, 1879-02-17

@'An'Sss Duk aIt!tHE nufHDEI &%4 3GCfAtS 6t
consl'lerab)c emlncucc the result u. the exam
tnatIon leaves painful Impression
that he ts man extremely nntl
Ton IN ncrson rcry ncar to him, having very
sontt'icnita' rclntfons with him, and wh0m ho
netGcsed 10 an attempt to commit, for Mr. TIL
aem,a e benc!t, grave criminal action,
u "rc'ton," It + said by these Democ,atst
an oIer to buy tic South Carolina Electoral
votc for hxcsf sum sI,nt 1o accepted The prop
osi.toh aint went to Baltimore to tncct Weed and
on aren't Of tl'c Returning Boart to nrrange the
PURCHASE; ant. tint as hu Was setting OIL for Hul-
ttdlorc lie saw Mr. Cooper and told tim wl,ero
he W.. going and tfAt fle might need some mon.
ey. slr. Cooper tcstEtcs tl!Mt the next day Pei
ton teleeraplle1 him for sly, ,oo0 or ss0,0o5, he is
TO Mr. IlIde,. AMI told him ali about il. Mr.
lilden, tn hts turn, testif1es that OIL hearing
Whist Mr. Cooper told hlsn, he Immediately eafsl
no such oifcr Should 10 entertained, und tliat no
negotiation Of llat natuso should be tolerated;
that mol gent should te furnished for any such
purpose: TINT Mr.. Pcltpn should bc Immediately
ttae;iegraphcd Tor to return 10 New York. Mr.
!flden does not attempt to conceal tllt he TIL
derstoh accurately asll entirely the nature md
engaged aEsl tu whic, 1,c evidently expected
Coopor to assist him. lie Is clcar-hcadcd
mai; what he saw wns that Pc1ton, his scgre-
tary, hts relative and confidential agent Ind
ualUns, ilntnnsal, ash criminal. NJ sooner did
Mr. Cooper tell him Of 1t than Mr.. Tildeu for
Dade II nni hutlmoncl FELTON, Gack to New
York, a. was right, On hss return Nit. Tillcn
patience nnd d!spleasurc. hut thut was all.
Pelton tcBtilce that s relations With Sir. Ti,1en
wsre @ not materially altered by The trnnsacsion.
1flden himself says that he did not reu,oso Pei.
ton from the confidential and influential position
he had occupied, am! pc'ton adds thai aftcr nts
fcturn he was In such position and undertook
to purclasc the Florida 1soturntug Board."
,.. Now" aay these Democrats, "was not Mr..
Itldeu himself gravefy lacking In character, III
that nicn scnsc of lotor, IN the keen apnrecia-
ton Of dIsgTaccful act which mail IN ills posi-,
ton ought ccrtntuly tn lIavef Ought llo not to
have at once alul carefully excluded pcltoD from
traneactunsf Ought he not to hare given no-
tfcc to MI his political friends that they must
not trust Peltnni but whit bappcncdl Not
only did he allow petup to be- regarded AZ hold
but als Of uS WHO were llgFc during The winter Ut
ls1B-'1T remember very we'll tElat during the
!nst month of the session Felsoil was hero at
Washington the o,ruly declared agent of Mr..
IildGn occupied m expensive suit os rooms ut a
hotel, had with bin corpe Of asaIatants, u,ld
Was u! eusistant nld Glusc communication with
Nr. I1luen, a.1 communicated un his beiintf
With the most Influential rscn of itse pnrty here
sectetcF 1rg1n2 resistance to fhc vcr,lict OF the
Electoral Commission. arranging political allt-
nucta, t1AktnE himself iItfsltlce undoubtedly
to Mr. Hewitt and other responsible n,cn III ati-
tflorlty. but q nuisance who Ind hs. Tlldcn :nt
hta hack, Md who represented In III especial
manner nnd With especial authority Mr. TIL
denis wishes. Now, knowing that relton Ind
been fortunately frustrated NJ critical moment
IN an attempt at bribery which no honorable
man in the party would have tolerated, ought
Mr. Tilden 10 have allowed him to come down
here as hts ntnbassntlort Was he not bound II
Pclton did come to inform us privately that be
was nut llt to be trusted With csen thc rctttcst
at1atr, aud that We must guard ourselves against
him as ugaiust mad dogf But 50 far frutn
taking tats lust nsn honorable course, hr. TIL
den would lind 1t difficult to henY that In some
he took pclton's adyira rather than tlIat of
prominent md honorable men, nlut hatla otters,
his supporters, ~ take tt,-alvicc which wns
Of course us foolish as the 0tIer to bur Return
ing board was wrong nrd seandatols.'f
This is what is sad here in prominent Demo-
cratic c1rclca of Mr.. Ti,dcn, Mnd Il is said With
iGpnticnco mud sometimes resentment,