The New York herald., 1878-05-30
Is Mr.. Tilden Pulling the Wires that
Move the Puppets?
TENNESSEE DEMOCRATS IN A RAGE.
An Address To Be Published in Re-
sponse to Secretary Key.
Trouble Over the Necessary Ex-
penses Of the Investigation.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

TNOM OOn oFcSIAl SONRCoFONOENl. !.
= WASHINGTON, May 29, 1873.
SEcnETARY KEYS LETTER AND us EFFECTS
DEMOCRATS ANNOYED AT THEIR POSITION
BEFORE THE oouNrRY-EvIDENcE or SECRET
INFLUENCES AT WORK.
The democrats deeply annoyed here to-day the
letter OF Post General Key, urging Southern
men not support Tor the next Congress any man
whc this Congress otherwise, iavors the Poster
resolution of inquiry into the Presd ential title. IL
unexpected blow, and tho nore telling upon
the democrats because they themselves with very
few exceptions irrtated at having been coerced in
some way, they know not how, INTO supporting the
Potter resolution against their better judgment and
Intentions The Southern democrats in particular are
annoyed, because they find themselves accused
BY Mr. Key OF revolutionary designs which thoy
have not entertained, but for which their foolish
Tupport Of tho Potter resolution has, as they
ice given at least color. They ara amazed,
puzzled and indignant They feol that som show
they do not quite comprehend how-they
have been led into a false position and
they do not know to get out Of It. II Is not now
probable that any OF them will be bold enough to
bring in resolution repeating that OF Mr. Potter,
but large number of them are indignant enough to
do II, and II such resolution could get before the
believing shat Mr. Pot.er's committee would be dis.
missed BY large majority Of democratic votes
The democrats 20 about In private, In . msze and
with puzzled minds, asking each Other, "Who dd this
thingf" 'How was It done?n "who advised q,
"Who consented TO u bsforehandf" and their lndg-
nation increases as they discover that one con-
spicuous leader OF their party asked about
she proprisy OF tho resolution the inquiry. Not
one except the Speaker. who appears to havc been
men who got It up. ME Potter long ago let Il
be known that he knew nothing OF the matter
until, at tho last moment no was informed by tele-
graph that he ordered report IL TO the House.
OF tho democratic Seuators-Bayard, Thurman Ran.
dolph, Herman, Lamar, Gordon, Beck, Hill, Morgan,
Garland and others-not one, SO Tar known, was
even allowed to know anything Of what was proposed.
Not only were they not asked for advice, bet they
were carefully kept IN ignorance OF what Was pro-
posed. In tho House the same care was observed TO
keep the secret from the most important men. IL
70 not strange, therefore, that now, when
men have had time to talk tho matter
over and TO discover that nobody except
the hall dozen who engaged In u vas censui,sd
they SO about wondering how It was done, whose
she unseen hand that boldly manipulated Tho
whole matter and how the whole democratic deloga-
tion the House was lsd into supporting measure
which lato a. tho 24th OF April, as appears by in
ssrvews in the HERALD all but twelve opposed with
sonscmpt. That an unseen hand was work In tho
matter begins to be plain TO many oi them as they
compare notes. A Southern democrat, who in the
HEia.LD interview strongly opposed to any
ure like that OF Mr. Potter, was asked to-day, NV sre
vou msrepresented?"
NO." he sale, is wnatI thought. and tha. Is
what stiii think. The whole thing Is unwlse ana
wrong"
s.Rut vou voted fop a
"Yer, did. Two three leading newspapers In
my district suddenly out for It and threatened
that one should be returned TO Congress who
dared TO oppose It. and did not like to 90 against the
sentiment OF my district"
.'was shere really an exctsmeut among your peo-
pie about ~ Did you receive letters from your con-
Uituents urging you TO support t?"
"No, but these newspapers came out all At once
With sharp articles and paragraphs, which were sent
70 marked, and you can see that would naturally
Affect mo-
"wsrs any public meetings held in your district
70 demand ~"
insI 10 what md everybody tells mo OF his own
district. Tho newspapers all At blew out. and
threatened every man's who darcd to oppose tho
Investigation.
Now. what 10 noticeable in this matter 10 that this
che general expsrsnce OF Congressmsn; particularly
n tho South. So tar as they knew. the public mind
u their districts was not excited on she subject
rhsir people made no demands them; Il was not
discussed; meetings held about Il; no letters
rom prominent citixscs came TO them that they
wanted certain course pursued; but there was thus
sudden outburst In the newspapers the critical
moment whom IL neccssary 10 the purposes Of the
Unseen Hand that Representatives should bo misled
and cocrosd BY threats from home. Who did ~
he
Hand was Mr.. Tilden's; that his famous literary
bureau prepared inspired these simultaneous uI.
nipations; that as Colonel Peton 10 known 10 h ave
tome TO Baltimore to arrange In private meeting
With Mr.. Randall and few others the exact time ana
manner In which The resolution should be Ini
and pushed, SO was from the New York
headquarters that the thunders wero launched
which we're intended to alarm and deceive
Representatives, here and them into sup.
porting measure about which they had
not been consulted beforehand Of form and in,.n.
ton Of which they bad carefully kept ignorant
which, virtually important as II was, was never Sub.
mit,ed to caucus, and OF which, In fact they knew
20 ltic that their gnora helped lead them
astrsy. For they argued: -"rhs mon VINO arc push.
ing this must have positive proofs In their hands or
lhey would not dare TO DO so confident"
so far ss your correspondent has been able 10 10.
pertain not a democrat who lie on record In tho
HERALD Interviews Of April "a as opposed to the
measure has since changed his mind OF course tho
whole list has not boon again questioned but the re.
suit OF careful and extended general inquiry develops
The TACT that think now they thought then OF
The measure and think It wrong aud unwise. II, as
,he general OPT MON nero begins to be, really
Mr. Tidens unseen hand which thus baggcd tho
aouss Of Representatives help but marvel
t the industry and dcxteriiy with which no led his
partv INTO what all OF them now see and alost All
beforehand declared TO be gross bander
II Is remarked moro BY shrswd democrats that
Speaker Randall has put on the Potter committee
almost every OF his rivals for the Speakers chair
"rhe pos, OF honor Is tho post Of danger, some
said when this was pointed out and the Speaker In
assigning TO leading places on the comm mt,ee Potter
MORRISON, ManMahon, Hun,on and Blackburn, all
possible candidates for the Speakers chair. and dan.
rerous candidates, too, did shrewd stroke OF busi.