Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-21
NASBY.
Fr. Nasty Gives lis Opinion on the
Investigation Of the Cipher
Dispatches.

CoNFEDERIT x ROADS witch is i
the State Nv Kentucky, Februar
IL, 1879.-Ther is no limit to tn
crooelty Nv the ablishen managers
nun watever. Not content wit
perventin that gilelis reformer
Saml. J. Tilden, from buyin tn
Presidency, they are doin Their leve
best to fasten the attempt onto him
and to destroy his chances fol
another effort in 1880.
Wat do these men mean? Dom
they know that Saml. J. is a quiet
gilelis old man, who wuz brought
out for the Presidency solely beco2
Nv his many virchoos, and that il
wuz sorely agin his will that he
wuz nominated at all Don't they
know that doorin that long and
holly contested campane he lay ez
a mouse at his neat but not gaudy
home in Gramercy Park, Moo
York, payin no attenshun watever
to wat Wuz goin on, but PERFECTLY
content with wateVer verdick the
people shood bring in? Don't they
know that he knows nothin watever
| NV politikle management, but that
his interests wuz put into the hands
Nv his friends, who did jist watever
they pleased, and that he never
knowd nothin watever about it, till
the votes wuz countid out, and that
he never even so much ez looked at
a noOspaper dOorin the progress Nv
the battle ?
The people don't understand
Sam'l j. TIden, and they do him a
injoory. He is no manager, and no
poItishen. He is too warm blud-
did, too impulsive, and too innocent
for the devious ways Nv modern
pollytix. But this isn't generally
knowd. His iEnosence is the coz
Nv all his trubbles. Hevin okke-
pied prominent posishuns, witch hev
come to him entirely unsolissitid,
and becOz of his strikt integrity, he
is surrounded by gang Nv un~
scroopulus men, who yoose him for
own purposes. He hez a nefew;
man named Pelton, WHO trades on
his uncle's well-known character,
and who gifts him into all sorts Nv
trubbles. 1t wuz Pelton wich did
all the ralerode wreckin that wuz
charged to Tilden's account, and it
wuz Pelto2 who wuz the cheef spirit
of the Tweed ring, and who made
all Nv the money out Nv it. 1t
Wuzn't Tilden at all, and nobody
ever spOsod it Wuz who knowd the
good old man.
In this matter he is in the same
fix. When Looisiany, Floridy and
Oregon wuz in doubt, the gilelis
Tilden sed to hisself: cit is well.
Eff them States want to vote for
Hayes, all rite. | am merely the
servant Nv the people, and wat is
their will I must be satisfied with.
1t is all one to me. may not be
President, but l hev an approvin
Conscience" and he saddled his
boss and rode out in Cen
trail Park, smiling like
the innosent man he is.
But this wicked Pelton, and the |
still wickeder Marble, mizzable men
that they are to thus trade on the
innoSense Nv this unsophistakatid
cid man, they went to Florida and
Oregon, and louisiana and South
Carolina, and they offered large
sums NV money to buy the Electral
votes Nv tt EN- States. They never
let the gilelis Tilden know nuthin
about it, for they knowd that eff it
wuz ever breathed to him he would
stop it a. once, and probably cut
EN- all out Nv his will. They knowd
the integrity Nv the old gentleman
so we'll that they were mighty keer-
full to keep all knowledge Nv it
from him.
They hev done all that they kin
in the matter to set Mr.. -Tilden right,
and the public ought to be satisfied
with it. The biznis wuz all done in
mis- parlor, but without his knowl
edge. While they wuz arrangin the
detales he wuz bizzy reading his
and attendin to his other
bIznls; when the buyin up of the
Florida Board wuz discussed at his
breakfast table he wus engaged in
breakin a soft-biied egg, and never
heard a word NV it. They didn't
even dare to ask the gilelis old man
for money to carry out their nefa-
rious skeem, which would hev
shocked him he'd he knowd Nv it.
They simply askt him for a check
for $20n, 900, and the innosent oil
man give it to 'em without dreemin
NV the wickid purpis they wuz to
yoose it for. They telegraphed
backerd and torerds for months, but
the innocent Tilden never knowd
nothin about it, tho he paid the bills
with money which he sposed wuz
goin for charity and SIGH.
That this is troo, nobody hez
any rite to question. Mr.. Tilden
seq it is troo, and so does Pelton
and Marble. They both testify that