Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-11-05
The Latest About The MOrey
Letter.

Brooklyn Eagle.l
But ! can't understand, said Ms.
Spoopendyke argumentatiysly, after
her husband had carefully explained
to her all about the Chinese letter,
What | don't understand is if Mr..
Garfield says he didn't send the letter.
how did MIR. Morey get it?"
He didn't get it, they say, return
ed Mr.. Spoopendyke. 'They claim
that Morey never saw or heard Of it.
Don't you see?"
Perfectly. But who got it? If it
was mailed 10 Mr.. Morey how could
any one else get it? If Mr.. Garfield
should write a letter to me, how would
a newspaper get hold of it?'
well, if he ever does, they'll know
it. Cant We understand anything at
all, scarcely The democrats say that
Mr.. Garfield wrote the letter, and the
republicans say he didn't?'
What do the greenbackers say2
That would be important
bod CAST the greenbackors, re-
torted Mr.. sS~poopendyke; what
have they to do with it? The que.-
tion is whether Mr.. Garfield wrote
it,"
81 don't see why he didn't, if Mr..
Morey got it. Now if Mr. Morey
hadn't got it, there might be some
question, but
What's the matter with your" de.
handed Mr.. Spoopendyke. "What
are ye thinking with, yer elbows? If
Mr.. Garfield didn't send it, how could
Mr. Morey get it2 S'pose he went a
fishing and caught it like an eel2'
That's the point" conceded Mrs.
SpOopendyke. "But if Nh. Morey did
get it, who sent it2 He must have
got it, because it was directed to him. "
THAT settles it" groaned MI. Spoo-
pendyke. Nobody thought of that
before. You've got the whole postal
system in a teaspoon. If somebody
would fit you up with pigeon-holes
and an iron safe you'd only need to be
assessed 10 per cent by a campaign
committee to be a good pOstOfice. If
Mr.. Garfield never sent that letter, Of
course Mr.. Morey never got it. Amt
that plain2 Ii he did get il, then the
chances are that Mr.. Garfield wrote
it. Can We sec that?'
That's just what | said. Now, if
Mr.. MOrey didn't get il, how did the
newspapers get hold of it? Did Mr..
Garfield send it To the newspaper
"0hl didn't he?" howled Mr.. Spoo-
pendyke. "He took it around him
self and spralned his leg doing it. OIL
you've struck it. 1t took your logic
to fetch out the facts With your
metaphysics you only want a red and
green light TO be a drugstore. The
republicans say that Garfield didn't
write it or send it, and that Morey
never got it or saw it. Can you get
that through your hcad2 Is there
room in your skull for that idea?'
Plenty" rejoined Mrs. Spoopen-
dyke. but dou't the democrats say
that Mr.. Garfield did write it and Mr..
Morey did get it? They may know as
much about il as the republicans, and
then they've got the letter TO prove it.
If they didn't have the letter it
would be different, and it shows that
ii went to Mr.. Morey. Now the only
thing is whether Mr.. Morey was a
democrat or republican. If he
was
"Are ys an idiot2 Have ye got to
20 to night school to be a fool2 Don't
you know Morey's dead? He amt
republican or democrat either he's
an angel, if he's had luck. He left
that letter among his papers, and MS
wife gave it out for publication
Then that ends it, said Mrs.
SpooIendyke. IF his wife gave il
out, / know he never got it, That's