Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-28
ANOTHER EXPOSURE.
ANOTHER FELLOW TURNS STATES
EVIDENCE ON HAYES.
Selkirk, not Alexander but William, Tells
How Things We're Fixed in Florida---Our
Sandy Dunnell Sent Selkirk Noney---He
Saw McLin Change the Votes---Hayes
Promised to Take Care of Him but Didn't.

The n. Y. World publishes curious story
which it obtained, it says, from William H.
Selkirk, for the sum of $500. Selkirk, now
a book canvasser for Scribner, Armstrong &
Co., has letter of recommendation from
Thurlow Weed, n. G. Thurber, and others,
and is well connected. He called at the
Worlds Office and said he had valuable in
formation which would show beyond doubt
that the vote of Florida was fraudulently
counted for Hayes. Selkirk explained that
HE SOLD TIE NEWS
because he had not been paid for his i'm
portant share in the frauds and crimes. All
he received, he said, was an order on the
treasury for 1920, pay for ninety-two days
work as special agent Of the department of
justice, which order he could never get
cashed. as there was no appropriation to
meet it. he succeeded, however, in getting
temporary employment in Washington at
$50 month, paid out of the une1hausted
appropriations of other departments, aud,
when that ended, he determined to get paid
for his work as best he could.
81 HELPED TO MAKE THE ADMINISTRATION,
and it has steadily Como back on me.
want my little consulship or it's equivalent
in sugar. Telling his little story, Selkirk
said: 'About the time of the trouble with
the returning boards South was in Wash
ington. One evening . messenger arrived
from the department of Justice, and said
Secretary Taft wanted to see me. went t.
him. He received me very cordially, anc
said had been recommended to him as .
reliable man to undertake diplomatic iot
of great importance. He wanted me to q
at once to Florida, as special agent of tn
department, to cooperate with the marsha
in securing q fair and honest count of tn
! lvote. He handed me my commission, ant
told me to report to the marshal, and said
Nov, there's your written instructions
Put them in your pocket and listen to me-
Then for an hour he gave me verbal instruc
tons, which were
ITO FIX THINGS
T no matter what it might cost, and keep hir
advised of the progress made. He went
drawer and took out lot of money for 81
penses, saying, If you want any more 20
}, can draw, but be sure you fix things Bt
: fore IL that night was on my way to Flor
da. When I got to Atlanta l met Be-
t Toombs. had shaved my chin-beard, an
d passed for an Edglishman on MY way
buy an orange grove. Toombs and I g
:. thick. He kindly told me, as an Englishma
n naturally interested in foreign customs, VIII
was going on. He explained to me the 81
q uation in Florida, and told me the Unite
: States marshal there
HAD BEEN FIXED,
k and would work for the Democrats. TIL
J. was the very marshal to whom was to r,
= port, so telegraphed to Taft that the ma
10 shall was against us, and he telegraphed n
not to have anything to do with him, but
watch him, and
+. GO AHEAD ON MY OWN HOOK.
D Toombs also showed me $500, 900 in chez
y. and orders which had been brought on
the Tilden cause, and, dividing it into tv
r. parts, said: "That's for Louisiana, 81
N that's for Florida / travelled all ov
" Florida, and saw all the visiting Republic,
70 statesmen. The only one who knew n
az business was Alfred P. Morton, of Virgini
He was creature of Conkling, sent
!, Florida by Taft in the same way was al
- Conkling had him keep him advised of
" that was done. He did not do much hil
~ self, but
WAS VERY USEFUL
K. in Tallahassee, and when he came back "
;; we'll taken care of. They have all been tax
- care of but me, and they thought l was 81
-, not to squeal, because was so well come
=; ed, and had so much to lose. I have
"a 70 uncle in Albany, N. Y, who is a minister.
ed was who got eighty-six afiidavits for s
~ apiece that carried Alachna county, and
~ was who seated Horatio Bisbee in Congr
in the same way" Selkirk continued:
2" carried the papers that made an Administ
OF ton in my pocket. I was in the room "
.m McLin when he was changing the votes, a
:or saw him do it. Dockray, since appoint
ne Consul to Leeds, was his body-guard, s
ip- him "a he'd at NIGHT and tracked him arou