Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-10-17
The Story Of Florida.

The Story Of Florida.
secret ni.sor, of the Presidential
Election OF 1870.
Prom the New York Tribunc.l
The story told to-day By the translation
of captured cipher dispatches j. Tot a
pleasant one Tor any American to read. II
j. story Of such disgrace and shame that
We might well Wish that events had not
rendered it, telling Necessary. Every cit
izen must feel that IL would have been bet
ter for the good name OF The Republic. had
the contest of 1876. with all IT, intense pas
sions and it, crimes, 5ccR permitted To pass
from memory. But the persistent cry Of
fraud" raised from the very hour the
votes Of The people were found 10 be not
for Mr.. Tildcn, aud kept Up 10 this day 10
Congress TO the peril OF the public peace.
and elsewhere TO the dishouor oi the Couu-
Try. has forced an investigation, not con-
Quoted, like the one Instituted by pariiSans
Ia Congress. FOR the purpose Of hiding the
truth.
The Democratic House Of Representa-
lives arraisncd two of the Republican yis-
hing statesmen FOR fraud and conspiracy.
in the matter OF the electoral count. After
months Of fishing with drag-nei. they
have produced what confessed p~rjurer
j. able To recall OF letter not la existence,
purporling 10 come from a man whose
handwriting lac didn't know. aud promising
that persons who did their duty would not
be inEgotten. Absolutely that Is all. II
now 1t shall appear-nUt on the doubtful
recollection OF perJuTer, but on the indis-
putable testimony OF their own dtspatchc-
not on single doubtful copy OF doubtful
.r-L "A
but on the cumulative aud comprehensive
testimony OF hundreds of dispatches from
different men In different States at difrren,
times, sent out from the same headquarters
and reporting 10 the same headquaTters-
il, now, ii shall sppear from this over
shelming and conclusive evidence. fur.
nished by their own secret correspondence,
that the Democratic visiting statesmen
most intimate AZ Gramcrcy PARK sent d.
rectly from Gramercy PARK. AFTER elaborate
AID most carefully secret correspondence
with Gramercy Park, did. ia three differ
ent States. deliberately attempt to buy.
But we anticipate. Read the dispatches.
and make up your own mind.
The clamot OF fraud has compelled
the discovery OF the facts. aud here they
are. The translated dispatches show that.
in answer TO several appeals for money,
sent to New York from Florida on the sec
ond day sfter the Presidential election. and
to 3 request that "a good man with an un-
derstood cipher" should be sent thither.
Mr.. John +. Coyle. a notorious lobbl il Of
Washington. started with the precise cl-
pliers afterwards used by all the conspira-
tors, and IN them recorded all his progress
southwark 10 Jacksonville. Florida; that
his first WORK there was 10 arrange for tel
egraphic transfers OF money. whenever de-
sired, from New York 10 q banker In Flor
ida and that be then joined al Tallahassee
Mr.. Mant0n Marble and {. W. woolley,
who thereafter used 10 daily commun,ca-
tons with Gramercy Park. New YORK. the
cipher Coyle had brought.
For & time this trio lsbored only in per
fecting Democratic returns and proofs. be-
lieying. as the Democratic committee OF
Florida had falsely asserted, that the State
had given LOCO majority for Mr.. Tilden.
They insisted, too. at this stage, that the
Canyassng Board had full power to
purge the county returns-a power
which they afterward most impudently de-
MED when Republicans proposed 10 correct
Democratic frauds. Steadily the visible
majority dwindled to nothing, but the local
managers held back TO the last large Dem-
ocratic returns, and 1t was believed that
this was done in order 10 so alter those re-
turns as 10 secure a majority after the legal
proceedings instituted by Democrats had
compelled the opening and canyasslng of
other returns sent forward In time. This
plot having failed. the great crime began
for which preparations had been elaborate
| ly made.
The first cipher despatch sent 10 Gram
Grey Park by Mr.. Coyle 10 which bribery
is distinctly named says: My hope small.
! -'' Nothing but cash tciH drdl'' On
the same day Mr.. Manton Marble sent the
following:
Tallahassee. Dec. 2.
Colonel Pelton, No. Is Gramercy Park:
| Have just received proposition to hand
over at any hour required Tilden decision Of
Board and certificate of Governor for two bun
dred thousand dollars. MOSES.
Three days after. Mr. Msnton Marble.
signing himself m. M says. in an open
dispatch, Finished yesterday afternoon
responsibility (as) Moses" The dispatches
so signed are ipdisputably his. Tie first
proposition was deemed too high at Gram
ercy Park, because on the previous day
Mr.. woolley had teegraphed:
Tallahassee, Fla. Dec, |.
Henry Hayemeyer, No. Is West 18th ST, " Y:
Board fetch may make necessary expense Of
half OF hundred thousand dollar. Can you
say will deposit il in bank Immediately If
| agreed. Fox.
The identity of "Fox" is also proved
most eonclusively, and the reply TO this
bald and naked proposal was forwarded
with the signature III" II informed
Fox" that no money could be drawn be-
fore the vote had been given. On the Sd
of December Mr.. Marble telegraphed
another proposition:
Tallahassee. Dec. 3.
Colonel W. I. Pelton, No. Is Gramercy Park:
Proposition received either giving vote OF
Republican Of Board. or hi. concurrence in
court action preventing electoral vote from be-
ing cast, for kdlr hundred best United States
documents. MOSES.
On the next day, Mr.. Woolley sent the
brief and direct inquiry:
Tallahassee, Dec. 4.
Henry Hsyemeyer, No. Is West 18th ST., n.
T.:
NAV woolley give hundred thousand dollars
less half for Tilden additional Board member.
Fox.
Precisely the same proposal In different
words and in a different cipher. went 10
Grsmercy Park. The reply, sent at once.
but SO muiiliated in transmission that IL
could not be read. caused a demand from
Mr.. Marble. orer his e,en signature. Tor a
repetition. After fatal delay. the reply of
G. amercy Park. which did not want 10 pay
twice for the same vote. thu ough Marble
aud again through Woolley, was:
New York, Dec. 4.
Aanton Marble. Tallahassee, Fla:
Proposition accepted II done only once. Bet