The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-02-13
TILDEN OF THE CIPHER TELE
GRAMS.
HE P0TNTEDLY DlsAvOws ANY KNOWLEDGE
OF TIE RAsCALLY BUSINESS.

He poINTEDIY DIsAvows ANY KNowLEDoE
OF THE RAsCALLY BUSINESS.
In New York, on Friday last, the Cipher
Telegram Committee examined Mr.. Tilden.
The chairman Of the Committee addressing
Mr. 7. SAID
Governor Tilden, We received your note
expressing your Willingness to testify"
Governor Tilden-I have cold and can
not speak very loud the publication and
TRANSACTIONS in the New York papers
l have read | did not recognize
a single dispatch, either in cipher
or translation, which | had ever
seen before; never enteredinto any arrange
ments to purchase the vote of South Caro-
lima or Florida had no information and
no suspicion that any such communications
were being carried on until saw the dis
patches published IN the New York Tri-
bune; had no knowledge OF and dealings
with the parties to the negotiations. |
never authorized any such negotiations in
any form whatever. On the morning OF
November 20, 1876, Mrs. Colonel Pelton
mentioned in my presence that her husband
had gone for that day. | didn't know that
he had gone or was going out Of the city
He went to Philadelphia, believe. Later
in the day was called on by Mr.. Cooper
who was on hisway down town, and wastot
by him that he had received an offer from
some party, offering to obtain for moneJ
the vote of South Carolina.
| 7 II al,
nor spend money for any sucl
purpose. The Whole conversation occupie,
only few minutes. I obtained Colonc
Peltons address in Baltimore and tele
graphed him TO come home. | knew moth
S ing OF the ciphers that had been passin!
q between him and others and | could nc
have translated them never saw one G
the kilograms, either in cipher or transa
/ ton. | did not know and was not Informed
, that negotiations were going on in regar
e to illegally obtaining the certificates OF tn
returning board for some time, Mr.. Mar
e bic called and told me, in casual kind G
: way about the corruption Of the returnln
}. board Of Florida | never saw any {
y these dispatches relating to Florida, eitht
, in cipher or translation. In regard to tn
Oregon dispatches, | did not know the
came in cipher until after NEE
| ing of the committee to investiga
them. Some of the dispatches wei
addressed to my residence, No. |
Creamery Park. don't know that any
these dispatches were ever delivered thar
Colonel Pelton's habits of mind andmne al
: very different. A day or two after the ele
h ton General Grant wrote a letter recon
. mending committees to go South to see
. fair count. had nothing to do with ii
4 selection of those committees. new,
Y heard from them but once, and that W,
V through the communication signed by o
tendorter and Others. was very busy a
y the time and did not undertake to CORE,
5 the idea that they were my personal agent
It which has no foundation, They representa-
v the Democratic party. None of them so fl
. as | know went to these States autho
> lzed to do anything that gentcmc
$ might not do. From the 18th of Noven
s der, rs, until December of the same we,
:. under no circumstances did enter in an
! competition for seeking certificates by vel
v al Inducements, There never was an hol
nor minute that entertained such though
to the people who, as believed, elected N
t president of the United States--to the TO,
=, millions or citizens who were dcfrauded,
owed it to proclaim that | would not yicl
: one ,ot or title o. my right. Whatev,
t evils may result from the subversion of til
t electoral system and of free governmel
I | resolved that would enter into no auctc
for the purchase Of the chief magistracy
; Governor Tilden was here interrupted
r cheers, which the chairman suppressed.
- Congressman Mills, Of Texas, ovcrd
the thing in his speech on the propositi'
before the house to reduce the army. II
v Congressman felt that the government h,