New-York tribune., 1878-11-22
MR.. S4ITONST4LL AGAIN.

Mr. LeVCrett SaltOnStaIi, OF DOston' HAS
! spoken again on the subject of the Florida
telegrams. We cannot say that he has IN
proyed his position. Six weeks ago he sald
in a newspaper interview: My belief is that
"tbere were daily kilograms exchanged between
"Secretary Sherman and Governor Noyes. who
"was at Tallahassee, and a constant stlfenlng
cup of the Florida Board by these dispatches
"until the Louisiana Board had acted.
Governor Noyes is not the saint that he affects
"to be and if all his dOings were exposed and
call the teegrams that he received and sent
"were translated and published, think a
chapter of infamy would be exposed
"to the people that would make
Sc this pretended TRIBUNE exposure, even
eff true, appear very trivial" Confronted
with Governor Noyes's positive declaration, In
these words: "NOt one single telegram, III
"cipher or otherwise, passed between me and
"Secrctary Sherman, or between me and any
"other person in Louisiana, during the whole
"time | was in Florida "a declaration
which squarely meets the whole charge
Mr.. Saltonstal, after waiting a week,
now has the efrOntery to accuse Gov
ernor NOyes of Especial pleading" and to
ask why he does not deny that he ever saw
or heard the contents of such dispatches"
and why he does not "procure the publca-
" ton of all dispatches in cipher to and
" from his friends in Florida while
"he was apparently in command there"
So, with no better backing than bis
private "belief," OF suspicion, Mr. Sal
tonstall persists in accusing high public
officer of disgraceful crimes. Compelled to
abandon one charge, he only half withdraws
it. and sets up another, covering his retreat
by writing an abusive letter, as the cuttle-iish
gets away from its pursuers by the help of an
election of ink.
Once more we demand that the Democrats
who clamor for the publication and transla-
ton of Republican cipher dispatches, which
they "beleven would disclose scheme OF
infamy, shall give some reason for their asser-
ton that such a correspondence ever existed
Their committee has hunted for 1t, has
ransacked the telegraph offices, has exam
ined the alleged Republican conspiratOrs, and
not q trace has it ever been able to find of a
COMPROMISING telegram. Yet Democrats like
Mr.. SatOnstall 90 on asserting all the same
that there are such dispatches, and asking
why somebody does not print them. Come,
gentlemen, give us your evidence. What
do you knOu about the case? Never mind
what you Think or "guess," or believe,
OF would like to know; either produce facts
OF confess that you have none. The Republi-
| can party challenges you to the proof. We do
not know of any Republican cipher dis
patches except the few trivial kilograms
of Mr.. William +. Chandler, already trans
lated and published. If you know Of
any, get them and print them. You have
q committee of the House of Representatives,
with full authority to investigate this point
set it to work. Have done with the cOwardly
and infamous method of attacking by infer
ence and condemnng by guess.
AS the Potter Committee shows no desire
to 90 on with this inquiry, a new com
mittee will Immediately be called for,
and when it takes up the scandal of the
Weed and Moses ciDhers, we shall insist that
it call for the alleged Republican ciphers also,
and ask Mr.. Saltonstall what information he
has about them. He began by accusing THE
TRIBUNE of forging the cipher dispatches.
That accusation he has apparently abandoned,
though he is not manly enough to retract 1t.
Now we give him fair notice that if he cannot
make good his charge against the Republican
visiting politicians III Florida, he shall be
made to eat his words on that matter too.