New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-19
TILE IEEIU OF HINIORY.


The desperate efforts OF the National Demo-
cratic Committee to escape all responsibility
fox the forged Chinese letter will not be al
lowed to succeed. The record of their trans
actions condemns them utterly. We propose
TO arrange in chronological order the successive
steps by which that infamous forgery was
foiSted into public notice aud partially forced
by ingenious explanations and flat falslcations
into public crcdcncc The narrative is simple
and unanswerablc.
The forged letter was first published IN
printed form in Truth on Wednesday, October
20. 1t attracted no notice whatever. Even
Tie u 0rH newspaper retrained from copying
it or from making the slightest alluSion to II
on the following day. According to the official
statement of the Democratic National Com
mittee, the original letter was taken 10 their
headquarters on Wednesday afternoon and was
there examined by several eminent Democrats,
including MIR. Barnum, Mr. Hewitt and Mr..
Randall. On "Wednesday evening Nh Hewitt,
in speech at a Democratic mass NEE 'ng III
Chickering Hall, read the letter and and:
Some people ma incline 10 prO loGnce u IA ioi-.y |
have seen H. aIn fam!a. with General Garfield, sig
nature have compared 1t with his letters IN ny poo
session and have no doubt II genuine. II 70 Doe
'ofseiy " Is '"' "o1" y. 'o'.
s,, a,,cr,ir,,, I.I'ou.d moi, ,cfert tor
Nono the les. omDhotic was the di,patcb sent
on, ovo,. the sicn,tnrc Of Chairman B,rpnm.
~, tho Same evening. and uubll,hcd tine next
,,,,,,ir,, ia all thc LEADING Democratic iour-
49, or l., ,,.,,,,t,r.
NEy.Yotf. Oct. 20
The following is publ shed in run ,At morning. The
letter Is authentic il ism General Ga'h'G, "l"rt.
ios, Den'ai j. N's. '.'" u" ',', A. ','', ',' w.,
Br"r,,l.n boloyvns 49,. en- hypocri.v on .c Labor oue.
tc through their chief IL declares himself adverse to
tue laborng MANS interest Sd IA taYoroi To" Employ
ers InIon' a''Sh" Wen 10 employ .u' cl'"P '''o'
"'e.,'''' ~
l'i'I' i""""c" ''' o'i- maj vi
rr',,L.. ,o..c..ion J. MA. mailed at V.o.
III. ION. by tie Republican candidate for President ;o
Henry l. Molcy. proaiin' 81 member Of Gle E"'o. rs
Oni'"' lynn Mass. Al ui7 '''." "''
o,osn. g., ,,e ori..o,I Of which ,s also IN T,,,1,
os.cs.iop is marked p -eo1al" as carefully as ,
Icter tfseIfi marked Personal and confidential" b.
r was these simultaneous announcements
by Messr. Hewitt and BTnum which lifted
the letter into public notice. both gentlemen
spoke after thcy had seen the letter and the
envelope The closing portion OF Earnhm
dispatch shows that the envelope had been
under examination. o. the SANE morning thdt
these announcements were published, October
u. General Garicld's denial, dcnouhcIng the
letter as a "stupid forgery was published ia
every newspaper III the land. Not n snolc
newspaper of any standing in New York City
even OF that morning GIgned the forgery
with q single word OF editorial mention.
On Frldav it was shown by dispatches from
LYNN that no such man as II. l.. Morey had
ever lived there, and that no such organiza-
there. Tie HOrid was still silent on the sub
ject, and the other journals OF the city treated
it with contempt. On Saturday, October ~,
a fac -slraile OF the forged letter was pubIshrd
in Truth. Then the hand OF Blrnhm appeared
on the ear Of the Editor OF ire " Ord. That
newspaper broke its silence, FASTENED to APP
prove the forgery editOraly. and in its news
columns published printed copy of the letter
for the first time, taking care to prop it up
with a reproduction OF Mr.. Hcwitts Chickcring
Hall Endorsement. The World also went into
the business of manufacturing evidence to
sustain the forgery, for on the same morning
II nuhlis hed q dispatch from Utica containing
tha hnouo news of tho discovery of n man
there who said he had once known H. l..
Morev.
On this same dav. Saturday. October %.
there appeared in all the manufacturing re-
clOns of Ncw-Jersey and other States food
~ hondh;Ila and circulars from tho National
r, ui Coun,ittoa CONTAINING ,,,intad