Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-03
HOW TILDEN'S MONEY GOES.
Interesting Revelations About the st
Louis Democratic Convention.

Interesting Revelations About the st
Louis Democratic Convention.
Apropos of the fact that Tilden ha;
just pocketed another million, glimpse
at his methods of paying out of his
"bar1" may not be uninteresting. A
correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquir.
er has recently made the statement that
Tilden is "miser and an migrate"
Henry Clay Condo, of st. Louis, one OF
Tilden's greatest admirers and abettors,
does not think so, and in conversation
with Chicago Tribune correspondent
makes Incidental mention of some inter-
esting political events which are just
now casting long shadows.
Condo starts off by saying that "the
earmarks of that contemplate old
Dorsheimer show up all through the in
terview." He then said that every man
in st. Louis except Charlie Elleard had
received his full pay for working for
Tilden in 1876, and Charlie wanted too
much. He only got $4,000.
But it seems that Condos desire to &C
quit his client allowed his zeal to out
strip his discretion, for he admits that,
There we're many other good men
who worked hard, but / don't propose to
state how their services were recognized.
l will just say this: that every man was
satisfied with his treatment, and they
are all Tilden men to-day. The same
rule applies to those Who came and
worked for Tilden in the convention.
After the convention, Messrs. Pelton and
McLean-two of Tilden's nephews, who
looked after his affairs here-came to
me, and asked me to go with them and
see the bills paid. l did so, and we paid
every outstanding bill there was. You
see Tilden is an honorable man, and he
wouldn't allow ali those men who came
here and worked in his interest to foot
their own hotel bills. He just did the
neat thing, and paid all their expenses"
Chow much did the St. Louis end of
the campaign COST"
81 can't tell you, but it was some
thing enormous; the hotel bills rolled up
an immense total"
CSnde's description of how the st.
Louis convention was managed is good
if not true He said:
"Tammany brought out here about
200 short-boys, Those fellows with
loud mouths and tall, white hats orna-
mented with black bands. They came
out in force, and their game was to bull
doze-to talk down and bullyrag-any
man that dared to talk for Tilden.
Well, we let those fellows run awhile,
and then one night we took about 1000
brawny workingmen to the Southern,
which was the centre of interest then,
and scattered them among the crowd.
It didn't take long for the short boys
to find out that things had changed, and
they were wise enough to subside. We
didn't hear from them after that. and
their schemes sadly miscarried"
The blast which Condo gives Dorsh-
elmer. however, is too true to be omit
ted. After saying that he was only
high private in the rear ranks of Til
den's army of workers at St. Louis, and
calling him a renegade made desperate
by impecuniosity, he states that he has
so frequently irritated Gov. Robinson
by rushing into his reception room when
filled with callers and asking for a pri-
vate chat that the governor finally said
to him:
"Mr. Dorsheimer, the people elected
me to transact the business of this Office,
and in this Office. Now, if you have
anything to say to me speak out, for it
can be nothing that these people ought
not to hear"
Dorsheimer's desertion of Tilden is
thus explained:
"He knew that Tilden's hold upon the
people of New York was such that an ex-
preston Of his preference for governor
would amount almost to a nomination.
So, when the time came, he went to Tilden
and asked that he give him his influence
in the state convention. He had mis-
judged Tilden, however, in supposing
that he could be guilty of such piece
of Stiffness. Tilden said to him, an
your friend, and all that I can indi7id-
ually do to promote your interests you
may reckon upon; but [ have not the
hardihood, even had the disposition, to
ask the Democrats Of New York to
nominate man who has been member
of their party scarcely two years So
that hope was blighted, and Dorsheimer
grew bitter"
The Tilden literary bureau was referred
to, and Condo simply said that the
recently published statements relative
thereto are excellent guessing" and
that he thinks Howard furnished the
information.
The interview was brought to close
by Mr.. Condo expressing the following
sentiment about the discretion of ex-
pending money in 1876 and 1880:
cit is to be hoped they will be more
judicious than they were in the last
Tilden fight, when they neglected
Illinois, and invested so heavily in
Indiana. I wrote to the committee at
New York, who were managing affairs,
and told them that if they would put on
little steam in Illinois, they would
carry the state. They laughed at me,
said I must be off my foot and spent
an immense amount of money to carry
Indiana. The result vindicated my
judgment, as you know, for we
went up to the Springfield line
with $4,000 majority for Tilden.
I believe that $4,000 judiciously