The Portland daily press., 1878-10-16
THE CYPHER TELEGRAMS.
Mr.. Marble TardiIy Speaks
And Alleges that the Telegram
Compromising HiHn is
"a Forgery.

NEW YORK, Oct Is The following will be
published tomorrow:
To the Editor Of the Herald:
Sir-Your request night or two ago at the
Union club has induced me to look over the
Tribune of the last two months and hand you
what 1 have to say thereon: The Tribune
ascribes to me while in Florida 10 November
aud December, 1876, the sending of certain
kilograms which l never sent and the receiving
of certain kilograms which L never received.
One decisive instance will here suffice. Cipher
telegram rs as translated and ascribed to fne is
a forgery. 1t misstates the situation as knew
it. Ii is addressed to Ell. Havemeyer 1 never
sent a message to or through any Havemeyer
10 my life, The Tribune affirms that after
Nov. 22d ''not line was sent by Mr.. Marble
even in his most secret ciphers, implying
belief that the Democrats had any right to the
vote OF the state My private kilograms show
the contrary. My several DISPATCHES publish
ed by the New York Herald. World and Sun,
the Cincinnati Enquirer and Commercial, the
Chicago Times and the louisville Courier
sifted and incontestable. This fiction aud that
forgery are the two hinges upon which the
Tribune hangs every subsequent Justification
of my opinions, purposes and acts. l sh all let
these 80 or 40 broadsides of disparagement
pass on into echoes more or less noisy, b cause
there happens to be no telegram imputed to N.
as there can be no telegram verify mine that
conflicts with one fact, namely, never at
tempted, farthered or executed in any manner,
direct or indirect, or ever assented to, or con-
Cured in any proposition, purpose, scheme or
effort to buy the state canvassers certified vote
of Florida, or even to hire them
to certify that the vote as it was cast
by the people, for the Tilden. elector.
Real or pretended brokers overran Tallahassee,
flushing the game which Noyes bagged. From
such people | received many propositions that
one Republican member of the board or both
could and must be bought to tell the truth,
turn states evidence and brave Republican
revenges, else they would never give their GER
ti6cates in accordance with the truth confessed
since by one of them, McLin, and established
long before the court by all the governmental
officers of the state, that the people of Florida
on November 7th had chosen the Tildsn cleo
tors. Though always informing the proper
officer of the National Democratic Committee
of the course or events, never reported, for
never had syllable of consultation with Mr..
Woolley or anybody. Democrat or Republican,
which favored or even tolerated the acceptance
of any such proposition. None were ever dis
cussed by nae; on the contrary, repulsed every
approach of that sort on the spot. My decision
never debated and was never here questioned.
Was that decision an error?
The facts which no candid man now disputes
were then plain as their duty was plain to every
member of the Florida BOARD. The foremost
Republican antagonist in our long contest, Gen.
Francis Barlow, as heard and believed, pri-
vately told McLin and Cowgirl so. In behalf
of the Democrats from the North SO had 1, and
1 telegraphed when the Board went into session
an intimation of my belief that the right would
prevail. A few thours slater their certificates
to the reverse of truth dispeled my illusion
What American citizen could then conceive
that President de facto by means of one forg-
| ed and two false state certificates, himself the
| chief beneficiary of their purchase, would re-
ward nearly every known agent and accessory
| in that crime with share of fruits, and that
this sovereign people tax themselves 500 COO for
the annual wages of that successful fraud?
(Signed) MANToN MARBLE.
October Is, 1875