The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-10-12

The New York TRIBUNE has devoted q
crea, deal OF attention to the calculation
II vast quantity Of cipher kilograms that
n.,.ed between GFamefcy Park and the
visiting Democratic statesmen in hedis-
pu,ed southern States during the progress
Il the electoral count, and which have
.irc,, come into its hands in some
mysterious way. The Tribune has shown
ingenuity and perseverance in hunting up
the several keys to these dispatches. That
i.akiud Of enterprise that must be judged
ne its results, Tho use Of aciphcr in telO;
,,o,uhinc is not Of itself ar occasion for
suspicion; it is only when that cipher con-
zeal, some criminal proposition that its
go serves as corroborative evidence OF a
.%ri,ninal purpose on the part Of those US
ingit.
I, is JUS, such a purpose the dispatches
and TRANSACTIONS published by the Tribune
,.rainly reveal. Not to go into the story
IN detail, they show that urgent appeals
t,r money were sent to New York by the
several gentlemen who represented Mr..
Tllep in Florida. These appeals finally
,ook the shape of two propositions o. to
nav s.O,OOO for the vote OF a Republican
i,cmh4r OF the Florida board Of State can
y~Is.ers-which was rejected as too high;
and another, made by separate agents in
different ciphers,to buy a member for 500
40, The reply to the latter came prompt-
Iy iom Gramercy Park -"PropositiOn &C
y.n,eA II done at once" and the two
agents were separately ordered to consult
with one another in haste. Their names
wsr. Manton Marble and William F.
roype, A Washington lobbyist. 1t is the
theory Of the Tribune that the scheme fell
,h,,ncb, because four words were dropped
i,om the dispatch authorizing the puF'
,h,.e rendering it unintelligible. The
,N.r,,ch was after some delay repeated
from Gnmerry Park, in full and intelligt.
N. foru; hut it arrived alter the board Of
,,nvassers had rendered its decision, and
the visiting statesmen so reported to Mr.
Tilden's nephew ,Pelton, at Grmercy Park
All the d;.patches covering these several
phases OF the transaction, are given in the
original. with the translation and the keys
hy which these TRANSACTIONS. are made, in
the Tribune Of yesterday.
Several things at once become evident
shou; this matter. In the first place, the
accusation is too direct and too glaring
TO he passed over in silence. There must
he some explanation ofthese dispatches by
Maaton Marble and Mr.. Pelton, or the
public will be compelled to believe that
there is no explanation save that given by
the Tribune, 1t does not help the matter
to assert that these dispatches were stolen
bv the Tribune, and that their contentsco con.
Germ nobody but those who sent and re-
ceiyed them. They have become public;
they seem to reveal a well laid plan to pur-
chase the Presidency for Mr.. Tilden by The
bribery Of one of the canvassen in whose
power it was to give Mr. Tilden the single
electoral vote he needed. Now that these
DISPATCHES have become public, the public
has a right to know what they mean. To
deny that right, at this stage OF the deyel-
opments, is to admit that thereis no other
possible explanation, save that which lays
bare a more monstrous fraud, in connec-
ton with the Presidential election, than
any that has cyenbeep imagined or vague
" insinuated against the Republicans.
The other point in this matter whichlwe
think will be generally admitted, and
which becomes the most important Of all,
is that il the truth is told in these dis
patches, as they stand interpreted in the
Tribune, Mr.. Tildcn can not escape q per-
.onal responsibility for the criminal prop
osiion they contain. aML Tilden notably
managed his own campaign as far as the
disbursements were concerned. Mr.. Pei
ton, his nephew, who wa the apparent
amauueusts in New York. was cioser-to
Mr. Tildeu, probably, than any other livt
ing man; and to assume that he would
undertake 10 dtsBhrse MI. Tildens funds
in this manner without tirst obtaining the
consent OF his uncle, is to make IA as.
sumption which the averageiu jury of Amer
can citizens would promptly set aside.