The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-03-13

Nib' VI BIi'i.
TII:: INDIAN APPOINTMENTS"
On the Sd Of November, 1876, Mr.
iyncr tclegraphcd from indianapolis to
Mr.. Idchariah Chandler, the chairman
of the Republican National Committee
at New York:
IF you cannot appoint two Indian
agents please appoint one"
10 which Mr.. Chandler answered:
The two appointments will be made"
Ar. LINER replied:
"ln sum representing the two a;-
Pointncnts 10 the credit Of the Central
Bank Of indianapolis"
10 which Mr. Chandler then respond
cd
" II will DC done to-day"
Mr. Tyncr says that the Gr,l of these
dc-ratchc+ meant:
"If you cannot send $4,000 to tie
>; .tr Committee COR campaign purposes,
send 5000"
That AIr. Chambers answer being in
tcrprcted meant:
~ MThc $1,000 for campaign purposes
meant:
Put the sum of $lo,00o for campaign
purposes to the credit OF the Central
Bank Of indianapolis"
And that Mr.. ClIandlcr's final rcioindcr
being translated meant:
The $1,000 for campaign purposes
will be deposited to dav."
A. our examination has not extended
To transactions prior to the Presidential
election Of 1876, in the State OF Indiana.
we have rot pursued the investigation of
this matter But one can see how very
naturally the officials of the telegraph
company should have failed to recognize
these most improbable cipher dispatches
rs having any concealed meaning, but
regarded them rather as corrupt de-
spa,chcs, which Mr.. Orton permitted to
be Withdrawn by some Of his party
friends. That they were able to rccol-
lcct the dispatches 80 nearly and could
recall no other instance of the kind is
alike to the credit Of their efficiency and
Of the general management OF the COM
pany, and compares favorably with what
happened after the dispatches came into
the hands of Congress, and suggests that
nothing i'll the protection Of dispatches
by telegraph would bc gained by trans
icrring that business to The government,
but the contrary.
EtESSlTG FOR CIplIERS.
From the nature of the transmission Of
communications by telegraph it is una
voidablc that villa. is sent must be known
by various persons intermediate to sender
and receiver. The resort to cipher in
such dispatches has, therefore, become a
necessity for business and State purposes
all over the world. This would form
protection to those concerned if de-
spatchcs remained inviolatc II is not
for us to suggest whether any legislation
- required ID prevent private kilograms
from being rnrloined, or being exposed
through the carelcssncss, partiality or
fnithlcssness of telegraph employees,
"h!!e at the same time maintaining the
public interest and providing for the pro-
duction Of dispatches in proper cases.
While the dispatches remained in the
Senate committee, the Oregon dispatches
were translated under the direction of
Senator Mitchell. The Committee of
Privileges and Elections in tho House
were permitted access to these dispatches
on the Sd Of March, and found certain
dispatches in connection with the Flor
ida aud South Carolina election, pub
lished in an appendix to their report,
which were in kind Of cipher, consist
lifr5 VI u bubStltul.oll VI oranges IOr
Florida and "cotton" for South Carolina,
and warm" for favorable and "cold' for
hostile, or the like, which required little
cilnrt to comprehend, and which Mr..
Chandler styles such feeble and worth
less cipher almost anybody can tell what
it means" (p. 527.)
REPUBLICAN DISPATCHES.
The committee conducting the cxami-
ne I'll 10, E1, ~,
of the dispatches published by the Tri-
6"ne: This might be either because they
had been already distracted or from in
advertence;, 1t is certain that prior to
that date Mr.. Brady, Assistant Postmas-
ter General, had been allowed to with
draw his dispatches in cipher when act
ing rs counsel with the republican yisi-
tors in Florida. No one of the gentle
men of the Senate committee O. their
employees, except one translator, have
been or offered to appear before us, and
owing to Bulloch's absence we have not
been able to secure his testimony or to
ascertain what other dispatches besides
those taken by Mr.. Brady and those Bull
lock delivered to Evans were ahs,ractcd
while these kilograms remained in charge
or that committee.
From the manner in which they were
assorted and bound by paper or rubber
bands, the expert who destroyed them
thought that probably fourth of the
whole number could have been removed.
like leaves torn from different parts of Il
book, without their removal being appa-
rent at the time of the destruction OF the
remainder by the telegraph company.
Considering the watchful, competent and
intelligent partisan custody in which
these dispatches had been kept for four
teen months, first in the committee and
then in private republican hands, it was
to he looked for that nothing would now
come to the light not wanted by the par
ties in charge, and it would have been
most unreasonable to have expected that
these expert Indiana managers any more
than Mr.. William +. Chandler or Mr..
Eugene Hale would have left in the par
eel that came to the committee any mes
sagcs rejecting seriously on the conduct
OF the republican managers or party.
The republicans in charge of the dea-
patches could, OF course, ascertain wheth-
CT they were in cipher or not, by whom
and to whom they we're sent, and had
the means of confdentially coirmunica-
ting with all their party friends concern
ed, and of thus learning whether it was
desirable to abstract or permit them to
abstract dispatches or not. And it is
very evident, rs we'll from Mr.. Brady s
and Bullock's action rs from the nature
OF things. that those who desired would
be permitted to avail themselves OF such
an opportunity.
Among the lot which came to our
hands, few dispatches sent by republic
cans, in various ciph,rs, remain. Most
of thesA have hcen translated Snma Of