, 1880-10-03
WEAVER.
POLITICAL ADVENTURES EUsT WT# HIS

NAME.
6zee5a1 D3spat<A to The Chteaao Tribune.
NEW YORK, Oct 2-The improbable story
published in some Of the Democratic papers
Of the country this morning signed BY Dyer
D. Lum, of Washington, D. c., to the effect
that Mr.. Weaver, the Greenback candidate
for President of the United States, is III the
employ of the National Republican Com
mittee, and that he is paid by that organiza
1ion, was pronounced as absurd and ridicu.
lous by Marshal Jewell to-day. He also: stated
that he knew no more about the matter than
tue people did. who waded through
it. He pronounced. the story wholly
without foundation. Mr. George o.
Jones, mentioned as. .one of the
be sr e Tn ss % Sae r n nsd haS
the etfusion in q circular before it was sent
TO the PRESS Mr.. Jones states that at that
time it was intin1ated to him that for COLI
sideration its publication might he stopped.
bIackmailtng job. and refused to have any
thing to do with it. He characterized Lun
as drunken little loafer, who has been try
ing TO make good bank account In politics
by dishonest practices and the abuse Of the
confidence Of his friends.
LUM IS TURNED OVER.
Special Di4patch to Ihe Chicago 141bssne-
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct 2.-The Demo
crats have published extensively in New
iork to-day, and have caused to be circutat-
ed BY the thousand in Ohio and Indiana, a
letter Of one Lum, who claims to have been
Assistant Secretary of tha National Green
back organization, and boasts that he has be-
trayed some Of the secrets Of his employers.
Mr. Warwick Martin, a noted writer on
finance OF the Greenback school, and an act
lnittee, has furnished to the press Tonight
the following open letter, giving his views of
Mr.. Lum and his operations in the interests
Ut the Democracy:
More than one month ago pronounced Mr.
Lun, in his presence, a traitor to the National
Ereenback purity, OF which am a member and
to the principles Of which / am devotedly At
Secretary Of the Executive Committee, and ike
q scpundrel he used his position to lnjure
instead Of to benefit the party This
moved ii he had not abandoned the party to
sase bis o~n disgrace before the order Of bis
Eemosa arrived; His letter addressed to hr.
Murch. but given by him to the press,
is = fraud upon its face 1t Is written upon
a letter sheet Of the headquarters OF the Nation
Mr., Lum was not here on the 18th Of September
He IVES then in New York arranging with the
Democrats to cell QUIT before the order for his
Of deceiving the public taken with him one Of
the letter sneets of the Committee, or perhaps
many Of them, and he has written his letter
thereon His letter contains several false
hoods, which l. know to be such. I
heard the CONVERSATION between him and MIR.
Weaver. which ho attempts to report, and know
his statements are false. Mr. l41m is a man in
search Of money, and wholly void Ut principle.
He should have informed the Democrats that he
hns spent most Of his II ne for the last TWO
months in writing up and preparing tor pubiica-
ton the history, as he called it, Of the murder
Ut Mrs. Surratt by Cen Hancock. He informed
mo tha1 he had visited and interviewed the Sur
rHtt family in Baltimore and collected from
them all the facts of the case. He read
his history 10 me, and stated its contents to at
least three other parties in Washington, whose
namcs can give. This history charged upon
Gen. Hancock the greatest cruelty of which any
oue could be guilty. Mr. I1m stated thnt he in
tended it for publication in the iriah WDrtd Just
before the election SO Ms to prevent the Irish
Catholics from voting for Hancock. He made
the sumo statement to others. He went to New
York to arrange with the irish IFortd for the
and publishing OF this at-
tack upon Gen. Hancock. but tho
Irish World refused to publish it.
am informed that upon this refusal he Of |
1ered the history to the Republicans US 4 good
document, but they refused to pur- |
chase it. He then went to the Democrats
Whether they paid him ANYTHING not To pub |
|:sh the history am unable tn say. Mr.. Lum
docs not work for nothing. He has no doubt |
been paid. His statements about Gen. Weaver !
arc false, and he knuws it, He is aware thai !
Gen. Weaver never had any confidence in him. I
The party aud the Committae are happily freed |
from great tucun1brnnce by the departure OF I
Nr. Iuu. He has saved them the task of ex- |
Guiding him from the position which be has dis I
yrlced. WARWICK MAAT1H.