New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-30
VAS 4 MIN NAMED SMITH.

The secret IS ont at last. The man who anteed
the Copenhagen for the coparceners stands revealed
Let Mr.. Tillen 90 on with his wO0ing, and let
genial Mr.. Belmont smile again as sweetly as IN
days of yore. Suspicious ready tongue has been
estopped from further wagging TO their harm.
The real culprt has been found. The start
ling information comes from Philadelphia, and
issues from the mouth Of Sellers, not Colonel Null
berry, but David W.. who was one OF the Demo-
cratic counsellOrs in Florida November, 1876.
Mr. Sellers upright moralist and pure patriot that
he shows himself to be, does not believe the cipher
dispatches are correctly translated does not believe,
either, that Mr.. Moses Manton Marble sent any of
them. He thinks somebody did a good deal OF
teiegraphlng, because the operator told him that
the business of his Office had increased from $3.50 to
5000 month He does not believe the vote OF
Florida was offered to the coparceDers for S5O,OOO.
because If it had been he would certainly have beard
of IT. Whyi Z" Because we all boarded together at
the house of widow lady, breakfasted and dined
together" and rot word was SAID ABOUT
it, \ most excellent reason, the obvious teaching
of which is that when Democratic statesmen set to
work to buy Presidency they talk about it over
their coffee and settle the price between the soup
and she fish.
This is the first part Of Mr.. Sellers's revelation.
Now we come to The grand Development 81 always
thOagl T." says MI Sellers, with All air ofregret, that
il the vote of the State could have been secured for
Tidcn for $50 600 it would not have taken long to
raise tho money Or if an electOr had desired to
sell ont, there plenty OF private parties who
would have given double $4,000 There was Mr..
smith, of Chicago for instance, great aduiirer
of Mr.. Iilden, who spent some 100000
to ad in his election. Why, he alone
would, | believe, have given $4,000 for
a otc. if the occasion had arisen There 10 the
man, Smith! Sellers says Smith would have given
the money had the occasion arisen. The corTc-
svonGencc Of Moses and WOolcy with Pclton shows
that it did arise, and that somebody offered the
money. Tldcn didn't offer it, because no wasn't
asked, and the other coparceners didn't have 1t to
offer. Smith had it, ana was looking around for
chance 10 invest it in an ecctor. What more
ma iurai conclusion than that he offered it
We say, without reserve, that we believe Smith
the man. aud We beg leave to offer most dis
tinguished congratulations to Sellers and to the
Democratic party in this discovery Of IA scaPeGOat
TO be sure the personality of the cuprit is not so
clearly defined il might be. There are several
Smiths scattered about over the country, and we
shouldn't be abitsuprisc,i were more than one
ia Chicago. We visa Mr.. Sellers had gone a little
further and tod us his first name. Ii he had said it
was John Smith, the mystery would have been en-
tircly cleared up. Stll. 1t ought not to be difficult
Ia lind. even in Chicago. man willing to give
100000 to elect Iilon President, and who
actually did giyo $4,000. That Is unusual,
even for Smith. Ii tho Democrats are
troubled because the South Carolina case is
not covered, We beg to suggest that Smith
can b. easily spread out to do 1t. He had plenty OF
money, and his zeal knew no bounds. Sell - does
not hint at any such weakness IN tho Smith bosom
as a moral conjunction, and 1t probably did not
exist. There Is no reason. therefore, why the whole
cipher wickedncSs should not be loaded upon
him. let Eilden appear IN some public place
surrounded by the other cOparceneTs. and let
item all say IN solemn chorus " Ii wasn't /. II
was a man named Smith! 1 can prove it By
Sellers The effect would be tremendous. After
that perhaps il might be w.ll to produce Smith by
way OF continuation strong ~ Holy Writ.