Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
TILDEN AND FLORIDA.
The Great Reformer's Nearest
Friends in Search Of an
Electoral Vote.

Friends IN Search OF an
Electoral Vote.
How they Proposed to Secure it-A
Persistent Attempt to
Buy it.
The Cipher Dispatches that Prove the Ras'
caIily-Let the People Read This
From the New York Tribune October s.
The Florida board had opened the
returns on Tuesday, November %, had
heard evidence on both sides patiently,
and was Obliged to reach decision with
in few days. From the beginning At
torney General Cooke had been counted
safe by the Democrats. DIR. Cowgirl,
formerly of Delaware, was staunch
Union man, and Mr.. Marble had said it
was "wasting time" to call on him. Sec
rotary of State McLin, for twenty-five
years resident of Florida, was once a
Confederate, but afterward Union
man, and Republican editor of repu-
tation as an upright man, but the con-
spirators needed one vote, and what they
tried to do let the secret dispatches
show:
mo date HENRY HAvEMEYER, No. Is
West Seventeenth street, New York: Koch.
ester Of answer America yesterday to-day
understand Thomas my Africa about but
J it first ayil at my nothing Bavaria as will
| Copenhagen once fear reported small by
and satisfied hope. MAX.
! TRANSLATION.
/ TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 2.-HENRY HAVE
MEYkR, No. Is West Seventeenth street,
New York: My hope small. Votes about
as reported yesterday. Africa probably
; McLin satisfied 10y Bavaria probably Cow
! GIN and fear that America Drew under
stands it. Nothing but cash will avail.
Answer my first of to-day at once. Thomas.
COYLE.
/ NEW YORK, I'd Dec, CD. F. CoYLE,
Talla., Fla: Twenty one nineteen unless
, you have nineteen five again. II.
TRANSLATION
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-JoHN F. CoYLE,
Tallahassee, Fla: Telegram received. In
! less YOU have received - will remit again.
HAVEMEYER.
It is probable that the word ''answer"
: followed Freceived," and has been lost.
But what was Coyle's first of to-day?
This, at least, though not signed, bears
another name.
ITALIA, Col. PELToN, No. Is, Gram.
Grey Park, n. y: Certificate required to
Moses decision have. London hour for
Bolivia of Just add Edinburgh at Moselle
/ had any over glasgow france reed. russia
of No signature.
TRANSLATION.
ITALIA, Dec. Cool. PELTON, No. Is,
Gramercy Park Have just receiveda propo-
sition to hand over at any hour required
Tilden decision Of board and certificate Of
governor for s2C0,ooo. MARBLE.
Did Mr.. Marble or Mr.. Coyle actually
receive such startling proposition
We Go not believe it. Mr.. McLin has
sworn that such proposition was made
to him, not by him, and there has been
a question of veracity on the matter
between him and Mr.. Marble, who denies
that he had any talk with McLi= on the
subject. In the light of these dispatches,
which is to be believed? Was it not
one of the current political rumors of
the time that Mr. Marble had said in q
Democratic gathering: McLin is a de-
serter, and deserters can be bought:
But the question of grave Importance is
not whether Mr.. Marble deceived Others
orr himself, but what had Gramercy
park to answer. Thus:
NEW YORK, December 3.-MANToS MAE
BILE, Tallahassee, Fla: Warsaw here. Boll'
via Brazil. No signature.
TRANSLATION.
NEW YORK, December 3.-MANToN MAR
BLE, Tallahassee, Fla: Dispatch here
Proposition too high.(?) No sig.
Gramercy park had reasons not known
to Mr.. Marble for considering his "Boli
via" decidedly. "Brazil." For on the
preceding day the following had come
from Mr.. Woolley:
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, December /, l>76.-
HENRY HAvEMEYER, No. 10 West Seven
tenth street, New York: Sixteen Fetcl
may make thirteen. Forty Of half Of :
twelve eleven ten. Can you say two u nine
Immediately if twenty. Fox.
TRANSLATION.
TALLAHASSEE, Dec. III. HAYMEYER
No. Is West Seventeenth street, New York
, Board fetch may may make necessary ex
pense of half of a hundred thousand dol
lars. Can you say will deposit in bank i'm
, mediately ii agreed.
) Whatever significance may be give1
> to the word " FETCH" which, it will b.
remembered, Mr.. Havemoyer failed, or
, a former occasion to understand Their
can be very little doubt as to the mean
; ing OF the proposal. And the reply o
Gramercy park was:
NEW YORK, Dec. 6-2:15 P. NC. W
t Woolley, Tallahassee, Fla: Twenty.on
2 nineteen two ten twenty cannot howeve
seven before twenty four thirty seven niue
2 teen reply forty six. II.
! TRANSLATION.
4 NEW YORK, Dec. &c. W. Woolley, Tai
4 lahassee, Fla: Telegram received. VII
s ever, draw before vote member received.
, We have no evidence that Mr.. Have
e meyer ever sent this damning answer
5 or that he ever read either the answer Q
, the dispatch to which a reply signe
r "H." was sent. He received dis
: patches; it is probable that Gramerc
: Park read and answered them all. Blu
e it is n " apparent why the Marble
e Covle $4,000 "Bolivia" was not he'll
O good. Probably Mr.. Woolley learne
: that bargains were going on behind h;
S back, for he telegraphed:
Dec. 2, '76-HENRY HAvEMEYER, No.
West Seventeenth street, New York: Nor
in select have have whom some you in conf
Y dence winning evidently than Fox.
f TRANSLATION.
t Dec. ITO HAvEMEvER: Select som
: one ip whom you have more confdenc
o than YOU evidently have in Woolley.
: WOOLLEY.
q The reply signed "W," might proba
= bly, as we'll have been signed W. T. PEI
, on, and needs careful reading:
p NEW YORK, Dec. SC. W. WooLLE1
: Tala, Fla: Perfect you what power "
y could and answer you cannot belief az
e clined all telegraphed do do all aPplicatio
!. no in and stay private has you have neec
e less other proven: here. w.
e TRANSLATION.
-; Dec. sc. w. WOOLLEY: All here hav
j. perfect confidence in you. We cannot pre-
o vent needless. - No other has power
!, aud all application declined. Stay and d
= what you telegraphed you could do. Pr
yate. Answer. W.