Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-11-13
MANTON MARBLES REPLY TO
THEN. Y TRIB UNE CHA RGES.


ago at tho Union Club, has induced m,
10 look over the Tribune Of the last tw,
months, and to band you what hav,
to say thereon. rbe Tribune ascribe,
to me, while in Florida in November
and December, 1876, the sending O
certain kilograms which | never sent
and tho receiving OF certain telegram,
which never received. One decisiv,
instance will here suffice. Cyphci
telegram seventy-cight (78) as trans
lated and ascribed TO me, is u forgery
IL mistates the situation as knew. II
is addressed to ii. Havsmeycr.
never sent message TO or through any
Mr.. Havemeyer in my life.
The Tribune afiirms that after No,
vomber %, not line was sent by Mr..
Marble, even in his most secret cyphers,
implying belief that the Democrats
had any right to the vote OF the State
My private kilograms show the contra.
ry. My several dispatches published
by the New York Herald, World and
Sun, the Cincinnati Enquirer and Com
mercidl, ,theC lineage Times, and the Louis
willie Courier Journal, justify that belief
with the proofs now sifted and incon-
testible.
This fiction and that forgery are the
two necessary hinges upon which the
Tribune hangs every subsequent falsi.
hcation of my opinions, purposes and
acts. shall let these thirty or forty
broadsides of disparagement pass on
into echoes more or less noisy, because
there happens to be no telegram impu.
ted TO me, as there can be no telegram
verify mine, that conflicts with one
fact, namely: | never attempted. fur
thercd or executed in any manner, di.
rect or indirect, or ever assented to or
concurred IN any proposition, purpose,
scheme or effort to buy the State Can.
vassers certificate OF the vote of Flori.
da or even to hire them to certify the
vote, as il was cast by her people for
tho Tilden electors Real or pretend.
ed brokers overran Tallahassee, flush.
ing the game which Noyes bagged.
From such people ! received many
propositions that one Republican mem
ber or both, could and must be bought
TO tell the truth, turn States evidence
and brave tho Republican revenges, else
they would never give their certificate
in accordance with the truth confessed
since by one OF them, McLin, and es.
tablished long before the count by oil
the governmental powers of the State,
that the people OF Florida on Novem.
ber 7th, had chosen the Tildcn electors.
Though always informing the proper
officer of the National Democratic
Committee Of the course of events. |
never reported for | never had q syla.
BILE Of consultation with Mr.. Wooley or
anybody, Democrat or Republican,
which favored or even tolera ted the &C.
ceptance of any such proposition.
None were ever discussed by me. On
the contrary, l repulsed every ap.
proacb OF that sort on the spot NV
decision, never debated, was nowhere
Questioned. Was that decision an
urrorl
The facts which no candid man now
disputes, were then plain, as their du-
" was plain, to every member Of the
Florida Board. The foremost Repub.
lican antagonist in our long contention,
General Francis d. Barlow, as heard
and believed, had privately told Nc
Lin and Cowgirl 80. 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 tho truth dispellcd my
Illusion. What American citizen could
then conceive that President de facio
by means of one forged and two false
State certificates, himself the chief
beneficiary Of their purchase, would
reward nearly every known agent and
accessory in that crime with share
Of its fruits, and this sovereign people
tax themselves $3.50, ,00C for the annual
wages OF that most successful fraud?
MASroN MARBLE.