Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-02-11
From the New YORK tribune
Packing the jury.

Committee. Messrs. Thompson Mass
Ne Bolt Mo-. and Hopkins Penn. Dem
ocrats, and Messrs Garfield and Dunpell,
Republicans. This was apparently regu'
lar and fair, but there was something be-
hind tins resolution, and in order TO throw
upon it the keen bright sunlight OF pub
icity We must 20 back few days.
The Gramercy Park Bureau, as the
world now knows, sent a great many
agents 70 Florida during the month OF
November, giving them at least three dis
tiDct codes Of cipher, and several distinct
sets OF confidential instructions, In conse-
glence OF which they got in one another's
way, intertered with one another's oPer-
atoms. and burdened the wires with COM
plants and determinations. The latest oi
these agents to be dispatched from New
York was Mr.. f. l.. Paris lie arrived
at Tallahassee about the 2OEh Of Novem-
Der, and MS sudden appearance preclPl-
tated upon Colonel Pelton an avalanche
OF inquiring kilograms. WHO Is Par
us asked Moses Cannot consent 70
intimate relations with strange Parisians
remarked Fox who Is Paris that pre-
sents himself here without credentials =
demanded Perry Smith. Max, too, seems
to have been disturbed. And although
Colonel Pelton replied to these questions,
"Parrls Is one OF Us, and Implicit re-
ianoe should be accorded hun, Nh.
Marble, al ali events, was not satisfied,
Tor be represented 10 ! dispatch about
week later that Paris and detectives
were always useless" and Woolley 80
nuisance and impeachment adding that
smith oonourred "in AL aforesaid y MIR.
Paris, however. had duties to perform oil
which Mr. Marble perhaps knew nothing
Paris seems 70 have been the only one oi
the party IN Florida who had the Die
;ionsry Cipher" and 10 that code he r.
ceived the following remarkable dispatch
trom New York. dated TIE day OF the as
semoling Of Congress
NV YORK. Doc. q.
& O. rAkI> Tallahassee
Foi,t4 cansIsuer iii,ycrsi1ie complete 81 e.,
auditory nl. -I.aflal her Won seem and 1Ti..
ntI rle,ro bsuiel has sh-mbie inApprcciAhle 20
ESQ, and at-.ep -f Autrl'--
This Is translated by turning back one
page in Wobster's Pocket Dictionary.
There is no such word, Of course, as
Fohoda," but Polio" yields II ora,
aud out Of that the ingenious Colope
Psltou makes "Florada." The translation
q. the dispatch Is as follows:
Translation.
INV YORK., Dec. g.
r l. PARIS. Tallahassee.
Florida Congrys, Investigating COMMITTEE viii
o.. our -uc-,s.,on appoint you secretary AMI one
irenber. Daniel hA- sergeant. Important you
s.ly ami aot Au-wc.. p
This surprising message was sent the
Jaw before the committee to which 1t
refers was in existence. The resolution
o. Mr. Hewitt was moi passed until the
night Of the 4th, and the committee TO
visit Florida was not named until the
next dsy. Yet It was known at Mr.. Til
ienS residence, in advance OF the adop-
ton OF the resolution II not IN advance
Of the introduction. who the Investigators
would be and what they would do 1t
was arranged beforehand that Mr. Hlden
should control the organization of the
court created 10 investigate the conduct
&. ais Own agents; that he should pack
.ae Jury summoned TO try ais own cause.
4 favorable decision was 10 be insured
before the Democratic contestant risked
.a inquiry Under ordinary circum-
,,ances the clerk Of committee such as
.his would not only be the righ,hand mGn
and confidential adviser OF the majority
1ises. but ne would have the duty-or
priydege-of drawing up the report
WHAT could be more grotesque than q
secret bargain 20 put in this important
place one Of the cipher agents upon whose
transactions the report was 10 pass judg
nent? The functions Of the Sergesnt-at-
Arms include summoning witnesses whom
il Is desirable 10 examine, and failing to
and those whom it Is desirable TO the
m-i0rityl not 10 examine. Mr.. j. !
Daniel, Of the Florida State Democratic
Committee, had ihisLmnortant officer
OF the committee-of the committee yet
To be created And so every thing seemed
70 be comfortably fixed.
What Colonel Pe,on meant by telling
Nr Paris that the committee would ap-
point hun lone member" as well as CLERK
We DO not know 1t appears from his
answer that he did not unde,sts 1t him
self. Here Is mis- reply, sent in duplicate,
one copy to Dir. King, clerk at the Ever
Ell House headquarters, and the other to
Colonel Peton, at No. 10 Creamery Park
Dec, ..
NlRRIs 4. KING. ErersH House Nelc York
Twelve O'Clock midnight Monday kneel leNic0s-
-auny has I've leach conduit Sreyedorc 20 taken
..e-can, and Voc spermaceJ. aforesaid helmet sub
ugsle howell OF boon research leave terra-cott4
iorewsrntng wright unprecedented seem ordnal
mc-ce ,namb.e.
,TIanslauon.l
MONKS II. hINs.
Twelve O'Clock mid1ight Monday. Just lett
8avi1w. Latter comedies STATE % rtden and viii
,J ..iyI~e. have strong hope OF Board. hepcfj
.s-t telegram following words unlntelllgl
"s--L-, ldinA.i metre, enA-nplS.
In an interview with reporter of TRf
tribune, Mr.. Paris recently said that he
found this cipher very difficult to use, and
soon gave it up. We do not know what
explanation Colonel PeIton returned to
the above request; but there is a short
dispatch in the same cipher, neither dated
nor signed, which may be Mr.. Paris
rejoinder to second telegram on the same
subject Ii Is thus