Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
TILDEN AND FLORIDA.
The I" Great Reformer's" Nearest
Friends in Search Of an
........ Electoral Vote.
How they Proposed to Secure it-A
Persistent Attempt to
Buy It.

Buy 1t.
The Cipher Dispatches that Prove tho Ras-
cally-Let the People Read This
From the New York Tribune, October 8.
The Florida board had opened the
returns on Tuesday, November 20, had
heard evidence on both sides patiently.
and was obliged to reach decision with
in few days. From the beginning At
torney General Cooke had been counted
safe by the Democrats. DR.. Cowgirl,
formerly of Delaware, was a staunch
Union man, and Mr.. Marble had said it
was "wasting time" to call on him. Sec
rotary of State McLin, for twenty-five
years resident of Florida, was once
Confederate, but afterward a Union
man, and Republican editor of repu-
tation as an upright man, but the con-
spirators needed one vote, and what they
tried to do let the secret dispatches
show:
mo date.1 HENRY HAvEMEYER, No. Is
West Seventeenth street, New York: Roch.
ester of answer America yesterday to-day
understand Thomas my Africa about but
it first avil at my nothing Bavaria as will
Copenhagen once fear reported small by
and satisfied hope. MAX.
TRANSLATION.
TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 2.-HENRY HAVE
MEYRR, No. Is West Seventeenth street,
New York: My hope small: Votes about
as reported yesterday. Africa probably
! NoT ;n7 sod Inv Rouoria 1nroho HI Cow.
gill] and fear that America [Drew] under
stands it. Nothing but cash will avail.
Answer my first of to-day at once. Thomas.
COYLE.
/ NEW YORK, I'd Dec, CD. F. CoYLE,
Talla., Fla: Twenty one nineteen unless
you have nineteen five again. Fl.
TRANSLATION
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-JoHN F. CoYLE,
Tallahassee, Fla: Telegram received. Un-
less you have received - will remit again.
HAvRMEYER.
1t is probable that the word 'answer"
followed "received," and has been lost.
But what was Coyle's first of to-day?
This, at least, though not signed, bears
another name.
ITALIA, Cool. PELToN, No. 10, Gram
Grey Park, n. Y: Certificate required to
Moses decision have. London hour for
Bolivia of just add Edinburgh at Moselle
had a any over glasgow france reed. russia
! of No signature.
TRANSLATION.
! ITALIA, Dec. Cool. PELToN, No. Is,
!! Gramercy Park: Have just receiveda propo.
sition to hand over at any hour required
Tilden decision of board and certificate Of
govern or for 100000. MARBLE.
Did Mr.. Marble or Mr.. Coyle actually
receive such a startling proposition?
We do not believe it. Mr.. McLin has
sworn that such a proposition was made
to him, not by him, and there has been
question of veracity on the matter
between him and Mr.. Marble, who denies
that he had any talk with McLic. on the
subject. In the light Of these dispatches,
which is to be believed? Was it not
one Of the current political rumors of
the time that Mr.. Marble had said in a
Democratic gathering: "McLin is a de-
serter, and deserters can be bought"'
But the question of grave Importance is
not whether MIR. Marble deceived others
orr himself, but what had Gramercy
park to answer. Thus:
New YORK, December 3.-MANToN MAE
BILE, ldNd1ldSSee, Z ld.. " dIsd" ucIc. DO1A'
via Brazil. No signature.
TRANSLATION. r..
NEW YORK, December 3.-MANToN MAR
Proposition too high. ~ No sig.
Gramercy park had reasons not known
to Mr. Marble for considering his "Boli'
via' decidedly "Brazil." For on the
preceding day the following had come
from Mr.. Woolley:
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, December l, 1876
HENRY HAvEMEYER, No. Is West Seven
teenth street, New York: Sixteen Fetch
may make thirteen. Forty of half of 8
twelve eleven ten. Can you say two 10 nine
Immediately if twenty. Fox.
TRANSLATION.
TALLAHASSEE, Dec. III. HAYMEYER
No. Is West Seventeenth street, New York
pense of half of a hundred thousand dol
lars. Can you say will deposit in bank i'm
mediately if agreed.
Whatever significance may be given
to the word " fetch," which, it will be
remembered, Mr.. Havemoyer failed, on
former occasion to understand there
can be very little doubt as to the mean
ing OF the proposal. And the reply o.
Gramercy park was:
NEW YORK, Dec. 6-2:15 P. NC. w
Woolley, Tallahassee, Fla: Twenty-ont
nineteen two ten twenty cannot however
seven before twenty four thirty seven niue
teen reply forty six. Fl.
TRANSLATION.
NEW YORK, Dec. &c. W. Woolley, Tai
lahassee, Fla: Telegram received. Viii
deposit dollars agreed; (you) cannot, how
ever, draw before vote member received.
We have no evidence that Mr.. Have
meyer ever sent this damning answer
or that he ever read either the answer o.
the dispatch to which a reply signee
"H." was sent. He received dis
patches; it is probable that Creamery
Park read and answered them all. Blu
it is nv apparent why the Marble
} Covle $2UO, 900 Bolivia" was not helt
good. Probably Mr.. Woolley learned
that bargains were going on behind hi
back, for he telegraphed:
Dec. 2, '76.-HENRY HAvEMEYER, No. I!
West Seventeenth street, New York: Nor
in select have have whom some you in conf
dence winning evidently than Fox.
TRANSLATION.
Il Dec. TO HAvEMEYER: Select some
: one in whom you have more confidence
than you evidently have in Woolley.
.rse=o&-ra.s-,--~ ~,ae... ~yr-- ---- WOOLLEY.
The reply signed "W," might proba
bly, as we'll have been signed w. T. Pei
on, and needs careful reading:
NEW YORK, Dec. SC. w. WoOLLEY
Talla., Fla: Perfect you what power VT
could and answer you cannot belief de-
clined all telegraphed do do all application
no in and stay private has you have need
less other Dreyent here, w.
TRANSLATION.
Dec. &C. w. WooLLEY: All here have
= perfect confidence in you. We cannot pre-
vent needless. - No other has power
and all application declined. Stay and dc
what you telegraphed you could do. Pri'
vate. Answer. w.
"An here" at Creamery Park-what
does that mean? What was it that Mr.
Woolley" photographed he could do,'
which needed not only the secrecy of :
cipher, but the injunction "private .
within that climber? Mr.. WOOllev wa!