San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-02-15

In this early stage 10 the in'e'"h"'
ton OF tho cipher dispatches, cer.aln
facts have bean clearly established
which benr hard on the memory OF two
public men who have gone to thei'
| long account and Of whom NC must
speak, therefore, forbearingly, aud on
| ly 10 connection with these develop
meuts. These men are the late Will
liam Orion, President OF the Western
Union Telegraph Company, and the
late o. p. Morton of Indiana.
All the kilograms relating to the
|. Presidential election, except three hun
dred received by the Morrison Com.
mittee 10 the House, were delivered
by the direction OF Mr.. Orion TO the
Com mittee on Privileges and Elections
Of the Seuste, OF which Mr.. Morton
was then Chairman. with five Of the
rankcst Republican rar:isans to obey
his orders as a majority.
These dispatches were handed oTer
without schedule to identity them,
and those which were returned we're
received back and burnt at the west
ern Union Office here, without an ex.
animation to prove that all of them
had been sent back. They were bun
died into a trunk when sent to Wash
ington, and q part OF them were bun
dlpd back into the same trunk to be
returncd'to New York-all with en-
tire disregard Of the commoncst pre-
cautions due to private rights, or to
the responsibility of the telegraph
com any to the public. Of the whole
oumber, exceeding twcnty-nine thous'
and. nearly one.thId came from 1ndi-
annapolis, thus exhibiting the intense
interest felt by Senator Morton in the
election, and the largs influence which
he exercised as directing mind in his
party.
The committee room in which these
kilograms were placed was in the cx-
elusive charge of Mr.. Morton and his
personal connections and friends. Mr..
Burbank, his brothsr.in-law, was Sec
rotary of the Committee, and received
them from the Washington manager
of the Western Union. George Il.
Bullock, an Indiana friend of the late
Senator, was the messenger OF the
Committee, ard is. now Consul at Co.
logue as reward for his services.
While these kilograms were in the
custody of Mr.. Morton and his associ'
ates they were thoroughly examined,
classified, and utilized. All that
might affect injuriously the Republi-
can managers during tho Presidential
campaign, and during Mr.. Morton's
own operations in California, were de-
stroyed, SO that they will never SEQ the
light. Whatever the chiefs wanted
they took. Mr.. Brady admitted in
his testimony that he carried off the
dispatches which he had personally
sent from Florida when he went there
TO aid the Returning Board in making
their count.
Finally, after the Forty'iourth Con
grcss had adjourned, Bullock stole q
lot of these kilograms, including the
so-called cipher dispatches. He de-
livered those which he had stolen to
the Hon. j. l.. Evans, a member Of
the House from Indiana, and one OF
hr. Morton's devoted followers.
Evans in turn gave them to MIR. Bra
dy, Second Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral, who had been appointed and re-
tanned ut the instance of MIR. Morton.
Both Evans and Brady were most
active in securing tor Bullock the
Consulate at Cologne, where he now
is az 4 fl representative of this Fraud
ulent Administration, in return for the
devotion he had exhibited in the theft
of these papers, A. Y. San.