The Portland daily press., 1879-02-20
Nasby.
Rev. MIR. Nasty Explains the Cipher De-
s'atche.-Mr. Tllder a Quiet, smIieI,ss
Old Man " no Didn't Know What Was
q ing Do, and Peiton The Villain whe
Engineered all the RascaIity.

Engineered all the Rascality.
Their is no limit to the crooelty nv the sblish-
eu managers, un watever. Not content with
perventn the gilelis reformer, Saml. j, TIlden
from buyin the Presidency, they are dom ther
level best to fasten the attempt onto him, and
70 destroy bis charces for another effort in
1880.
Wat do these men mean? Don't they know
that Ssml j. is quef, Rileis old man who
wuz brought out for the presidency solely be.
coz Nv his many virchoos and that IL wuz sore-
iy agsinst his will that he wnz nominated at
all? Don't they know that doorin that long
and hotly contested csmpane be lay ez quiet ez
mouse in his neat but not gaudy home In
Gramercy Park, Moo York, payin no attenshun
watever to wat wuz goin on, but perfeckly con-
tent with watever verdick the people should
bring in? Don't they know that he knows
nothin watever Nv politikle management, but
tnat his interests WIZ put into the hands Nv his
friends, who did iOst watever they pleased, and
that he never knowd nothin watever about Ii
till the votes wuz countid out. and that be new
er even go much ez looked at a noosepa
doorin the progris nv the battle?
The people don't understand S anil. j. Tilden
and they do him iujoory. He is no manager
aad no politshen. He is too warm-bloodid,
too iInpnisive, and too iunocent for the devious
ways Nv modern pollytix. But this isn't gen.
ear lily kn0wd. HIS innocence is the coz Nv all
his trubbles. Hayin okkep,ed prominent posi-
shuns, wich hev come to him entirely unsolis-
Std, and becoz nv his strikt integrity, he 1
surrounded by gang Nv unscroopulus men.
who yoose him for their own purposes He beg
Defew, man named Pelton, who trades on
his nucls's well-kIown caracter, and wbe gets
HIM into all sorts nv trubbes 1t wuz Pelton
Wich did sll the raleiode wreckin that wuz
charged to Tilden's account, and it wuz Peton
wich wuz the cheef spirit nv the Tweed ring.
AID who made all the money out Nv it. 1t wuz-
ut Tilden at all. and nobody ever sposed IL wus
who knowed the good old man.
In this matter he is in the same FIX. When
Looisany, Floridy and Oregon wuz iu doubt
the gilelis Tilden sed to himself, at is well Ef
them States want to vote for Hayes, all rite. L
am merely the servant Nv the people, and wss
is their will I must be satisfied with. Itis all
one to me. may not be President, but hsye
an approvin consher Co." aud be saddled hin
boss and rode out in Central Park, smiling, like
the innocent n an be is.
Bot this wicked Peltop and the still wickeder
Marble, mizzaoe men that they are to thus
trade on the innosence Nv this uusofsticated old
map, they went 10 FlOridy and Oregon and
Lcoisiany and South Carol,ns, and they offered
'arae sums Nv money to buy the elec,rsl votes
Nv them States They never let the gilel,s Til.
den know putbin about it, for they kpoweds
bat ef it wnz ever brea'hed 10 him be w,ald
stop it at once, and probsbl, cut EN- out nv his
viii. They kDowed The integrity Nv the old
gentleman SO well that they were mighty keer-
fuI to keep sll knowledge OF il from h,m
They hev done all that they kin in the mat
fer to set Mr.. Tllden right, aud the puplc
ought to be satisfied with It. The bzpis wuz
all don 10 bis psrlor, but without his know
ledge. While they wUz arrapgin the details
ne WIZ Dnzzy read'pe his noospaper and at
'eDdiD to bis other blzois: when the buyiu M
of the Florida Board wuz discussed at b,s
'reasfast table he was engaged brt ak IN a soft
niied egg, and never heard word nv 1t. They
DIDN'T even dare TO ask the gilelIs old man for
money to carry out their Itfsrious skeem,
~hlch would hev shocked him he'd he kpoSed
~ IL, they simply asked b'm for a cbt OK for
S2UO,UO0 and he 'nbosent old man give it TO
'em without dreemin Nv the wickid purposa
they woz to yoose it fer. They teegrapned
'ackerds and forerds for months, bot ths in
nosent fiiden never knowd nothin about it,
tho he pa the bills with money wich be
Thet this is troo nobody htz euny rita tn
question. Mr., Tilden stz It is troo, aud so docs
P-lton and Marble. They both testify thet the
old man didn't know Dotbin sbout The bu,in
Nv the electoral Votes, ana tbet eff he he'd kpowd
It be wood hev stopped II. / make no doubt
tibet John Morrissey, wuz he alive, wood testify
20 the ssme thing, aud sware to IL, on faro
layout wich is why am sorry that emipent
statesman and ganbl is dead. His testimony
wood be valusble Low, to inspire confidence In
wat Tilden swares to.
MY testimony 10 this matter ought TO bey
weight, for hv no reason to like Mr. It ld-n.
kin Drver foreit tibet 10 the st Louis Co ven
hun wfch nomiDstld bin, got ouIy S4OO for
my vote for him, wich be ashOored M wuz the
highest he WIZ payn, wen L subsequently, az.
seftalDed, wen it wuz evetlssringly too late,
toet he he'd pad ez high ez $2400 to delegates
Nv 10 more importance than mysef T. Nor kin
l forgit the brootal anser be made to an sppeel
Tor mummy, tibet it wuz no yoose 10 put muuny
'rto Kentucky wieh WIZ sboor to go fur BIN
-pt ybow, and tibet he needed all he he'd f,r
Moo York, whar votes he'd 10 be bed apd whar
they cost mummy. Sityooated ez L am with
hin, my testimony shood be reserved ez
auountin TO suthin.
Ez badly ez be yoosed me, I want him nom
maud 10 $780, ana hence depreB ATE tn, se As.
saults ONO him. shell know better thai did
the last time. Eff ther Is enuff eft nv him to
make candidate he will hev TO hev votes, and
DO will bev 10 git EN- tz he did afore, bs buyiu
Nv en-; He won't fool me With eny $500 The
next time. sbel know my vally, the ex-
tent Nv his means too well for tnat The next
time ne VIII hev to pay De wat I'm wuth, and
- don't git enuff to keep me till he comes up
for RECONNAISSANCE sRiD, avn mistaken
But this persekooshun ought tn stop. and
must Mr.. Tlden ought not to be made to
bear the burden Nv his uuscroopulus followers
me wieBedDess Nv Peton ought not to be
made TO ob-c cure the true goodpis nv Tilaen.
The good old man sez he didn't know nothin
bout the atte mpt to buy electral votes, aud The
Amerikin peple must take his word. they bev
10 rite TO crush an innocent old man wien bez
o made the prey nv unscupul0us men wich
b. Is so III fortun't e2 to bev about him. Be.
sldes, like his stlle l want him for a caudi-
nate III 1880 H. hsz made ez much money
since his lust ran ez De spent, and will psY
list ez much for the place now ez he dio then.
He is the favrt Nv the Crossroads.