Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-11-07

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dav. Ii SAYS:
l. The attempt was to buy three States
which had not voted for Tiiden. No man
doubts that Oregon voted for Hayes.
smith Weed reported in cipher TO Tilden
that be was far behind Hampton. and was
beaten in South Carolina. The official re-
turns gave Florida TO HAYES, and the At
toTney General, youched for by Marble as
Our friend on Board" and an liable
Democrat" himself voted for every cor
reclion of the returns that was made
ii. The genuineness OF the dispatches
we have printed is really confessed Weed,
Marble, Coyle. Woolley. Randall. Hurd
and others, each admit that some of the
dispatches were sent. The plea that some
may be genuine and others forged is pit
J iably silly. in view of the confessions of
Marble and Coyle ihst they did send cor
rupt propositions to New lork-the worst
thing charged. 1t is enough that no per-
son accused has dared to say that a single
important dispatch is not genuine.
III. The translations are published with
the keys. All the world can test the ex-
actness Of the fit. When the burglars foune
that the Manhattan vault did open to the
numbers so. 2, -, was there any doubt
whether they bad the right keyi Woolley
and Randall confess the correctness of
some TRANSACTIONS; Marble and Coyle con-
fesS that they sent corrupt proposals. as
the more important ciphers from them
show. But the same KEYS which detect
the meaning of these dispatches also fit
al others. Not a man accused has dared
10 produce Key, or 10 point out as incor-
rect the translation of s single dispatch
out of hundreds Such silence is hundred
fold confession.
IN Tho -,
match each other at every point They
perfectly fit thousands of facts in the cir
cumstances, the location and movements
OF many men, their character. relations
and personal traits.
'. The proposals and answers are per-
fectly plain. In five distinct systems of
cipher one straight story of crime is told.
To buy one vote to recognize Cronin in Or
egon, IS 600 was sent by Colonel Pelton.
10 buy one member of the Board in Flor
ida, Colonel Pelton teiegrsphed that $50
600 would be paid. TO buy enough mem
bes OF the Board in South Carolina to Sc
cure for Tilden the votes OF that State.
Colonel Pelton telegraphed that $50. 600
would be sent TO Weed at Baltimore. and
it was sent. Later directions were sent to
buy members of the Legislature. and to
imprison tie lawful electors to prevent
their casting the vote OF the State.
VI. That Colonel Pelton in person had
not $4,000. Weed. Marble, Woolley and
Coylc well knew. But somebody kH0ten 10
them received their dispatches, ordered his
replies, and furnished money. These men.
older and more prominent in politics than
Pelton, took no orders and asked no ad-
vice from tyro. Being Tilden's closest
friends, they never put themselves in the
power OF Pelton without absolute know-
edge for whom he was mouthpiece. When
Weed reached Baltimore. and found the
cash. lac then knew whether Peton had
authority, and from whom. Yet he tele-
graphed aiterward to Florida to arrange a
trade 1t matters not whether Pelton
acted a nephew and confidential secretary
Of the candidate, or as Secretary of the
Democratic Nationsl Committee. Mr..
TIlden still keeps Weed 10 speak for him
in convention. Marble 10 play the hypo-
critic ana TO spout about absolute reliance
upon moral forces" and Pelton to do his
confidential business in his own house. He
uses ciphers still in lodging taxes. And
the party still shields the candidate
VII No man who is not an idiot can
resist such mass OF proof. Mr.. Tilden
conieSses a. much by ofieriug-what: His
n,Ned, unsworn, unsupported denial, He
does not dare 10 invite a legal inquiry, OF
~ swan ~ AAl' d>-ti Altu kudL ne Knew
nothing OF hundreds of dispatches which
came 10 his house from his most trusted
friends. Yet the very creatures who say
that his naked plea of Not guilty clears
him in spite of mountains of evidence, are
they who pretend TO believe one liars MEM
Org rather than Secretary Sherman's oath.
For twenty months, al Iilden's beck they
have iished with drag-net for one scrap
OF evidence against any Republican. They
have found one seli-convlcted perjurer who
pretends TO remember the contents of a !
note from Mr.. Sherman. The Secretary
instantly demanded legal inquiry; Mr.. IL
den does not. Mr.. She.man's denial was
prompt. WAS under oath. and is consistent
with all his conduct. Mr.. Tildens WAS long
In coming. was unsworn, and his known
conduct makes it bewiidering. When men
say that hundreds OF cipher dispatches sent
TO and from Mr.. Tideu's own house have
no weight against his unsworn assertion.
but insist that John Shcrman's oath Is false
and that he is convicted by one liars MEM
DRY OF one note, do they not make them
selves Infamous before all Christendom?
VIII. The votes were for sale, and
Hayes got Them say meaner and more
cowardly partisans. The votes were In the
hands of active and Jealous Republicans
Ii was natural for them to believe that the
States belonged to Hayes: conviction, feel
ing and interest moved them SO TO declare.
They had been hunted and could get re-
venge. They were leading partisanS. and
could naturally hope for office. II any
were mere hnayes, the lowest motives of
partisansbip would have made their votes
sure for Hayes if Democratic money failed
If any were tempted. but feared to sell at
last, Is II not the meanest SANDER ever set
on foot 10 say, without one jot OF proof
that they "must have been bribed by Re
publicans, solely because Democratic
oilers failed to overcome their fears, their
CONVICTIONS, their personal feelings, and
their party ties:
IN. The very men who have howled
Fraud" longest and loudest are those at
whose doors lies this foulest crime 10 Amer
lean history. nation which hates hypo-
critics and iespises sneaks, now knows that
the damning dispatches Were received and
sent, either by Tilden the candidate or by
the National Committee of his party.
Whoever sent them has known the infa-
nous truth for two years, while bowling
through Congress and the press, disturbing
all honest industry. and trying to blacken
the names of honest men. Was il Tilden?
If so, even after detection. like Uriah Heep.
he hits up his canting voice. Or was it his
party: When caught, it howls Fraud"
the louder because Gramercy Park failed
to buy the Presidency, and counts that the
men who are not knaves must be FOOLS
No blush visits its brazen face. Twenty
years ago it was the "Sham Democracy"
and Is yet.
y. The gravest crime ever attempted in
this country needs swift and singing pun
| ishment. 1t cannot be passed with safety.
Buying OF electoral votes must stop; a de-
cent despotism were better. Sels-govern.
ment will end, and ought to end, if the
people do not care when one rich mans
dollars weigh more than four millions of
free ballots.