"'I found among those papers this copy of a telegram which I sent from the Fifth Avenue Hotel. I think before daylight on the morning of Nov. 8. It bears date of the 7th of November, but it was really written and sent on the morning of the 8th.'
"Immediately after this comes the following sentence, bear in mind, from William E. Chandler's testimony before the Potter committee:
"'The remaining copies are in shorthand, and I will read them.'
"If these messages were not dictated to Mr. William E. Chandler, why should he have written them in shorthand? When time was so precious, is it to be believed that William E. Chandler wrote his own messages first in shorthand and then transcribed them? Further down on the same page (526) of the testimony occurs the following:
"'This paper [handing to the chairman a paper from which he had read] is worn from carrying it in the pocket.'
"The chairman: 'Who made these stenographic marks?'
"The witness: 'Those are my own. I learned to write shorthand many years ago.'
"It is perfectly clear from this (Chandler's own testimony) that these messages were dictated to Chandler by another person. They were so dictated exactly as described in the foregoing narrative. The New York Times has never to this day been reimbursed by the National Committee or William E. Chandler, nor has William E. Chandler or any national committee ever offered to pay the Times for the telegraph tolls or for any of the expenses incurred on that morning.
"Mr. Chandler's efforts in behalf of the grand old Republican party on the morning of Nov. 8, 1876, may therefore be briefly summarized as follows:
"First.—He frightened two lone women nearly out of their wits.