Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1879 — BUYING VOTES FOR TILDEN. [ARTICLE]

BUYING VOTES FOR TILDEN.

Below are given a few gems from the Democratic Cipher Telegrams oaptured and translated l>y Tub Tribune. IN FLORIDA. l ° 3 -' Talla., 2. Colonel Pklton, No. 15 Grammy Park, N. Y.: Certificate required to Moses decision have London hour for Bolivia of just and Edinburgh at Moselle hand a any over glasgow franoe rac'd. russia of (Use Key 7?) [93. Translation.] Taixa., Dec. 2. Colonel Pelton, 15 Gramercy Park: .. Have just received a proposition to hand over at auy hour required Tilden decision of Board and certificate of Governor for $200,000. Marble. tt:- •—zi; [96.1 £ „ Nf.w-York, Dec. 3. • Manton Marble, Tallahassee, Fla.: . . Warsaw here. Bolivia Brazil. (No sig.) [9O. Translation.) New-York, Deo. 3. Manton Marble, Tallahassee, Fla.: ' * . . - - Dispatch here. Proposition too high.(T) (No, Gramercy Park had reasons not known to Mr. Marble for considering his “ Bolivia decidedly “ Brazil.” For on the preceding day the following had come from Mr. Woolley: Tallahassee, Fla., Dec. Ist, ’76. Henry Havemkyeh, 15 West 17 th-st., N. Y.: Sixteen fetch may make thirteen, forty of half of a twelve eleven ten. Can you say two in nine immediately if twenty. „ * ox * [BS. Translation.] Tallahabseb, Dec. 1. H. Havemeyer, 15 West 17 thrst., N. Y.: Board fetch may make necessary expense of halt of a hundred thousand dollars. Can yon say will deposit in bank immediately if agreed! Whatever significance may be given to the word “fetch.” which Mr. Havemeyer failed on a former occasion to understand, there can be very little doubt as to the meaning of the proposal. And the reply of Gramercy Park was: [B7.] 2:25 p. m. New-York, 1 Dec. C. W. Woolley, Talla., Fla.: Twenty one nineteen two ten twenty cannot however seven before twenty four thirty seven nineteen reply forty six. . .. u[B7. Translation.] New-York, Dec. 1. C. W. Woolley, Tallahassee. F'la.: Telegram received. Will deposit dollars agreed; (you) cannot, however, draw before vote member received. Reply promptly. 1100.] - Talla., Fla., 3. Colonel Pelton, 15 Gramercy Park, N. Y.: Preventing Moses best Bolivia pr from Glasgow vote London documents uuitedEochester state half giving lone word dropped] concurrence electors his oast beuig court either of in received of action for Havana. INo sig-1 (Use Key No. 10.) • 1100. Translation.] Tallahassee, Dec. 4. < Colonel W. T. Pklton, No. 15 Gramercy Park: Proposition received either giving vote of lone ?] Republican of Board, or his concurrence m Court action preventing elector’s vote from being cast*' for hail hundred best United States documents. (For $50,000 in U. 8. notes.) Marble. - - [lO5 J Talla., Fla., 4. Henry Havemeyer, 15 West 17ih-sl., N. ¥.: Half twelve mav less thirty eleven winning ten additional seven for give lieutenant aixteeu Russia. Fox. [Translation.] Tallahasse, Dee. 4. Henry Havemeyer, 15 West 17ih-sl., N, Y. May Winning [i. e., Woolley] give hundred thousand dollars less half for Tilden additional Board member? Lieutenant. Woolley. There is uot much room to doubt what either of these propositions means. “ Hundred thousand dollnrs less half,” means exactly the same as “ ball hundred best United States documents.” New-York, Dcc v 4, ’6. Manton Marble : . Lima should important in once be concert council and better if trust you thero very no Warsaw can Fox done time him divided act only Bolivia with and consult here. [Nosig.] (Use Key No. 9.) [lO9 Translation.] • i - * Dec. 4. Manton Marble, Tallahassee, Fla. Telegram here. Proposition accepted if done only once. Better consult with Woolley and act in concert. You can trust him. Time very important and there should be no divided counsels. [No sig.] Here, then, was the authority so anxiously awaited. Here was t]io authority implied, but not received in the dispatch to Woolley. “ If done only once,” because Woolley and Marble had sent the same proposition, and Gramercy Park did not want to pay twice for the same vote / Sent, hours ago, in that unintelligible dispatch which Marble had tortured all his keys in trying to read, because four words had dopped out of it in transmission, viz.: then very no Warsaw ]telegram”]. Here was the order to buy one Presidency of these United States for “ half hundred best United States documents.” And the desired vote ? The conspirators rushed out— and it was too late. The following dispatches tell the !tW ‘ [loo.] Talla., Flam 4. Henry Havemeyer. No. 15 West llth-sh, N. ¥.: Saturday William if power joined forty further twenty have Charles necessary bo Jane you late ton sixteen will with aud six twenty 100 to agaiust Secured five from advise appoar. Fox. (Use Key No. 10.) - , , , [ lOC. 1 ranslation. 1 Dec. 4. H. Havemeyer. New-York : Power seemed too late. Twenty-flvo ten appear to have joined with board against contract from Saturday. Will be prompt and ail vise you further if necessary. Jane Charles William. Woolley. [lll.| j Talla., Dec. 5,’76. Colonel Pklton, 15 Gramercy Park, N. Y.h Proposition failed. Finished yesterday afternoon responsibility (as) “Moses.” Last night Woolley found me aud said be had nothing, which I knew already. Tell Tilden to saddle Blackstone. Marble. One secret yet remains: Had the conspirators reason for their hope ? They can tell, if anybody w*!l now believe them. Mr. Woolley’s dispatch, nearly unintelligible, seems to imply a belief on their part that Attorney-General Cooke, wtio voted with the Republican members of the Board, to throw out Dctiiocratie fraudulent returns from Key West, has been influenced by “ dollars.” The on© thing certain is that the “ dollars ” were ready to make Samuel J. Tilden President, but the vote wus not. Perhaps they came too late. But if, in the secret purpose of any trusted and sworn member of that Board of three, upon whose uctiou depended the • fate of forty millions of people, there lurked a thought of troaohery and crime, the God of Nations saved this laud from ruin and dishonor, lor His lightnings refused, until it was too late, to bear intelligibly the shameful order to consummate the

crime, and held their secret until the danger had passed. He who gave to llapoor black in the dim FiVerglades of Florida the power to defend his rights by his vote; Ho who suffered Democratic fiends to hunt down black Republicans in Georgia and South Carolina until the very name of Democrat had become a terror to the colored men of adjoining States; He who inspired the newly oniranchised citizen to stand like a rock for justice, for equal rights and the honor of the Natiou, when proud white oitizens .by the thousands wavered, voted blindly, or sold themselves; He also turned to foolishness all the schemes of Gramercy Park, and all the money of Wall-st. The secret cipher rnoant nothing when four words were gone. It came at last in full; the buyer stood ready and the money was thore, but the vote was not delivered, and the Natiou escaped disgrace.