New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-05
srPPHISING DISCOVERIES.

SURPRISING DISCOTERIES.
Pcrhaps it is as well after all that the CT
pLcr Subcommittee has checked its nclina-
ton toward undue haste with the inyeStga-
tiou. and has left time and opportunity for
thp disclosure Of Colonel William I. Pelton's
extraordinary mpostmc TO pelcolate slowly
through devious channels of information be-
fore the keen, bright sunlight Of publicity Is
/ turned full upon il in solemn session OF the
! iroucs; Mr. NIantou Marble and Mr. Smith
/ VI. Wed. who are icbaby at this moment
wandering about Their bedrooms in n dazcd
condition. irving 70 realize the astounding
intelligence conveyed To them the other day
bv The H0rId, viii recover their compOSurc,
under proper medical treatment, before they
90 upon the stand. If the PeltOn fraud had
been suddenly revealed to them unprepared
there would have been painful scene in the
committeeman, and the consequences to both
the eminent coparceners might have been Sc
rious.
Imagine the sensations of the astute gen.
tleman from Piatsburg when he was informed
] that he had been banlboozled by "mock
"duhr." and dispatched on a fools GRAND
from New York TO Columbia by young man
vino had no authority from the uncle he pre-
tended to represent and 10 funds 10 meet the
obligations to which he bound himself Fancy
the expression on Mr. Smith Weeds face
when he recalls tue messages of instruction,
counsel, cmonstrancc and command tele
graphed 10 him daily from Gramercy Park,
and learns that the chief from whom those
somewhat peremPtOry communications were
supposed TO come knew nothing about them.
What must he his emotions when he reflects
that he was trcscd into negotiating bride,
pedgiug the payment Of a large corruption
! fund, and then setting down the transaction
| on paper for the information OF / HE TRIBUNE,
and that all the while, instead of serving the
| head of the Democratic party, he was only
feeding the vanity o. a bouncing humbug.
Oh. that he should have writ himself down
an ass
To Mr.. Mant0n Marble the discovery of
Pelton's perGdy must he still more dreadful
than to Weed For Mr.. Marble, as our read
ers may have learned from the dispatches.
had Ito great affection for the secretary. He
addressed that young man IN bumptOu5
tone, treating him as a troublesome but neces-
saly intermediary tHrOugh whom kilograms
were to be sent to Mr. Tilden. When Colonel
Pcton undertook to shield Mr.. WOOiley from
the reproaches OF Moses, Marble tartly replied,
" It's no relief chat you assume responsibility
"for difficulties he makes" You are i'm
"perilling result here he wrote another
time and occasionally he ventured to pass
over the nephew and address himself directly
to NIr. Tilden. What did he say-ah, what
words were long enough for his emotions,
when the awful fact was made known to him
that Mr.. Tilden never saw one of those
high and mighty kilograms, and never
sent or inspired one of the an
swers1 Mr.. Marble hectOring agents and
treating Tallahassee to an exhibition OF style
which that humble capital will never forget
Nj. Marble cougrd ulatng the Democratic
party I'm cipher dispatch) that he had con-
scented to go to Florida and drive every
thing to result Mr.. Marble hagglinG in the
dark over the purchase Of ague-smitten
paliahs, and beating down the price of the
sacred muniments OF the Presidential title
WAS nothing after all but the dupe OF Colonel
Potion. 1t was the hated Pelton who ordered
him TO "coincide" with the hated Woolley
II was the penni.csS peltOn on whose behalf
he promised enormous sums of money for
votes Ii Is not clear that Mr.. Tilden even
knew Of Marbles being in Florida; 1t Is GER
tain that Mr.. Tilden,
For ne hnus,l has said It,
AudI', greatly to ms credit"
would hay, instantly cxclted himself to crush
out Mr.. Marbles transactions if they had come
within the range Of his power. Indeed 1t Is
now understood that when information of the
Marble correspondence casually reached Mr.
ridden "aS of n past event" he was 80 dis