Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1879 — FACTS THAT ARE SETTLED. [ARTICLE]

FACTS THAT ARE SETTLED.

From The Congregation alist. It seems to have been conceded on all hands that The Tribune’s translations of the cipher dispatches were essentially, aud in all important matters, correct. It appears to be settled by the admissions under oath of the conspirators, that direct and criminal efforts, which failed, were made by the Democratic Committee to purchase success for Mr. Tilden in three States. It appears to be settled, further, that Mr. Tilden was during all this time as ignorant as the babe nnborn of all this planning and I Jotting, and as innocent of ail, even the remotest, participation in it. He swears he was, and he ought to know. These things being settled, one thing is settled further; and that is, that as Mr. Tilden really was ignorant of all this .which was going on around him in his own honse, and at the hands of his most intimate and confidential friends, it was because he had made arrangements to be ignorant of it. No other explanation is conceivable.

Another drubbing appears to be necessary to teach the Democrats that the Republican party is not alarmed by the old Southern strut and swagger. It was Randolph Tucker who remarked a few weeks age that before they would yield an inch they would resign their seate in Congress. As they have yielded several inches in consenting to have supervisors at the polls, it is time for Randolph to start the piocession of resiguers. —— There isn’t a morning in fho week when the Democratic party throughout the country can guess what its principles or policy are likely to be for the day until it is known what the Congressional caucus made np its mind to do and think and say the night before.