Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1878 — Comments on Tilden’s Denial. [ARTICLE]

Comments on Tilden’s Denial.

Washington Sunday Herald (Dem.) The Democracy owes the Tribune some gratitude for putting it out of Mr. Tilden’s power to do their party any further injury. HEARTLESS OBSERVATIONS. New York Evening Express (Dem.) Pelton has acted the part of an amateur ass. The Old-Man-with-the-Wicked-Part-ners is very down in the mouth. DIVISION OF LABOR. " * Troy Times (Rep.) Mr. Tilden to Pelton: i’ll do the denying, nephew; you do the explaining. Hey, there, Smith Weed; can’t you deny better than Tilden or Marble? HOW ABOUT THIS, MR. POTTER? New Orleans Picayune (Deni.) The question to be ciphered on now is whether the New York Tribune will adjourn or not before the Potter Committee dissolves. A QUESTION AND A FACT. Albany Journal (Sep?) ” Is Tilden a secona Washington? If he isn’t, how do you account for the following historic parallel: I cannot tell a lie, 1 did I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet. 1 it with my little neph—George WaMnglon. jew.—ZL</. Tilden. If Mr. Tilden’s statement had been (a) Written by Jonah when he was sojourning in the whale’s belly; (5) Put to soak for a week in abarrel half-foil of mackerel; (c) Dried between layers of cod in an eel-net; (d) Carried in an old salt’s pocket for a month; It couldn’t smell more fishy than it does now.

A OF CENTER SHOTS? Burlington Hawk-Eye (Rep.) “ A little disfigured, but still in the ring.”— Samuel J. Tilden. “lam one of the people,” says Mr. Tilden. You are, Sammy, you are. One of the worst kind of people. The elevated railway doesn’t appear to trouble Mr. Tilden a particle, but he thinks some man ought to invent a cipher dispatch that wouldn't make more noise in the world than a powdermill explosion. Man ton Marble ought to sue the telegraph company for not delivering those messages. They were plainly addressed to No. 15 Gramercy Park, but Mr. Tilden declares he never got them. Marble has got a good thing on the telegraph company—if he can only prove up. The other day Mr. Tilden laid down his favorite paper, the New York Tribune, and picked up his Bible and read: “For there is nothing covered that should not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore, whatsoever ye have spoken In darkness shall be heard aadthaLwhich ye have spoken in the ear in closets, shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.” And Mr. Tilden laid the book awav and groaned in the bitterness of spirit, ana said he would bet SIO,OOO that wasn’t in the original text, but was a fraudulent interpolation by the Tribune man. SIGNS OF UNEASINESS ABOUT HIM. Cinoinruiti Enquirer (Dem.) Col. Woolley’s greatest distress ajpears to be for his acquaintances. If Col. C. W. Woolley would only visit a few more cities and talk a little more freely about cipher dispatches, etc., He would place Mr. Tilden and his friends under everlasting obligations. SOMETHING FOR MOSES TO CONSIDER. Bricksburg (N. J.) Times and Journal (Rep.) - Jf Mr. Manton Marble would putin .a public appearance he would draw almost as well as a six-legged horse in a country village. Says Mr. Manton Marble: “ Real Of pretended brokers overran Tallahassee, flushing the game which Noyes bagged.” That's «ll right, Mr. Marble,,

•o long a* Noyes bagged game honorably; but who in the name of platy, early and late, flushed Mr. Manton Marble when the Tribune bagged him? WHY THE UNCLE DOESN’T BOUNCE THE NEPHEW. Albany Evening Journal (Rep,) The ory is going up in various quartan, Why don’t Tilden repudiate Pelton? We have do doubt the old man is aching to—that he yearns to load that reprehensible nephew by the ear to the front door, and give him a lift with his boot from the threshold that should land him beyond the Rocky Mountains on all fours. But, if we interpret the Unele aright, the reason which forbids him from presenting Pelton with such a testimonial of his regard lies in the fact that he is aware that there is exceeding much tar upon his own as well as upon the nephew’s garments, and that the presence of the defilement upon both is due to the impingement against them of one audthe same stick. MAKER IT BAD FOR TILDEN. Richmond (Va.) State (Dem.) In an interview, which appears to have been forced upon him, Mr. Charles W. Woolley, one of the parties implicated in the famous cipher dispatches, throws not a little light on the question of their genuineness. He owns, in the first place, to one of them—the one which was signed by Mr. W’oolley as “ Fox,” urging the New York managers to stop Mr. Marble’s proffers to Returning Boards. Thus he allows that the cipher st least is correct whenever used. Again, instead of denying the others, be answers the interviewer by saying that he has nothing to say. Likewise, instead of having any idea of prosecuting the Tribune for libel, he says that he has consulted a skillful lawyer to know if he himself call be prosecuted for what he did in Florida, and that the lawyer assured him that he did nothing to bring him under the criminal law. Thus Mr. Woolley damages the case against Gramercy Park even ynore-Ahan did Mr. Marble, the -aftehce of Peltou, and the declaration of Mr. Tilden, which neglected to declare anything but that he did not know of any such transactions as those conducted through the ciphers. Indeed, the case against Mr. Tilden, far from growing better, grows worse, and the Democratic party will be false to itself if it does not insist upon an investigation by the Potter Committee, aud let its late candidate sink or swim according to the verdict found.

SARCASM. New York Evening Express (Dem.) The 7’ribune'e ciphergrams, taken in connection with Mr. Marble’s card and Mr. Tilden’s disclaimer, will call for another Congressional investigation. Mr. Tilden will rejoice to have an opportunity to make his positive denials under oath, and Messrs. Pelton, Marble, Smith, Woolley, Weed and others will be most happy to tell all they don’t know. Thus, at last, Mr. Tilden will have the coveted opportunity to vindicate himself thrust upon him. A RATTLING WHACK AT MOSES. Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution (Dem.j Mr. Manton Marble was the recognized marplot of the campaign. Conceited,intolerant, whimsical,"and with a well-defined vein of intrigue perco-: lating his system, he repelled all decent gentlemen and marred all reasonable schemes. It was understood, also, that he was jeopardizing the character of his colleagues, by paying repeated visits to Cowgill, and talking dim villainy to that worthy, who repeated it at once to the Republican caucus. Mr. Woolley had more sagacity than Marble, and was minus Marble’s offensive habits. Gov. Brown was the master-spirit of them all. Had the campaign been placed in the hands of Brown, Woolley and Saltonstall, and Marble had been smothered in a barrel of pomade, Florida would have voted for Tilden, and not a dollar would have been spent. Cowgill was not amenable to principle, but he was subject to fear, and was somewhat careful of his threadbare reputation. Had the case against him been made absolute and rigid, he would voted right. As it was, Marble showed Weakness by sneaking into his house with doubtful gibberish, and Cowgill, strengthening as Marble weakened, slipped through the gaps that divisions and bickerings had left in the Democratic argument. Marble spoiled the Returning-Board campaign in Florida. It is hardly more than we expected that he has compromised Tilden.