New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-17
TILDEN md PELTON.


The friends Of Mr. IiIden nave hC@'" "
well-conceucd cutlery IN his behalf Ills WIZ
dication. they say Is now complete 30 'n'S
| remarked when he asserted III Il heNNP"Pli
card that &c knew nothing about the al
tennis to bny electoral votes. II turns
! ont that he has foIud second VIM
| dic,tion INDISPENSABLE, and the second Is very
much less complete than The first because II
! involves an admission thai he did know a
great deal which he then intended the public
to suppose that he did not know bu' he mas
| been viudicatcd again, and ms organized
! cln0;,c OF Journalists proclaim That tHls vlhdi-
! c,tion ,e,yp. nothing TO oe desired. We shall
seq
! There has been no disposition whatever on
tlc na,f Of TIE TRIBUNE 20 fa,.cn upon Mr.
/ Tildcn a personal responsibility for the crime
! d;.cIo.ed in the cipher dispatches. 10 party
asnrct there are many reasons for dcSir-
inc his cvculpltion. Ii the Democrats
could be induced to nominate hIm there
vonld be no reason to doubt the success
IF any decent Republican candidate. No
sucb GOOD fortune can be expected by
Rrrub.icans. If sir. Tilden should be gem
eralIv adiudgcd guilty Of ConHivancc OF par
I
and sborld therefore be rejected by the next
National Convention of the Democratic party.
l. Is obvious that the party would stand in a
better light than if 1t should defend its
late candidate. and declare HIM spot
less. One thing is certain, MT. PeI-
ton was for some reason strangely tiuNt'd
and obcycd by men who assert that he was
never entitled to confidence personally. Ihcy
te]cerapAad TO nm, consulted him, received
orders from him and accepted his messages,
whether M regard 10 questions Of money. CUES
tons of policy. or questions Of law as from
Democratic headquarters, either because they
knew him To represent MI l1iGen' OF because
they knew him TO represent the Nauohai
Committee OF the party. 1t Is Tor them 10
choose which horn OF the dilemma they pre-
fer. Certainly the Republicans nave 10 IN
tcrcst IN cxoneraung the Democratic organ
| izauon, III order to fas;en an offence upon Il
candidate who may by that organization be
discovered.
| But truth compels the admission that Mr..
| Hewitt, the chairman, and Mr.. Edward
| Cooper. the treasurer Of the Democratic Com
mit>,e, tolerated Nh Pclton III the position
which hc occupied solely because he was be-
ljevcd to represent the personal WISHES OF Nit.
! Iidon, the c%Fudate' Ihtre was ioud
! outcry during the campaign against It's
management 50 largely ny the per
sOnal representatives. OF WI lHuep' ana
/ Nh Hcwtts puDiic dr'Iaia.lohS sh'" tia'
! he was not niue "h'hucu 10y an
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