Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-10-26
Mr.. MAN TON MARBLES EPLAN-
ALTON.
Tho Alleged Cipher Dispatches that Have
Lately Appeared in the Tribune.

To THE EDITOR OF THE HER
ALD-Sir:: Your request night O
two ago at the Union Club has in
duced me to look over the Tri6un,
Of the last two months and to hant
you what [ have to say thereon.
The Tribune ascribes TO me Will.
in Florida, Novem ber and Dscem
ber, 1876, the sending of certain
te'egrams which I never sent, the
receiving of certain kilograms
which l never received. One deci
sive instance will here suffice. CT.
pher telegram seventy-eight (7S)
as translated and ascribed to me, i
forgery. 1t misstates the situa.
tion as ] know it. 1t is addressed
to II. Havemeyer. 1 never sent q
message to or through any Mr.
Havemeyer in all my life.
The Tribune affirms that after
Nov. %, "not line was sent by
Mr.. Marble, even in his most Sc.
cret ciphers, implying a belief that
the Democrats had any right to
the vote of the State" NY private
kilograms show the contrary. NV
several dispatches published in the
New York Herald, World and Sun,
the Cincinnati Enquirer and Com.
n,erciol, the Chicago Times, and
the Louisville Courier Journal,
justify that belief with proofs now
sifted and incontestible.
This fiction and that forgery are
the two necessary hinges upop
which the Tribune hangs eyerv
subsequent falsification of my
opinions, purposes and acts.
l shall let these thirty or forty
broadsides Of disparagem msnt pass
on Into echoes more or less noisy,
because there happens to be no tel.
egram imputed to me, as there can
be no telegram verify mine that
with one fact, namely: II
never alten1 pied, furthered or exec
cuted, in any manner, direct or in
direct, or ever assented to or con.
Cured in, any proposition, purpose,
'cheme or effort to buy the State
Canvassers' certificate Of the vote
Of Florida, or even to hire them to
certify that vote as it was cast by
her people for the Tilden electors.
Real or pretended brokers over
ran Tallahassee flushing the game
which Noyes bagged. From such
people / received many proposi.
lions that one Republican member
Of the Board, or both, could and
must be bought to tell the truth,
urn States evidence, and brave
revenges, else they
would never give their certificate |
n accordance with the truth, con-
iessed since by one of them, McI,in.
and established long before The
,ount by all the g99ysrqmeBso! |
pie of Florida, on November 7tb,
lad chosen the Tilden electors. |
always informing the
jroper officer of the National DEM
,cratic Committee Of the course of |
events, l never reported, for 1 never
lsd, a syllable OF consultation with |
Mr.. Woolley or anybody, Demo.
,rat or Republican, which favored
,r even tolerated the acceptance of |
my such proposition. None were
aver discussed by me. On the con-
.rary, / repulsed every approach of
hat sort on the spot. My decis.
on, never debated, was nowhere
Questioned.
Was that decision an error? The
acts, which no candid man now
disputes, were then plain, as their |
iuty was plain, to every member
If the Florida Board. The foremost
antagonist in our long |
Gen. Francis G. Bar. |
ow, as heard and believed, had
told MoLin and Cowgirl
10. In the behalf Of the Democrats
rom the North, SO had /. And |
ielegraphed when the Board went
nto session an intimation of my
belief that the right would prevail.
few hours later their certificate
20 the reverse of the truth dispelled
my illusion.
What American citizen could
hen conceive that President de