Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-24

also expressed his faith in the investment.
and said he hadn't dollar of stock to sell,
Tilden conjectured that Field was under the
morbid imagination of q conspiracy to
undersell him in the London market. As to
Fields attacks on Pelton, and the charges of
Tilden's procrastination and peculiar busi-
ness habits, Tilden said it was q tissue of
fictions. These payments were all made
promptly. sllll
The breakfast story and Fields bullvinp
him into paying $15, 900 was pure romance.
Respecting the violation of written CON
tract charged by Field, if Col. Pelton did
admit friend to an interest in some bonds.
it was done while Tlden was in Europe, and
he had no knowledge of it. The stock was
put in Pelton's name, but not until ten
months after it's purchase. Tilden said:
"Pelton manifested so much desire to be as
ISOLATED with the enterprise, and have the
agreement with Field taken in his name.
that assented. I had not been in the habit
of doing any of my private business through
him or with his help. It was not at nv re-
quest Pelton was made vice president. I was
in Paris when these proceedings took place;
had been out of the country more than three
months. I had never heard Col. Pelton
wished to be vice president. Col Pelton set
in motion the enterprise. He organized it
with great administrative ability and carried
it forward. He enabled the enterprise to
survive aisa @ @
THE IMMENSE MOAPAC1TY OF FIELD.
After while be alienated the directors by
taking upon himse If to do things without
consulting them. think that was his real
difficulty. Some other criticisms were made
on his administration, but did not seem to
me important. When the discomfort arose,
and ever afterward, I advised him to resign,
but he had set his heart on rapid transit as a
public improvement, and was ambitious Of
conducting it to success, and not Indifferent
to the personal distinction that would result
When his troubles arose befriended him,
though he would not follow my ADVICE
Concerning Fields statement that whom
committee he admitted that at this very
time he knew (slthough the public did not
know until month afterwards) all about
his transactions in regard to the cipher dis
patches "yet, knowing this, he presented to
been guilty of crime as one worthy of
confidence. and the one whom he specially
chose to represent himself" Tilden said:
"The moral audacity, or rather immoral au-
dacity, is amazing Of the man who could de-
liberately assert in written paper under his
own signature that admitted before the
Congressional committee that tat this very
time, June. 1877, knew ell about Peltons
transactions in regard to the cipher dis
patches I testified before that committee
that never knew of the existence OF contents
of any Of the cipher dispatches until their pub
LEGATION in September, 1873, and every wit
ness examined and every fact elected CON
firmed my testimony. TWAS further proved
when was informed by Edward Cooper that
Col. Pelton was receiving communication
Of the first of the offers, and the only. one
that came to my knowledge, to give to Dem
Ocrstic electors their certificates for q pecuni-
ary inducement, instantly interfered, broke
up the conferences, and crushed the incipient.
negotiations. It was proved that certificates
for nineteen votes were in market, while
only one was lacking to
DEFEAT THE FRAUD
by which the Presidency was wrestled from
the majority of the American people. It il