New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-20
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WHO VAS "MOSES"I
All through the telegraphic correspondence
between Mr.. MantOn Marble in Tallahassee,
and certain distinguished persons in Gramercy
Park, New-YOrk, as between Gramercy Park
and Oregon, there fit certain shadowy shapes
of whose substance the public would
like to know more. The curiosity respect
ing the yelled identities that figured in
the Oregon dispatches was speedily satisfied.
They soon knew that "GObble was no other
than Governor Grover himself, and when they
saw the business in which he had been
engaged, they no longer wondered that
he described himself in his Geographic
message as being afflicted with "cramp,"
" dizziness" headache" and other physical
disturbances which might be supposed to
result, in a sensitive organization like Governor
Growers, from a guilty conscience. But
the mysterious beings, with geographical
names, who appear and reappear, like stage
ghosts, in Mr.. Marbles and Colonel PeltOn's
dispatches, are mysterious still. Indeed, the
existence of some of them has just been
made known, and there are others whom
THE TRIBUNE has yet TO materialize; and
the people who are always catching such po-
litical spirits in their ways that are dark. who
are always turning up with the key to a cipher
or the missing link in the evidence, have
hardly had time yet to put their minds
upon the subject. Nobody. however, can give
us the information so easily as Mr.. Marble
himself. He knows who Warsaw was, and
who Spain was-whO seems to have lived
at Gramercy Park-and who Bolivia" was.
These are the undiscovered heroes of the dis
patches we printed the other day. The dis
patches we print to-day disclose new char
aeter in this underground drama
There is an old saying about stealing the
livery of Heaven for improper campaign pur
poses. There is another about keeping an
eve on General Butler when he is quoting
Scripture-or something to that effect Both
adages will recur to mems minds when
they see that in the intrigue by
wire which went on between New-York
and Tallahassee the name of the Law
eiver of Israel himself was pressed into ser
vice. and that we are left in the dark as to
the nature Of the transactions narrated mainly
because we do not know what parsonage, ia
nous or the reverse, was concealed under the
name of "MOses " This is dispatch, for
instance, from Mr.. Marble to Colonel PeltOn !:
Dee. g. 1876.
OoI0nsl PEIToN, IS 6rdmerey Park, N. Y.
Bolivia Laura finished yesterday afternoon RESPONSE
bty Moses last night Cox found me, and said he had
nothing which knew already Tell REssa saddle Black
stone. MN
What was it that was finished yesterday
" afternoon 2" 1t could not have been the
presentation of the Democratic case to the
Canyassng Board, which did happen to be
concluded that day; for that Colonel PeltOn
could learn frOp the newspapers, and Mr..
Marble would hardly make a mystery of so
simple a matter. True, we did hear year
or two ago in certain famous controversy of
man so fond of devices that eff he had 10
"cut cabbage he'd steal on it from behind.
"and carve 1t with a device" But with all
Mr.. Marbles fondness for ciphers, he would
hardly have resorted 10 one merely TO
announce the conclusion of legal argu-
ment. 1t was something in which Bolivia"
/" Laura and Moses seem TO have been
mixed up. People would like to know what
responsibility " Moses had in the matter.
Also, what is meant by this pOrten-
tous request to Colonel PeltOn to i" tell
+" Russia " to saddle Blackstone" Who was
" Russia " and what was Blackstone that
il should be "saddled"9 Or was this a
prior conception OF General Palmers idea that
Dir. Tilden might have made himself Presi-
dent by getting on horseback and swearing
himself inf But, of course, Mr.. Marble will
explain.
Here is another dispatch. in which there are
some new geographical arrivals, with another
allusiOn TO "Moses":
To colonel WILLIAM PELToN, l5 Gramerey Parl. New
York.
Certificate required TO Moses decision have London
hour for Bolivia OF Just and Edinburgh Mosele hand
a any over Glasgow France received Russia Of.
$50 sg.l -
There have been certain decisions pro-
mulgated by Moses to which Mr.. Marble
should have needed no certificate" and
they would have effectuaIIy prevented, if the
Democratic party had chosen to observe
them, any attempts to purchase a Republican
electOrr in Oregon or Democratic return
in Florida. Bat remembering that large
proportion of the Democratic party still con-
rests the COnstiutiOnelity of the Ten Com