Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-27
FLORIDA REPEATEES.
A Sequel to tho g Rush +" IeleSraMs.-The
story of q Man who Accompanied
Gang of Mon TO FIOrIda-PassiDS OIL
as Railroad WCrkmen, but Loaf
Ing About the Republican


story Of a Man who Accompanied a
Gang OF Mon 70 Fiorids-PasstDs off
ing About the Republican
Headquarters.
MI. A. D. McCabe, of Monmouth county
\. j., was fellow passenger with one in
stalment Of Chairman JEWELS repeaters
forwarded from this city to Florida. An
affidavit from him is to be printed in the
Sun. The weight of Mr.. McCate's testi-
mony is signally emphasized by the fact
that he could have had no intimation Of
the scheme contemplated by the Republi-
can managers, since he left Jacksonville
on his return to New York Oh October Ii,
or nearly a week before Mr.. JEWELS tele-
grams were published. He said quite
enough, however, to arouse his own sus-
picions, and the facts recited by him ac-
quire sinister meaning in the light of tie
dispatches. The affidavit is as follows:
AsBURY PARK, Monmouth Co., n. ].
Allen d. McCabe, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says that he is resident Of
Ocean Grove, Monmouth county, n. J. !;
that on October 1, 1880, he left New York
on the steamer Western Texas for Florida );
that there were ON board the same vessel,
in the steerage, about 4 hundred rough
looking fellows, who, according to the
statement made by the captain of the ves-
sci to this deponent, were railway laborers
hired to work on the Way Cross and East
Florida railroad. Deponent says that the
said railroad is line projected between
Fernandina and jacksonville that some
work has been done on the Fcrnandina
end, but that no work is now being done
or is apparently in contemplation ON the
Jacksonville end. Deponent further says
that on the arrival of the Western Texas
at Fernandina on the evening of Tuesday,
| October 5, the alleged laGorers We're land
ed at Fernandina, but that on Saturday
| October Q, deponent saw number of the
men in Jacksonville, and that on Monday,
October. II, he saw and recognized in the
streets of Jacksonville nearly the whole
body of the alleged workmen who had
come down on the steamer that deponent,
knowing no work had been begun Oh the
Jacksonville end of the WaynesbUrg road,
interrogated several of tie men rs 10 theil
business in that place, saying 81 thought
you fellows had come down to work on
| the Railroad" to which the answer was
"We amt going to work on no railroad :;
that to further inquiries they refused to
make any reply and walked away, and de
ponent further says that from October to
16, ut which latter date he lett Jackson
vile for New York, he saw great numbers
of the alleged laborers going up to the
Republican headquarters on Bay street
I that he asked the reason of their visits to
said headquarters. but received no answer,
and deponent further says that Horatio
jenkins, .ir., is the chairman Oftho RcpuE'
lican state executive committee of Florida,
A. J. MCCAEE.
Subscribed and sworn to this 2Gth day 0i
October, 4. D. 1880, before me.
DAVID HARVEY. ir..
Notary Public.
AsBUEl PARK, y. J.
Following the above is Mr.. Ii.
w. Hazlcton's affidavit that Mr..
McCabe is resident OF Asbury
Park, in good social and business
standing. and that he returned from
Florida at the end of last week. The Mr.
Jenkins referred to in the affidavit is tils
person to whose care one of Chairman
JEWELS dispatches was sent.