Daily Republican., 1889-01-16


members of the Legislature and SO cup
ture the senatorship caused no end Of
} talk and the practical confirmation Of its
truth by Senator Quay and Frank Will
Ing Leach, secretary Of the Pennsylvanis
State Committee and assistant secretary
OF the National Committee, sent o cold
shiver down the backs Of many Demo
crats who were not on the inside of the
scheme Secretary Leach was In town
to-day 1t Is his third visit during the
past lew days when he has been working
10 checkmate the game and he gave the
Press correspondent an account of what
had been done since Tuesday of last week
when Senator Quay first received an In
timation that preparations wera being
made to corrupt two members, but thaf
those In the enterprise were afraid TO
make the offer themselves and were hunt
Ing Tor some one outside OF the State TO
handle tie money 80 they should not be
kpown. Senator Quay had beaId that
ov rtures had teen made to come one In
Philad' lphiS, aud suggested that Mr..
Leach inves tisate II.
II went to Phyladelphia on Wednes
day" said Mr.. Leach, "and remain
until Thursday, iolloSi, q up some clues.
On Thursday heard s)mething that took
me TO Wilmington t1at night. j reg's-
tered at the Clayton Hou.e as A. B. VII
liugton and looked over the ground until
+ idsy morning. A Philadelphia man
was IN town stopping at the same hotel,
and soma Wilmington people had q CON
ference fixed with HIM for 2 O'Clock that
afternoon,
THE CoNsPIRAToRs.
At 1.30 Mr.. Leach was 10 an adjoining
room. At q o'clock two men knocked at
the door of the other room aud entered.
These men, he says, were j. Alfred CO.
lies connected with Wilmington paper,
aud G. II. Nc Who ter, register in chan
cery. A man was already In the room,
ard Collins Introduced him to Mr.. Nc
Whorter as Mr.. Jones. In fw min
utes the man whom Mr.. Leach prefers
should bs known a. "Jones" for the
present said that as this was business
tr nsaction they had better yet down to
business. The Others assented, end Jones
asked what it was they wanted done.
Tney explained to him that the Legtsla-
tuTc ood l6 to IL, ard that they wanted
to get two Republican votes to elect a
! Democrat to tho United States Senat }.
Jones said he supposed that could only
be done with cash. The others said that
was the situation. JONES asked how
mu.h they had to invest, and Mr.. Nc.
, Whortar went into details.
eve started out" said he, "wlth $l0,-
0CO, but made up our minds several dsyi
ago that this wou not be sufficient, as
, the Republicans who voted for Demo.
, crat would have TO le4ve tho State nevel
to return, and they would have TO get
enough TO keep them for some years. II
was teen explained that they had beer
endeAvOring to raise $50, 1000, tut would
r not be able 70 reach these figures. Mr.
New horter had recently talked with q
man whose name MIR. LeIch failed t6
, catch who informed him that he had
$4,000 at his disposal, which had beer
, contributed by certain people In Philadel
phla.
THE PLOT UHEoLpED.
"'oues" interrupted hin ard asked 4
it had been contributed by Federal ofllc'
h. liers. The reply was that thai wa
the supposition, and Mr.. MeWhorte
added hat the Administration ought +,
} put up a. least 81, ,G0D. Continuiog, h,
said luat 10 The man who had 1850 HI
had sad, eve /, have $40, 900 raised ii
, this State;" then he added; 1--WE ar,
goiug 10 have some trouble in agreeing
ON cand date and am not sure that
the Bis, 900 Mr.. - has (Mr. Leach thl,
tlult CGuhli bS afalld
be for any other candidate than Mr.,
, but presume 1t would be-" The cAndi-
date mentioned was q prominent Demo.
cratic politician. ''If 1t Is not" con.
tiuucd Mr.. McWhorter, 81 have reason
to believe that Mr.. - (nam ng another
prominent Delaware Democracy will put
ia between $40, GOO and s &, 010 particular.
ly II his brother shonld be chosen as the
cand dats."
1t was added that there would be q
conference probably next day to see If all
factions could not agree on a candidate.
Jones" asked what he was TO get, and
was told 20 per cent. of the f25, 0J0, or OF
such o hsr sum, larger or smaller, as he
handled. The Philadelphia man then
suRgesud that II the negotiations were
carried further 1t would be necessary to
put up the money in bis hands. "Yes,
that's business was the answer.
"Jones" asked who the men were they
wanted work. d on, and he was given the
names of two prominent members of the
Legislature. lie was told that they
wanted these two men to vote for a
Democrat Failing In this they wanted
one Republican TO vote for q Democrat
aud one 10 leave the State before the vote
was taken which would make the vote
stand 10 to II. Failing even In this, two
Republicans were to be induced to leave
the State, which would make the LeRis-
lature tie and would throw the appoint
ment of Senator into the hands OF the
governor.
"The Philadelphia" went on Mr..
Leach, ''said was absolutely necessary
to consult with a very small number of
people. Mr.. McWhorter agreed with
him and said so, for he had only talked
with Mr.. (naming the man who
had the $1,000, and In addition he had
only contided to two parties, whose
names were mentioned. One was the
man who was likely TO contribute
$40 900 or Sl5, 600, aad the other was
prominent Delaware an who has frequent
ly been an aspirant for the governor
ship. He would have consulted with
another prominent Democrat only he
was out of the State.
THE IDENTITY OF THE MEN.
The trio separated, the two W lining
tonians saying they were going to Dover
and promising to meet Jones" In Phia-
delphia at II o'clock Sunday morbinr.
AS to the identity of the men Mr.. Leach
says he saw Collins in the room, and tn At
The other man acknowledged to the name
of G. II. McWhor,er when he was Intro
/ ddced. Notifying Wilmington Republi-
cans of what was on foot and putting
| them on the watch, Mr.. Leach went to
Dover on the $50 train. Collins and
McWhorter arrived at O'Clock aud took
supper at the Capitol Ho ell without re-
| gistering and went to the office OF
promiL ent lawyer. They met two other
prominent Democratic lawyers and re-
Il ~ n