New-York tribune., 1878-11-12
EOLICI1 BRAZIL.


gentleman of excellent character ana or hlgh
reputation. Nobody who knows INN VIII
doubt his veracIty. Those who do not know
him are invited to consider the testimony 90
his integrity furnished by MIR. Lawrence I.
Bavnc. whom the 1ilden party wished to SEND
to Florida in the hope that might influence
Cowgirl, and the prompt continuation Ol one
of Mr.. Cowgilrs most startling statements fur
nished bv the SUSPICIOUS behavior of MIR.
Banks. of Baltimore. 1t will also be observed
that the defeated cOnspirator-, while abusing
almost all the other Republican members OF
the Returning Boards in the States they trcd
to purchasp, 30 not venture 10 attack Con
troller Cowgirl. Even the ponderoas tongue
of Marble ha3 not assaiIed TIL, cstimabe
gentleman, and the cipher dispatches which
tell OF the secret operations OF the bribe-
brokers mention that their visits to the Con-
troer were "wastcd.' Tnc various telegralns
which record the progress OF their nego'Ia-
tiOns speak of tha purchase OF only one
member of the Returning Board. That body
consisted OF Secretary of state Mclhn. Con-
trollcr Cowgirl, aud Attorncy-Gencml COcke.
OF these thee officers, the last named was
Democrat, and there was supposed tn he no need
of buying him. Neither Marble nor Wooloy
ever transmitted "A Proposition to purchase
more than one of the two Republican MEM
bcrs, and there can be no reasonable doubt
which one that was.
By the mercst accident Mr. TiIdcn heard
one day that the electoral votes Of Florida
had been offered TO the Democratic candidate
for pecuniary consideration. He would have
IL. nj mo
that anybody-Mr. Smith, OF Chicago, for cx-
ampIe-might have purchased the Presidency
for him but, he remarks. " when the infOr-
nation casually reached me, aS OF past
"evcnt. il was accompanied by statement
" that the offer had been rejected" Thus re-
Hcvcd in mind, Mr.. Tildcn paid no more at
tention TO the matter at the time ; and having
now aluded to il briefly, he proceeds TO pitch
into McIin, of Florida, with uncommon
splightliucss and yigOr.
Mr. Manton Marble long ago intimated that
he, TOO, had obtained some casual information
about a scheme oil bribery III Florida, though
it came to him in a shape quite unlike that
which it presented to Mr.. lllden. For he
seems TO have heard not exactly that the
Florida Returning Board tried to sell, but
that Mr. Tilden's friends tricd to buy. What
"cver the wish. or the less absolute int gritty.
"or the more customary morals" said he In
bis famous Letter on the Electoral CommIs-
sion, "of any devoted adhcrents, no such
"ty.nsaction would he [Alr. Tlldenl consent
"to. nor cOnnive at, nor permit" And hav-
ing emitted these suggestive and apparently
uncalled-for remarks, weeks before the cipher
telegrams were published, Mr.. Marble pro-
ceeded to abuse McI4in, of Florida, as az an
"ague-smittcn Pariah.n Finally, Mr.. Marble
published a card, stating that "real or pre-
"tended brokers" were flushing game" in
Florida (accOrding to the custom of brokers
evcrywherc) that many times they offered to
sell him the vote OF Florida and that he
"repnlsed every approach OF that sort on the
"spot." Then, by strange coincidence, he
again went on TO abuse McLin.
What private Transaction with McI.in can it
he that so raukes in the breasts of Mr. Til
den aud Mr.. Tiiden's devoted adherentsl Mr..
McLin himself stated in his testimony before
the Potter Committee that Manton Marble as
sured him he need not fear poverty if he "did
fright" in the matter of giving tho electo-
raj votes of Florida to Governor TIldcn. 1t
is plain from the cipher dispatches that the
attempt upon McLIn did not stop with this re-
mark. which Mr.. Marble probably made in the
character of one gentleman talking to another.
Up to the very last day, the conspiratOrs evil
IDENTITY believed that they had secured AlcI4in.
WoOllcy's half of hundred thOusandr dis
patch on December /, Marbles first bid mt
5000, 900 on December 2. his second bid at
"half hundred best United States documents
on the Sd, and Wooley's offer of "rilden adj
"ditional Board member" for "hmdred
"tbouSand dollars less halfn on the Ath.
were all penned in the apparent conviction
that the vote necessary in addition to
Cookies could be secured if they had
the money Whether MeLin' purposely led
them to think so or not is matter of copjee-
time. IL is not unlikely that the bargain was
managed with the aud of an mterceder,r as
il was IN South Carolina, and this person per-
hans had no power to deliver the commodity
he professed to sell. But it is certain that both
Marble and WoOley counted upon the pur-
chase of MeI4in; that they negotiated with
him or his 0stensible representative during
several days; that they made definite offers
of money; that they compromised their prin-
cipals in New-YOrk, and exposed to the
"ague- -smitten Pariah the Democratic scheme
Of rascality and that ut last they discovered
as Woolley telegraphed on Monday, the 4th-
that MeI4in had thrown them over "from
Saturday" With what chagrin they must