The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-08-21
MIR. Tilden and his Wrongs"

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The Star is the organ of the Ad-
ministration in New York. 1t aims
to be the organ Of the National De-
mocracy. From the Democratic point
of view it may be supposed that Mr..
Dorsheimer's Star is of the Orthodox
faith. Referring to the time when
Mr.. Tilden forbore to plunge the
country into civil war because the
people refused to elect him and the
Electoral Commission declined to
give him a title to the Presidency,
the Star says:
All the later years of his life Mr..
| Tilden strove to make his country
men forget his recreancy at that fate
full time. But the assertions that have
been made in his behalf are either
false or only true in part. He was
the leader of his party, but he refus-
ed to lead. He was looked to as the
guide of the people, but he had no
counsel to give. There is no stranger
no more pititIl spectacle in history
than this wise old statesman, striving
by his willy arts to meet the require
ments of time which could not be
met except by open and defiant &C.
| ton.
This is fairly entertaining, ana yet
is surpassed by an open confession
which will bother those Democrats
who sniffie oyer the "great frod." but
have nothing to say against the DIES.
perate efforts of Mr.. Tilden's agents
to buy for him the disputed States:
We will not speak of the other Oc-
currences of those days, nor accuse
him Of completely in their dark trans
actions and disclosures of which took
from his cause its moral support and
robbed it of the peoples sympathies.
He had not only lost the day, but
those who stood nearest to him made
it impossible to redress his wrongs.
AT this time we have thought that
our duty would be best performed by
telling the truth in plain phrase.
The translation of cipher dispatches
only proved what was known before
of the Ozark transactions" and it
was too much to ask that the people
should make hero martyr of man
in whose behalf these things had been
attempted. This the two subsequent
Democratic National conventions
knew, and this is why it was conced-
ed to be impossible to redress his
wrongs"-that is to say, impossible
to elect Mr.. Tilden to the Presidency.
This is why the "frod' cry petered
out.
There is even now strange fasci-
nation about those cipher dispatches
which went back and forth between
New York and the south, and be-
tween New York and Oregon, though
for some season Democratic newspa-
pers find little pleasure in them. For
example, there was that entertaining
dispatch from the famous Patrick to
Tilden's nephew Pelton. sent to Til
den's house from which the negotia-
tions were being conducted:
PORTLAND, November %. 1876.
TO w. r. Pelton, No. 10 Gramercy
Park, Ne1O York:
Certificate will be issued to one
Democrat. Must purchase a Repub-
lican elector to recognize and act with
Democrats and secure the vote and
prevent trouble. Deposit $4,000 to
my credit with Kuntz Brothers, Wall
street. Answer.
J. H. f. PATRICK.
And this one from the Governor to
the "old man" himself.
DECEMBER I, 1876.
TO Hon. Sam. J. ridden. No. 10 Gro-
mercy Park, Neoo York:
/ shall decide every point in the
case of post-office elector in favor of
the highest Democratic elector, and
grant certificate accordingly on morn
ing of 9th inst. Confidential.
GOVERNOR.
Somebody telegraphing from New
York and Withholding his name,
asked Patrick, "How soon will Gov
ernor decide certificate? If you make
obligations contingent on result in