Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-10-15

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: what is, after all, but very common for
(, Of sharp practice. Men shrug their shou
ders and say, "Such things are done
Wall street every day." Yes, but they al
, not done by a " President.elect ef the Unite
States" But no matter by whom they al
done, they show low standard of comme
cial morality and how the greed for none
has eaten like dry.rot into the very core q
our national char acter. Some think II hope
less TO raise the standard in this respec
Certainly it never will be raised 20 long q
men keep silent abousit And must say ii
all frankness that "good men" and hon
orable men" have themselves partly t
blame for this shameful state of things.
Is their cowardice in submitting to wronl
that encourages it, repetition. think II 1
time the thing was checked, and I mean Il
do my small part, by 0od's help, toward
checking 1t; and know of NO better wal
than by singing out the most conspicuou
instance Of all my business experience
conspicuous alike by the position OF tn,
man and the hagrant character Of the act
and holding it up as warning and an ex
ample.
Tan sorry to have to speak again of Mr.
Pelton. There were matters which in my
from wish not to wound him. But hii
uncle pushes him into such promine ence, to
my disparagement, that must needs say .
few words more. Mr.. Tilden thinks tha
Pelton is not appreciated; that he 10 man
of great ability, whose retirement from thu
company was loss not TO be repaired. He
said:
Colonel Pelton set IN motion the enterprise. He
organised It with great administrative ability and
carried 1t forward towards completion. He eDa-
b!ed the enterprise to survive the iMmenee inca
pacity OF Mr. Field. After awhile he alienated the
directors by taking upon himself to do things
without consulting them.
pany why did every man Of the directors
insist that he should instantly resign or be
removed! He knows only too well why he
had to resign. Yet when the necessity
became imperative, Tilden still clung to
Pelton, and came to my house again and
sgain and begged that he might be allowed
to remain.
Field charged in his first statement
that Tilden urged Pelton upon the
directors as a Trustworthy, honorable
man, yet at the same time knowing that
he had been engaged in the negotiation
for the purchase of electoral votes to
secure the presidency for his uncle.
This Tilden denies, saying that he did
not know of the cipher dispatches and
the negotiations which they covered
until they were published in the New
York Tribune, in the fall of 1873,
and that he 40 testified to the
investigating committee in February
last. Fields rejoinder upon this point
is crushing in its force. Hequotes from
Tilden's testimony just alluded to, and
shows from it that Tilden admitted that
Pelton went to Baltimore during the
pendency of the presidential contro-
versy; that the next day he sent back to
Cooper telegram, partly in cipher,
stating that he would probably draw
upon him the next day for SEC, 900 or
more; that Cooper Immediately informed
him of this dispatch; that he knew that
Pelton had received An offer for the sale
of an electoral vote from South Caro-
lima, and that was what the money
wsuted related to; that he and
Cooper agreed that Pelton must be i'm.
mediately recalled, and the transaction
must be stopped. This, of course, puts
an end to all pretense OF Tilden that he
did not know anything to Pelton's dis
when he strongly recon-
mended him to the confidence and favor
of the directors of the elevated railway
company, for this was in June, 1877,
whereas the Baltimore episode in Pei
tens career occurred in November, 1876.
The truth is that Pelton is still in the
of his uncle, and this fact
alone proves the utter hollowness of
Nlden's pretense of ignorance of the
cipher dispatch iniquity. It is difficult
to imagine what plea Tilden can now
make to this condemnation out of his
own mouth.
The New York World, the leading
Democratic paper of the country, pub
fishes Fields article, and accompanies it
with 4 strong editorial in which the
contradictions of Tilden's statements are
pointed out, and it is declared that II
Tilden were now q candidate for govern.
or of New York, it would, in the light Of
Fields exposure, be impossible TO elect
him. Will not this exposure end Til
den's chances for the Democratic nomi-
nation for the presidency in 1880? If
not, what wouldf
Cyrus w. Field il manifestly de-
termined to show that Tilden 10 utter
ly unworthy to be the presidential
candidate of any party. In his reply In
the World of the eth, to the converse
tion of Mr.. Tilden with reporter Of the
New York Times, Mr.. Field relates the
following instructive and amusing Incl
dent relative to the desire and the effort
of Samuel J. while in England to get up
a aheraldic tree for his family. Consider.
ing that Mr.. Tilden was the candidate of
the American Democracy for the Office
of president Of the United States, it IL
certainly little singular that he should
be 10 anxious about hisancestral descent
II appears that Mr.. Tilden finds that his
family IL descended from . race Of
'Hqnifes in the county of Kent, Eng
land. This descent immensely delighted
Samuel j., - he thought It proved that
he had blue blood In his veins, which, Of
course, would render him more accept
able to the Democracy of the United
States; but after Mr.. Tlden had secured
this heraldic tree, Mr.. Field says he
acted Enthusiastically In squirming
around in order to free himself from the
payment of the proper fee. But the
story 10 % good, and will give Tilden
such additional claims on the American
Democracy, that 1t should be related In
Mr. FIELDS own Language:
Az my tale may bs long. IL msy relieve
the cry discussion 10 relate, after the man.
ner Of Mr.. Lincoln, " . little story" M.
Tlden ID kind enough 70 inform the public
that went abroad from purs bsnsvolence
ION kiad Of missionsxy snterprtse--
Of England By sparipg % thsm me:t Of ny