The Columbus journal., 1879-03-19
SUPPLEMENT.

lifetime, in order not to know who was telegraph;
| ing, and to whom, and what about. That Colonel
Pelton had been in charge of not De
cause he was trusted by committee, but because
| he was Thought TO represent Mr.. Tilden. was of
necessity known TO Mr.. 1ilden from the angry at
tacks OF DemCcratic papers upon the " bureau OF
NincompOOps." If Mr.. Ilden did not find out what
| In nephew was doing, 1t was because he was deter
mined no. to know.
~. Confronted with the fact that Colonel Pelton
had asked aid in crime from Mr. Cooper, 1t was not
possible for Mr.. Tlden to let the bargain go on
without making it his own, III the eyes OF MeSsrs'
Cooper and Hewitt. But when Pelton was recalled,
at was not necessary Yet Peiton remained as
before In charge of telegTaphic correspondence OF
the Committee. Mr. Tilden, even then, dld not
stop that nor try to stop it, nor make the shgnteSt
effort to know what had been done, or would be
done during the weeks that still remained Al TINS
scandal proves the talslty of the answer, " III was
not necessary" to ask. Had he asked at that
time. November 81, and stopped the teegraphlng
caused MIR. Hewitt to see the kilograms, the sec
Ond job in South Carolina, and all the Jobs III lor-
ida. Oregon and Louisiana, would have been pre-.
vented. He did not ask nor utter word to prevent
V. At that time. about November 81, it became
known TO Mr.. Tilden what Smith Weed had been
doing. He now sweaTs that he took w eed 10 TASK
" for taking part in such TRANSACTIONS, after eeds
return. But after that the second JOHN South Car
DINA was arranged by Weed himself, by telegram
from New-York After that, and as late as Decem n
Der 4, the extraordinary legal dispatch was sent to
South Carolina" Important Judgment on quo war
" rantO be obtained Thursday. Ii order TO de-
: liver paper appurtenance 10 ONCE De ulSODtSeu,
immediately commit for contempt, or II the right
ful electors attempt the exercise of authority Dy
meeting, attach for contempt. Prepare before
" hand and enforce immediately would be apprO-
PIRATE. Would be humane to imprisOn them sep
arately during Wednesday. All probably de,
,,pends on your State; Leave nothing undone;
Verify, "the voice is Jacobs voice, but the hands
- are the hands of Esau."
VI. Mr.. Tlden claims that it was safe to let Pei
is paipaby untrue untrue. Pelton dd get money to send
TO Oregon, and from a bank i'll which Mr.. lllden
was especially well known. There were hundreds
of INSCRIPTIONS Democrats who have gwen larger
sums than PeltOn needed. for much smaller VIC
tories. If there were no others, there was John
MOrrissey and the Democratic gamblers who bad at
stake over 81 100000. Did Mr.. Tilden reason.
PeltOn Will no longer dare to go to Cooper OF 10
- come to me- therefore other money,not by Gandl-
'' nothing about it"? Did he reflect, ! hen can
'' prove that | denounced and stopped the at
" tempt"f fthat was not his reasoning, why dld
he never inquire, interfere and stop PelOns charge
of correspondence through his apparent repre- |
sentatlOn of Mr. Tilden himself.
VII. After the act fOr which Mr. lllden TOOK !
Weed to task he retained that person as his |
manager of forces In a Democratic convention |
After Marble had said that votes were for sale III
Florida. Mr.. IiIden took care to ask no more, but
continued on intimate terms with HIM. After Pei
toms journey to Baltimore to meet Weed, and for
more than year after the full public exposure OF
the Oregon business, PeltOn remained in Mr.. Ill
den'S house. This treatment of men known to BE-
guilty WILL by the public, be held conclusive proof
that Mr.. 11lden'S profession of absolute and un-
hostile to any bribery that could be traced to him,
and particularly hostile to any bribery that was
Ound ont, and destroyed his own prospects.
No other form of moral Indignation has been shown
n bis conduct. But he virtually placed W. L. Pei
On i'll a position where he was sure 10 have OppOr-
unity to buy votes, knowing well that he was
nan who would buy votes If he could and that he
,Ould find the money; in that position he held
'elton by carefully reiTaining from any word of
natural caution protest; and he took eXtTaOT-
linarY pains for weeks not to find out anything
bout the use Pclton was making Of his peculiar
,OweIs. This is Mr.. Tilden's record, upon his own
What else will appear, when the dis
,atcheS sent 30 c. W. Smith shall have been traced
o the person who actually received and opened
hem, we shall probably see. The Louisiana matter
las not yet been brought to light.