Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-09-30

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an attempt to crush a man so per.
severing and heartless as that
which has pursued Samuel J. Til
den. The journals and the orators
Of the Republican party, who hailed
him as a sort of savior of New
York from sea of corruption, have
delighted In taking back all they
said OF him when he beat Gen
Dix for Governor by round ma
jority of fifty four thousand, and to
replace their encomiums by un-
stinted abuse. Take the infamous
way In which the government of
the United States has kept hang
ing over his head the income tax
sultan instance of the meanest
and most contemplate political
persecution, having absolutely no
Foundation but political malice
The latest form of Republican
malevolence towards Mr.. Tilden Is
embodied In the wide circulation
the organs OF that party are giving
to the twaddle of Cyrus w. Field,
who is enraged because Mr.. Tilden
made q million dollars in New
York elevated railway stock while
Mr.. Field made nothing. Through
IL all Mr.. Tilden remains perfectly
serene and self-poised. He was in
terviewed, the other day, by a re-
porter of the New York Times, the
leading Republican journal of the
United States. We take from the
interview the following happy
passages, in which the rightful
President overturns the fabric of
malice In which Field has been try
ing to enclose him:
The reporter said: Mr.. Field
makes the following statement:
"But when Mr.. Tilden came to ties.
tify before the Congressional Com
mittee he admitted that at this
very time he knew (although the
DQUiiC uIu ilOb huOW tiii AOntuS
afterward) all about his transac-
tions in regard to the cipher dis
patches. Yet, knowing this, he
presented to me man who had at
tempted bribery, and SO been guilty
of q crime, as one worthy of my
confidence and one whom he
specially chose to represent him
self"
Mr.. Tilden-The moral audacity,
or rather the i'm moral audacity, is
amazing, of the man who could de.
liberately assert in written paper,
under his own signature, that ad-
mitted before the Congressional
Committee that, sat this very
time" June, 1879 I "knew all
about his transactions in regard to
the cipher dispatches" testified
before that Committee that l never
knew of the existence or contents of
any of the cipher dispatches until
their publication in September,
1878, and every witness examined
and every fact ELECTED confirmed
my testimony. 1t was further
proved that when 1 was Informed
by Mr.. Edward Cooper that Col.
Pelton was receiving, or was about
to receive, the communication of
the first of the offers, and the only
one that came TO my knowledge,
to give to the Democratic electors
their certificates for q peeuniary in
ducement, l instantly interfered,
broke up the conference, and
crushed the incipient negotiations.
It was proved before that Com nit
tee that certificates for nineteen
votes were in the market, while
only one was lacking to defeat the
fraud by which the Presidency was
wrested from the majority of the
American people. Tits now known,
beyond controversy, that the
four votes of Florida belonged
to me, and were diverted from me
by corrupt inducements, since part
ly performed. 1t is now known
that the eight votes of Louisiana
also belonged to me. Even Judge
Miller, the master spirit of the
Electoral Comm ssion, is reported
to have admitted the fact in re-
cent interview published in the
Sun The frauds, pr rjuries, and
forgeries by which the false certifi-
Gates were supported were numer
Gus aud complicated. To these was
superadied the forgery of three
electoral v0ts to supply the place
of the original votes sent from Lou
isiana and found to ba illegal. fhe
actors and agents in these wrongs
have been appointed to, or con-
tinued in, all the great civic trusts
OF the United States within the
State OF louisiana. II was proved
that failed to enter into this
shameful competition. 1t Is known
that did not obtain any one OF
the certificates known to be in the
market. They were all EAST against
me, AS we'll as against law and
right. Mr.. Field, pretending to
think that "poor Pei .on," as he
calls him, has been harshly and
unjustIy dealt with by the public,
In the next breath says that he
chad attempted bribery" and chad
been guilty OF crime" This is an
exaggerated untruth. Col. Pelton
neither initiated nor consummated
anything. He merely listened to
offers from officers to do what they
admitted and he believed
to be their lawful duty for hire be
fore they violated that duty under
corrupt inducement. His wrong
did not go beyond a futile DALI
ance. The beneficiaries of the con-
summated wrong, its instigators
and patrons, are high in the seats
Of governmental power and honor.
Shocked at lesser wrong, which
died in its mere meditation, to the
great crime actually consummated,
Mr.. Field "crooks the pregnant
hinges OF the knee, that thrift may
follow fawnipg."
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