New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-22
4 QUESTION FOR PHILADELPHIA.

When Mr.. Woolley admits that he went from
! New-York to NCw-0rleans, and thence TO
| Florida and sent the cipher dispatches signed
Fox" warning headquarters to " stop Mar
"be from making propositions to The enemy
dispatches which, he thus admits, th5 keys
discovered by The TRIBUNE correctly inter-
prct-hc renders it desirable for Mr.. Samuel
! j. Randall, Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, to take the floor for personal OK
PLANTATION. The elaborate transpOsiJiOn cipher
with its ten keys and private vOcabulmics-
, the most secret Of all the ciphers used by
| Gramercy Park-was the one intrusted, as
has been shown, to the most adrut and
/ trusted negOtators for votes. That was ID"
cipher used by the men who had full power"
and talked about Mississippi River Edin
CHURCH Copenhagen" and half Glasgow best
United States documents 1t is very pain
full, therefore, TO observe that Mr.. Randall,
the third officer of the United States Govern
ment in rank, possessed and used that same
cipher aud the same secret vOcabulancs. The
following dispatch is not as clear a. 1t might
be; every good citizen must hope that Mr..
Randall can either show that it is incorrectly
| translated by producing the keys and vocabu-
laries used by him, or else make it more sat
isfGctoIy than 1t now appears
NLw-ORrEASs, Nov. 10, 20
". II. KIN0, Ereret House, ~ IT.
Here my with from Fox usefulness Florida MOselc
one answer ended authority beside wants fun
use Key No. 81 sAAL j. RANDALL
[Translatonl
Two from hero Florida beside woollcy. nv useful
ness ended paniS one Vlt Jul authority Answer.
EAN'LJ. RANDALL.
Apparently Mr. Randall informed Colonel
Potion, whose cipher dispatches were fire.
duentIy addressed, ns we have seen, TO his
deciphering clerk, Mr.. King, that two promi-
nent Democrats beside WOOlcy had gone
from New Orleans to Florida, convinced,
probably, as WOolley was, that there was not
n good field in Louisiana. Mr.. Randall eyi-
IDENTITY thought the prospect gloomy, for five
days before this cipher dispatch was sent, he had
| telcC1aphed to Mr.. Tilden IN person, MessTs La
mar, Watterson and OttendOrfer adding their
signatures to the telegram: " After a full survey
of the situation here, we urgently recommend
/" that you make ut once TO Governor Hayes
L" the proposition hitherto communicated TO
you" AS we know, this last resort, what
ever it was, had not seemed good to Mr.. Til
den, for Gramercy Park had friend named
Weed In South Carolina, and a friend named
Marble in Florida, and a friend named Pat
rick in Oregon. Hence Mr.. Randall bad re-
NAMED, but after five days. while other Demo
Gratis were slipping away to more promising
| fields, he telegraphs TO Peton in cipher: " My
" usefulness ended wants one tCih full author
"ity.p What fort Was it because COX
who had full power" as Pelton afterwards
assured him, had departedf Was it because
Mr.. Randall saw occasion to employ agencies
which he, as a person of too great prominence
and an official of too high rank could not
safely emplOy7 Smith Weed. when he be-
came anxious about Florida, telegraphed to
PeltOn, November 1G, Have you man with
full power there" What sort of full au-
"thOrity" was wanted in Louisiana, in Mr.
Randall's Opinion7 How did he come to know
Mr.. Woolley, the agent noted for his skill in
secret business, by the same private name by
which he was known at the headquarters Of
buyers No. 10 Gramcrcy Parkf Of
course Mr.. Randall will make haste TO inform
the people OF Philadelphia about these things