Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-29
THE EXPOSURE COMpIETE.
Cincinnati Gasetm.


tive. 1t was upon this that the forgers Of
the Garfield letter depended. They knew
IL was forgery, OF course Barnum knew
IL. But they supposed 1t would last until
after the election. II has already been
conclusively proved to he a forgery and u
very bungling one at that.
The letter purporied to have been writ.
ten by Garfield to II. L. Morcy, repre-.
senting the Employers Union, at Lynn,
Mass. 1t was speedily shown that there
was no such person US II. L. Morey, and
no such associatlon as the Employers Un-
ion at Lynn, Mass. We printed card to
this effect on Saturday, signed by manu-.
faclurers Of Lynn, representing over nine
millions Of capital. And now Comes the
Boston Globe, Democratic newspaper,
which supports Hancock and English, with
the following;
"An interview, last evening with several
leading manufacturers Of Lynn disclosed
the tact that no Employers Union has ex-
listed there since the big strike of the win
ter Of 1S77-7S. When il was found that
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city to take the place OF the strikers, or
production be stopped entirely, about thirty
shoe manufacturers formed a sort of com
bination, and sent agents through New
Hampshire and Vermont to secure work.
men. The organization died out with the
| return OF the strikers to the shops. Accord
ing to the statements Of those who were at
its head, however, no man named Morey
ever had any connection with it, nor does
any one of that name seem to have lived
at Lynn within two years, ii ever. The
| fact th1t there Wds no such Union at Lynn
last January, aud that traces could not be
found of H. L. lDrcy, ,ods communicated 10
Chairmon W. II. Barnum, Of the National
| COmmittce."
This information, it is seen, was commu-
nicated to Barnum, but that made no diff
ference. lie circulated the forged docu.
ment all the same.
2. The forged letter bore a stamp which
purported to be duly Cancelled at Washing.
ton, and the address on the envelope, with
the cancelled stamp, was also photogra phed
by the forgers as additional evidence OF its
genuineness. Here again the rascals were
letter purported to have been cancelled in
January, 1880. 1t now appears that tie
canceling stamps used in January were
thrown aside and new stamp adopted
and put in use April l3, 1880. These were
not IN existence in January, yet the stamp
used in canceling the forged letter was the
ne,c stamp, proving the forgery conclusively.
8. The letter itselfs ungrammatical, and
words are wrongly spelled, thus showing
that it could not have been written by Gar
fisld, who is a finished scholar. The for
gers did not even know how to write the
English language. They did not know how
to write the plural for company. And this
is the sort OF an ignoramus Barnum is. 1t
seems strange that there should not have
been a single person In Barnum's conf
Ience capable OF discovering the difference
between good English and bad English
This feature alone would have been suf-
6cient to condemn the manipulators of
that letter as forgers.
f. Democratic leaders, who are in the
condition of drowning men grasping at
straws, expressed great confidence that
Garfield would not deny the authorship
of the letter. They dared Republicans to
ask Garfield to deny. They were even
willing to pay the cost OF dispatches to and
from Garfield on the subject. But Gar
field has denied, and so emphatically and
unequivocally that no one will say ii is not
sufficient.
[Gen. Garlield's denial will be found on
the fourth page of this paper.-ED. JOUR-
MALI
Thus the negative has been conclusively
proved. The forgers, too, have been
proved not only to he villains, but clumsy
villains And this is strictly in keeping
with the management of the Democratic
campaign under Barnum. II Barnum had
the sense OF a counterfeiter as he had the
inclination, he would not have made a
trap which was sure to catch him, and as
the Chicago Times, Hancock paper said,
instead of issuing the forgery two weeks
before the election he would have issued it
the day before, and covered the dead walls
of the country with it IN circus hand-biIl
style.
And now, what will the honest Demo-
crats of the country say of this clumsy viii
lain? Whatever they may say or not say
with their lips, down IN their hearts they
will curse him rs fool and knave In
stead OF making votes against Garfield, as
was intended, it vii make hundreds of
thousands of votes for him. This every
man who understands the character of the
American people will readily admit.