Litchfield enquirer., 1880-11-25
Sticking to It.

nine. First, Mr.. Jewell eagerly accepted al
,her OF Truth" to sell out and wrote to Mr.
: fairfield letter, stating the bargain and sug
costing the manner of compromising the go
between Then, the Lindsay" Morey per
, juries were evidently arranged by the Repub
, ,lican prosecutors in the Philip case, as
, means of both discrediting the Morey letteI
and attacking the Democratic National Com
mittee. Next. the Philip examination was
closed without Mr.. Garfeld's evidence, al
, though it was not long age reported from
Ohio, that his deposition had been taken.
And finally, Judge Davis is, in some manner,
induced to prostitute his judicial position to
an attempt to support the policy of the Gar.
field case as revealed in the Lindsay" Morey
scheme. Who ever heard of such defense
of innocence? Who has not known very SIM
liar work in defence of guilt? If Mr.. Garfield
did not write the Morey letter, his friends
have adopted very unfortunate method of
proving his innocence. His case shows none
If the manly straightforwardness of con-
scious recitude. -Bridgeport Farmer.
We have had good deal to say about the
Chinese letter, and we have given the subject
so much attention simply because it is char
acteristic of such political management as that
OF William Fl. Barnum, and because the
Bourbon Democratic press, of which the Far
ner is fam specimen, still stick to the genu-
ineness of this letter. Let US look little at
The difficulties under which they labor in
maintaining such a position:
1. Neither Garfield nor anybody else, sent the
Chinese letter in the envelope of which the
Democratic Committee published facsimile.
That envelope was sent to some other person
than II. L. Mercy, at New York, and not at
Lynn, and at date not earlier than Febru-
airy 22d, a month later than the date of the
Morey letter.
O. The letter was not sent to Fl. L. Morey
at Lynn, for there was no man of that name
there to receive it; nor have the Democratic
| Committee been able to show that there was,
before or since January last, man of that
name anywhere 10 the United States. 1t fur
ther appears that there was no such organiza-
ton at Lynn, at that or any other time, as the
employers Union" Whether or not Lind
say" and s. s. Morey were hired to commit
perjury by Republicans or by Democrats, one
thing is undenisble-that they are perjurers.
8. We are reduced then to the theory that
Mr.. Garfield wrote the Morey letter and had
it sent to the paper ''Truth" as a campaign
| hoax. In other words, that he perpetrated
foolish trick at most critical period of the
| canvass, which might have lost him the pres.
| dency and which did cost him five electoral
| votes, just to unmask the unscrupuousness of
| the Barnum management. That Mr.. Jewell
was willing to give good deal to the man
who could procure a retraction of this lie
proves nothing against Garfield, it only proves
how dangerous he thought it,
Judge Davis may have erred in holding Mr..
Hewett chiefly responsible for the wide pub
licitY given In the Chinese letter. Many
journals are of that opinions but we have yet
to see the first attempt to answer Judge Davis
mastery demonstration of the forgery. Now
if the Bridgeport Farmer can offer any reason
for its belief in the genuineness of this docu-
ment, we should be glad to see it, for, as the
matter now stands, it has good deal the ap.
pearance of what Mr.. Philip terms Lying,
and Sticking to it,"
On our first page will he found the opinion
of Judge Davis in the Philip case. How any
man can uphold the genuiness of the Chinese
letter in the face of such evidence as is detail
ed in that finding we are at a loss to imagine.
Ia this connection it is we'll to look at the
statement sent abroad by Chairman Barnum
accompanying the facsimiles of the forged
letter. Promising that, ''The letter is authen-
tic. 1t is in Gen. Garfeld's handwriting.
Dental is soorse than useless, " he says:
The original letter, of which the foregoing
is true copy, is in Truths possession. It
was mailed at Washington by the republican
candidate for President to Henry L. Mercy,
prominent member of the employers union,
Lynn, Mass. AT his death, which recently
occurred, it was found among his effects.
The envelope enclosing it, the original of
which is also in Truths possession, is marked
personal" as carefully as tie letter itself is
marked Personal and confidential"
There was no "Morey," no employers
union, y no death, mo effects" but there was
an envelope, covered with erasures aud reek-
ing with fraud Could the sharp eye of VIM.
II. Barnum detect none of this? Alexander
Fl. Stephens candid as well as an able Dem
Matt onal Democratic Committee:
"When the mud singing campaign against
Garfield began, told our people that it would
surely elect him. But our precious national
executive committee kept up the torrent of
abuse and Islander. They seemed to think
that the going about and making $780, on
mems doorsteps was powerful political ar
| gument. That man Barnum and his com.
panions perpetrated crime after crime-(for
such plumbers as they made were crimes)-
| until their disgrace eliminated in an attempt
| to give currency to villainous forgery It
almost made one ashamed of his party to see
such weapons used in its Behalf One of
those fac SMILES of the Morey letter was sent
to me. A single glance told me that it was
| forgery, and needed no denial from Garfield
to convince me. How Hewitt and Randall
could act as they did is more than can
understand. They both know General Gar
field as we'll as do and they mast have
known that he would never write such let
| ter"
| Captain Ericsson has been lnventing a tor
pedo vessel of which great things are expect
ed. 1t Is OF the monitor kind, though inn
mensely long, slender, and of great speed 1t
is expected to be almost entirely submerged
when going into action. 1. carries long
piece OF ordnance from which a torpedo about
30 feet long. and carrying charge of $50 lbs.
OF dynamite, is discharged under water The
use Of gunpowder in place of compressed AIR
is one Of the peculiarities of Capt Erricson's
plan for propelling the torpedo. 1t is expect.
ed that his vessel win have speed greater
than any ordinary ship. It will go within
obout 300 feet Of the vessel to be attacked
and then discharge its torpedo. The torpedo
ship will have so little exposed surface (and
that well protected by heavy armor), and will
be so swift, that it can easily approach within
the required distance it is thought Success