National Republican., 1880-10-09
TILDEN FoR ms TREASURY.

1t seems that the nomination ofTIIDEN for
secretary of the treasury by HUTCHINs was
made in accordance with an arrangement
between the superb and the old railroad
wrecker of Gramercy park, if we are to
credit the New York Herald 1t appears
by that paper that old man TILDEN went
down to Governors Island and convinced
HANCOCK that any amount of money had
been stolen from the treasury by former
JOHN SHERMAN had been to cover up the
transactions aud make the bondhoders and
taxpayers believe that there is n heap of
money in the vaults, when in point of fact
there is shortage of two or three hundred
millions, and that his success as all investi-
gator of the dark doings of Nephew PELToN
in the Oregon and South Carolina business,
where an actual "futile dalliance" was un-
earthed, renders him the most competent
person in the way Of detective that the
country affords.
Now it must be con fessed that a man,
though half blind and palsied, who can
manage TO own several millions, not in gov
| ernment bonds, and he able 10 successfully
evade the payment of an income tax, must
be an adept in the arts of cOncealing treas
ure, and very likely TO be well posted in
the ways that are dark. So far as this goes
TILDEN would be qualified beyond ques-
ton, but there are some drawbacks. The
old gentlemen is too good man to be bur
dened with such disagreeable work. He is
as oit.hearted as a woman. This is shown
by his wailing over the oppression inflicted
| by republicans on that useful class of citi-
zens in our large cities known as repeaters
and owners of forged naturalization papers,
and further south ms tissue ballot manufac-
facturers aud counters. That his sympa-
thies are broad enough to cover with the
expanded mantle of charity this whole class
of practical men who are being pur-
sued by election supervisors and other
wicked persons with vndictiveness
unparalleled in history, there is sufli-
cient proof in the past columns Of the
paper founded by HORACE GREELEY The
same tenderness is manifested by him
toward other victims of oppression. We dc
not refer to the negroes, because they have
the powerful aid Of the protecting arm oI
BEN BUTLER, nor do we refer TO large
class ofpOor men whose little homes arc in
danger of being sacrificed under forced sales
by two per cent, per month sharpeys, for in
Mr. WILLIAM II. ESGLIsH they have 4
friend such rs nowhere else on this globe
can be found. We allude to set oi
patriotic persons, who, during the late un-
holy war, had a conviction that it was q
duty which they owed to themselves moi
TO do their part toward paying the expenses
of the government, and who devoted much
valuable ingenuity to devising ways and
means for escaping the rapacity Of that
offensive individual, the taX-gatherer, Il
is well known that so great is Mr.. TILDEN''
kindly feeling in behalf Of these afflicted
people that he has undertaken at his own cos
to contest the right Of government tC
enforce its demands, and has employed
numerous lawyers to exercise all their skill
in securing pOstponements Of the trial anC
a decision until the time may come whel
through n change in administration thest
, worthy persons SNAIL nave Il lalr snow u
escape the iniQuitous burden attempted t
be laid upon them.
If all stories are true, something Of thi
{ same sof,-hearted sympathy has been shown
to the fraternity of railroad wreckers, auC
we know that it was long months afte
. PEGToN's connection with ciphers and bribe
was proved before THDEN refused to conld
in him, if he ever did refuse, and to thi
day SMITH WEED, coparcener in gull
has certainly not been discarded. Thi
soltness in the disposition of SAMUEL is n,
{ doubt a good trait IN his character rs
family man, and is one of the reasons VIII,
during the last campaign so many yer.
? beautiful women We're willing 10 share hi
burdeusin spite of the insignidcance Of hi
income, but il would never do to trust sucl
a person to punish such atr0cious yiliain