Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-26
POLITICS.
The Absence of President Hayes
Criticised.
PLAIN TALK FROM A soUTHERNER
A Detective Unearths the Author O
the Alleged Garfield Letter.
PATRIOTIC SPEECH BY GENERAL GRANT.
Hancock Will Pay no Further Attention
to General Grants Remarks.


President Hayes for not being in Ohio to
vote at the recent election, when his presence
might have been a source of encouragement
to the Republicans, and that, too, without
uttering word. One of the most prominent
managers of the Republican party in the re-
| cent struggle made the remark that if the
President did not come home to vote he
would never forgive him for neglecting the
interests of the party which placed him at
one of the faithful band who secured his
nomination at Cincinnati by personal and
persistent efforts in his behalf, while the ad-
ministration of Hayes has not been of such q
character as to increase his popularity. The
| delegations which visit Garfield almost daily
show married. contrast when compared with
those who visited Governor Hayes previous
to his election. Garfield at Mentor, an
inaccessible little village when compared
with Columbus, the geographical center OF
the State, with its twelve railroads, has been
visited by five delegations where Hayes was
greeted by one. The marked increase of the
Republican majority in Gar6eid's old Con.
gressional district is evidence of his popu-
larity. 1t is said of him that during his Con-
| gressional career he has never failed to be at
home to vote, and seldom if ever failed to be
on hand at the local or village elections. In
Ohio as elsewhere, he is growing stronger
daily.
THE FoRaER OF THE MoREY LETTER UN-
EARTHED.
| CHICAGO, October 25th.-Stanley Huntley
| telegraphs the Tribune from New York that
to-day the Republican National Committee
| will expose the author of the alleged Garfield
| Chinese letter. 1t is one Kennard Phelps,
one of the editors of the Truth, who was un-
earthed by detective Lonergan in the employ
1 Inf fha Not,N,,1 al 20
| expert in the imitation of all kinds of chirog-
raphy, and lately copied from memory the
names of all the men who signed the Decla-
| ration of Independence in so skillful a man.
ner that cursory look would indicate them
as genuine. He has mania for initiating
| handwriting. He is an active and able poll
tician, and practically controls the Truth.
| Stanley Huntley says all the facts are au-
thenticated and before the Republican Com
mittee, and would have been published yes
terday but that General Arthur interpQsed
! Democrats might have an opportunity Of
putting forth another fraudulent letter after
| the exposure and getting it circulated. Such
| q scheme was in contemplation, and he says
another forged letter will be published in the
| Truth this week. Phelps cannot be found.
CHICAGO, October 25th.-Although Hunt.
ley, who sent to the Tribune the story tele.
graphed to-day placing the responsibility OF
the forged Garfield Chinese letter upon an
editor of the Truth, is an erratic and not
always the most scrupulously careful of
correspondents, in this case his story is be-
lieved, from the fact that he has peculiar
| facilities to get at the truth. The story he
tells is plausible, and is believed by the
Tribune from corroborative testimony to-
day.
THE FORGERY CLINCHED
| The following seems TO be a final clincheI
| in the matter of the Garfield Morey letter:
LYNN, October rs, 1880
| To c. o. Cooper, Secretary of the Republican
| State Executive Committee, Jersey City, n. j..
have questioned the clerks and carriers at this office
| No such man as Fl. L.. Morey has received q
| letter to their knowledge. The is not in the
| City Directory, the Postotice or carriers
books. JOHN G. B. ADAMS, Postmaster.
| ANOTHER CLINCHER.
| NEW YORK. October 25th.-Mr. Jewell to.
day received the following letter from Gen.
| eral Garfield:
| MENTOR (o), October %, 1880.
| To Hon. Marshall Jewell, Chairman of tine Re-
| publican National Committee 241 Fifth Avenue,
| New YOrk-Dear Sir In my dispatches of yester-
| day and this evening, which also sent you by
mail, have denounced the Morey letter as a base
| forgery stupid, brutal sentiments which / never
| expressed nor entertained. The photographic copy
/
manship and signature. Anyone who is familiar
| with my handwriting will instantly see that the
letter is spurious. Very truly yours,
| REWARD OFFERED.
| New YORK, October 2sth.-The Tribune
has this: "We are authorized by Hon. s. B.
Chittenden of Brooklyn to offer reward of
s., 600 for evidence that shall lead to the ar
rest and conviction of the forger who con-
| h.
wrote General Gar6eld's name Chitten.
den's prompt action ftly expresses the gen.
| eral estimate of the monstrous crime in which
| William III. Barnum has made himself the
shameless participant 1t Is believed that
clues to the forgery have been found in this
city and that the culprit may be found within
sight of the City Hall. Hunt the rascal
down."
CHANCE FOR COMPARISON.
NEW YORK. October 25th.-The Demo
cratic Committee sent to California on Fri
day last electrotype plates of the forged
Garheld-Morey letter, with {. view of flooding
that State with copies. The Republican
Committee sent out many thousand fac-simile
copies of Garfeld's autograph letters, ex.
posing the forgery. No one can compare the
respective handwriting without being con-
| vinced that they are the work of different
hands.
| THE FORGED LETTER BUSINESS BROKEN OUT
IN A NEW SPOT.
DEs MONIES Qa.), October 25th.-The
fraudulent and forged letter business has
broken out in a new spot, and on new per-
son-this time the Presidential candidate,
Weaver. His fast political friend Gillette,
of Iowa, comes forward and declares that the
letter from Weaver to Gillette, published in
the New York Star, was neither written nor
sent that its allegations are absolute lies,
and the letter itself a forgery. The letter de-
| clares that Weaver is against fusion every
/ where, because it would be Injurious to the
Republican party, in whose interest he is Ia
boring. Weaver makes his denial before a
| Notary, and in the strongest terms.
THE REGISTRATION DIFFICULTY AT NEW OR.
LEANS.
NEw ORLEANS, October 25th.-This after.
Moons Picayune says The fight between the
State and United States officers upon the
registration question is assuming grave pro-
| portions, and a conflict may be expected at
| any moment. Arrests have already been
made of parties registering within ten days
prior to the election, as specified in the law
for the revision of the lists, At noon to-day
| Charles Cavarac, Supervisor of Registration,
| informed Colonel William Ray, Chief Super.
visor, that he would resist further arrests
1
| United States Marshals have received in
structions to caution any person attempting
to register that they do so under pain of arress.
When this forewarning is unheeded, an ar.
rest will be made. Registration is going on
briskly at the registration office, even the
negroes taking advantage of the few days
remaining.
CHICAGO, October 25th.-The Inter. Oceans
/ Washington special says: Registration
troubles in New Orleans called out the fol-
lowing telegram to-day:
| New ORLEANS, October 25, 1880.
Hon. J. A. Hubbell, Chairman of Congressional
| Committee, Washington: Officers of registration
and parties illegally registered arrested day.
| Rs publican Supervisors report that registration
officers register white men, many of whom are un-
known. and refuse to register colored men. The
State Supervisor of Registration refused to allow
the United States Supervisors to take positions in
the office sof registration, to cradle them to scriti
nze the manner of regstration-a clear violation Of
the law. The Democrats evidently intend to adopt
desperate to prevent the election of Republi.
| can Congressman. W. P. KELLOGG.
REPLY.
WASHINGTON, October 25. 1850.
To William Pitt Kellogg, United States Snper.