The daily gazette., 1878-10-28
What Ex-Governor He udricks.
Organ Says Of the Cipher De-
spafch hes,

indianapolis Sentinel, Oct. 20.
THE CARD OF THE PRESIDENT DE JIrRR
The effort that has been made to con.
meet Samuel j. Tilden, president Of the
United States de jure, with a scheme to
purchase the electoral vote of Florida
and South Carolina, has, as was expect
ed by all men sufficiently free from par
tisan prejudice and malice to give an
honest verdict, completely failed. Mr..
Tilden's denial is full and explicit. IL
meets every form OF the malignant
charge, and inefiacably stamps the lie
upon IL. The New York Ereaino Post
a leading Republican journal, in referring
to the subject, says
ut was difficult for any one acquainted
with Mr.. Tilden personally, or who had
observed his public life, to suppose that
he had been at all concerned in these ne
iarious intrigues. His reputation for sa-
gaclty, to say nothing of his integrity. to
which many of our best citizens bore
willing witness, rendered it extremely
improbable that he should engage in an
enterprise which was at once SO wicked
and SO bunglingly conducted. If the
electors of Florida or South Carolina
TNAN pa ehaNocdoits ds IL WAS tOlD1nOnlX
believed they Were, a man of the slight
est prudence would not have trusted the
negotiations with them to the uncertain
and hazardous method of telegraphic dis
patches-dlspatches, too, that were to
pass through the hands of his political
enemies and which, however disguised
they may have been by the intricacies of
cipher, were yet, with little ingenuity
and diligence, as The event has proved.
translatable. He would have sent a single
adrolt agent TO treat with the scoundrels
IN person, with the requisite money in
his pocket, and without third party TO
overlook, and perhaps betray the odious
bargain. None but fools as well as
knaves would have undertaken this thing
in the way it was done, and fools as we'll
as knaves they show themselves to have
been.
But, Mr.. Tiiden was never regarded as
iool and his career up to this time has
not shown him to be knave. In private
he was always scrupulously upright, and
so far as his public life has been marked,
lie had associated with the best elements
oi his party. He has struggled against
corruption, in this city and state, with n
zeal and vigor that won him the praises of
fierce political opponents. His fight
against Tweed, and subsequently against
the banded robbers of the canal. was am
honest, open, manly fight to the end: and
the courage and skill displayed in it were
gladly recognized by ali who desired an
honest government. Now, that one who
had gained so honorable fame, in such
exalted fields of exertion, should be will
ling to hazard it and his good name for
lie IN final act of gigantic dishonor and
crine-gigantic in its ends though petty
III It's means-was only TO be credited on
the most direct, positive and unimpeach-
able testimony. No such testimoney has
Deeh gwen, and Of that which has been
aaduced, and which only eonstructively
reflects upon him, Mr.. Tilden now SOL
emnly AYERS, in the broadest and most
unqualified terms, he knew absolutely
hothlng. Whatever was done in his be-
nall was done without his suggestion.
prlvlty or consent. He would not have
approved it, he adds, if he had known of
1t, but on the contrary arrested and re-
buked it on the spot.
1t is creditable alike to human nature
and Journalism that there are men who.
though politically at variance, are suffi-
GENTLY heroic to tell the truth. This the
HeeHmy Post has done. 1t has been stat
Fed oy democratic papers that Mr.. Tilden's
denial should not have been so long post
pohed. such an objection is pueriie. It
was emlnently proper for him to delay
ms dlsavowal of the charge until the
iftOute had exhausted its ammunition.
and until the last forged dispatch had
been made public, otherwise a dozen die
Chalmers instead of one would have been
demanded. Public interest centered
upon the character and sweep of Mr..
lllden's denial rather than upon the time
OF Its publication. In this regard il is
''explicit, absolute and comprehensive.
Mr.. Tilden says:
None OF these kilograms nor any tele
gram comm unicating an offer or answ.
erlng such offer, or relating to such Of
nee, was seen by me, translated to me or
the contents of it in any manner made
known to me. l had no knowledge of
the existance or purport of any telegram
relating TO that subject, nor did | learn
the fact that such offer of the Florida GER
uncates had been made till long after the
oth OF December, at which time the GER
uncates were delivered and the electoral
votes cast, and when the information
casually reached me as of a past event. ii
had been rejected.
Secondly as the publications in the
Tribune of this morning, purportipp 10
oe translations of cipher kilograms reiat-
ing to the canvass ofvotes in South Caro-
lima In 1876, which, have seen since /
wrote the foregoing, / can speak of them
no less definitely and positively. No one
ofsucb kilograms, either in cipher or
translated, was ever shown tn or nc ~,