The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-10-24

The Republican papers have been
making themselves merry over certain
cipher kilograms published by the
New York Tribune alleged to have
passed between the Democratic visit
ing politicians in Florida and the Dem
ocratic managers in New York during
the exciting days of the Presidential
count. Certain of these dispatches
have been charged to Mr.. Manton
Marble, formerly editor of the New
York World. That gentleman pub
fishes in the New York Herald of the
18th inst. the following card in which
he makes a full, explicit and sweeping
denial of any completely in OF knowl-
edge of fraud:
NEwYoRK, October 15.-To THE Ed
IToR OF TIE New YORK 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 to hand you what 1 have
| TO say thereon.
The Tribune ascribes to me while
in Florida, November and December,
1876, the sending of certain kilograms
which never sent, and the receiving
of certain kilograms which never re-
ceiyed. One decisive instance will
here suffice. Cipher telegram 7S, as
| translated and ascribed to me, is a
forgery. 1t misstates the situation as
/ knew it. 1t is addressed to II.
Havemeyer. l never sent a message
to or through any Mr.. Havemeyer in
all my life.
The Tribune affirms that ''after No
vember 22d not q line was sent by Mr..
Marble, even III his most secret ciph-
ers, implying a belief that the Demo
Gratis had any right to the vote of the
State" My private kilograms show
the contrary. My several dispatches
published by the New York Herald,
World and Sun, the Cincinnati En-
quirer and Commercial, the Chicago
Times and the Louisville Courier
Journal, justify that belief with the
proofs now sifted and incontestible.
This fiction and that forgery are the
two remaining hinges upon which the
/ Tribune hangs every subsequent fall
sification OF my opinions, purposes
and acts.
I shall let these thirty or forty
broadsides of disparagement pass on
into echoes more or less noisy, be.
cause there happens to be no telegram
imputed to me, as there can be no tel
egram verify mine, that conflicts with
one fact, namely: l never attempted,
furthered Or executed in any manner,
direct or Indirect, or even assented to,
or concurred in any proposition, pur.
pose, scheme or effort to buy the State
Canyassers' certificate of the vote OF
Florida, or even to hire them to cer-
tify that vote, as it was cast by her
people, for the Tiiden Electors. Real
or pretended brokers overran Talla-
hasse. flushing the game which Noy es
| bagged. From such people l receiv-
ed many propositions that one Repub-
lican member of the Board, or both,
could and must be bought to tell the
truth-turn States evidence and brave
Republican reVenges-elset they would
never give their certificate in sccord-
auce with the truth confessed since by
one or them. McLin, and established
long before the count by the Govern
mental pow ers of the State-that the
people of Florida on November 7th
had chosen the Tilden Electors.
Though always informing the prop
er officer OF the National Democratic
Committee of the course of events, |
never reported, for never had syl-
liable of consultation with Mr.. Wool
ley or any body, Democrat or Repub-
licau, which favored Or even tOlerat.
ed the acceptance of any such PROPOSE
ton. None were eyer discussed by
me. On the contrary, l repulsed eve
ry approach of that sort on the spot.
My decision. never debated, was no
whert questioned. Was that decis-
ion an error? The facts, which can
did no man disputes, were then plain,
as their duty was plain,to every men,
Der of the Florida Board. The fore
most Republican antagonist in our
long contention, General Francis &.
Barlow, as heard and believed, had
privately told McLin and Cowgirl SO.
In the behalf OF the Democrats from
the North so had and ! telegraphed
when the Board went into session an
intimation of my belief that the right
would prevail. A few hours later
their certificate TO the reverse of the
truth dispel;ed my illusion. What
American citizen could then conceive
that q President de tGctO, by means of
one forged and two false State certifi-
Gates, himself the chief beneficiary of
their purchase, would reward nearly
every known agent and accessory in
that crime with q share of its fruits,
and this sovereign people tax them
selves $l50,OQ0 for the annual wages
of that successful fraudI
MANTON MARBLE.