The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30

SAlVef) bl0S0 OEOGES COuSAcVS 0OSAACS
secret inside information on any SUBJ
iect be writes to the Bureau of Secret
Service. but directsit to me personally.
1See nv letters of 18th for address /
forward it if necessary and receive
their reply which I transmit 70 him. 1t
any such member desires to transmit
any information to the Bureau 1t is
kept secret as so who gives the intor-
nation ard used If possible (after Verl-
fication if necessary by the Bureaus
established secret agents. Nothing Is
sought to be known about any other
not desired by that order to be known
to us-but we will send to them timely
information to their advantage for the
common good, free of expense to them.
The advice of the different members
of the Committee of Public Safety is
asked as to men and measures, but the
executive power is lodged in these three
men. Their action however does not
govern or bind the Committee of Pub
lie Safety or any representative OF any
order as to what their own order will
do. That matter each determine for
their own order; and of this determi-
nation we enquire through you, as
their representative, I have personally
no power and no voice, / am merely
as a messenger, a medium, a servant.
But these men believe / have peculiar,
fitness for the position and can be
trusted. / am permitted to relate to
you n or two of the many past in
stances which have made up the secret
political history in order to make clear
to you wherein we might be Of great
assistance to your order in the future,
perhaps. The Chicago convention
which nominated Cleveland on the
first ballot did so only because of a
discovery by our Secret Service Bureau
of which through me went a dispatch
to Don. M. Dickinson which caused
bim to the ad journment OF that
convention from 2 D. m. till 5 p. m.
During that three hours of adjourn
ment CHE day of the night that Cleve-
land was nominated) my dispatch was
shown by Dickinson to a certain man
who from it believed GbGt some n
had betrayed him This belief caused
him to give the Catholics the double
cross (aftPr taking their money!. The
outcome was that Indiana went for
Cleveland on the first ballot (instead of
for Gray as the Catholics had fixed it):
and when a different man from what
they had figured on, got up and seconded
Cleveland's nomination for Indiana
NL4SGOdN VI OLdJJ GAOh OhO O0OAOAAS
Leaders knew "a secret force ara
playing agtanst them;'" then followed
Burke Cochran's ''despairing Speech"
and our (play broke the solid front Of
Illinois Indiana, and Ohio, in which
enough votes were to be kept away
from him on the first ballot to prevent
Cleveland being nominated on the first
ballot. If he could not be nominated
on the first ballot he uev could have
been nominated.
And this first ballot b~usineee) was
also the case with Harrison at Mime
apolis. The dispatch went through
my hands to John @. New, which
turned the tide away from Mckinley
who was there in a very peculiar posi-
ton as friend Of Harrison and presid
ing oficer) But that's another story:
Awaiting your further pleasure /
remain,
Yours truly,
FREDERICK L HORTON,
For the Allied Orders.
P. s. / enclose this message just at
hand from Gov. Waite which may in
terest you: You can retain it as he
sent several.