National Republican., 1883-06-28
rnr NrAN ON rte AVENUE.
small roiN About Men and Measures.

LIE MAN YIN lAAia Nv AsN u Ass
Small TALK About Men and Measures.
! A personal friend of S ]. Tidcn arises to
remark that tho recent lottcr telegraphed all
over tho country by Editor wattorson reprc-
senting the Sage of cipher alley" TO be in
robust health and spirits, was and is a tissue
of ialsohoods, and in proof thereof makes
this statement.
"Tildcn is not in good health. On tho con-
trary, he is mental and physical wreck,
his condition being very precarious. 1Io
nevor recovered from tho effects of that
paralytc stroke that laid him low,
and the attack has been followed
by softening of the brain and alarming bodily
deorepitudo. The voice that Wattorson goes
into ocstasi over is guttoral rumble abso-
lutoly unintelligiblo, excepting to two attend
ants, and they can mako out what the old
man is saying only by closely watching the
movements of his lips, as deaf mutcs do, aud
| guessing at what is meant. His mind re-
mains fairly clear on everything relating TO
business, but his head is full of queer fancies.
The recollection Of his treachery to Nephew
Pelton fills him with tho keonost
rcmorse, and he believes that the ghost
of tho dead man is with him constantly. IIo
wo will wake up in the night and scream in
an agony of fear at the apparition of Pelton.
The nephew, you know was greatly attached
to Tilden. and when the latter won't back on
him he was heartbrokcn There is littlo
doubt that his death was occasioned by Til
dens treachery toward him. his whole soul
being wrapped up in the old man. Pelton
was close pc rsonal friend Of his uncle and
was in with him in many of his business
schemes. He performed an important part
in the pushing of tho New York ele-
waited railway projects, out Of which
Tilden coined millions Of dollars. That
IJiden knew everything Pelton did in his
behalf during tho celebrated campaign of
1850 no one who knew tho relations existing
between them can for a moment doubt. IL is
understood that by tho provisions of Tildcn's
will Peltons heirs will inherit the bulk Of tho
vast Tidon estate.
| "What Wattorson's idea could have been
in tccgraphing what he knew to bo false
in regard TO Tilden's condition all over the
country is something l cannot understand"
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Gen. Plcasanton says the only mistake Gen.
Crook made during his last campaign against
hOstiles in tho caro- of the Mcxicans who
would have given them q pleasant passage to
tho happy hunting grounds and relieved the
cabinet Of tho embarrassment of determining
what must be done with the slaughtering
wretchcs. Gen. Pleasanton evidently in
dorses tho sentiment onco elegantly voiced
by Mark Twain and since echoed by several
thousand citizens, that the only good Indians
are dead Indians.
A Dallas (Texas) gentleman, who says he
has been republican for twenty-five years,
gives expression to his views on the southern
situation as follows:
"The people of the south are as patriotic,
as honest, and as much in favor of good
government rs tho people of the north.
majority are heartily sick of the hatreds,
preiudices, and follies of tho old bour-
bons and they would gladly sec them
buried out of sight, but they have been taught
to hate tho namo republican, and vote
against everything bearing that label. This
sentiment was absorbed with tho mothers
milk. This being the case all tho bourbon
leaders and their followings have to do is to so
label opposition to bourbonism and it goes b.
Il Gno DOuru. lnc pOlltlCdl sulNullOn Ol Inc
south is in the nourishment of the
Independent movement. The republicans
throughout the south, except few factious
spirits who have made their living for years
by opposing the breaking down of factional
lines, strongly favor union of the bourbon
opposition. This factous element under the
head of few pretended republican papers
shout for Straight republican ticket!
Down with Jones!' Down with
Mahonop Just compare Virginia on the one
hand, and Arkansas, Missouri, and Kentucky
on the other. Virginia, with her Malone,
has free speech, free schools, an honest vote,
and defeated bourbonism. Kentucky, Ar
kansas, and Missouri, have no independent
leaders, or independent parties, and they are
certain for the straight democratic ticket by
from 5O,00Oto to 100000 majority, as the occasion
may appear to demand. The bourbons fear
the work of Malone and the spirit he is fos-
tering more than they do the work of all the
straight republicans in the south, and we'll
they should be, for Malone beats thom and the
straight republicans don't"
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Tho fail ure of Forsyth, tho Pennsylvania
avenue restaurateur, caused distress and BIAS
phemy among pension Office clerks. The sus-
pension was littlo less than calamity to
many of them. No man can rightly under
stand tho agony of soul endured by them un-
til ho has yielded up his last $3.50 for ticket
that insures him twenty-five meals and
returns an hour later to find a notice,
"Closed by the Sheriff." staring him in the
face when he confidently expected to get the
first corn beef dividend on his investment.
When a gentleman has experienced the sink
ing of the heart and the sudden stimulation
of tho appetite following a sudden discovery
of that sort he may have sympathetic feeling
, for the department clerks who gathered around
the door of that restaurant yesterday, but
not till then. The agonizing pangs of hunger
that assail tho gastric regions of broken
citizen under such circumstances must
be experienced TO be understood and
,, properly appreciated. Moments like these
will give ostrich appctites to incurablo
dyspeptics, and they would unhesitatingly
Q tackle provender that would ordinarily
cause the stomach of a Spanish burro to re-
volt. That is the way forty or fifty pension
office clerks felt as they gazed sorrow
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