Daily Republican., 1880-07-23
Mailing n Lie.

The every EVenlpg anu INC uazetse
have been very sssiduous in circulating
report Of decision alleged to have
been rendered by the United States
Supreme Court, through Justice Swayne,
who is a Republican, in 1875, in con-
domination Of the employment Of Gen.
Garfield as counsel by the de Golyer
pavement company. Experts, clerks
and reporters have been at Washing
ton searching through the records Of
the Supreme Court to get the verbatim
language used by the Judge on that
occasion, bu. they have failed to find
1t. The story of Justice Swayne's
scathing rebuke to General Garfield,
not word of which was true, has
travelled the rounds Of the press until
| II reached the eyes Of that old fossil
ex-senator Doolittle, away out in Wis
eonsin, who was counsel in the case,
and Notwithstanding the fact that Mr..
Doolittle has become an extreme Demo
crat, he had honor and manhood
enough about him to promptly contra
dict the lying: report which was in
tended to..blacken the character Of Gar
field.
As might have been expected BY
those who are familiar with Democratic
campaign methods no such language
was ever used by Justice Swayne on
the bench or elsewhere, and he never
had an opportunity to deliver a judi
oial opinion upon the matter because the
case was not taken before the Supreme
Court Ex-Senutor Doolittle sets the
matter at rest in the following briei
and off, hand manner:
"a serious errer has been male by
some newspaper in supposing that the
DeGolyer case ever went to the Supreme
Court, or that Justice Swayne used the
Language attributed to him in comment
ing up0n It. In the brief submitted to
Judge Farwell, in the Circuit Court
here, another case-Burke against
Child-decided in the Supreme Court,
was cited, and Justice Swayne's opin.
ion stated. But the mistake has been
this-that a part of the language of the
brief which follows the citation Of the
case of Burke vs.. Child is attributed 10
Justice Swayne, language which he
never used, for the case was never be-
fore him, and as was the counsel who
submitted the brief, it is just to Gen-
Garfield, to Justice Swayne, and 10 my
self that I should at once correct this
mistake"
We are not complaining Of the ha m
that this report has done General Gar
field or the Republican party, for we
were well satisfied that the thing was a
lie in the whole cloth and we fully ex.
pected that very soon the originatoIs Of
the lie would be brought to grief. 1t
has however been done sooner and in o
more emphatic smanner than we ex
p2cted with no other effect than to
make the character Of General Gar
field shine more Fright and conspicuous
and.to sh"w the malignant propensity
OF TIE Democrats TO blacken and de.
/ fame the characters Of their opponents
This avalanche of mud like all Other
mud discharged at General Garfield
fails to find lodgment upon his skirts
OF course the Every Evening and th'
Gazette will take back all they hav'
said derogatory to the character o
General Garfield based upon the lyini
report that Chief Justice Swayne de
nounced him In decision rendered il
the Supreme Court on the de Golye
pavement matter. This much at leas
may be expected from the high-tonet
Every Evening, which has never ye
failed to he tair and manly. Wei
hardly ever.