The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-10-29
That Chinese Letter
is 1T A FORGERY 7
A MAN ARRESTED /!

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A MAN ARRESTED I!
a Full Review of All the Facts In sls
At the close of last week IL looked q
IL the Chinese cheap labor letter attribu
ted TO Garfield, was forgery. The Re
publican national committee came on
with statement signed by number o
men that II. l.. Mowry, TO whom the let
ter was purported 10 be addressed, ant
the Employees Union. in whose care |
was sent, were myth, that no such maj
or organization ever existed in Lynn
Mass. An examination Of the city direc
tory failed to disclose any such name
Then Gen. Garfield. after 4 days impor
tunity from New York, finally telegraph
ed a denial of the letter, pronounced IL
stupid forgery, and said 'its brutal senti
ments ! never entertained, and declared
that he never knew or heard of any such
man as III. l.. Mowry. Then Postmaster
Anger at Washington pronounced the
envelope which was published with the
letter to be fraud.
| He said that rubber stamp for post
marking envelopes was used up to April
| 10, when steel stamp was adopted, and
| since has been used. The postmark on
this letter, he said, was a very good rep
resentation of that of the steel stamp
but totally unlike the rubber.
Marshall Jewell, chairman of the Re-
publican National committee, issued a
letter Monday, saying that the photographic
copy OF the letter had been shown to so
OF the leading financiers brokers and
| bankers of New York, compared by
them with Garfield's handwriting, and all
but two of them had unhestatingly pro.
nounced it patent forgery. But he fail
| ed to give the name of one of these men,
SO the statement is of no sort of impor-
| lance.
Wednesday afternoon the Republicans
caused Kenwood PhiIp one of the edf-
tors of the Truth newspaper, which firsk
published the letter, to be arrested, on1l
charge of criminally libeling Mr.. GARFIELD,
and writing editorials accusing him of
lying. Philip was arraigned before Judge
Davis, the dispositions of j. E. Payne. A.
F. and VIM. Southworth, experts in pen-
manship, were read, averrting that they
had compared the chirography of the
Morey letter with editorials and letters
written by Philip, and were posi-.
tive that all were penned by ono
and the same hand. They believed
furthermore that the Morey letter is not
in Garfield's handwriting but patent
forgery. A motion was made by Philips
counsel to have the warrant dismissed
on the ground that the affidavits were
not strong enough to support 1t, but it
was denied by Judge Davis, who held
that the publication of an article after
its authenticity is denied, which has a
tendency to bring odium on its supposed
author, was criminal libel. Philip was
put under $4,000 bonds, after waving
examination and demanding that he be
tried before the grand jury Thursday.
The Democratic Side.
The evidence up to this point in the
case would be overwhelmingly on the
side of forgery, if it was not found that
the Republican managers had done such
inexcusable lying on the collateral points
7. b. Mower, Jas. Phelan, A. A. Mower,
and NJ. V. b. Mower who are among the
wealthiest manufacturers of Lynn, and
stand high in the Commercial Directories,
and who are all republicans, make affida-
Wit there was snch an organization as the
Employers Union" embracing many of
the large manufacturers, among others,
Keene Bros, B. Z. Spinney & Co., Jerome
ingalls, & Co., Albier Bros, Joseph F. w.
Breed, Joseph Dervis & Co., G. f. Drake
& Co.,. John.Shaw and Bros. This Union
was formed in 1878 during the strikes,
and has been kept up ever since, its pur-
pose being mutual protection against the
demands of the Crispins.
There is now abundant evidence to
show that H. L. Morey was employed by
this association to pick up hands in the
country for the shops, to take the place
of strikers. His home was just outside
of the city limits, which accounts for his
name not appearing on the directory.
He spent most of his time travelling at
his job, SO that it is natural that very few
people in the city should have been ac-
quainted with him, as appears to be the
fact 1t is proved that he once visited
North Adams, to see about employing
Chinaman, proving that he had been
thinking the on subject about which he
wrote Garfield.
The Democratic claim is that Morey
died last winter, and the letter was
found among the effects of his estate
The laboring people OF Lynn. who ought
to be as we'll acquainted with tho sub
ject as any body, and the working mems
association held meeting Wednes-
day evening, and passed resolutions as
sorting that there was such an organiza-
ton as the Employers Union, and de-
nouncing Garfield
Mr.. Edgar E. Mann of Lynn, Mass,
testifes that in March, 1878, he met
in Salem an agent of the Employers
Union, wEo gave him his card, H. l..
Morey, Lynn, Mass. Mr.. Mann's address
is POS Broadway, Lynn, Mass. Mr. o. M.
Wilson telegraphs from Boston that Ii.
l.. Morey was well known resident7of
Lynn and other Massachusetts towns.
Among other testimony to that effect
is that of Morey's mother. Mr.. Richard
S. Goodwin of 116 Fourth avenue, New
York, made affidavit that he is shoe
cutter by trade and lived in Lynn, Mass,
from August, 1870, to January, 1880; that
there was an organization known as the
Manufacturers League, or Employers
Union, the object of which was to secure
cheap labor. That the organization was
still in existence in January 1880. That |
III. L. Morey was the agent of the EN- |
ployers' Union, and that his occupation |
was to secure cheap labor in place of |
who were locked out Mr.. |
Goodwin's testimony confirms that of Mr..
Wilson, that the headquarters of the
Union were in rooms in the First Ma
ional Bank Building on Exchange street
n Lynn.
John Pope Hobnett President of the
United League of America writes that
If his own knowledge there was such
IN organization at Lynn as the Employ
,es Union and that H. L. Morey was
Employed by it. VIM. Nash OF New
York city, andA. W. Flint of Rochester,
10Th formerly of Lynn, made affidavit to
he same facts aud Of their personal ac-
lusintance with Morey.
This overwhelming testimony COM
,letely demolishes the pretext of Gar
ield's defense that Morey and the organ
cation were myths.
The testimony of Postmaster Anger at
that the stamp appearing
N the letter was not used till April 10,
wo months after the letter was dated, {
1ould be absolutely conclusive, if true. ,,
'ut whether Garfield proves ultimately s.
D be guilty or not, Anger is convicted of |
CELEBRATE lying to help his party. The
Post has reproduced the
Iamping upon five different envelopes,
Il dated previous to April Is, and one of !
hem, even back to March 1878, all of i
7hich are stamped exactly like that of I
mother last week Thursday. The Dem y
cratic Central Committee at Washing /
IN, have collected large number of the c
nyelOnas which thav invita- tho puhl;. | I
} come and examine, which show that ?
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