Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-10-28
rpErsoNAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

lfEEsONAL AMI SONF NFlDENllAL.l
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, !
WASHINGTON, D. c., January %, 1880.
DEAR SIR-Yours in relation to the
Chinese problem came duly to hand. l
take it that the question of employees is
only question of private and corporate
economy, and individuals or cOmpanys
have the right to buy labor where they
can get it cheapest. We have treaty
with the Chinese Government which
should be religiously kept until its pro-
visions are abrogated by the action of
the general GOyernmenJ. And l am
not prepared to say thaO il should be alb
rogated until our great manufacturing
interests are conserved in the matter OF
labor. Very truly yours,
[Signed] J. A. GARFIELD.
To H L. Morey, Employers Union, Lynn, Mass.
On Friday Gen. Garfield photographed
Chairman Jewell, of the Republican
Committee:
MENTOR, O., Oct. %.
To Hon. NJ. Jewell and Hon. S. W. Dorsey:
will not break the rule have adopt
ed by making public reply to campaign
lies, but authorize you to denounce the
so-called Morey letter as bold forgery,
both in its language and sentiment IN
til its publication l never heard of the
existence of the Employers Union of
Lynn, Mass, nor of such a person as II.
L. Morey. J. A. GARFIELD.
Saturday Gen. Garfield telegraphed
Chairman Jewell:
MENTOR, O., Oct. 23.
To Hon. Marshall Jewell:
Your telegram of the afternoon is re-
received Publish my dispatch of last
evening, if you think best. Within the
last hour the mail has brought me a
lithographic copy of the forged letter. 1t
is the work of some clumsy william who
cannot write English, nor initiate my
handwriting. Every honest and manly
Democrat in America, who is familiar
with my handwriting, will denounce the
forgery at sight. Put the case in the
hands of the ablest detectives at once,
and hunt the rascal down.
J. A. GARFIELD.
Friday the following dispatch was
given the Associated Press at Boston:
BOSTON, Oct. 22.-Several of the most
prominent manufacturers of Lynn, rep
resenting capital in business of over
S9,000,000, have signed card declaring
that there is not and has not been any
organization there called the Employ
eIs' Union" and that there is no such
man as II. l.. Mercy, to whom it is as
serted Garfields letter on the Chinese
al,
the General so promptly pronounced a
forgery. The card of the Lynn manu-
facturers is as follows:
The undersigned, shoe manufacturers
of this city, hereby state that there new
er was any organization or association
called "the Employers Union" and we
do not know any man by the name of
II. l.. Morey who Was ever employed by
us or a resident of this city.
Samuel. M Bubier, John Shaw & Bro,
C.S. Sweetser & Co, Bubier Bros,
S. j. Hollis, C. A. Coffin & Co.,
Keene Bros, Chas. B. Tebbetts,
B. f. Spinney & Co., B. II. Dankes & Co,
Jos. Davis & Co., Luther II. Johnson,
A. T. Breed, jerome ingalls,,
C. ID. Pecker & Co, Morgan & Dore,
f. w. Breed.
The Postmaster at Washington also
furnishes the following little .testimo-
nial:
"That the whole thing is manufac-
tured, bold and villianouS fraud, the
following facts will fairly show: No
such canceling stamp was at the Wash
ington Postoffice on the Sd of January,
the date the letter was claimed to have
been mailed. The entire set of cancel
ing stamps were placed in use in this Of
flee on the 18th of April. The Truths
fac-simile is very good representation
of the net0 stamp, but it is totally unlike
the one in use in this Office on the 23d
of January, the old stamp being made of
rubber and the new one of steel, and very
unlike in their arrangement. This shows
conclusively that the whole matter is an
unmitigated forgery, for which the au-
thors should be sent to the Penitentiary."
Notwithstanding all this, the Wheel
ing Register of Monday insists in stun
ming head lines, that Gen. Garfield wrote
the letter, and, no doubt. the St. Clairs-
vile Gazette of this week will do the
same thing.
Every honest and fair-minded Demo
crat of Belmont county will have an op-
portunity to rebuke these reckless and
mendacious libelers next Tuesday.