New-York tribune., 1878-10-12


nor shall we venture u conjecture to the
authorship of any such communication with
out at the same time giving the public the
reasons for our opinion, that they may judge
for themselves whether we are right or
wrong.
SOUE POINTS CLEARLY ESTABLTSHED.
flood of light is pouring i'll upon the
Florida cphers. We are naturally gratited
that information from every quarter thus far
only cOrrobOrates the conclusions reached by
THE TRIBUNE from a study OF the cryptograms
themselves. A few of the more important
points thus cOrroborated by outside testimony
deserve notice.
/. We inferred that Mr.. COyle was
sent South by Mr.. Hewitt as Chair
man of the Democratic Committee, and that
lac took the secret keys afterward used by the
conspirat0rs for purposes unknown 10 Mr..
Hewitt. This is precisely what Mr.. Hewitt
himself anirms; in answer to the published
request by the Florida Committee, he did
send John F. Coyle to Florida with cipher
keys, but did not know what messages were
sent. because Mr.. Tilden and his clique of
immediate friends continued to manage mat
tiers for themselves, us they had done during
the campaign.
II. A more important matter, inferred by
The TRIBUNE, and now asserted by Mr..
WoOllcy in Cincinnati, is that COylc acted only
az clerk IN charge Of ciphers, and as disburs-
ing agent for expenses. The peculiar relation
Of dispatches signed Max TO those signed
Moses" and the fact that in all the greater
matters "Max" seemed only TO be the mouth
AZ q l.. 4
conclusion which Mr. WoOlley afirms was the
truth.
III. The TRIBUNE plainly stated that there
was no evidence and it did not believe that
the dispatches to Mr. Hayemoyer were read
by him, or the other dispatches with his sig
dature sent by him. Mr.. WoolIey directly as
serts that "Mr. TIavemcyer merely received
and handed over kilograms without knowing
their contents" The kilograms were only
sent to his house to avert suspicion
as to their meaning. There remain,
therefore, only two persons Mt this
end Of the wire who can be held
respOnsible-Mr. Samuel j. Tilden and his
nephew and confidential secretary, Colonel
Pelton. For George w. Smith, in this as in
the Marquette matter, was only Mr.. Tidens
clerk, nd NJ. X. King employed at the Demo-
cratic headquarters. reported TO Mr.. Pelton
only. The responsibility is definitely placed
at the door of No. Is Gramercy Park, where
THE TRIBUNE placed it from the first.
". 1t was inferred from the dispatches that
Mr. Woolloy was never intrusted with the
cipher key, and he so asserts. When he
wanted to send secret messages to Gramercy
Park, he had to get somebody else to put them
INTO cipher. There is internal evidence that,
through Coyle, the common cryptOgraphic
clerk, Woolley's dispatches became known at
the close to Marble, but not Marbles to Wool
lev. He still hatters himself that Moses did
not regard him as "a nuisance and Impedi-
:" ment trusted by nobody" The things said
behind q mans back are sometimes so un-
pleasant
" The remarkable correctness OF the keys
and transations has been abundanty demon
strated by the fact that thousands OF eager in-
yestieators, who have carefully traced the
work, report no correction of any consequence.
TIE Albany Journal using our keys, easily
and correctly translates another dispatch, of
which we have as yet published only the
cipher. When once known, the transpO-
sition keys are very easy to use,
and involve incOmparably less liability
of error in transmission than other cIphcrs,
while they are altogether more diff
cult to solve than any others adapted to gen
eral use. 1t would, in fact, be absolutely i'm
possible to solve with certainty any one or
two dispatches in this cipher without the aid
of others IN tchich the same one of ten keys WdS
used
VI. The theory that keys were given to THE
TRIBUNE, if it were not wholly unsustained,
and particularly impertinent in view of our
own statements, is sufficiently refuted by the
fact that, at some unimpOrtant points, the
meaning of the dispatches is still, as we have
stated, either conjectural or unknown. The
matter has been placed before readers so
fully that they can at once distinguish
for themselves the interpretations which
rest only upon probability FROM those
which are demonstrably Correct. The last
dictionary key was discovered only on Thurs
day, and I'm error curiously confirming its ac-
curacy cfept into one of the translations given
yeste7day. The words "kneel lexicography
"bass lye leeeh conduit Stevedore TO taken des-