New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-19

party during the last fifteen wears. and have swal-
lowed its OurageS ITS intlmdatlons, to say hotilhg
of It's attempt by open warfare to destroy the G"N-
eminent are susceptible 10 any influence whatever
OF mere moral character
WOOLLET INTERVIEWED AT LAST.
ALONG TALK, REVEALING MORE IN WHAT IT DOES
NOT SAY THAN IN WHAT IT DOTs--HE owns Up
To TUE DISPATCH ASKING PELTON TO ORDER
MOSES 10 STOP MAKING PROPOSALS TO THE IN
FuY-AS TO TIE OTHERS, III DOESN'T WANT TO
TALK JUST YET.
Mr. {. W. WOOllcy is a married man, with nearly
grown children, age about forty seven. He Is the
son of a prominent lawyer at Lexington. Nv, and
the brother of Robert Woolley, the principal
LAWYER of Louisville Duke Wchli1e. hIs
grandfather, was the most successful land-rght
lawyer west of the Allcghaues and had the largest
tracts of land IN Kentucky. Mr.. Charles Woolley
married and settled IN Cincinnati and pIactl>cS Ia"
there. and is prominent in Democratic politics a.
the personal friend Of George II. Pcndleton
whom ne assisted TO elect over General Ewing
To look upon. Mr.. Woollcy Is tall, stTOngly-l mbed
with a Southwestern frame and mild type of face,
a little sccrctiye, but always courteous. Hcaunved
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Thursday dned with
Generals Badly" Smith Torhert, of Delaware, and
Shaer. and Mr. T. A. Buck, and that night re-
porter found HIM at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and
was invited to his room.
wOoLLEY DFNIrs.
Mr. Wooey furnished. for transmission to a dis
tant newspaper the following dispatch:
absolutely, Internationally and clnphaticaliv l
know ofno attempt made to uuduly influence either
member Of the Florida Returning Board i'll 1876, to
vote for the Iilden electors. Slgnedl {. W.
NoOiey.'
This is good far as it goes" said the reporter
"but do not think you are regarded the prime
principal in the matter; Marble and COyle are. DId
Marble telegraph that you were an lmpedlmentT
Eyes believe he did. At first | thought he had
not judged him to be sincere man.
Mr. Wooley then put this question:
"Do YOU suppose. taking commOn-sensc view,
that would telegraph; May Woollcy pay 50 and
soT Why wouldn't | telegraph May | do ltF
Answer thatv
liam afraid, Nj WooIey, that the public solu-
ton would be: There were two OF three Of them
there and the dispatches got mixed and they had
to use their names III the third person TO individual
ize'"
"Now. III tell you" SAID Mr.. Woolley Il lad no
vocabulary at all for my cipher. L did take ci-
pher when left New-ioTk, however, but 1t was
only the tramsmutable cipher
"Who gave it to your
"Knc. think, at the National Headquarters !
was ga:rg off in hurry TO Louisiana via Cincin-
natl. and SAID; Boys. have you got cipher that
l can reach you withf'
"You are sure Pelton didn't give YOU that ci-
pherf
"My recollection is that il King"
"Mr Woolley, | saw you start of about the same
time smith Weed went TO South Carolina You
were a good deal together at this hotel. What do
YOU think of Weeds cipher offers =
"Wcn, nobody in this country was moro sur
prised than myself. ] had no idea that Weed would
send any such dispatches. | was equally surprised
at some of the Florida dispatches"
"Tell me- frankly, are there not some or many OF
these Florida kilograms which really sent by
your
lie RECOGNIZES ONE DISPATCH.
81 recognize one. at least. that | sent, where
soid Stop 50 and so from making negotiations with
the enemy"
"Wcll, they have got the cipher messages correct
in part, thenr
"Tll tell you how sent that message said Mr..
Woollcy; 81 went first to Louisiana and then
came to Florida. We were all coopcd up
in Tallahassee, little place hardly big
Ger than your hand. The first thing |
observed there were two detectives hanging around
my room aud staircase. When | came TO find ont
they were our own detectives | SAID at once:
take those people away from me. ! have never
been in the habit OF moving around guarded by a
couple Of shadows, like that"
"Wcll. as to Marblep
marble had seen little OF nothing Of since the
campaign Of 1868 when he aud his confrcrcs as
sisted 10 put the knife into Nh. Pendlcton
expressed myself about him then, and
when | found myself in his company in
FLORIDA | kept myself respectful but distant.
had not been long III Tallahassee when the Radical
Governor SteaTus, came to me and said MI Wool
lev, If Your party down here does not stop Of
its underneath operations an exposure will be made
of Them lie SAID something to that effect, and
replied Stearns, you don't accuse me of anything
like thatf No. he answered 'yOu have been up
here quietly in your room most Of the time. don't
include YOU, but il Is better that you should
know such things are being done i thanked him
that they were beng watched, and would work
Tilden an injury if such reports were true.
Finally telegraphed to New-lork as The TRIBUNE
has shown, saying Stop 50 and 50 from carrying
on negotiations with the enemy"
Then there were different persons. of different
powers. not always agreeing about policy for Mr.
Tiiden in FlOridaf
"To show you" said Mr.. Wooley, chow badly
things were mixed. will tell you that toward the
last. four, five, or more cipher dispatches came
from headquarters in New-York TO Florida which
nobody could decipher. aud they never were salts.
factorily translated"
"Nas Henry Havemeyer one OF the principals a,
this end TO conduct the Florida intrigued"
"ko. IL was understood that the dispatche: