Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11
SENATOR CARPENTER.
The Long Branch Scandal Explained
and ffctuttd.

Inc view iOih f't""'", ~ "
editorial on the lst inst, reiterated
with increased venom the Long
Branch Scandal on Hon. Matt. III.
CARPENTER, and maintains that ''such
man ought not to preside over the
L. S. Senate" Accompanying its
editorial the IrtJme reprints the
following from letter recently pub
lished in the Cleveland Hratd:
"The precise facts are these Sena-
tor Carpenter in July last, in New York
CITY, had lady OF high social position
aud unsullied reputation placed under
his charge by her husband and brother
to escort to Long Branch. The brother
accompanied the lady to the boat
Whea they arrived at the Branch the
Senator drove TO the West EWl Hotel
When Mr. e. entered the hotel, the
room c!erk--who was room 'clerk at WIl-
lards in Washington, where Mr., &.
boarded for two years--told HIM he
could not provide him 60 with rooms,
the house being foil 10 overlooking that
he had Just turned away Spencer and
sundry others who had applied before
him The clerk subsequently told MIR
C. he had secured him rooms at the
Ocean House, whittier MIR &. went and
registered his and the lady 5 name.
The lady after SUPPER retired, and
Mr.. g. went to see the President, about
three miles distant, and returned be-
tween T. and | o'clock Their rooms
were IN different w,ugs Of the building,
and over 300 Iect apart. The next
morning Mr.. c. drove round Long
Branch couple Of hours, showing the
place to the lady, and at | O'Clock re,
turned to New J ork, whore the ladys
irieads were IN waiting to receive her.
after Mr.. {. was advised there was
10 room for him ut the West End Hotel
he turned round aud was saluted hy
correspondent Of tho New \ ork 7rjcHHe
that two years before he, IA Chairman OF
the Senate Committee, had imprisoned
for contumacy 1t was this man that
sent the equisocal dispatch to the TEid-
sine which has occasoncd all the scandal
the press has teemcd with Tor the past
three months, speak whereof ! know
when assert there was nothing in Mr..
CARPENTER 5 conduct at Long Branch ut,
nil inconsistent with tho strlctest moralI,
ty and decorum, and all tho scaudulous
stories put ia circulation were the OIL
sprinr Of malice. Politically, am not
ia sympathy with Mr., Carpenter; bat
deem it my duty to say thus much IN be-
half of truth and Justice, and without
the knowledge or iuSJisitiun of Mr., Car
pcutcr or his friends.
MIR Carpenter has been most shame-
fully smndercd IN this matter and It has
been only from sense OF dellcacy about
having the name OF the lady Involved
figure in the newspapers that he did not
at once make pUbho denial OF the I'M
puted charge. Conscious of his limos
cence, he has stood proudly silent, aud
let the scandal -mongers and cheap dem
ugogucs bark until they were h0arsc and
exhausted 1t is time now, tho excite
meut being over, that the precise facts
should be lald before the pubic, and
justice done to an injured and gifted
public man,
The New York Times Of the "a
has an editorial reply to the Tnj-
ao,ss article; in the course Of which
1t says
"lhc true facts have been known 10
us for some time. The husband OF the
hdy, who, Tor very natural reasons, de-
sires not To bring his wlte = namo before
Il. .t..- 1 L.
to publish any thing undcr his own slg>
nature, some time since called on us and
informed us that the charge was utterly
false, and requested US, III case the
siaudor WAS kept up, to pablsh u states
meut Of tho facts
"Mr. Carpenter went during the sums
mcr, TO Long Branch, having an appoints
meut with the President on business
lie was accompanied 10y the lady i'll
question, who was put in MS charge by
her husband Arriving there about B
IN the afternoon, he went directly to the
West Eud Hotel aud applied for rooms,
nni was informed 10y the clerk that
there was not Il vacant room IN the
house, aud had MT been tor several days
The clerk anu MIR Carpenter wore we'll
acquainted the clerk having been torm~
or,y IN Wizards l.olel, Washington.
where Mr. Carpenter ami his iamt,y had
boarded two years Tue clerk gave Mr.
Carpenter note of introduction to the
Ocean House. and he Went there and obs
taiued room tur the lady aud oue tor
himself At o'clock no took toa at the
Presidents, and ,feut the evening With
"a