Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-18

names of responsible gentlemen as witnesses
or parties to tho transaction" This, too, is
very unsatisfactory, by reason of the fact that
the names of the responsible gentlemen who
have been ''privately whispered about" as
witnesses or parties to tho transaction, are
omitted.
We do not hesitate to express our disbelief
in the entire story. 1t is notorious fact
that the electoral vote of South Carolina was
for sale. The members of the board of can
vassers unblushingly admitted it before a
Congressional committee little over year
ago. The election was close, but there has
never been any question in the minds of
fairly disposed men that Tilden had small
majority. Seeing chance to make little
money, the board of oanvassers made over
lures to tho friends of Mr.. Tilden, promising
for consideration to count the vote honest
~ so that he would he assured of An election.
That consideration was small one, in view
of Mr.. Tilden's means, and had he chosen to
resort to corrupt messur, in order to secure
his rights, he would not have been impov-
erished by the outlay. The fact that be re-
fused the offer, no matter what the circum-
stances were, is greatly to his credit, and the
further fact that the board of canvassers
counted the Hayes electors in is proof posi-
tive that the Republicans accepted the offer
that Tilden had rejected.
In all the statements affecting Mr.. Til
denis honor one thing is manifest: While
he was frequently approached by the return
ing boards of the three contested Southern
States, there is not the shadow of evidence
to prove that he ever paid dollar to his
tempters. Some of his agents, no doubt,
dallied with the corruptionists for the pur-
pose of finding out their plans, but the ne
gotiations in no instance proceeded further.
On the other hand we have the most incon-
trovertible evidence of the fact that MIR.
Hayes and his friends did negotiate with
these rascals, and furthermore that he paid
them directly and shamelessly for their dirty
work in his behalf, not out of his own pocket
as would become an ordinary bribe-giver,
but out of the pockets of the people of the
United States. He gave to Packard as the
price of the surrender of the Office of COVER
nor of Louisiana, that he might moro easily
accomplish his designs, the most lucrative
consulate IN his gift: to each of tho
returning board officers he gave the
best federal Offices in New Orleans {;
to the visiting statesmen he gave the pick of
the foreign missions; upon the supervisors
in the various parishes he conferred various
appointments, and nil others connected in
any way with the great crime he cared for
in some official position. In all he has paid
out of the treasury over million dollars to
the miscreants who helped him to steal the
Presidency.
The facts-and they are very stubborn
facts too-are that Tilden was approached
by the bribe-takers. He refused their prop
ositions and lost the Office to which he was
legally and fairly elected. Hayes was also
| approached and accepted the infamous pro-
posals. He gained the Office to which he
was not elected either on the popular or
electoral vote. Between the conduct of the
two men there is as great difference as
between the character of an angel of light
and demon of darkness.
We do not affect or feel great admira-
ton for Mr.. Tilden. He possesses quail
tiles that we do not esteem desirable
in the chief magistrate of the re-
public. Yet he has been grossly ma
ligned by his eUemies, betrayed by those of
his own household, sacrificed in the house
of his friends. This last so-caled statement
bears internal evidences of it's untruth, and
we shall refuse to credit it while only sup
ported by anonymous statements vouched
for by Irresponsible gentlemen" who are
afraid to subscribe their names to their aver
ments. In its present form it has every
appearance of cowardly attack upon man
whose personal integrity is above reproach.
We trust Mr.. Tilden will not delay in placing
before the public prompt denial of the
charges, for they are of too serious nature
TO be passed by in silence.