The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST s..
The Forgery Charge.
Lieutenant Tobie Denies 1t.

The attention of the Argus is respectfully
called TO the following letter from Lieut.. Tobie.
The letter may have escaped its observation
PROVIDENCE, R. l., Aug, LIST. 1879.
To the Editor of the Kenaebee Journal
1 received by private letter from Augusta,
night before last word that the Lewiston Ga
zette and other papers are charging you with
forgery in the matter of publishing Daviss
record written by me- A day or two after its
publication / received a note from the Maine
Standard office, inquiring whetherI wrote any
part of it, and stating that its authenticity was
doubted, and saying the last paragraph seemed
to conflict with my note to Capt. w. III. Wal
dron. To this l wrote the following reply:
PROVIDENCE, July 14th, 1879.
Maine Standard Office
DEAR SIR:-Yours of the 18th, with an article
from the Kennebec journal of the same date en-
titled ''The War Record of Hon. Daniel +. Davis"
is received. In reply will state that the article
enclot ed was written by me- and far as can tell
from careful reading erery ac0rd of it. At least
discovered no errors in it. cannot any seem
ing conflict between "the last paragraph and my
note TO Capt VIM. II. Waldron."l
Yours respectfully,
EDW. p. ToBIE.
After forwarding this thought no more
about its authenticity being questioned, until
l received private letter night before last.
Had known what was being said should
have written before. Last evening l received
letter from Maj. j. ID. Myrick, making in
quiries concerning the matter, which l at
once answered, telling him in effect that did
write the letter; that it was published as writ
ten; that no addition was made to it by the
journal people, or by any one else; that no
alteration had been made in it whatever, I'M
less perhaps some typographical error or
blunder which l did not discover in some
what careful reading of it. Also that the record
was made up, as was distinctly stated in it, from
Chaplain Merrills Campaigns of the First
Maine and First District of Columbia Caval-
ry" from the Adjutant Generals report, and
from printed roster of Co. f.. and the regi-
mental monthly returns. AS wrote to Capt.
Waldron, had no personal recollection of
Corporal Davis whatever. This morning l
have compared the letter as published with a
copy of the original, and now reiterate, what
wrote to the Maine Standard, and to Major
Myrick, that wrote the letter, and that 1
wrote every word as it was published-no
more, no less. Hold! I am too FAST as COM
pared with my copy there are one or two errors,
one is the omission of the little word ''beng'
before "busy" at the commencement of the
fftieth line-a mere error of construction
which might have been my fault in copying;
one other is the word driving instead of
Charging in the sixty-fourth line-an error
which might be laid to the blindness of my
manuscript. These are all the errors, correc-
tions, alterations, emendations, or additions
that discover. Is this plain enough? have
also heard it intimated from Democratic
sources that made no affidavit to the record.
was under the impression that il was unnec-
essary for Republican to swear to anything
he stated in order to be believed-that this is
only necessary on the part of Democrats. But
the idea of making affidavit to the truth of
what is taken from official records, and what
can easily be verified by going to the Adiutant
Generals office, is decidedly rich.
Yours Respectfully,
EDw. P ToBIE
Does anybody want an affidavit to this sigma
ure? E.P. L.