Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-19
EASTERN JEW S.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
SPECIAL TO THE EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL,
THE CIPHER DISPATCHES.
COMMUNICATION of mr. TiIacn's Card.

1Ho saot
tory which resulted in my election, was
the expectation that through the Chief
Magistracy a system Of reforms similar to
that which had been accomplished IN our
metropolis and in our State admlnistra-
ton, would be achieved in the Federal
Government. For this object it was
necessary that 1 should be untrammeled
by any commitment in the choice of men
to execute the official trusts of the Govern
ment, and untrammeled by any obliga-
tions to special interests. | had been NOM
mated and was elected without one limita-
ton Of perfect independence, to have sur
rendered or compromised the advantages
Of this position, by degrading competition
by returning Board certificates, would
have been to abandon all that made VIC
tory desirable; everything which could
have sustained me in the larger struggle
which victory would have imposed upon
/ was resolved to go into into the
Presidential chair in command OF all my
resource for usefulness, or not at all. While
thus abstaining from an ig~nominious ON
petition for such certificates, l saw three
certificates obtained for Republican Elec-
tors who had not been chosen by the
people, and denied to Democratic Electors
who had been chosen by the people. These
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fessed and proved to have been obtained
by corrupt inducements. were afterward
made the p~retexts for taking from the
people their rightful choice for the Presi-
dency and Vice Presidency. These c%ertifi-
Gates were declared, by a tribunal to which
Congress had abdicated the function of
deciding the count of the disputed Electoral
votes, to be the absolute and i~ndsiputable
conveyance of the title to the Chief Magis-
tracy Of the Nation. The State of Florida,
which had united all of her Executive,
Legislative and Judicial powers to testify
to Congress, long before the count, who
were her genuine agents, which by statute
had caused a and the issue of
new certificates, and q formal sovereign
authorization of the right of the true
Electors to deposit the votes entitled to
be counted, was held to be incapable of
communicating to Congress a fact which
everybody then knew, and which cannot
now be disputed. Congress, though vested
by the Constitution with authority to
count the Electoral votes, though
unrestricted either as to the time
when it should receive evidence,
or as to the nature of that evidence,
and though subject to no appeal from its
decision, was declared to have no power to
guide its own count by any information it
could obtain, or by any authority which it
might accept from q wronged and betrayed
State, whose vote was about to be falsified.
The monstrous conclusion was thus reached
that the act of one man, holding the decid-
ing vote in a board Of State canvassers;
for, without his concurrence, the frauds of
the other returning boards would have
failed in giving the certificates known at
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be false and fraudulent, and confessed to
have been obtained by the promise of Of
flee, certificates of whose character was
known months before Congress could COM
mence the count, must prevail over all the
remedial powers of the State of Florida
and the Congress of the United States COM
bined, and must dispose of the Chief Mag
istracy of this Republic.
(Signed) s. j. TILDEN.
His Naked and Unsupported Word.
New YORK, October IS.
The "Tribune' says of Mr.. Tilden's
card What he says is clear, broad, en-
phatic in terms, and meets the case against
him as far a mere denial can meet it but
has there ever been a person acquitted in
the teeth of evidence upon his plea of not
guilty, against very powerful evidence
which fits marvelously in a thousand de-
tails all that is known of his legal habits !;
his weaknesses Of character his fondness
for political still events his confidential
relations with the persons acting, and his
use, to this day. of peculiar ciphers in tel
egraphing. Against all this he puts his
naked and unsupported word.
yellow Fever Items.
MEMPHIS, October IS.
A light frost fell in the vicinity of Mem
phis last night, but was not discoverable
in the city. The weather to-day is cool
and bracing. From 6 O'Clock last night
until noon to-day IL orders for interments
are reported by the undertakers.
CAIRO, ILL.,, October IS.
DR.. Roswell Waldo, surgeon at the Ma
rine Hospital here, died of yellow fever
this morning. Three new cases have boon
reported in the last "a hours.
New ORLEANS, October 18.
The weather is clear. cool and windy.
Deaths to-day, SO new cases reported, SO.
Total deaths, 1865 total cases, 12,1S2.
The .sHerald's- Opinion of the
Cipher Dispatches.
New York, October IS.
The Herald says: To say, as many will
say, that Mr.. Tilden's mere denial should
count for nothing, like an ordinary formal
plea Of not guilty in a court of justice, is
neither fair nor considerable. The sweeping
denial is contradicted by nothing on the
face Of the translated cipher dispatches.
They are traced to Pelton, but they have
not yet been traced to any person beyond
him or behind him. Whether he disclosed
them to Mr.. Tilden, or concealed them
from Mr.. Tilden, is a mere question OF
probability, there being no positive evi.
dence on that point. If everything which
is known of Pelton proves him to be a
bumptuous and self-sufieient fool, it is
creditable enough that venal politicians
may have prevailed upon him to abuse his
position in the fancied interest Of his uncle.
This is not improbable. 1t may be asked,
and the question is pertinent, where Pelton
could have obtained the money to fulfill
his engagements. This seems indeed a
staggering question, until We look care
fully, but vainly, through the dispatches
for evidence that Pelton had control OF the
money.
The ssTsmes- ON MIR. Tiidea's Dis.
cInimer.
CHICAGO, October IS.
The Times editorially says of Tilden's
ulscldltnef. IL IL pfuau huu sweeping, anu
but for its suspicious l~ateness, might
secure universal credibliity. Tilden being
politically dead, it is not. however, a mat
ter Of importance as regards him, but he
should exonerate his friends who were at
his side through the Presidential cam
paign, and on whom the burden Of guilt is
laid by the Tribune" The Times" in
clines to the belief that the kilograms may
be bogus. The other Republican news
papers make use of the letter as a pretext
for reopening all the old campaign ISLANDERS
and Misrepresentation Of Mr.. Tilden.
Declines the Nomination.
New YORK, October IS.
Clarkson n. Potter declines the nomina-
ton In the Twelfth Congressional District.
The spotted Tail Agency.
OMAHA, Ncb., October IS.
II. ID. Pratt. trader at the DOtted Tail