The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-04

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mediately to Oregon in order to Capture"
one or all OF those States for the Demo-
cratic candidate. They all resorted to
bribery, communicating to Mr.. Ti!dens
nephew, the late Colonel W. L. FELTON,, the
particulars Of the bargains they concluded,
and receiving from him u distinct and
formal approval. Colonel Pelton is no
longer alive, but nearly all the other actors
are.
ACTORS IN FLORIDA AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
First-In Florida the secret SCENTS were
Manton Marble, @. W. Wolley and John F.
Coyle. Marble transmitted to Gramercy
Park first a proposition for the purchase Of
the Florida Returning Board at the price OF
100000.
That was rejected as extravagant, and
the figure was reduced to s5O,0oO, at which
price Colonel Pelton signided his willing
ness to close the transaction.
Second-In South Carolina the purchas.
ing agent was Smith NJ. Weed He tele-
phoned to Colonel PeIton, on the very day
OF his arrival at Columbia, a proposal TO
buy the Canvassing Board TOR $4,000, to
which Pelton appears to have readily as
sented. This figure was loo low, and the
negotiations, after lasting six days, were
closed at the price Of $4,000. It was ar.
ragged that Weed should meet q messen-
ger at Baltimore, who was TO carry the
money in three packages, and he particu.
larry requested that Colonel Pelton should
act as this messenger himself. Weed ac-
cordingly arrived in Baltimore, from Col
umbia, on the Goth OF November, and Pei.
ton arrived there at the same time, from
New York, but little delay upset the
scheme.
Subsequently plot was formed 10 buy
four members OF the South Carolina Legis
lature for S20,0 900, and having thus obtained
control OF the State Government, to put
tho Hayes Electors in Jail, and lock them
up in separate cells until the day Tor cast.
ing the electoral vote had passed. The
result OF this villainy would have been to
deprive South Carolina OF any vote, and to
throw the choice OF a President into the
House OF Representatives, which would
have elected Tildep. The plan Jailed be.
cause the four membeR could not be
bought.
THE OREGON DECKER.
Third-In Oregon the Democratic Gov.
ernor withhelda certificate from one Of the
Hayes electors on the ground Of inelligi-
bility, and instead Of allowing the other
electors to I'll the vacancy gave the certifi.
cate to Tilden eleotor named Cronin,
who had clearly beep defeated. Thesecret
agent in Oregon was one j. n. q. Patrick.
He telegraphed to Colonel Pelton that it
was necessary TO purchase Republican
elector to recognize and act With "Cronin,"
aud the price was 5000. This proposal
likewise was accepted, and the money.was
sent to Oregon, where 1t arrived on the 9th
OF December.
From the great number Of dispatches
which were translated, it will only beipec-
essary to select sufficient to give the story
in connected shape. Two systems Of ci-
pheI W reused. One was the dictionary
cipl. r Webs!er's pocket dictionary oi the
Euplsh language, where word on any
page WAS supplied by the word OF the cor
responding line certain number OF pages
OIL. The number Of pages varied from one
10 five, 80 that dispatch 10 onB person
could not be deciphed by another who did
not hold the same key. In the examples
given the list can easily be supplied. The
other was the trsnsposition cipher, which
consistsin writing the dispatch on', num-
beripg the words, and rewriting them in
an order previously agreed upon"
Truth prints an elaborate table OF the
keys, and tben goes on TO say:
.ot,1yS AVN TpICrRpv
On Wednesday afternoon, November s,
1876, 1t became known 10 capable readers
OF both parties that the Pr sidentia election
would probably turn on the vote oi Florida.
In South Carolina Mr.. Tllden bad fallen
far behind the Democratic State ticket. In
Louisiana 1t had been notorious for weeks
that the Democrats, by systematic beatlngs
and murders 10 counties formerly Republic
can, had rendered It possible for the Re-
turning Board, in accordance with the pe-
culiar law OF that ate. To throw out re.
tnrns giving large Democratic majorltits.
Rut the folr elec oral votea of far II Florida
would sutiica 10 secure the election OF Mr.
Tilden. IL. as telegrAms from the Democratic
Committees in y orida declare, the maj )rtty
ii The nopnIRr vote in that Slate had been
for Democratic electors.
Florida had been bulli9d and bribed,
"bulldozed" aud terror!zsd, through lsng
and fl rGe campaign, until even the most
hopeiul Republicans had almost ostconh.
dence that their scattered friends in that
State. mainly Golored citizens, could stand
nm against The asSsult. On the day oil elec.
tion Republican judgea and clerks were
driven from the polls by force, tbs ballot
hoxes were stuffed with fraudulent. Demo,
0sat;c votes, and In at least one precinct
we're alter Eard seized and burned, 10 make
mre the fraud should not be disclosed.
Jackson county, which had 100 white and
| ,l6O colored Citizsns, and had given neAIly
100 Republican maj0rity in 1858 nearly
400 IN 1874 was tnps msds 10 return
Democratic maj nrity OF lCB
Proofs Of thcso and many oshAr iFtqds
were produced before the ,Gauyassipg
Board, and Afterwards befgrt . lngte'ston'
Al committee; and yet he stSA ngt Repab;:
licans OF that State lad ~ gell Fessstsd
bribery, fraud and force, that when the rer
tuFna b(gln 10 come In, the Democratic
managers found that they had been beat
an. 4. once iheystt about To seal the
State by fraudulent Ie,arns, and with the
skill ot the pr4Clirrd psGkpossvt, began to
CRY out In public dispatches that the Radt:
Gals intended fraud. Appeals were sent
Or money aud material aid, ptoiassedly TO
r. s'st THESE Lhtanled frauds, but really to-
secure fraudulent FetEEns for Samuel J.
TDden.
CIPHER LITERATURE.
Tie following arc some OF the d 'spatches
referred 10 aboVei