The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-11-21
From the N. Y. Tribune.l
Another Discovery.

Who went to Baltimore to carry to
Smith Weed the money for the purchase
of the South Carolina Returning Board g?
On the 18th of November, 1876, Weed
telegraphed from Columbia to Henry
Havemeyer-otherwise Colonel William
T Pelton:
Ma jority of Board have been secured!
Cost is eighty thousand to be sent as fol-
lows: One parcel of sixty five thousand
dollars. one of ten thousand, and one Of
five thousand; all to be five hundred or
one thousand bills; notes to be deposit
ed as parties accept. and given up upon
vote of South Carolina being given to
Tilden's friends. The three packs should
be sent without inscription and to night,
unless you receive telegram from me
concentrating. For Gods sake let it
go? Have cash ready to reach Baltimore
Sunday night"
Later on the same day he telegraphed {:
Shall leave tonight for Baltimore
Meet me yourseli if prudent" And last
lly, just before starting, having apparent
ly received favorable reply to his re-
quest shat safe man" should bring
stuff to Baltimore, he wired this mes
sage:
Looks we'll now You must have the
u
early Monday morning. 1 go at 10 to-
night"
The Tribune has already shown how
Smith M Weed. leaving Columbia on
Saturday night, November Is. did arrive
at Barnum's Hotel in Baltimore early
Monday morning the Goth, registering
there by his true name. 1t was also
shown, at the time of the publication of
the dispatches that there was every rea-
son to believe that the "safe man" met
him with "the stuff" according to ap,
pointment. and that the failure Of the
scheme was attributable to other causes
than neglect of the New York parties to
put up the money.
We have taken pains to verify certain
information which reached US two weeks
ago respecting this safe man" The
chain of evidence is now complete. The
register OF the Mount Vernon Hotel, a
small and quiet house in Baltimore,
where person of retiring disposition
might be safe from curious eyes, shows
among the arrivals early on Monday
morning. November 20. William T. Pei
ton, of New York At 10 o'clock Mr.
Pelton, with friend who had accom-
panied him from this city took car
riage. Early in the day the friend was
seen with Mr. Smith Weed at Barnum's
Hotel 1T was probably after this inter
view-to which it would not be rash to
assume that Mr.. Pelton also was a party
that Smith Weed sent his first cipher
dispatch to Columbia:
baltimore Nov. 90
General Gordon. Columbia:
Matters arranged by Returning Board
agent. Inform Haskell, and telegraph
news W."
What occurred during the day to dis
turb the arrangement is not known; but
in another dispatch to General Gordon.
Weed asked that the Supreme Court
might hold on to the electoral votes"
because there might be "a little delay :"
and then at night Pelton and his friend
and Weed all returned to New York.
The fact that it was Colonel Pelton who
made that journey to Baltimore at such
a lusy and critical time, in compliance
with Weeds request that he would
bring the stuff himself it prudent is a
most important discovery. Pelton as
suredly would not have gone there just
to tell Weed that his demand for money |
could not be granted II Pelton was the |
safe man who met Weed at Barnum's s |
Hotel, Pelton took with him $4,000 to |
buy the South Carolina Returning Board
That is morally certain. Where did he |
getit Here is the act OF bribery brought
home, not to secret agents, and clerks, |
and secretaries, and amateur negotiators.
but to some person or some organization
in the Democratic party high enough to
great sum of money and to
assume tremendous responsibility
Democrats have tried to meet the dis
grace of the cipher disclosures by saying:
oh, Marble was fool; throw him over
board. Coyle and Woollry and Weed
we're politicians of low grade, whose
were not approved by their
employers; throw them overheard Pei
ton was a presuming and scheming ras
cal throw him overheard too But for
this new development of the plot there
must be different sort of answer. They
cannot throw overheard a man with
$4,000 in his pocket Who supplied
him with that big purse7 Who sent him
TO Baltimore to deliver it to the brbe
broker2 Whose hand invisibly moved
this weak and insignificant young man.
and dispatched him with three parcels,
one OF $65 600, one OF $40 900, and one of
s., ,000" to buy the Presidency of the
United States? Until serious attempt
TO find the answer to these questions is
made by the party for whose benefit the
crime was attempted. it is upon the whole
party that the crushing weight OF shame
must rest.
From the Lewiston PENN Democrat.