Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1879 — TWEED’S OPERATIONS DWARFED. [ARTICLE]

TWEED’S OPERATIONS DWARFED.

.... From The Christian Union. Poe’s famous story of the “Gold Bug” pales into insignificance in comparison with the serial story which has just commenced in The Daily Tribune. We know not which to admire most, the extraordinary luck—or extrordinary management—which has brought into its hands 200 cipher dispatches sent by the Democratic managers over the wires pending the electoral count; or the detective skill with which the cipher has been discovered; or the editorial skill with which the public appetite has been whetted to the last degree ot impatience for the full pulilicatiou aud interpretation of these dispatches. The Democratic managers involved, including, we are sorry to say, Mr. Tilden himself (for though no dispatches are signed by him they were sent to anil answered from his honse), must either afford some other interpretation of them or be convicted by their silence of attempting a fraud that dwarfs that of Tweed into microscopic proportions. If the ostrich suffers its head to hicle in the sand much longer, its body will be so full of arrows that it will never recover. The Tribune, by its disclosures, has probably put and end to “ still hunts” and the use of cipher telegrams by the politicians of the future, for both of which services it deserves the thanks of the American people.