The daily gazette., 1880-10-27
From the N. Y. World. .-.s
GENERAL GARFIELD AND THE
CHINESE QUESTION.

General Garfeld's denial of his au-
thorship of the Chinese letter, as it
now comes by mail, is in terms sufii-
ciently explicit-almost as explicit as
Mr.. Beltzhoover's denial Of letter at
tributed to him which General Gar.
fields chief New York organ never
theless daily prints as genuine. II is
alleged also that Mr.. Jewelrs commit
tee have plucked up courage enough
" sue out a warrant for the arrest Of
the person responsible for the making
and the publication of the alleged for
gerry. This is not only proper but ne
oessary. In no other way can the ques-
tion whether General Garfield did or
did not write the letter in question be
satisfactorily and decisively answered.
1t ought TO be understood, however
II this course is resolved upon, that
there must be no shilly shallying with
it. 1t would be very easy, Tor exam
pie, to procure an arrest, and, after
making a great stir about the "for-
gerry" from now until election day, to
let the matter drop out of sight. This
will not do at all. The country has a
right to know whether or not General
GaI field wrote the letter. General
Garfield must be subpoenaed to testify
in the case since his testimony is clear
ly necessary to a just result, and this
testimony ought to be got before the
voters of the country before they are
asked TO vote tor him as a candidate
for the Presidency. A test which has
frequently been found decisive in such
cases might be applied by requiring
General Garfield to write the letter
out in open court from dictation and
then giving the letter thus written by
him and tho letter alleged TO be a for
gerry to exper's for omparison.
1t will be seen that we do not con-
slider General Garneld's deIial TO be de-
cislve. Neither, we suppose does any
body else. General Garfield once de-
clared under oath that he never took or
reed to take any Credit Mobilier stock
from the late Oakes Ames. The Repub-
lican committee before which he gave
this testimony and the Republican news
paper throughout the country declared
| that they did not believe him. As one
Of these Republican newspapers blunt
| ly and brutally remarked at the tune,
"ULquestionably he agreed to take the
stock and lied about it," This, less
bluntly and brutaly expressed, was the
| judgment Of the Poland Committee also
and Of the. Times and Tribune of this
city, the laGer Of which has "run" the
present CANVASS almost exclusively on
succession of forgeries aud ISLANDERS
upon its opponents, and which now curl
ously assumes not only that the Chinese
letter is forgery, but that the author
Of the assumed forgery is somehow less
entitled TO public respect than the Tn
bune Itself. 1t may be conceded, how.
J ever, that General Gar6eld's denial
either is true or the result Of his belle
that conclusive evidence of the genu
iDeness OF the letter, and consequent,
OF the falsehood of his denial, canno
be obtained and put before tue publ,
between the publication OF his denia
and the election.
1t is curious TO note that while In,
J Republican papers of 1880 do not as ,
rule indorse, now that General Garfield
Is candidate for the Presidency. til,
estimate which they themselves express
] ed In 1873 Of him character for truthful
ness, some OF them do not agree Will
General Garfield himself In the Opinion
, he expresses OF the Chinese letter. Tb
u EUening Post the other day, with char
i acteristic Stiffness, described the lelte
n as OF no consequence, even If it wer
# proved 10 be genuine. General Gal
field himself shows much clearer ar
C prehension OF the relations of the lette
= TO he Presidential qaesiion when h
b loses his temp oyor il and calls
- "brutal and stupid" 1t is brutal, bI
" it is not at all stupid. On the contrarv
9 1t is a very adroit letter for an unscfuI
n ulous politician TO write in order to gal
n the favor of employers of labor who.
IN "hands" we're giving them troubl
General Garfield does an Injustice
10 the author of the letter, whether, tn
al author be himself or another. "
venture to say that the shoe manufa
turers of Lynn, unless their PATRIOTS
transcends their interest In the sh,
* business, would support General Ga
es field with much more enthusiasm
10 they were sure that the letter was gem
-. inc. General Garfield also goes nut
~ too far when be says In his letter til
er any one who is familiar with his han,
e. writing "will instantly see that the lett
Is SPURIOUS" as he went much too +
when he said in his telegram th
!, "every honest aud manly Democra
u familiar with his handwriting would d
le clare the letter to be a fOrgeay. III
81 original letter has been seen by me
in who are perfectly familiar with h
;, handwriting, they pronounced it
% be genuine. Among these men al
Mr.. Randall and Mr.. Hewitt. Gener