Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-13
ment sent you in print was made by you.
Your obedisnt servant,

Your obedisnt servant, &
Rosco CoNKLING.
The Honorable L. F. Bayard, Senator,
Washington, D. @.
WILMINGTON, Del, Nov. 11-Sir: Your
letter dated the Ii b inst, Iostmarked the
18th. was received this morning. You sent
me on the 30th an anonymous communica-
ton cut from q Republican newspaper in
Philadelphia purporting to be an extract
from publir speech made by me at Dover,
near the end of the recent canvass. I should
not have considered statement so ire
sponsibly made worthy of notice, but as you
did replied to you instantly in spirit of
courtesy, that had never before seen or heard
of the article; that it was so grossly inaccurate
as to cause q belief it could not have been
written by an honest person; but as l had
spoken of the case of Phelps, Dodge & Co.,
and mentioned you in connection with it, I
went on candidly TO give
you as fully as memory enabled
me what did say, which necessarily exclud-
ed what did not say, aud included all of my
| speech which had any relation to you on the
moiety question. The extract you sent me
is untrue, aud believe maliciously 80, and
can but be surprised, as your letter had
assured nae you did not mean to imply that
J you supposed did or would make such an
utterance, that any other statement than
that contained in my letter Dould be desired.
In that letter also expressed my regret if
the slightest injustice had been dons YOU,
and that l should feel myself bound to apply
any proper remedy when an error had been
pointed out tc me. Your letter in reply to
this characterzes my statement snow quite
different and erroneous" and subsequently
that my response consists Of sale
cations far different, and though less
injurious, offensive and untrue, being
thereupon publication of which I (you)
have 10 knowledge" The publications to
which l made reference, of which you say
you have 70 knowledge, which relate to your
alleged connection with the case of Phelps,
Dodge q Co., you will fnd i'll the testimony
of MIR. VIM. E. Dodge, page 226, and of
Hon. Noah Davis, pages 247 and 248, of
House miscellaneous documents, No. 26i, of
the first session of the Forty third Congress.
The statement of VIM. II. Wood, have al
ready stated, was published ia the New York
Sun of the 28th ultimo. For your inquiry
whether 81 wish to leave the matter here"
can only reply that have no wish on the
subject but to be simply just to myself and
others, and wherever that leads me shall
try to follow. Your obedient servant,
(Signed) L. F. BAYARD.
The Hon. Roscoe Conkling, Utica, n. Y.
AIs Editorial Response to Bayard.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12.-Ihe press will
say tomorrow of Mr.. Bayard's statement:
"Mr. Bayard says staff correspondent of
the Press received letter from him, in
which he stated the fslsity and malice Of the
report Of his speech. This is true. The
letter was private and contained
other matters. When the statement was
communicated to the editor of the Press the
staff correspondent was authorized to say 10
MIR. Bayard that The Press would gladly
print whatever he might say OF the subject.
TO that suggestion no response was made.
Since Mr. Bayard now speaks of the report
of his speech az an anonymous comnuni-
cation, so irrssponsibly made" it is due to
truth to say that it
came from thoroughly responsible source
and that it was a verbatim report. Pains
have been taken to verify it and its authori-
ty is confirmed not merely by the reporter
who made it but many citizens of Dover,
who heard the speaker, and whose attention
was particularly attracted at the time by the
extraordinary character of this accusation.
The case will not be complete until
this testimony is completed.