The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-10-28
THE TELL.TALE TELEGRAMS.
A Republican Plot to Capture tho Vote of
Florida.

Chairman VIM. Fl. Barnum, of the
Thursday evening the following address !:
$40 the Public When this campaign
opened the National Democratic Commit
tee contracted with the American Union
and the Western Union Telegraph Com
panies for special rates for their business,
and arranged with said companies, that
telegrams sent or received by the COM
mittee should be returned at the end of
each week to tho cashier of the committee
as vouchers for the bills rendered. Tele-
grams so sent or received by our COM
mittee have been returned under this
arrangement weekly and paid for accord
ing to the contract. On Wednesday
morning, October 20, the Western Union
Telegraph Company returned to the
committee vouchers as usual for the sec
ond week in October: Upon their being
examined by our cashier to verify the
amount the following kilograms were
found in the package so sent us as vouch-
ers, evidently being q mistake on the part
Of the official having the same in charge
at the Office of the Western Union Tele.
graph Company. The kilograms are
as follows:
CRUSH!
"
care H. Jenkins, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla. !:
I telegraphed yesterday. I will provide
as requested. Two hundred each for
Calender and yourself rs compensation.
"'17 pd. MARSHALL JEWEL
"'RUsH.
"'Oct, IL, 1880. To F. w. Wicker. Col
lector, Key West, Fla. City OF Dallas
took $50, City Of Texas 100, Colorado 100
for Key West. Men on deck instructed
to say nothing about it.
1926 pd. MARSHALL JEWEL
"The numerals $780, 100 and 100 in
this last telegram means SO many men.
''These kilograms, or rather the one adj
dressed to F. w. Wicker, United States
Collector at the port of Key West, Fla,
tell thoir own story. Tho sun had not
gone down in the State of Indiana, where
one of the greatest frauds ever perpe-
trated on a free government and free
ballot were about to be consummated,
when the Chairman of the National Re-
publican Committee and an official Of tho
United States Government were prepar-
ing to repeat in the State OF Florida the
infamy then about to be consummated in
the State of Indiana. The committee
were advised previous to tho receipt of
these kilograms that the Stato Of Florida
was about to be ovcrrun by tho repeaters
of our large cities. Tho kilograms of MIR.
Jewell only confirm what tho committee
we'll knew to be the fact.
'The above kilograms are in the pos
session of the committee; they are wit
ten in copying ink, have been copied in
letter-press book, and bear the telegraph
| receivers checks and marks, and this
| committee defies any one to assert that
they are not genuine. The kilograms arc
now being Autographed, and will he
| given to the public IN day CT two.
"WM Fl. BARNuM,
chairman Nat. Dom. Com.
"New York, October 81, $780,"
AS soon as it was understood ut Repub-
lican headquarters that the Democrats
were in possession Of these kilograms,
they made lame attempt to explain
them by alleging that the men were real
ly sent to head off Democratic ropeaters,
but the kilograms speak for themselves.
A correspondence then took place DO
tween DR.. Norven Green, President oil
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
and Mr.. Barnum, Chairman Of the DEM
ocratic National Committee. DR.. Green
requested tho immediate return of the
kilograms, US thoy were private, and had
been forwarded to the Democratic Ma
tional Committee by mistake, and pro-
tested against their publication or any
copy of them boing retained by the Com
mittec Mr.. Barnum, in reply, acknowl-
edges the right Of the Company to the
originals and returned them, but denied
| that they were personal and private, and