New-York tribune., 1876-02-03
LETTERS FROM THE'PEOPLE.
BISHOP HAvENs REMARKS AT OMAHA.


LETTER FROM THE REV. T. II. TIBBLEs-HE AS
sKRTs THE TRUTuRULNEss OF HIS REPORT OF
THR CONVERSATION.
70 the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR / see that Bishop Gilbert Haven has been
granted the use of your columns to deny the cor
rectness of interview which was first published
in The Omaha Bee and since that there has been u
letter going the rounds of the press, written by hun
to the Harpers, which is copied with the following
comment in one Of our local papers here as follows
We copy below another letter of Bishop Haven which
he has forced write to contradict the lying re-
port Of his private conversation with MI l. H.
Tibbles:
My DEAR Mr.. HARPER: In a profrssed "interviev"
with me. published in The omaha Bee. am reported as
saying, The Haipeis don't care, as long rs thcy au
make money, Notwithstanding they are Methodist.
never made any such remark, nor thought w. lhbuH u
conversation upon church Gattcr-, local and lerNoi
with brother there. and did add few words on lhr
public questions, hut entirely a. private c"nNe1Son
of which he But in no part Of nv converse
lion did refer To- yonr house IN llo manner @ has
Nothing In the subject matter OF that conversation %
troubled me except that Interview. falsely 80 oac'
and that which chiefly troubled me in that article WIS
this reference to house. unjust and untrue TO Sou
beg you not 10 believe could have uttered that
remark. am most truly YOU =, g. HAVEN
Aele-Oriedhs. Jan. III, 1876.
have this to say III reply. am member OF tho
Nebraska Conference Of the NJ. l.. Church, and have
been engaged in missionary work in Omaha ior
more than year. during which time ! have sup
ported myself and family with my pen. Ny con-
nectOn with the daily press has long been known 10
Bishop Haven. and when he conycr,ed Win me
upon matters OF public interest he knew he was con-
vorsing with member of the press. ! repeat tiiat
he did use those very words. with perhaps the eA-
coption of The latter part of the sentence, Wa
notwithstanding they are Methodists;' = and inr-
thermore. that conversation did not have the sem
blance of being private. 1t on the cars. stand
ing at the depot the seats filled all around 49,
and perhaps u dozen different PERSONS could nave
heard every word he snd Again. ho said TINS same
thing 10 four or five other ministers OF this CITY, Oh
none of whom did he enjoin any secrecy whatever.
II you know Gilbert IIaven's style of conversation
and will read that Interview. you will SEQ how I'M
possible il wOnd be for any ono to initiate So per-
frcty his pcculiaries That interview is suhstantl-
al verbatim report Of hat he said to me, and rs
have been informed 90 other ministers OF the NJ L'
Church in Nebraska Ii seems to me that justice
requires that you give this letter "a wide cfcAia-
tion as he one III which Bishop Haven accuses me
of ptlroining q private interview. selling II othe
newspapcrs and then lying about what no sad ana
il j, to bc hoped that when the General Conference
elect, the next Bishop that they will appoint COM
rnitee TO ascertain if the candidate Is defective
in memory that lac will entirely forget half dozen
different conversations inside Of two weeks. ms
letter is written with tho advice Of tho Presiding
Elder OF the district and the ministers Of the city
TIL. IBBLFs, Pastor Omaha NJ. l.. Mission
omaha, Atb.. Jan. =, 1876.