The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-10-30
Afsemps.a Frauds Iaxpe.ed.
[speci.l . Inc n. o. pemocrat.l

| New York, Oct. 2l.-The great sen
sation of to-day is the discovery and
publication of two dispatches sent by
Marshall Jewell to Florida, in which he
announces that he has sent $50 repeat
ers to Florida. The following is the
official address of the national demo
cratic committee upon this audacious
attempt at debauching the ballot-boz
in Florida:
'sTo the Public:
"Whcn this campaign opened the
national democratic committee con-
tracted with the American Union and
the Western Union Telegraph Com
panies for special rates for their BUSH
ness, and arranged with said companies
that all kilograms sent or received by
the committee should be returned at
the end of each week to the cashier of
the committee as vouchers for the bills
rendered. kilograms SO sent or re-
eeived by our committee have been re-
turned under this arrangement weekly,
and paid for according to the contract.
''On "Wednesday, October 20, the
Western Union Telegraph Company
returned to the committee vouchers as
usual for the second week in October.
Upon their being examined by our
cashier to verify the amount the fol
lowing kilograms were found in the
package so sent MS as vouchers, evil
IDENTIFY being a mistake on the part of
the official having the same in charge
at the Office of the Western Union
Telegraph Company. The kilograms
are written upon the Western Union
blanks ard are as follows:
'Rush-To Hon. Charles j. Noyes,
care II. jenkins, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla;
| tclegraphed yesterday. 4 will pro-
vide, as requested, two hundred each
for Callander and yourself as compen-
sation. MARSHALL JEWELL.
"'17. Paid
'Rush-To F. n. Wickc, Collector,
Key West, Fla: The City of Dallas
took l5O the City of Texas 100 and
the Colorado 100 for Key West. Men
on dock, and are instructed to say moth
ing about it. MARSHALL JEWELL. /
'26. Paid
ssThe numerals $50, loo and loo in
this last telegram mean SO many men.
These kilograms, or rather the one adj
dressed to L. w. Wicker. United States
collector at the port of Key West, Fla,
tells its own story. The sun had not |
gone down in the State of Indiana,
where one of the greatest frauds ever
perpetrated on free government and
a free ballot were about to be consum-
mated, when the chairman of the ma
tional republican committee and an
official of the United States govern
ment were preparing to repeat in the |
State of Florida the infamy then about |
to be coDsummated in the State of In
diana. The committee were advised |
previous 10 the receipt of these tele-
grams that the State of Florida was
about to be overrun by the repeaters
of our large cities. The kilograms of
Mr.. Jewell only confirm what the com
mittee well knew to be the fact.
''Thc above kilograms are in the pos !
session of the committee. They ale
written in copying ink, have been copied |
in letter-press book and bear the tele-
graph receivers checks and marks, aud |
this committee fcfies any one TO assert
that they are not genuine. The tele-
grams are now being Autographed, and
will be given to the public in day or
two. VIM. ii. BARNuM,
chairman National Dem. Com"