New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-16


that extreme caution in money matters wnlcn
MANY Democratic statesman this season has
seen cause to lament Here is the answer:
NEw-YoRW. Nov. 20.
linn PATRICK Porfcnd oregon No How soon
will Governor decide ccrtidcatef Hyon make o'h9af0"
continent on result IN March. Il can DC do'e anu III
cremablc slightly, II necessary lNo s't"'
Apparently they buy and sell for cash I'D or-
econ: Patrick declared he would do nothing
without the ready money. though he was aDie
to nromise a little reduction III the terms:
PORTLAND, Nov. 30. ?
W ~ PpIro. No Is GrGwercg Tark, Ne'o- YORK; GOV
erpor al right without reward VIII Issue certn'',e
Tuesday This secret. Republicans threaten u c'r''
cate issued to ignore Democrats claims ana III N"o,
and thus defeat action of Governor one eeefof must 20
id 4, oni, D,,aoerat 10 secure majority Have EN-
rloved three lawyers editor OF only Eepubcah paper
a. ono LAWYER fee SO OOO WiH take $1,000 ror ReP"o-
jcon .Iccfor must raise cant make rec c"n'ih
cent Sail saturday Kelly and Bellinger will act Com
,nuuicate with them Must act promptly
mo signature.l
This seems to have met Mr.. Peitons V""s
for the next day (as we know from the @S''.
mony elected two weeks ago) the sum OIL
SIS. 600 was deposited with kOuntze Brothers
in this city to Mr.. PatrIck's credit lhere is
cb,sm in the correspondence here which leaves
a part of the complicated pecunlaiy tr'hsac-
tions of these few days obscure. For on oae-
urdav. the I'd OF December, Mr.. Bnsh, the oaieih
banker. telegraphed to 1iton of the Liberty
Street firm. "Can myriad be had for SUBJECT
=. mcttcrq Needed - and myriad" he ex-
nloiuod meant $4,000. The answer was,
"No funds to be had" But on the same day
senator Kelly teegraphed to Pelton, Cant
"draw the eight; deposit Charles Dinohd, NO.
"1l5 Liberty Street, to order Bush a. Laud' oa-
elem. Must have it Monday, being
inst two days before the date appointed Ior
the electors 10 meet and cast their votes. Inc
exclamation probably is that the money nav
ing been deposited to the credit OF Patl1ck'
and Patrick having gone to San frahcisco'
Senator Kelly could not get the funds Iof use
in Oregon at the time required. Inc case
however was pressing. He telegraphed again
70 Col. Potion on the Sd, "Have to borrow
"money on my individual responsibility, In
"trust YOU can replace it," and Col. Pelton
replied. "TcleWaph Uemiock 90 ahead. You
shall be reimbursed. Do not fail. All inn
"portant. Advise progress" Here after all
was nothing but promise. Senator he'y
tclegraphcd again, this time from the Stale
capital where the vote was about to be cast:
SALEM, Oregon, Dec. 3.
W r. pp,roS M II Gyamerry Park N,ic- York: Can't
Won depos the eight Charles Dmond. subject the order
Ladd & Bush Salient Can't get money here must have
"Wednesday Telegraph Salem. Nior VIII not fan
DocTEINAL
The next day Col. Peiton arranged the tclc-
graphic transfer of $4,000 to Ladd q BUSH
in the extraordinarily roundabout way which
has already been described in the course OF
fine investigation, and the following Is the
dispatch in which he announced his action:
SAN FRANCISCO Dec. g.
Hon. JAMES X KELLY: The eight deposited as
directed this morning. Let no fechncay perent rim
ming. Use your discretion no slgha'nre'I
On the same day the following message
(alreadv published) was sent by Patrick to the
Senator who filed his place with so much zeal:
SAN FRANCISCO Dec. q, 1876.
Hon. J. X KELLY. oregon: headquarters tee-
graph me my request granted MS first GsEed VIII make
transfer tomorrow. VIII programme Do carried QUIT
Answer. fAiRiCh
If there had been any reasonable doubt as
to tbe purpose for which the money was re-
CURED, this last telegram might have set 1t at
rest. Mr.. Patrick expressly declares that his
first request has been granted, and we think
he made his first request tOerably explicit.
Indeed, if the money was not to he used Tor
corrupt purposes, we can see no reason for the
intense anxiety of the Tilden agents to have
the hard cash in hand before the first Wedncs-
day in December. The price of CrOnin ac-
counts for only fraction of the draft, and
the lawyers, if there were any to be paid,
could certainly wait for the arrival of the
money deposited with KOuntze Brothers.
Why then was the programme" not carried
out 1t may be that Patrick was entirely mis-
taken in surprising that one Of the Republican
electors could be bought? 1t may be that at
the late hour when Senator Kelly obtained the
funds the attempt cOud not safely be made.
Or it may be, after all, that the $4,000 which
Patrick offered to take" for a Republican
elector was in addition to the $4,000 divided
among Cronin and other helpers, and that
Col Pelton was too cautious to make the
trade. These points may possibly be cleared
up before the committee concludes the investi-
gation. So far it is established that the 1ildens
managers were i'll negotiation for the Out-and-
out purchase of an Oregon electOr, and that
Mr. Tildcn's nephew and confidential agent in
this city "a member of his immediate family,
living in the same house with him, rep
rcsenting him in all political matters and
in daily and hourly consultation with hlm)
agreed to pay the rice demanded, and some
thing more, if the bargain could be made
contingent on the result in March,"
Next we beg leave to call the attention of
the Senate of the United States to the part
which Mr.. Kelly plays III this transaction. If
he was not actually the agent in an attempt
at bribery he was at least the deliberate in
dorser of a proposal to buy an elcctor." Yet
when he was questioned by the committee
about this very dispatch he declared that it
was nothing but a request that the Demo-