New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-06


upon this incident by stating that the Board
held on for two days while Solomon
was I'm New-York, and declared the
result for Hayes as soon as the dis-
patch was received announcing the failure
The fact is. "a Weed ought to know, and in
deed must know-for he was deep IN the
plot-the Board did not "hOld on" to the
returns for an hour; but 1t was enjoned
by the State Supreme Court controller
by the DemOcTats), and was prevented
from declaring the result. which the
Court knew would be for Hayes. Its
sudden and final action and adjournment on
the 22d of November was timed. as every
body knows. III order to escape the iawiess ~
reference Of Judge Moses.
With regard to the subsequent transactions
in South Carolina, Mr.. Weed had less to say.
He figures in eight or ten short kilograms
abont certain sum of mOney-Supposed 10y
THy TPIBCNE to be 81. O00--whch was wanted
in connection with the court proceedings. Mr..
Weed thinks the sum cannot have been so
large but he does not know. He IL sure that
TUE TRIBUNE has not rendered this part OF
the cphcrs correctly; they are IN different
code from the ret but he does not remember
what the truc translation l. he does not re-
member the meaning of solitary cipher
word; does not remember thc general sense
of single message in this code; does not re-
member from whom he received them; admits
that the cipher i his. but Will not he positive
to whom he gave it; is positive OF nothing
except tha, TuE TRIBUNE i wrong. aud chat
he. the maker OF the ciDhcr, Is unable 10 SGT
4: aft nt 10
Gurncc, and We repeat here what IlE 1HIG-
UNE said in publishing these fcW trivial dis
patches that they were not numerous enough
to furnish Il proved key, ana the interpreted
lions wcro to be- tcgdgdcd a. "conirciWdl
only. We do not see that we aIe 90
Quircd to #bndol these conlcctnrcs, It"
long as Nh Weed i himself unable t"
give any other meaning to tn" messages than
the one which We have guessed ~ for TIE
main cipher he trm~po>ltIon and >nhSii'a-
ton system ,oa'iucd-in which all tn most
important t".rgr1ms are written, tnat Mr.
Wccd fully admits to br Comc"t He haS not
preserved bis KEYS; but he knows tlat
TIE 1RIRr.E has described tac syS-
tenn correctly. and ne declares frankly that
the translation, acr,c with his recollection of
mails have l".u compared with TuE IRIBrNt's
pamphlet. anal 20 variation that affects the
sense in Tin. slightest degree has been di>cov-
cred Mr.. weed WAS shocked 20 md that
several DISPATCHES signed ". or Mead. in
the original, appeared N TmE 1mElNE with
tic signature " or Weed: but h" did not
hesitate ta 80, thI' they vcf" al lis, and in
his handwrit.nr: au admission which seems
to make further d..ruo>ioH OF the ~.'.uItnr"
unnecessary. t.. only other error, hc de-
tcctod III Tu3 TuuNr'~ copies were such
ordinary crr.i~.. ur printers husdrre as the
dropping Of ia. rr position "to, or al" sui
stiutiom of " = uajd,> ior - homa>, etc.
Nr. Weeds crp-.-' \auiuai iou began ut thc
point whcr" hl, memory of great events be
came suddenly and strangely weak, and where
the air of frauknc.- with which lie had begun
changed to temper OF moIo'c hesitation. i
was surprising to observe how much hc had
forgotten in two years. He could not tell
the meaning OF some Of his most remarkable
tccerams, although ice did acknowledge that
when he advised Potion to capture Louisiana
and Florida Ire meant that Pclton was 70 " ger
"'cn.r lie hardly knew whether lie went to
south Carolina is Pctou's subordinate /;
he hardly knew whether the Democratic
National Committee knew anything about this
affair Of a., IN Columbia hc hardly knew
whether Potion had authority to buy state;
he hardly hncw whether he talked about
the bargain with anybody cNcc't Pciton
and he cnuH only say that he didn't
think tn south Carolina negotiation was
spoken OF 0.lh any of the Democratic
leaders in New-Ybrk. II was plain hat
Mr.. Weed lql told all that he meant to tell.
and although Nc~Sr<. Reed and lIIscock drew
from him some admissions which he would
perhaps have been better pleased not to make.
his later contributions to the fund Of useful
knowledge were only fragmcn;ary and midi
rect.
Mayor Cooper took mp the story whore if
referred to him. He went to Mr.. Tilden's
house on the evening of the 10Th of Noycm-
Der by request, and there he found Colonel
PeltOn just starting for a journey. The Colo
mel told Mr.. Cooper that he was going 10
Baltimore to meet Smith Weed and eel
tam parties from South Carolina; he might
want money, and would telegraph for
it next day. Mr.. Cooper din, not know more,
though he suspected bargain with the Can
vaSssing Board. He gave Colonel Pclton Il
cipher and in the morning was very much
surprised to receive telegram asking for
100000 or $4,000 He showed il
to Mr.. Tildca. Mr.. Tildcn was not
only surprised but displcaScd. Then the
two kilograms were sent to PcitOp, and
he was called home. To be turned out of the
honso7 Oh no; to be retained in his old
position as unofficial manager of the count in
the disputed States, and to repeat in Florida
and Oregon, and once more III South Carolina
the sane performance which ended so i'll in
South Carolina This is the sequel which the
minority Of the Committee pressed with re-