The Portland daily press., 1878-11-04
MONDAY MORNING., NOVEMBER 4.
The Tribune Makes Another Discovery.

The Tribune Makes Another Discovery.
The New York Tribune has made another
discovery in relation to the cipher dispatches.
1t will be remembered that on the 18th of No
vember, 1876. Weed telsgraphed from Colun,-
bia to Henry Observation-Disclosures Colonel
William T. Pelton:
Majority of Board have been securedl Cost is
eighty thousand, to be sent follows: One parcel
of sixty five thousand dollars one OF ten tnonsahu,
aud of five thousand; all to be five hundred OF
one thousand bills; notes to be deposited as parties
accept, and given up Dp0n vote OF South Carohna
being given to Tilden's friends Tbe three packs
should be sent without inscription to-night, unless
you receive telegram from me counteImandlng. FOR
Gods sake let it go! Have cash ready to reach Bal
timore Sunday night.
Later on the same day he telegraphed:
'Shall leave tonight for Baltimore. Meet me
yourself if prudent" And lastly, just before
starting, having apparently received favors-
BILE reply to his request that "a safe man"
should 'bring STUFF to Baltimore, he wired
this message:
Looks well now. You must have the Copenhagen
at BaInum's in Baltimore, early Monday morning
60 at 10 tonight. -
The Tribune has already shown how Smith
NJ. Weed, leaving Columbia on Saturday night,
November IS, did arrive at Barnum's Hotel in
Baltimore early Monday morning, the 2Otb,
registering there by his true name. 1t was also
shown at the time OF the publication of the de.
spatches, that there was every reason to believe
that the ''safe man" met him with ''the stuff"
according to appointment, and that the failure
of the scheme was attributable to other causes
than Neglect OF the New York parties to put up
the money.
The Tribune has now discovered the "safe
l.
plete The register of the Mount Vernon Ho-
tel, a small and quiet house in Baltimore,
where person of retiring disposition might he
safe from curious eyes, shows among the arriv.
ais early on Monday morning, November Goth,
William I. Pelton of New York. AT 10 O. clock
Mr.. Peton with friend who had accompanied
him from this city, took acarriaga. Early in
theday the friend was seen with Mr. Smith
Weed at Barnum's Hotel. The Tribune goes
on to say:
The fact that it was Colonel Pelton who
made that journey to Baltimore at such a busy
and critical time, in compliance with Weeds
request that he would "brIng the stuff himself
if prudent" is most important discovery.
Pelton assuredly would not have gone there
Just to tell Weed that his demand for money
could Dot be granted. If PeEton aoas the safe
man aoho met Weed at Barnuna's Hotel, Pelton
fOOh Utt Htm DoU,UUU " UUy Tue OOuH CUT0ttIU
Returning Board That is morally Certain.
Where did he get it? Here is the act of brib-
cry brought home, not to secret agents, and
clerks aud secretaries, and amateur pegotia-
tors, but to some person or some organization
in the Democratic party high enough to COM
maDd great sum of money and to assume a
tremendous responsibility. Democrats have
tried to meet the disgrace of the cipher dsclos
ures by saying: "Oh, Marble was fool; throw
him overheard. Coyle and Woolley aud Weed
were politicians of low grade, whose transac
tions were not approved by their employers;
throw them overheard. Pelton was pre- sum-
ing and scheming rascal; throw him overheard
too." But for this new development Of the
plot there must be different sort of answer.
They cannot throw overheard man with $780,
600 10 his pocket. Who Supplied him with
that big purse? Who sent him to Baltimore
to deliver it to the bride broker? Whose hand
invisibly moved this weak and Insignificant
young men, and dispatched him with three
parcels, one of $65, 900, one of $40. 600 and one
Of $5000," to buy the Presidency of the U nited
States? Until a serious attempt to find the
answer to these questions is made by the party
for whose benefit the crime was attem pted it is
upon the whole party that the crushing weight
OF shame must rest.