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

others to the transfer to Indiana of GER
tain sums of money for the November
campaign, and were coTched in an agreed
upon cipher.
THE INDIAN APPOINTMENTS"
On the Sd of November, 1876, Mr..
Tyner tclegraphed from indianapolis to
Mr.. Zachariah Chandler, the chairman
of the Republican National Committee
at New York:
"If you cannot appoint two Indian
agents please appoint one."
TO which Mr.. Chandler answered:
"The two appointments will be made"
Mr. Tyner replied:
"Put sum representing the two ap-
pointments to the credit of the Central
Bank Of Indianapolis.
To which Mr.. Chandler then respond
ed:
SIT will be done to-day"
Mr.. Tyncr says that the FIRST of these
dispatches meant:
"If you cannot send $4,000 to the
State Committee for campaign purposes,
send $5,0O0."
That Mr.. Chambers answer being in
terpreted meant:
"Thc $4,000 for campaign purposes
will be furnished"
And that Mr.. Tyrer's reply to this
meant:
"Put the sum of $4,000 for campaign
purposes to the credit of the Central
Bank of indianapolis"
And that Mr.. Chambers final rcjoinder
being translated meant:
"The $4,000 for campaign purposes
will be deposited day."
As our examination has not extended
to transactions prior to the Presidential
election OF 1876, in the State Of Indiana,
we have not 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
as having any concealed meaning, but
regarded them rather as corrupt de-
spatches, which Mr.. Orton permitted to
be withdrawn by some of his party
friends. That they were able to recol-
lect the dispatches so 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 in the protection of dispatches
by telegraph would be gained by trans
ferring that business to the government,
but the contrary.
NECESSITY FOR CIPHERs.
From the nature of the transmission of
communications by telegraph it is una
voidable that what is sent must be known
by various persons intermediate to sender
and receiver. The resort to cipher in
such dispatches has, therefore, become
necessity for business and State purposes
all over the world. This would form a
protection to those concerned if de-
spatches remained inviolate. 1t is not
for US to suggest whether any legislation
is required to prevent private kilograms
from being pprloined, or being exposed
through the carelcssness, partiality or
faithlessness of telegraph employees,
while 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 the House
we're permitted access to these dispatches
on the Sd of March, and found certain
dispatches in connection with the Flor
ida and South Carolina election, pub
lished in an appendix to their report,
which were lin kind of cipher, consist
ing of substitution of oranges" for
Florida and "cotton" for South Carolina,
and "warm" for favorable and "cold" for
hostile, or the like, which required little
effort 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 exami-
nation do not seem to have observed any
of the dispatches published by the Tri-
June. This might be either because they
had been already abstracted 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 as counsel with the republican visi-
tors in Florida. No one Of the gentle
men of the Senate committee or their
employees, except one translator, have
been or offered To appear before us, and
owing to Bullock'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 distracted
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 q
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 be 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 L. 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.
Tie republicans in charge of the des-
patches could, of course, ascertain wheth
er they were in cipher or not, by whom
and 10 whom they were sent, and had
the means of confdentially colrmunica-
ting with all their party friends concern
ed, and of thus learning whether it was
desirable 10 abstract or permit them to
abstract dispatches or not. And it is
very evident, as we'll from Mr.. Brady's
and Bullock's action as from the nature
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