The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-10-28
rnAr CHINESE LETTER.
UsIt a forgery.

Elsewhere we publish q letter alleg-
cd to have been written by James A.
on the 23d Of January last to
Henry L. Morey, OF the Employer
Union, at Lynn, Mass.s and published
in the Truth, an independent paper,
printed in New York City, few days
ago. When the letter first made its
appearance no one doubted its authen-
ITCHY. Mr.. Garfield's warmest and
most devoted personal friends here de-
clared that they believed it to be genu-
inc, that its~seDtiments- compOrted
with Mr.. Garfield's known views and
votes upon the subject, and they fully
endorsed and approved the doctrines
it proclaimed. But the letter produced
such feeling of indignation among
the working men throughout the
length and breadth of the land and
was likely to result in such great dam
age to Garfield and the Republican
cause, that though at first the leaders
were disposed to approve the senti-
ments of the letter and pay no further
attention to it, they finally concluded
that it was indispensibly necessary to
induce the man of Mentor to deny the
authorship of the letter. There are
those, and they are legion, who, in
view of Garfield's sworn denial of
owning, receiving or agreeing to re-
ceive any stock in the Credit Mobilier
or Union Pacific Railroad, nor any
dividends or profits arising from either
of them, when q committee composed
of majority of his personal and polit-
ical friends, found and reported that
he had sworn to a downright falsehco1,
who will place little or no confidence
in his assertions. that this letter in ia
vor of cheap Chinese labor is not gen.
uine.
On Friday last the Truth printed a
fac simiIe of the Garfield letter, and in
two column article says:
:" Yesterday James A. Garfield, the
Republican candidate for the presi-
dency, denounced his letter upon the
subject of Chinese cheap labor pub
lished in the Truth on "Wednesday as
q stupid forgery Today, wherever
4
pie will denounce James A. Garfield,
the Republican candidate for the pres
idency, as "a stupid liar. And as the
fac sinlile of that letter, now for the
first time made public, spreads from
city to city, from town to hamlel.1rom
voter to voter, the cry will roll and
swell over this great country, unit
from one end of the union to the othel
and from ocean to ocean, the name o
James A. Garfield will be synonymou:
with treachery and falsebood.
No intelligent man, wherever h
may be, or to whatever party he ma,
belong, can look upon the signature o
James A. Garfield and honestly So,
that any other hand traced it than tn
hand of James A. Garfield himself.
None can look upon the Handwriting
in the body of the letter and believe
was the work of any other man tha
James A. Garfield.
None can study the phrases and pre-
tend that they were framed in an
other brain than James A. Garfield's
No one can compare the address o
the letter with the Inscription on th
envelope, the date of the letter wit
the date of the postmark, and tn
handwriting in the letter with th
handwriting upon the envelope, will
out an irresistible conviction thu
James A. Garfield secretly wrote an
mailed the very letter to Henry /
Morey, Of the Employers Union, ,
Lynn. Mass, on the 23d day of JAM
ary, $780,"