New-York tribune., 1878-10-26

VR r fNDILL SPEIEH AND SAYS NOTHING.
Mr. Samuel !. Randall has prhlishcd card
in relation to the cipher telegram from New
Orleans to which we directed his attention the
other day. That telegram, when translated by
the regular key. reads as follows:
NGw-OELEASs, Nov. -.
W. X KING. ErC,rf House, Ncw-I Ort
Two from here Florida bcsil Noollcy. My useful
ness ended. Wants one with mi. authority. Answer
sANrtLJ. RANDALL.
And we inquired how it happened that Mr.
Randall was in possession OF the transposition
cipher. and what " full authority was wanted
for in Louisiana. MIR. Randall makes some
what remarkable reply, and sends It to a
Philadelphia paper. He says:
The telegram yCu publish -h.s morning. ond
which / see to-day for tue first time in print
was never sent by in cipher. It was sen;
from New-Or.eans and not from Florida
wrote "a in the En,lish language, and wished II
10 be transmitted as written bY me- for what !
intended to convey needed conccalnent gave to
another who proposed 70 send IL without expense to
me L must have been put in cirhcr after it lrft mc
never mad nOo Ledge Ci ciphcr While in evoHeans
uc7.r ad anything do with tire Florida contest nor
was ever t,at state, and tic mterpr. aiI,n at-
tempted 20 be put tire langpgc is Outrage on me
All my act, wlue was in N'w-Orcan> am willing tie
wcd should know. / wanted 20 De relieved aud 10 have
another person sent 10 act in my stead for personal
political reasons aud to tat cud,aud that end dloar the
telegram was written. cannot say with certainty that
the words published the identical words uscd-thc
meaning IN. been perverted
In other words, he did write the dispatch,
but 1t was one Of his associates who trans
posed it into cipher, fact which does not
seem to be of startling Importance. What
Mr. Randall means by the emphasis with which
he discams any connection with the Florida
scandal, we may leave our rcaders to imagine.
We printed the dispatch originally exactly Is
we print it now, with the date line " New
" Orleans Nov. 10 and we have never inti
mated that il came from Florda. The
Speaker betrays a great deal Of heat in repu-
dating his own mi,intrrpretatIOn, not ours {;
| and he entirely fails to give an explanation of
| what ought to be explained. "Thc meaning
he saws. has been perverted" WHAT meaning?
How has it been perverted Wherein is the
| translation given by The TRIBUNE wrong In
! what particular are the comments of TIE
! TmByNE can outrage" on him ? Tie only
| thing he specifically complains OF is b!mdcr
! of his own. The meaning" OF the dispatch
| is precisely what We asked Mr. Randall to cx-
! plain.
! Mr.. Tildcn, Mr.. Marble, Mr. Woolcv, Mr..
| Coyle, Mr. Weed, and MI Randall have now
! been heard from with more or less distinct
ness, and every one of them, admitting either
directly or indirectly the genunenc,s of the
| dispatches, lays the blame Of all the wirked-
| ness therein upon some other nun; at least
! every one Of the party except Mr.. Marble,
who repudiates none of the kilograms that
| bear his name except the one that was not
wicked. But it is a noteworthy fact that We
have not yet heard syllable of explanation.
| If these kilograms lad been susceptible Of cx-
! planation, would there have been any delay
| i'll making it3