Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-09

grams passed between the Republi-
can instigators Of fraud and their
local instruments in Florida and
What means were re-
sorted to by tricky Republican pol
iticfans to give themselves the
small change rogue's advantage in
any disclosures which might ulti-
mately be brought about is thus
told by the Washington cores
pondent of the New York Herald,
a fanatic Hayes paper, under date
of January 2sth:
The cipher dispatch mystery was
substantially cleared up by tine
confession of Brady, Second AS
sistaut Postmaster-General, that he
had received the parcel of dispatch.
es which Bullock, now Consul at
Cologne, but then messenger OF
Senator Morton's Committee, stole
from the committee room, and
that he gave most of them to Mr..
William L. Chandler, who left
some on Gen. Buffers table, and
forwarded copies Of others for pub
lica.ion. Brady added that before
Bullock stole these, he, Brady, had
gone to the committee room and
picked out and taken away dis
patches which passed between him.
self and Postmaster-General Tyner
in relation to Florida matters,
Brady having been enc of the Re-
publican visiting statesmen in
Florida. 1t appears from Brady's
and Mr.. Chapdler'5 testimony that
the whole body Of the dispatches
surrendered by the telegraph COM
pany lay in the committee room
for several weeks, accessible to any
one who was on friendly terms
with Burbank, the clerk of the
committee, Senator Morton's
brether-in.Iaw,a and with Bullock,
the messenger, also an Indianian
who has been rewarded for his thef'
from the committee room with the
Cologne Consulship.
It Is altogether a very disgrace
full story, aud it shows clearly thai
the Republicans had every oppor
tunity to pick out and take away
any dispatches which anyof them re
mem bersd as compromising them Of
the party. When it is remembered
that Bullock, a mere messenger tt
a committee, an obscure person
received the gift of an importan
consulate for no reason that can b,
Imagined or has been stated, ,sxcep
that he passed the damaging ciphe
dispatches from the committe'
room into the hands of persons
able when they got them to maxi
public use of them, but who coult
not afford to be charged with TAX
ing them themselves, the natura
suspicion arises that there were i'm
portapt persons before Bullock a
we'll as bshind him, and that he
who served merely as an obscur
go-between, was put out OF tn
way in Germany, to secure his 81
lence. With all the dispatche
compromising Republicans out
the way, and all the persons cor
csrned in disreputable electio
transactions in the three Souther
States rewarded with public Office!
it is, easy to see that the Repubi
can managers might we'll thin
, their proceedings safe against dii
closure.
We are thus presented with til
interesting spectacle of a party
great moral pretensions, whic
could not only stoop to steal a Pre-
, idenoy, suborn men TO perjury al
profit in detail by forgery of tt
, very signatures of the wretches
had suborned, employing other an
, mipified miscreants to filch ava
from the Western Union Telegrap
Company the very evidences {
: their guilt. This is the skill an
morality of Fagin. 1t is for th
people of the United States to So
whether or no they desire to col
tinue in power such accomplishe
shysters. Should they elect to d
so, they will soon be enveiopet
fold within fold, in a vesture (
fraud, chicane and Machiavelisr
which will never again perm
them to make q free, unshackle
melton.
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