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 AGO
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 | never received. One de-
cisive instance will here suffice. Cipher
telegram seventy eight C7S), as translated
a1d ascrlbed to me, is a forgery. 1t mis-
states the situation as | know It, 1t is ad
dressed 20 II. Havemeyer. l never sent a
message to or through any Mr.. Havemeyer
in all my life.
The Tribune affirms that after Nov.
22d mot line was sent by, Mr.. Marble
even in his most accret ciphers. impIvino 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 Cinpcinati
Enquirer and Commercial the Chicago
Tunes, and Louisville Courier .JonrD1L
justify that belief with proofs now sifted
and incontestible.
This fiction and that forgery are the two
necessary hinges upon which the Tribune
hangs every subsequent Justification of nv
opinion, purposes and acts.
shall let these thirty or forty broad
sides OF dispdragement pass on into echoes
moIe or less noisy, because there happens
TO he no Telegram imputed to me, as there
can be no telegram verify mine. that CON
nIcts with one fact, namely: | never at
tempted, furthered, or executed, in auy
manner direct or indirect. or ever assent
ed to or cOncurred in, any proposition,
ulpose, scheme or effort to bdy the state
canvassers' certificate of the vote of Flor
ida, or even to hire them to certify that
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 Republican
member of the board, or both, could and
must he brought to tell the truth turn
states evidence and brave Republican re-
venets, else they never gave theiG csrtifi-
cate in accordance with the truth, confess
ed since by one of them, McLin, and es-
taollshed 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 or
/ Republican, which favored or even tolerat-
Ell 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, to
! every member of the FlO1Ida board The
/ foremost Republican antagonist in our
/ long contention, General Francis G. Bar
low, as L heard and believed, had private
! ly told McLin and Cowgirl SO. In the be-
/ hall of the Democrats from the North, so
had L. And | telegra phed when the board
went into session an in;imatiOn of my be-
lief that the right would prevail A few
4 hours later their certificate to the reverse
OF the truth dispelled my Illusion.
What American citizen could then con.
1 ceive that a president de facto by means OF
one forged and two false STATE certificates.
/ bimself the chief beneficiary of their pur.
| chase, would reward nearly every known
/ agent and accessory in that crime with a
| share of its fruits, and this sovereign peo-
| iIle tax themselves $3.50, 900 for the annual
| wages of that successful fraud ?
| MANTON MARBLE
New York, October ID, 1873.