He wrote a letter to a Mr. Taylor, sharing that he had "an opportunity of getting six or seven Democratic voters cast a vote for you, providing you assist in the matter." If his intentions aren't clear, the last sentence from his letter is more straightforward, "Let me hear from you anyhow, whether you present me a few dollars or not."
I omitted the rest of the article, but it includes an affirmative responding letter, and then a later defensive letter to the newspaper - it was all a misunderstanding, etc.
If you're interested in reading it in its entirety, here's the link:
The Facts in the Smiley Buchanan Case
Smiley Buchanan was a schoolteacher who lived from 1856 to 1900.
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