The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-07-24

An Interesting Chapter IN Ameri- |
can POlitiCss
We present our readers this week
a Supplement Of 4 pages, containing
one Of the most interesting chapters
in the political annals of our coun-
try. 1t is nothing less than g sue
cinct and reliable history of the fa-
nous cipher dispatches, which pass
ed between some Of the TiIden poll
ticians of New York, including Mr..
Tilden's nephew, Col. Pelton, Man
ton Marble, (''Mosas) then editor
Of the N. 7. World, (Mr. Tilden's
chief organ, )Smith Weed, Col. Wool
ley, ct I'd OD1g1s genus, while those
Democratic leaders were trying to
bug for their chief the one indispen-
sable electoral vote needed to make
him President, in the winter Of 1876.
The proof Of their corrupt attempts
to defraud the people Of the United
States cut Of the President of their
choice, by 5aging one or more
members of the Returning Boards
of S. Carolina and Florida, and one
Of the electors Of Oregon, is com
plete and overwhelming. Their
guilt is established beyond doubt,
and admitted on all hands. The
only question is, whether Mr.. TIL
den b1aea0 what they were doing, and
it seems almost incredible that he
should not have known it, when the
dispatches Of the eonspirators were
being sent to his residence at Gram
ercy Park, and his own nephew and
trusted Private Secretary, Col. Pei
ton, was the chief of the plotters en-
gagged in trying to steal the Presi-
deney for his uncle.
Mr.. Tilden has, however, positive
ly and under oath, before the Con
Committee, denied all
knowledge Of any attempt or design
to use money in the purchase Of
electoral votes in his behalf, and we
must either take his word for it,
or believe him guilty Of the most
perjury.
But leaving his guilt or limo
Cence entirely out of the question,
the damning fact remains, that lead
ing Democrats, who had been N close
and intimate relations with Mr..
Tilden, did attempt to make him
President by a corrupt and fraudu-
lent use Of money, in short, by down
right, open, shameless bribery 4
This shameful fact viii go down to
and will leave a stigma up
on the Democratic party which can
never be efaeed. Let every Repub-
Iican read carefully the unanswera-
BILE evidence presented in our Sup
plement this week, and preserve it | .
for future reference. And whenever !,
any Republican hears a Democrat {
shouting Fraud" and assailing
the validity of President Hayes IL
tie to the high Office be has so ably {
filled, let him show the record, prov
ing that the only ''fraud" attempt
ed was by Democrats, in Mr.. Til G
den's behalf
The great service done to the Re
publican cause by the n. Y. Tribune,
il discovering the key to these eele-
brated dispatches, and giving a cor {
rect translation of them to the world, +
entities that journal to the gratitude q
Of every Republican and friend Of /
truth, honesty and justice, no matter
to what party he may belong. It is
and humiIiating to the ma
ton that any American citizens
should attempt so gigantic a fraud,
but it is a cause for rejoicing that y
having attempted it, they we're
oaught in the act and exposed to
the scorn and contempt Of all honest
men. It is to be hoped the lesson
IS one which will not be lost upon
iuture politicians, and that it may
be long ere the American people
will again b made to blush for
shame by the exposure Of such cor
,uption among the leaders Of any
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