New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-08
DISCOYERING TILE SITUA TION.

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DISCOVERING THE SITUATION.
On Wednesday afternoon, November 8, 1876, IL
became known to capable leaders of both parties
that the Presidential election would probably turn
on the vote of Florida. In South Carolina Mr..
Tilden had fallen far behind the Democratic State
| ticket. In Louisiana it had been notorious for
weeks that tho Democrats. by systematic beatings
| and murders i'm counties formerly Republican had
rendered il possible for the Returning Board, IN
accordance with the peculiar law of that state, 10
throw out returns giving large Democratic MAJOR
tiles But the four electoral votes of far-oh Flor
ida would suffice to the election Mt lllden'
it, az kilograms from the Democratic Committee IN
Florida declared the majority OF the popular vote
in that State had been for Democratic electors
Sparsely-setted Florida the scene already OF many
notorious frauds thus had power to determine Tor
at least four years the destiny Of nation OF forty
millions of people. Not without reason The
TRIBUNE remarked OH Thursday morning the 9th,
"Eyerytbing seems to hinge upon this State.
. - 1t is Just possible that the election Is not
Overland we wish Mr.. Magone had not suddenly
left this city last night" He went to Philadelphia,
and there met Duke Gwinn," the reputed man
ager of Mr. Tilden's secret campaign. and Senator
Kelly of Oregon who started for home at once, ana
whose deeds-are they not recorded In the notorious
--fobbic /" dispatches, already decipherea by THE
TRIBUSEi
Florida had been bullied and bribed, "bulldozed"
and teTrorized through long and fierce campaign,
until even the most hopeful Republicans had almost
lost confidence that their scattered friends III that
State, mainly colored citizens, could stand mp
against the torrent. On the day of election. Re
nnblican ,udges and clerks were driven from the
nolls by force the boxes were stuffed with haudu-
lent Democratic votes and in at least one precinct
were afterwards seized and burned, to make sure
that the fraud should not be disclosed
Jackson County, which had 700 white
and l169 oOlOred citizens. and had given
nearly 800 Republican majority In 1893,
and nearly 400 in 1874, was thus made to return
Democratic majority Of 106 Proofs OF these ana
many other frauds were produced before the Can
wasting Board, and afterwards before Congressman
Committees And yet the staunch Republicans OF
that State had 30 well resisted bribery, fraud and
force that when the returns began to come III, the
Democratic managers found that they had been
beaten. At once they set out to steal the State by
fraudulent returns and, initiating the skill OF the
practised pckpocket, began 70 cry out in dis
patches before u.s. that the Radicals intend fraud
Appeals for money! and material nd'"
professedly 10 resist these INTENDED" frauds, but
really TO secure fraudulent returns Tor MI lldeh'
went from Florida on the 9th TO Duke Gwinn" at
Philadelphia and to the National Democratic head
quarters here, accompanied with assertions that
the State had gone for Tilden by at least 900
majority" No doubt Democrats at the North be-
leyed this assertion at first, but 1T is certain that
the Democratic managers in Florida knew that IL
was false from the start. They needed secret com
munlcation with the "barrel Of money" at New
York, however, and the following dispatches show
| how they obtained it:
ITALIA, Nov. o, 1875.
| To GwINY, Philadelphia:
| We need money to resist Radical pranks. state
| is for lllden. A. IL hhNDoLfh'
JAZZ, Fla, 0 Nov. 9th.
RANEY g. BLoxHAM =,
We will attend to everything east and north OF
Expense will be paid. Draw on Payne If you need
| money j. - DANIEL
Nov. 0, 1870.
| To A. S. HEWITT. Erereh House, Neu- York:
Our State has gone for Tilden and Democratic
By e or
Gals intend fraud. We need material aid to cheek
them. Can we Get it 7 Gro. r. RAsEf
Of State Ex. Com.
Nov. o, 1876.
A. s. HEWITT, Ererett House, Neie- York: 3.
send good man here to represent your commit
| tee, with an understood cipher.
W. ID. BLoxHAM. GKo. p. RAYEY,
for State Com.
NEW-YoRK-9.
w. ID. BLoXHAM,
GRo. L. RASEY.
Telegram reed. He has gone on.
ABRAM s. HEWITT
On the night of the 9th, John f. Coyle, no
torous lobbyist of Washington. who had been rem
dering Invaluable services" for Tiden in North
Carolina, started southwark with the understood
cipher as the following shows:
RAIEIGH. n c., Nov. IL, 20.
HENRY HAyEuEYER, 10 West 17dt-st., N. \. ,
Meet this Here safe Weldon noon Rome arrived
will not things have at Look although OF on Coz
Webstor Ed give me Thomas instructions me par
tculsrs vet with tonight and came fall seen tram
Brooklyn. hAA'
The cipher is now Understood" by others beside
those who used it. BY applying keys flor the
frat 10 words, and flor the last 20 words pub
lished yesterday, the following translation will be
obtained
III. Translation.l
ToH-. NOV. "a.
Arrived safe, Meet Rome at Weldon this noon.
Things look well here, although have not seen Cox
Ed. Webster, Of Brooklyn, came On train Win me-