New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-17
HH M1RRLErS PHI


Mr.. Manton Marble is a PItiablc object. He
does not attempt to deny that lac received
many propositions that one Republican
"member of the (FloridaJ Board. or both.
"conld or must be bought" lie does not at
tempt TO deny, but in terms admits, that he
"always informed the proper officer of the Ma
uonal Democratic Committee Of the course
"of events" and he has no friend left who
Will imagine that he means 10 deny that he
forwarded to New-York such propositions
IA he received. There the casc might rest,
if it concerned Mr. Mant0n Marble only. The
assertion that che never reported Il syllable
"of consultations with anybody which IA
"vorcd or even tolerated the accept
lance Of any such proposition" ia Is
palpable and childish evasion. The qucs-
ton IL, Did Mr.. Marble report that
acceptance Of such proposition WAS ncCrS-
sary 70 the success Of lIden i'll Florida This
he neither asserts nor denies, but this il
! exactly what the kilograms compel every can
did reader to believe. Nobody has said that
| he reported any syllable of consultation "
about it. Nobody cares whether he did OF not.
! The polysyllabic denial that lac reported "a
"consutation which favored acceptance" is II
| ers suppose that he denies something else
which ho does not and cannot deny. Further,
the assertion that he "repulsed every approach
"of that sort on tho spot " Ii the sheer impu-
dcnce of childish i-rcspunsibility, in the face
of the admitted fact that ho again and again
received and always forwarded TO Ncw-Iork
! the corrupt proposals made.
Now let us see what the dispatches prove.
| II is necessary first to notice that Mr.. Marble
does not deny the authorship of Is single dis
patch attribute to him sdue one, and that the
utterly unimportant one quoted yesterday,
namely, No 78 TO Mr.. Havcmeyer, beginning
"Board attempted to count electoral votes
this morning" IL it not amazing that. ont
of all the damning DISPATCHES published a.
from Mr. Marble. hc ventures to name and
positively deny not one. but Instances only
this dispatch Of no consequence III any point
of yirw7 But there is something TO he added
here. That rery dispatch, the only one tic
authorship of which Mr.. Marble denies,
boDpeas to be one not signed "Moscs' msidc
tie cipher, and therefore not printed by MS as
siosed Marble" We gave Il with the sigma
turc "M.," as it appeared III the original, and
il is entirely possible That IT may have been
either from Max" IN Florida, or from
Mead" alias Weed, III south Carolina The
fact that MIR. Marble does not venture to as
cert that a single one OF the other dispatches,
sicped Moses inside the cipher, Is not from
him. is m itself exceedingly strong evidence
that they are all correctly attributed to him.
And one thing more will be observed;
Mr.. Marble does not venture to mention
single dispatch purrOrtlng to be re-
cciyed by HIM rs one which he did
not receive. Now the question put TO Mr..
Marble by his published dispatches IL this ;
Did You transmit to No. - GIamcrcy Park,
" in kilograms addressed to Colonel Peton. the
nephew Of Mr. Tildcn. propositions to obtain
"by bribery, for sums named, ueclNon OF
" the Contrasting Board IN favor of Mr.. III