Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-13
New York Times. Dec !

The following important statement,
sworn to by clerk of the Democratic
State Committee, shows the dcspica-
bic method by which Mr.. Til
den's friends manipulated the pools
in his interest. The plan was part
and parcel of the general scheme of
fraud through which Mr.. Tilden
hoped to steal his way into the White
House. The statement is furnished by
Col. Drake DcKay, with the follow
ing letter as reply to many inqui-
rics made of the Veteran Soldiers
and Sailors Committee:
UNION VETERANS NATIONAL COM
MlTrEE, New York, Nov. 30, 1885,
TO the Veteran Soldiers and Sailors.
COMRADES These headquarters have
been i'm receipt of many letters from
you asking information as to the
modus operandi of the pool betting
in this city during the late campaign,
the quotations of which had injurious
effects in your respective States.
These letters remained unanswered
because of our lack of accurate knoWl-
edge, the pool-rooms being all owned
by democrats. This information is
now obtained and conveyed to you,
in reply,by the following sworn state
ment of a citizen, who, having been
himself engaged in the manipulation
of the pools as an attache of the dem
ocratic committee, gives lucid expla.
nation of the mysteries of the pools
The original affidavit is on file al
these headquarters,and you may place
fn11 ann Fl II on ~ IN, ifc frufh
Fraternally yours,
!. DRAKE DEKAY,
| Sec. Vet. Committee and Adj. Gen
Boys in Blue.
STATEMENT OF MIR. 1. wAlTzFELDER
CLERK OF THE DEMOCRATIC
STATE COMMITTEE.
State Of NeW York, CITY and Count,
of NeW York, ss..:-I. Waitzfelder
being duly sworn, deposes and says
At about the time Hayes was sellins
, ahead in the pools in this city, shoulG
think about three or four weeks be
, fore the election, the secretary of thu
Democratic State Committee, w. w
Gordon, had been going up to ih'
, pOol-rOoms regularly for the purpose
/, of bulling Tilden in the betting mar
! ket. This continued under my obser
walton. The way the thing was dom
was as follows: Mr.. Gordon and TIVE
: of his committee clerks (Mr. Cogges
: shell, Mr.. Robinson,or mysclf) would
: 60 to the Morrisey pool-room, ant
one of the clerks would then bu.
Hayes tickets,and Mr.. Morgan woult
l buy Tilden tickets; for example, a
e follows: Clerk No. 1. would bid S5t
u for Hayes, Clerk No. 2 would the
II bid $50 for Tilden, Mr.. Gordon woul,
then bid $50, and Clerk No. 2 woul'
bid again, taking the odd number,an
II Mr.. Gordon the even, until Mr.. Cor
e. don had bid $50, the maximum agree
W upon, then Clerk No. ceased bid
e ding and the ticket would be knocks
d down to Mr.. Gordon, making the al
l. parent bet of $50 on Tildcn agains
j. $50 on Hayes, or $I20 to 800 in favo
d of Tilden's election. In this way I'll
es den became the favorite in the bel
lie ting, which bets were wired all owe
is the United States, it being an az
knowleged important part of til
N democratic campaign to capture til
floating vote by false quotation
TO in the betting market. These manr
featured quotations were sent by M
Morrisey every night to Mr.. Kin.
Clerk of the National Democrat
a Committee, and by him were at ono
telegraphed through the Unite
m States to the democratic newspaper
nc have been sent myself by the N,
/ tional Democratic Committee to g,
II, these quotations, which got frol
IL Mr.. John Morrisscy,and gave them
Or Mr.. King, and they were prompt
fl tclegraphcd all over the country.
s l. WAITZFELDER,
te No. GAG West Fifty-Third st.
m Sworn before me the 10Th day
Nov, 1876. HENRY Z. WELLS,
m Notary Public Kings County.
Mt Certificate filed in New York Coul
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