The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-05
MR. TILDEN,S KEY NOTE.

-uT. NldlIOH AldIDle, lOIuelly Cul-
tor of the New York World and one of
the Democratic statesmen that went to
Florida during the canvass Of the vote of
that State, publishes a long letter in this
mornings Commercial. The principal
object Of the letter is to put before the
public the statement that Mr.. Tilden was
not in favor of the bill creating an Elec-
toral Commission to settle the Presiden-
tial muddle, and to throw the RESPONSE
bility of that movement on the Demo-
cratic leaders in Washington who ac-
ceded to that plan. He insists that Mr..
Tilden urged upon his friends in Con
gress that no new manner of settling the
dispute be undertaken. In the words of
the letter:
$50 soon as the venal infamv of each Returning
Board at the three garrsoned capitals had combined
to make his action necessary, Mr. lilden took i'm
mediate pains to advise his friends foremost in the
House Of Representatives that the final success Of
the complot was impossible if that House would
stand firmly and mmovably on the unbrokcn
series of precedentS formed by the twenty-five
Presidential counts, from 1898 TO l0I2'
Mr. Marble goes on to show that Tilden
never wavered in this advice, and that
the debate in accordance with the line Of
policy thus marked out was to be forced
in the House by the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, and that the
speech of Mr.. Proctor Knott, on the 18th
OF January, was part of the plan.
How the wing of the party which ig-
nored the advice of Mr. Tilden then took
charge of the fight is told in the
following paragraph:
"No sooner was that speech uttered and issue
Joincd barely, indeed, was time conceded for its
utterance, when Mr. Knott was displaced, the de-
bate and its victories fOrCstallCd Mr. Nldens plan
supplanted the responsibility elsewhere assumed
of otherwise enCOuntering the Republican CON
spiracy and the first step in such enc unter taken
irrevocably the entry Of another committee OF the
House and the announcement of Democratic
compromise. Surrenders are, alas! lTreyOcable.
Or ii not surrender, at least the Electoral Com
mission Bill prOilered the conspraors too easy re-
lease from every hard impOssiDlllty in their plot
and proposed to exact OF them nothing more dlti
cult than that eight of the highest Republicans
snould put on blindness, and grant impunity to
the frauds which John sherman in Louisiana, and
"Index" Noycs in Florida, had abctted or de
Tended the committing of by Republicans the low
est and vilest Whereby those frauds afterwards
got an cnectual NalIulty othelWlse than py lOICt
and arms"
Mr.. Marble then goes on to show that Mr.
filden was not consulted until too late
and that the Democratic members of the
Senate Committee were already pledged
to the main provisions of the bill previ
Gus to his being made acquainted witt
the scheme. His warning kilograms t(
his friends in the House are published
and lastly, his "magnanimous silence
since Mr. Hayes was declared President
is mentioned as reason why Mr.. Mar
BILE concluded to give the facts contained
in this letter to the party and th'
country.
Altogether, the document is a politica
paper of great interest, especially to mem
bers of the Democratic party. 1t is with
out doubt inspired by Mr. Tilden, ant
the country will receive it as his pro
nunciamento issued to his followers a
the key note of the arguments to be uset
in urging his claims for a nomination il
1880.