Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-18
MnntOn Marbles Dental.

To the Editor Of the Herald.
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-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 1 have to saw
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 received. One decisive in
stance will here suffice. Cipher
telegram seventy eight, as translated and as
cribed to me, is forgery. It misstates the
situation as Iknew it. It is addressed to II.
Havemeyer. ] never sent a message to or
through any Mr.. Havemeyer in all my life.
The Tribune affirms that latter November 22d
not a 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 shows the con
trary. My several dispatches published by the
New York Herald, World and Sun, the Cincin-
natl Enquirer and Commercial, the Chicago
Times and the Louisville Couyier-Jou,7aaz, JUS
tlfy that belief with the proofs now sifted and
lncontestable. This fiction and that forgery
are the two remaining hinges upon which the
tribune hangs every subs ,quent Justification Of
my opinions, purposes and acts.
l shall let these thirty or forty broadsi6es of
dlsparagement pass on into echoes more or less
noisy, because there happens to be no telegram.
verify mine that conflicts with one fact, name
ly: never attempted, furthered or executed
in any manner, direct or indirect, or even as
sented to, or concurred in any proposition, pur-
pose, scheme or effort to buy the State can
vassers' certificate of the vote of Florida, or
Qun 10 %Iovx, e.
was cast by her people, for the
Tilden electors. Real or pretended
brokers ove,ran 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 re-
venges-else they would never give their certifi-
cate In accordance with the truth confessed
since by one of them, McLin, and established
long before the count by all the governmental
powers of the State-that the people of Flori Ia
on Nov. eth tad chosen the Tilden electors.
Though always informing the proper officer
of the National Democratic committee of the
course of events. never reported, for I never
had a syllable of consultation with Mr..
Woolley or any body, Democrat or Republican,
which favored or even tolerated the acceptance
cussed by me. On the contrary, I repulsed
every approach of that sort on the spot. My
decision. never debated, was nowhere question
ed. Was that decision 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
contention, Gen. Francis G. Barlow, as heard
and believed, had privately told McLin and
Cowgirl In. the behalf of the Democrats
from the North SO had I; and telegraphed
when the board went into session an intima-
~ ~; II
few hours later their certificate to the reverse
of the truth dispelled my illusion. What
American citizen could then conceive that a
President de .facto, by means of one forged and
two false State certificates, himself the chief
beneficiary OF their purchase. woald reward
nearly every known agent and accessory in that
eign people tax themselves $3.50, 900 for the an
nual wages of that successful fraud!
MANToN MARBLE.