New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-17


actual agent.
No one will be surprised, therefore, to find
Mr.. Marble assuming the lead in the electoral
campaign. and taking, in the following dis
patch without date), what seems to have been
the first stem toward the formation of the
Cronin Electoral College:
Hon. LAFAYETTE +. GROVER, Portland tor esSe@HeTel'
Oregon
It's respectfully suggested that you refrain from the
issue of any certificate favor OF elector alleged 10
have been chosen November 7th who on that day was
ineligible TO that office and until shall have been ad-
vsed thereon Reply at my expense q you are iHaoe 70
do uis. hAhroS MARBLE
Mr.. Marble evidently had other plans, If
Governor Grover felt bound to issue the GER
tiicate;a and if three Republicans were COM
missioned it is difficult to imagine what his
scheme could have been unless it was to in
Auence one of them. Reason for thinking
this an carly suggestion is found in the fol-
lowing cipher dispatch in which MI Marble
seems to have communicated the idea to Gram
Grey Park as II new one:
GEO W. SMITH, 10 Grdnlercy Park, Ne'0- York
Governor ggested to from from has lere 70 issuing
Of been certificate refrain Oregon telegraph Warsaw OF
clector ineligible Spain favor TO him not until ad-
vised 'Conor's my obtain opinion why thereon N.
II does not require greal deal of ingenuity
to put tins telegram into the following shape
which. it will be noticed, accounts for every
word but one small particle in the cipher dis
patch:
II has been suggested to Governor OF Oregon from
here TO refrain from Issuing certncate OF in'lrloe
olector until advised thereon. Why not obtain OConoS
opinon3 warsaw telegraph him. See my favor to
Spain. ~
"Spain" seems to have been person OF
some Importance, as he was in cipher CORE
spondence with Mr.. Marble from Gramercy
Park. Witness this dispatch:
Colonel PELT X. IS GraBfercg Iark, Se1 York
Tell snain to repeat his message n my cipher IL Is
unlntcIltgible NATION MARBLE.
Mr.. Marble was man of many ciphers III
these mysterious times. Here he Is Disguised
with "Spain's" CIPHER and wants his own
put in use; little further back he was send
ing kilograms in " fifteen and twenty cipher
But this is depression. The point Is that
Mr.. Marble seems 10 have started the Oregon
campaign from Florida, and to have pulled
wires that ended in Salem and New-YOrk.
Careful newspaper readers will remember that
during the excitement following Governor
Growers action, it was freely said in the
newspapers and generally understood, that he
had 0een primed for the occasion Ivy legal
opinion from one Of Governor Tilden's friends
in this city Doubtless Mr.. OCOnOr declined
to lend his great name 10 the legal doctrines
which Hoadley was almost ashamed to advo-
cate: but it is nevertheless interesting to
observe that Mr. Marble seems to have been
among the first, if not the very first. to prompt
Governor Grover to the course which he took,
and first 10 suggest legal stifener for that
functionary's backbone, which was subsequently
furnished by some more elastic lawyer than
Charles O'COnOr.
But lust rs Mr.. Marbles trail seems to be
growing warm, he disappears INTO lower decps
than the "Gobble" cipher. Here, for instance,
is dispatch sent to Colonel PeltOn apparently
two days before the " incremable" dispatch
was forwarded 10 Oregon:
probably Novemben 81
COLONEL PELToN, IS GrdBterey PARK, ~ T.;
Must PARIS for Edinburgh Copenhagen Lima Chicago
Please answer immediately. AASroS AAiBLE
Here is still another cipher apparently. Or
did Mr.. Marble really propose to 90 as far as
the Republic of Peru, if necessary, to get that
one electoral vote
What are we TO suppose is meant by this
dispatch, for example. in which the mysterious
Warsaw reappears
HEw-YoRK. Dec. o.
MANTON MARBLE. Tallahassee Fis.:
Warsaw here Bolivia, Brazil. No signaturel
What moving cause suddenly impelled
Colonel Peton and Mr. Marble to begin ex-
changing geographical information at this
reckless rate 7 What cared Mr.. Marble for
Bolivia or Bolivia for him And why was
Warsaw here instead of where order
reigned
There are numerous other weighty cOnadera-
tons connected with these mystic kilograms
for which we have left ourselves no space, and
there are other kilograms which must wait
till another day. But various signs seem to
show, even through the dense medium of these
ciphers, that Oregon was still under discus
sion. And there is one curious dispatch to
which we would like TO call Mr.. Marbles at
tentiOn.
On the morning Of December 6, 1876, the
bargain with Oregon was closed so far "a this
end of the line was concerned. Patricks
demand for certain sum instead of con
tingency was acceded to, $4,000 was de-
posted with bankers IN this city 10 be trans
ferred by telegraph, and the deposit was an
nounced TO Senator Kelly in the following dis
patch by way of San Francisco:
SAN Francisco. Dec. g.
Hon. JAMES X. KELLY;
The eight deposited directed this morning. Let no
technically present ginning. Use your discretion.
CSo signatureJ
The same day the following seemingly
exultant dispatch was sent;
EEwYoRK. Dec @.
NJ MASTOE MARBLE:
Pray refresh yourself with st. Johns. Well and happy
That ,oOrk is JinisAed. X.
This may have been mere coincidence,
but wasn't it an odd one, Mr.. Marble
THAT EMPTY LOUISIANA HOLE.