Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-10-09
The Cipher kilograms.

The New York Tribune began on Mon
day morning the publication of a syste-
matte exposition Of the cipher tele-
grams employed by the democratic mana
gers, with Tilden at their head, to secure
by corrupt means the Presidential election
in 1876. These kilograms are four hun
dred in number and were employed be-
tween the democratic headquarters in New
York and all the States where the result
was doubtful. They were very elaborate
" and ingeniously arranged, but the Tli-
bune by inflexible perseverance has sue
ceeded iu deciphering them and exposing
the secrets which they contained. The
explanation begun in the Tribune has al
ready occupied several columns of that
paper. In an editorial it says:
"The Tribune begins this morning its
systematic exposition of the democratic
efforts to tamper with the electoral count
in 1876. The most ingenious and intricate
system of ciphers yet known was devised
in order to conduct the negotiations. The
most active and trusted friends of the
democratic candidate were equipped with
these ciphers and sent to the electoral
boards OF the doubtful States. So active
were they that the mass Of ftheir telegraphic
correspondence in our hands would bill
pages of the Tribune. So anxious were
they to cover their tracks that, when an
investigation was threatened, they en-
deav0red to have their cipher messages
burned. and. until very lately, thought
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how their whole system of concealment
has been mastered; and how the very per
~fection Of their cipher aids in our absolute
demonstration of the accuracy of our
translation. Tomorrow they can begin
the luxury of contemplating in cold print
the history they secretly made in the crit
icsl days Of 1876.
The democratic House of Representa-
tiyes arraigned two of the republican Wis
itine statesmen for fraud and conspiracy,
in the matter of the electoral count. AT
ter months of fishing with drag-net,
they have produced what a confessed per
iurer is able to recall of letter not in ex-
istence. purporting to come from man
whose handwriting he didn't know, and
promising that persons who did their du-
tv would not be forgotten. Absolutely
the doubtful recollection of perjurer, but
on the indisputable testimony of their own
I dispatches; not on single doubtful copy
OF q doubtful letter which if genuine
proved nothing. but on the cumulative
and comprehensive testimony of hundreds
of dispatches from different men in differ
snt States at different times. sent out from
the same headquarters and reporting to
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appear from this overwhelming and con
elusive evidence. furnished by their own
secret correspondence, that the democrat
{ 10 Visiting statesmen most intimate at
Gramercy Park. sent directly from Gram
ercy Park, after elaborate and most care
fully secret correspondence with Gramer-
cv Park, did, in three different States. de-
liberately attempt to buy. But we an
ticipate Read the dispatches, and make
up vour own minds.
Meantime, after seeing from our ac-
count elsewhere this morning, how elab
orate and varied were the devices of the
democratic visiting statesmen to conceal
their acts In the doubtful States, will read
ers recall little incident in the investiga-
tons that has hitherto escaped much no.
ticef When the Knot-Field Committee
Of the House was inquiring into the eec
toral count, 1t called upon the Western
Union Telegraph Company for dispatches
sent to and from Louisiana, Florida and
South Carolina, and proposed to inquire
into the money transactions of the repub-
licans in each of those States. All at once
It was given out that the committee had
changed its mind. and would not go into
that subject. And it did not Could the
fact that the first Oregon dispatches were
then coming out have been the only rea
son From that day to this the demo-
Gratis have never shown any desire to open
up the subject Of monev transactions in
the doubtful States. When William f.
Chandler was on the stand, as late as June
Of this year. he twice attempted to have
the Potter Committee ask him to translate
his cipher dispatches. Each time both
Potter and Hunton stopped short the mo-
ment the testimony began to tend in that
direction. Did they suspect then, what
all the world will begin to learn to-mor-
row, as to the work of Mr.. Tilden's visit
ing statesmen. under the cipher orders
from Gramercy ParkP
The fat money advocates are great
deal annoyed at being reminded, says the
Alhonv .Tourno1 tbat oo;n "a Tho rooou