The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-10-27
THAT LETTER,
Which Garfield Is Trying 10
Deny.


New York, 26-The Herald says thi
public will accept Garfeld's denial a
hnai and conclusive upon the matter
but 1t will also no democratic managers
to their responsibility for what Tow ap-
pears to be very contemplate forgery.
Public opinion will hold, and justly hold,
thst men like Hewitt, Speaker Randall
and Others owed it 70 their own character
and TO the common decencies Of life to
be somewhat slower IN bearing witness,
and good deal more careful than they
have been before allowing themselves,
for partisan ends, 10 become partners in
gross frauds upon the public. The forgery
has been industriously used by demo-
cratic managers to arouse popular an
tipatby against the republican candidate,
which it was well calculated to do. Will
they now be equally indust ious and
jealous in circulating Garfeld's specific
and positive denialY viii Hewitt re-
tract his accusation sgsinst Garfield as
publicly as he made ItS II not, what
opinion do he and others Ssf the demo-
cratic managers, who would like to be
thought honorable men, think he decent
part Of he publ will entertain Of themi
There has been some vague talk Of fast
ening the letter upon Garfield, If he
chou venture to deny its authorship,
and Gartield's silence and apparent hest
tati' gave force ard credit TO these
threats, but the proofs, If any exist,
Lhould have been brought forward earlier.
The genuineness # tn lester was credited
ntirely upon the testimony of fuch'men
as Hewitt and Randall that they had
seen it and unhesitatingly recognized it
as GArheld's hand. Against that testi-
moDy, his denial, which we print above,
and which we give elsewhere in fac
smile, will be conclusive with every
body, and unless now the most undoubt-
able proofs should be at once pro-
duced, democratic managers will discover
that this atl7mPt upon the public credu-
lily will react against them and hurt thelr
canvass very seriously, as 1t ought. The
character and opinions of men aiming at
high office ara proper objects of public
and close scrutiny, but the public will
and ought TO resent such attempts as this.
When Hancock wrote his letter on
"kebsl Claims" democrats rightly de.
manded II at all decent men of either side
should accept that as final. In the same
way the republicans may ask that
Garfield's emphatic reputation of both
the Morey letter snd The sentiments it
contains shall be received as conclusive.
Rochester, 25.-In his speech here, to-
night, Abraham S. Hewitt said he did
not think that the body Of the alleged
Garfield letter wss in Garfeld's writing,
but he considered the signature to be
genuine, and ssid Garfield did not deny
Its genuineness.
NeWYork, 26.-The thorough exposure
of the spurious letter on The Chinese
question, attributed TO Garfield, and the |
strenuous efforts Of Chairman Barnum to |
give currency to the forgery, are reacting
fesrfully against. its utterers. Respect |
able democrats in great number express
their disgust, declaring their purpose to |
rebuke such methods by voting for Gar
field.
The Utica Observer presented the only |
authority yet offered disputing the pub
lished declaration by many business men
of Lynn that no b. l.. Morey was ever
known there; that there was no record.of
his death there, as serted. and that no |
such institution as the union had been |
known therr, and now the Observer |
authority, Mr. Nash, publicly declares
that he did not say that he ever knew |
Morey, but only that there was man |
employed by the manufacturers to hire |
non-C rispins during the shoemakers'
strike, whose name he never knew
While arrost hos yet been made, the |
detectives have clues to the author Of
the forged letter, which they confidently |
belieYe will discover their man. The |
officers are on the track of other end |
similar forgeries contemplated, and in
tended to be sprung too late in the can
vass 10 admit of Efficient exposure.
Honest men will look for them until the |
last week of the campaign. The repub- |
lican feud in Albany threatens The loss Of
one congressional representative.