The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-10-25
Il Card form Mr.. Marble.
A FICTION AND A FORGERY CHARGED UPON
THE TRIBUNE"
To the Editor Of the Herald :

To the Editor Of the Herald
SIR: Your request a night or two aoo
at the Union club has induced me to look
over the Tribune of the last two months
and to hand you what have to say there
on.
The Tribune ascribes to me while in
Florida, November and December, 1876.
the sending of certain kilograms which |
never sent, the receiving of certain tele-
grams which l never received. One de-
cisive instance will here suffice. Cipher
telegram seventy eight C7S), as translated
aad ascribed to me, is a forgery. 1t mis-
states the situation as | know it. 1t is ad
dressed 20 III. Havemeyer. never sent a
message to or through any Mr.. Havemeyer
in all my life.
Ihe tribune affirmS that after Nov
22d mot line was sent by, Mr. Marble.
even IN his most accret ciphers, impIyino a
belief that the Democrats had any right to
the vote of the State" My private tele-
grams show the contrary. My several de
spatches published by the New York
! Herald. World and Sun, the Cinncinati
| Enquirer and ConaDterciaL the Chicago
| Tunes, and Louisville Courier Journal
justify that belief with proofs now sifted
| and incontestible.
This fiction and that forgery are the twC
! necessary hinges upon which the TriBUu,
| hangs every subsequent Justification of my
! opinion, purposes and acts.
j shall let these thirty or forty broad
sldes ol dlspdragement pass on into echoes
! more or less noisy, because there happens
| 10 be no Telegram imputed to me. as there
can be no telegram verify mine. that con.
| fiIcts with one fact, namely: | never at.
! tempted, furthered, or executed in any
/ manner direct or indirect, or ever assent
! ed To or cOucurred in, any proposition
! pun lpose, scheme or effort to bIy the STATE
canvassers' certificate of the vote of Flor.
! ida, or even to hire them to certify that
woe woe as It was cast by her people for the
] Tilden electors.
! Real OF pretended brokers overran Tai.
lahassee flashing the game which Moves
! bagged. From such people | received
/ many propositions that one Renublicar
/ member of the board, or both, could and
/ must he brought to tell the truth. turu
states evidence and brave Republican re-.
venges, else they never gave theiE csrtifi-
cate IN accordance with the truth, confess.
| ed since by one of them, McI.in. and es
tabllshed long before the count by all the
/ governmental powers of the state, that the
! people of Florida on November : had
/ chosen the Tiiden electors Though al
ways informing the proper officers of the
! national Democratic committee of the
/ course of events, | never reported. for I
never haG, a syllable of consultation with
Mr.. Woolley or anybody, Democrat on
! Republican, which favored or even tolerat.
/ ed the acceptance of any such proposition
None we're ever discussed by me. On the
! contrary, | repulsed every approach Of that
sort, on the spot. My decision. never de-
bated, was nowhere questioned.
Was that decision an error? The facts.
| which no candid man now disputes, were
/ then plain, as their duty was plain, "a
every member of the Floilda board. The
| foremost Republican antagonist in oul
| long contention, General Francis G. Bar.
! low, as L heard and believed, had private
! ly TOLD McLin and Cowgirl so. In the be.
/ bali of the Democrats from the North. SC
had |. And | telegraphed when the board
went into session an in;imation of my be-
! lief that the right would prevail. A few
hours later their certificate to the reverse
OF the truth dispelied my Illusion.
What American citizen could then con
/ ceIve that president de facto by means ot
one forged and two false STATE certificates
bimself the chief beneficiary of their pur
chase, would reward nearly every known
| agent aud accessory in that crime with 3
| share OF its fruits, and this sovereign peo
| pie tax themselves $50, 600 for the annua
| wages of that successful fraud ?
MANTON MARBLE.
New York, October 10, 1873.