New-York tribune., 1878-10-16
MARBLE EMERGES From THE ARK
HE READS THE TRIBUNE AT LAST.

he hEADN 1HE lhlDONB Al l1tol'
HE SCANS THE FILES or THE PAPER FOR TWO
MONTHS. AND COMES OUT WITH CARD.
The following was received after midnight last
night from The Herald Office:
To The Edtor oftke Herald
SIR: Your request night or two ago at tho
Union Club has induced me to look over IhE
TRIBUNE of the last two months and to hand you
what have to say thereon.
The TRIBUNE ascribes to me, while in FLORIDA,
November and December, 1876, the sending OF cei-
tain kilograms which never sent, the receiving oi
certain kilograms which never received. One de-
clsive instance will here suffice. Cipher telegram
seventy-eight u.s. as translated and ascribcd TO me,
Is forgery 1t misstatcs the situation as knew IT,
II is addressed to II. Hayemeyer. ] never sent
message to or through any Mr. Hayemeyer in all my
life.
The TRIBUNE afTrms that after November %,
mot line was sent bY Mr.. Marble, even in his
most secret ciphers implying belief that the Dem
ocrats had any right to the vote of the State" Ny
private telegrams show the contrary. My several
dispatches published by The Nor York Herald World
and Sun, The CinGnnGd Enquirer and Commercial,
The Chicaqo Times and The Louisville CourerJOurnGI,
justify that belief with proofs sfted and incon-
teslable.
This fiction and that forgery the two necessary
hinges upon which THE TRIBUNE hangs every sub
sequent falsii ,aion of my opinions, purposes ana
acis.
shall let these thirty or forty broadsides Of dis
paragemcnt pass into echoes more O. less noisy,
because there happens to be no telegram Imputed to
me. rs there can be no Telegram verify mine,
that conflicts with one fact, namely: ! never
attempted, furthered, or executed IN sny manner
direct indirect, ever assentcd TO or concurTed
in, any proposition, purpose scheme effort 10 buy
NO nf
ida or even to hire them to certify that vote, as it
was cast by her people, for the Tldcn electors.
Real or pretended brokers oyerran Tallahassee
flushing the game which Noyes bagged. From such
people received many propositions that one RI
publican member Of the board, OF both. could and
must be bought 10 tell the truth, turn Statcseyidence
and brave Republican Tcyenges. else they would
never give their certificate IN accordance with the
truth, confessed by one of them, McLin, and
established long before the count b. all the govern
mental powers of tho State, that the people of
Florida on November had chosen the lilden
electors Though always informing the proper
officer of the National Democratic Committee Of the
course Of events, reported, for never had,
a syllable of consultation with Nh WoOlley or any
body Democrat or Republican which favored or
even tolerated the acceptance of any snch propo-
sition None were ever discussed by me. On the
contrary, repulsed every approach Of that sort on
the spot. My decision never debated was nowhere
questioned.
Was that decision errori 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, General Francis G. Barlow, a.
heard and believed. had privately told McLin and
Cowgirl so In the behalf Of the Democrats from the
North. so bad /. And toegraphed when the board
went into session intmatiOn of my belief that
the right would prevail few hours later their
certificate to the of the truth dsDelled my
illusion.
What American citizen could then conceive that
President dc factO by Of one forged aud two
false State certificates himself the chief beneficiary
of their purchase would reward nearly every known
agent and accessory in that crime with a share Of
its frui's and this sovereign people tax themselves
81 so 900 for the annual wages of that successful
fraudT MASToN MARBLE.
October Is, 1873.