New-York tribune., 1878-10-15
GENERAL GARFIELps OPINION.
THE REVELATIONS INJURIOUS EVEN TO PARTY on
SUCH LOW MORALITY AS TIE DEMOCRACY.

THE REVELATIONS INJURIOUS EVEN TO PARTY Oh
SUCH LOW MORALITY AS TIE DEMOCRACY.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUHE.I
WAsUINGToN. Oct 14-General Garfield left this
morning for Harrisburg, where he Is to speak to-
night. Just before starting he was asked for
his opinion about the cipher dispatches.
He smiled for moment, as there
was something enjoyable in the idea. bui
suddenly stopped, and with tone which betrayed
feeling of indignation, said that the persons lmp'
GATED In the transactions which are new being set
forth must either deny the genuineness OF the dis
patches or the correctness of the tTanslatlons o1
them OF else stand before the world confessed ermi
nails in intention.
"a week has now passed. said he, land they
have made no answer. They have denied nothing,
and their silence must be construed confession,
npless they make denial hereafter sufficiently
strong to compensate for their delay Assuming that
they cannot deny the genuineness OF inc
dispatches nor the correctness Of the translation Of
them, 1t seems to me that 1t puts an end
to their ability to say Woru ABOUT tne
Repubheaus The dispatches are so much
worse than anything they allege against
us, that it not only makes them the confessed
contrivers of fraud themselves, but it gives them
the appearance of attempting to conceal their opera
tions under cloud of accusations against resort
70 the frauds they nave themselves pclPcudtc"'
what will be the effect of the exposure on the
Democratic partyf I"
"It won't hurt that party as much as such
state of facts could it have been possible, would
have hurt ours. We are always infinitely more se'
riously hurt by moral dereIietlon than they; but
it must be that it will hurt even them. and
this, SO far as | know, is the universal
opinion among Republicans and among the better
class of Democrats As piece OF journalistic en'
terprise and skill in decphering the very obscure
set of dispatches the work is among the foremost OF
ANYTHING that has been done in this country,
not the very FIRST"
"What effect do you think the DEVELOPMENT VIII
have upon the Noyem Der electionsi" was asked
1T must, it seems to me-" SAID General Garfield,
"haye a very decided effect upon them"
"a very significant thing,n continued the General,
"about the Florida dispatches is the three distinct
periods into which their operations seem to
have been divided. First, the honest belief
that they carried the vote in Florida on
the face of the papers, and the vehement demand TO
couut the vote actually cast, without the power TO
purRe the poll. Second, when they discovered
that they bad not carried the state, the
facle way in which they changed Their opinions,
and insisted on the duty, and their rlght To Ihab
which they had Just denied. This new view they
stood to until they found that the purged polls de,
feated them. Third. the bold and determined
attempt to buy the board These three stages oetray
n feariully rapid descent into rascaluy lhere y
lofty pr0nunciamentO of Marble on the moral tone
of Tilden's campaign and the management OF INC
count painted on the BACKGROUND Ol reahty dls'
closed by the Florida dispatches"