The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-11-30
THE CIPHER MESSAGES.

T. fIOTtQa. and oregon. IN november, 1910 Luz
revelations afforded by the translation of thest
messages have stunned the public, and pro
duced the deepest indignation in the minds o.
all thoughtful people. Both the great political
parties went into the election campaign with
broad planks in their platforms of Reform fol
the civil and political administration Of the
government, and the people, according to their
views, believed them both to be equally sincere,
These dispatches show the public that the
managers of both parties resorted to fraud and
corruption. Mr.. Tilden's agents commenced the
game, and the Republicans were obliged to
Gght them with their own weapons, or submit
to defeat. They had to meet fraud, subornation
and corruption, and they could do 1t only
with the same disreputable and corrupt means.
We shall be much mistaken if these Infamous
revelations do not convince the honest masses OF
the people that there is an immediate and urgent
necessity for a radical reform in the national
politics. The great heart of the nation is sound
on all the issues of the day it is the disgrace
ful and unprincipled manGuyering and tactics
of the party leaders, their unscrupulous placing
of "bar'Is of money where it will do most
good, :" that defeat the honest will of the people.
This state of things. we do not believe, will
last. There is what has been called "a second
sober sense" in the American people, which has
manifested itself more than once in the history
of the nation, that will eventually sweep away
this tide of corruption, and the prominent lead
es in it will be left on the strand of public
contempt, and their memories sink into utter
oblivion.
TT n VI Il ~ al - CsI
uIt. occupies a large portion of its space with
the publication of these cipher kilograms and
the TRANSACTIONS of the ciphers employed, and
the method pursued in discovering the keys.
Apart from political considerations, it is most
interesting reading. The correspondence en-
braces nearly four hundred dispatches, covering
the period between the Presidential election,
in November, and the completion of the count
in all the disputed States. In many of the
messages, a double cipher, or a cipher within
a cipher, was used, making a translation still
more difficult.
The Tribune had three experts or investigators,
working apart from each other, upon different
bundles of the kilograms, and without inter-
communication. By the keys which they worked
out they arrived, independently, at the same
conclusions, and there seems to be no room TO
doubt the correctness of the translations.
Some days, it is proper to state, after the publ
cation of these kilograms and their translations,
Mr.. Tilden, in a card, denied all knowledge of
them, but his denial partakes so much of the
character of special pleading, that it is not gen.
orally accepted. 1t is felt that his disavowal
was kept back too long, and that an innocent
man would not have delayed a moment in an
indignant protest against such damaging charges.
The disclaimer of Marble, who also denies COM
plicity in the kilograms, does not touch the
point at which the eyes of the people are now
directed. They see that there was a deeply-laid
plan on the part of Tilden's managers to put him
in the White House by corrupt and infamous
means, and no amount of sophistry or denial by
any of the parties implicated will screen them
from execration hereafter. They are all polite
ally dead. New issues and new combinations
will bring out new men, and the old leaders will
be overlooked or forgotten. New party war
cries will lead the hosts to battle in the cam
paign of 1880.
To justify the foregoing remarks, as well as to
satisfy the curiosity of our readers, we give a few
of the kilograms, with their translations, as pub
lished by the Tribune. The following has the
first reference to money:
ITALIA. (Fla.), Is, I876.-Henry Havemeyer, No.
Is West Seventeenth street, New York: Ten
Jacksonville Jacksonville it requested eleven
place l have one Payne England notify twelve
from one. II four Immediately Daniel as not l
you Italy W. CALI,
j.. j. DANIEL,
MAX.
[Translation1
~ NJ = -- 70 w.
Havemeyer, No. Is West Seventeenth street. New
York: Have you provided five thousand three
hundred dollars telegraphic credit Payne, as re-
quested from Jacksonville? If you have not,
place your Geographic credit J.J. Daniels, Jack
sonville. Notify Immediately. W. CALI,
MAX.
The following is still more explicit, and to the
point:
ITALIA, 2-Colonel Pelton, No Is Gramercy
Park, \. Y.-Certifcate required to Moses decision
have London hour for Bolivia of just add Edin-
burgh at MOselle had a any over Glasgow france
[Translation.l
ITALIA. December 2d.-Colonel Pelton, Is Ora
mercy Park Have just received a proposition to
hand over at any hour required Tilden decision of
Board and certificate of Governor for 500, 900.
New York. December 3d-Manton Marble,
Tallahassee, Florida Warsaw here. Bolivia
Brazil. mo sig.1
LTranslation.l
NEW YORK. December 3d.-Manton Marble.
Tallahassee, Florida Dispatch here. PROPOSE
ton too high. mo sig.l
Col. Pelton, it Will be remembered, is TiIden's
nephew, and private secretary.
The cipher, of which the following is a trans
lation, snot given:
TALLAHASSEE, December >. Colonel W. T.
Pelton. No. Is Gramercy Park: Proposition re-
ceived either giving vote OF Republican of Board,
or his conference in Court action preventing Elec-
toraI vote from being cast, for half hundred best
United States documents. (For $4,000 in Us.
uOteS.) MARBLE.
New YORK. Dec. /, '6.-TALIA.. Fla. Manton
Marble: Lima should important in once be con-
cert council and letter If trust You then very no no
Warsaw can Cox done time him divided act only
Bolivia with and consult here. No sig.l
[Translation.l
DECEMBER 4-Manton Marble, Tallahassee, Flo
rida: Telegram here. Proposition accepted if