The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-10-29


Last Friday w. H. Bsrnum, chairman
of the National Democratic committee
published the following dispatches, which
had by mistake got into Democratic
package, returned TO Mr.. Barnum Al
vouchers for his mounting account will
the Western Union Telegraph Co.;
October 70. 1880.
TOW. WICKER. Collector, Key West. Fla; +; L
"City of Dallas took 100. CITY OF Texas lgO
Colorado 100 for Key West. Men on dock In
structed to say nothing about y. ,
NEW York, october IS. 1880.
II. W. WICKER, Collector, Key Nest Mallory,
some railroad. II looks TO us IN though the!
"''' MARSHALL JEWELL,
The figures $50, 100, 100 in the first
dispatch Mr.. Barnum explained referred
to men whom the Republicans had sent
as repeaters to Florida to turn the scale
in election. This he paraded as an infa
nous scheme, as 1t probably was, to Sc
cure the electoral vote of Florida by
fraud.
Saturday, Marshall Jewell, chairman Of
the Republican national committee, came
out with an explanation" He admitted
that the figures in the first dispatch
referred to reporters, but said they were
Democratic repeaters who he learned on
Oct. Slh were to be sent, and that his dis
match was to warn Wicker to look out for
them. He quoted memorandum which
he said he had received from one
Fraicher in the custom house, warning
him of this awful Democratic scheme,
and previous dispatch which he had
sent to Wicker. The letter and dispatch
both appear on the copy hook in his
head quarters, arranged with others OF
the same duties, but the dispatch itself,
which should appear among his vouch-
ers with the telegraph company. he was
unable to procure when called upon
though "relay" Of it appears in the
telegraph Office.
The explanation was too preposterous
to receive a moments credence. The
Democratic committee is too short OF
money to send "repeaters' all the way
from New York to Florida. Besides it
needs every one of them right there at
home if it will carry New York. If it
was INSCRIPTIONS enough to employ
repeaters, it would take them from Geor'
gia where they could be easily spared,
and transported at a 1.-THE of what it would
cost from New York, and without exciting
suspicion. The fact almost indisputably
was that Marshall Jewell got caught in u
dishonorable trick of politics, and under
took to shake the odium upon the DEM
ocrats. He relied upon the gullibility of
an inflamed people to believe that Bar
mum would publish such dispatches if
thew referred to his own misdeeds.
X The case is clnched by the sworn affi-
dayit of Mr.. A. D. McCabe, who was
passenger with one installment OF these
He testifies that there were
about 100 aboard whom the captain of
the vessel represented to be on their way
10 work on the Waycross and East Flor
ida railroad. between Fernandino and
Jacksonville. No work had then been
done or survey completed on the jack
,onyille end, but work was being done
1t Fernandino, by which they passed.
wcCabe testified that he saw these men
about the headquarters OF the
State committee, that thej
old him they were not going to work on
ny railroad, and that though they were
Mostly Irish or English men, he has no
loubt that they were sent there. in. the
,ay Of the Republicans.