note
Marble had been for many years the editor OF
the most important Of the Democratic news
papers. Wooley and COyle were adopts In
all manner of political tricks. Smith Weed
was close ally of Tilden's, and one of the
shirt WIDEST and most accomplished managers
in the party. TO suppose that these four
men enrolled themselves for decisive
secret campaign personally conducted by an
unknown and impecuniOus young man whom
they must have regarded bumptiOus boy
and for whom Marble at all events mani
tested an amusing contempt-is TO suppose a
gross absurdity. The vote brokers' did not
start on their errand without knowing who
sent them, and did not make purchases with
out knowing who was to pay for them. Mar
BILE isn't always as wise as Minerva, but
neither is he q born idiot; and IA for Weed
nobody ever suspected him of being fool.
But Mr. Tilden declares that he had nothing
to do with the cipher kilograms. Who then
was the manager of this extraordinary
and complicated enterprise. which reached
into four widely distant States, en-
ployed so many expensive and highly
trained agents, involved such delicate legal
and political manGuyrlng, and called for
the expenditure of such large sums of money!
This is a question. as we SAID the other day,
which concerns the Democratic party more
than it does us, and the leaders of that party
ought 10 lose no time in finding the answer.
For few days after the publication of the
dispatches the guides of Democratic opinion
were bewildercd and inconsistent. They seem
now TO be gradually coming around to an
agreement that Mr. Tilden's denial shall be
accepted as conclusive, and the matter be al
lowed to stop there. But it will not
stop there. If Mr.. TIlden is innocent,
where is the guilt to be placedG The
world will not be absurd enough to satisfy
itself with Pelton. The purchase of the Pres
idency was much too heavy a contract for
that young man. If the candidate did not
direct the job, WAS 1t undertaken by the Ma
tional Committee, of which Pelton was secre-
tary4 Perhaps you can shift the burden
around among yourselves, gentlemen; you
can't leave it hanging in the air.
REGISTER TOMORROW!