The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-11-01
THE GREAT FRAUD.
rllden,s SECRET reIerrams.

TiIden's Secret kilograms.
The New York Tribune has made the
great newspaper strike of the year in
1 obtaining copies of the secret or cipher
kilograms which passed between Tilden's
headquarters in New York and the vari-
Gus agencies of the Democratic party in
Oregon, Louisiana, Florida and South
Carolina, during the canvassing for
votes for electors in those states. There
are vast number of dispatches and in n
half dozen different ciphers. The Trib-
une, by process of analysis and Undue
tion, which leaves no doubt of the re-
suit, has discovered the keys of these va
rious ciphers, and is giving the public
the kilograms and their translations. If
forty bomb shells had exploded under
their headquarters in New York City,
the Democratic managers would not have
been more COMPOUNDED. The dispatches
show beyond a doubt that Tilden tried to
purchase the electors in Florida. 1t is
safe to say that we shall hear no more of
the fraud" issue after this, nor will Mr.
Iilden be the Democratic nominee for
President again.
These documents make what Horace
Greeley used to call mighty interesting
reading" The exposure is complete,
minute and crushing. First, the dis
patch Is given as sent or received: sec
ond, the translation; the discovery of the
key; and finally, the key itself We re-
gret that we have not the room to pub
lish the matter entire; but it is so elab-
crate and so carefully detailed that we
shall have to be content with copying
only the main points, and such "a bear
directly and plainly upon the Job I'M
dertaken by these elegant apostles of re-
form, those highminded and honorable
fraud shriekers
The kilograms so far printed relate
chiefly TO Florida The messages sent
from the state were signed by Manton
Marble, formerly editor of the New York
World, by John +. Coyle, and by Charles
w. Wooley-the latter being the same
man who figured so prominently in the
efforts to corrupt senators at the time of
the johnson impeachment The mess
ages were mainly directed to and answer
ed by Henry Havemeyer, a neighbor and
intimate personal and political friend of
Tilden's. The following explanation of
the key" and how it was discovered,
will enable the reader to verify for him
self the translations appended to the dis
patches which we quote:
The single system upon which far the
greater number of the Tribune ciphers
were constructed may be technically
complicated with substitution cipher
This is at once method the most prac-
teal, easiest used, and yet one of the
hardest TO decipher. The parties TO the
secret agree, first, upon schedule of
blind words, which are to be substituted
in all dispatches for such words as they
expect to use frequently, and which
might be of a tell-tale character Then
they agree, further, upon system of
al. I r.
being written in their regular order they
are arranged in what looks like the wild
est confusion, but which is really based
upon regular understood order Here
is sample of one of the shorter dis
patches:
COLUMBIA, Nov. IA, 1876.
Henry Havemyer, New York:
Warsaw they read all unchanged last
are idiots can't situation. w.
Now the receiver of the dispatch
knows tha6 the transportation key is as
follows: 8, 3, 9, /, 10, 3, 9, Z, 4, 3. He
first numbers the words of the above dis
patch, therefore, in regular order,-that
rs to say: /, 2, 3, 4, etc. Then, follow
ing his key, he puts the ninth word first,
the third word second, the sixth word
third, the first word fourth, and so on to
the end, getting the following result:
Cant read last Warsaw. Situation
unchanged. They are all idiots"
He sees clearly that Warsaw is a blind
word, and referring to his prepared
schedule finds il to mean Telegram"
- which makes the solution complete. We
may add that these dispatches were al
= ways made to run in mdltfpIes- of five
that is to say, they either contained ex-
actly ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five or
thirty words, or some multiple thereof;
and when what they wanted to send did
not amount to an exact multiple of five,
they filled it out with understood dumb
words, being mainly proper names, such
as ANNA, +" Thomas" etc. The object
of thus using multiples of five was that
they might have different transposition
Key Tor each multiple up to thirty.
Is From the bulk of F1erida dispatches
covering a period of several days, dur
ing the progress of the count in ITALIA
hassee, we pick out these, as going to
show the general drift and result of the
correspondence:
TAI
TALLAHASSEE, FLA, Dec. /, 'I6.
Henry Havemyer, 10 West Seventeenth
street, New York:
Sixteen. fetch make may thirteen forty
of half of twelve eleven ten can you say
two in nine Immediately if twentys
TRANSLATION. -
TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 1, 1876.
Henry HayemYer, Is West Sixteenth
street, New York; fU
Board fetch may make necessary eX-
pense of half hundred thousand dol
lars. Can you say will deposit in bank
Immediately if agreed:
New YORK. Dec. @. :.
G. w. Wooley, Tallahassee, Florida:
IANr~far AZ
can not however seven before twenty
four thirty seven nineteen reply forty
six. ri
l.ts+. lTRANsIATIoN.l
E.- New York. Dec. 1. +
c. w. Wooley, Tallahassee, FLORIDA:
Telegram received. Will deposit dol
lars agreed; gou) cannot, however,
draw before vote member received
[Bl
80. ITALIA 2.
Col. Pelton, 10 Gramercy Park, N. Y:
Certificate required to Moses decision
have London hour for Bolivia of Just and
Edinburg at Mosselle had any over Glas-
gov France received Russia of.
(rRANsLAr1oS. 80
ITALIA, Dec. 9.
Col. Pelton, 10 Grammercy Park. N. ".
Have just received proposition 10
hand over at any hour required TiIden
decision of Board and certificate of Gov.
ernor for $200,OO0 MARH1'r
ITALIA, FLA, 8.
Col. PeltOn, IS Grameroy Park, N. ":
Preventing Moses best Bolivia or from
Glasgow vote London documents United
Rochester States half giving concurrence