The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-11-17

From last Fridays New York Times.
1t is a wretched and miserable story which
the two false Witnesses of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee have to tell of their connec-
ton with the business of the fraudulent Morey
letter. 5. 5. Morey, and the man with many
aliases, now known as O'Brien, appear to be
poor creatures who have been used by the
men who are guilty of subornation of perjury,
and who were ready to stoop to any infamy
| 10 order TO compass their ends. Having
forged letter, purparting to have been writ
ten by General Garfield to Que IL. l.. Morey,
1t was found necessary to prove the existence
of the person to whom the letter was address,
ed or, failing in this, to invent such a person.
Pushed to the wall, the desperate conspira-
tors in the Democratic National Committee
and their conductors in the Office of the news
paper which first published the forged letter,
boldly decided to produce false witnesses who
would swear that they had known the III. l..
| Morey for whom detectives and lawyers had
vainly sought. Two men willing to perjure
themselves were found.
The case of the first of These S. s. Morey,
as he represents it in his confession, is pitt
able one. He was brought hither from Law
renee, Mass, and he testified that the III. L.
Morey to whom the forged letter was address
ed was his uncle that he was a real person,
and that he knew him to be the man to whom
/ the so.called Chinese letter was written.
! This man now confesses he never knew any
such man as II. l.. Morey, and that he swore
falsely when he testified that hc did know
him. Tho miserable man attempts to excuse
his perjury by the statement that he was 81 in
needy circumstances, not able to work great
deal more than three or four days in the week.
aud going sometimes six or seven weeks with
out work" He dwels at length ON his abject
poverty, and says, 1.-The inducements they
beld out to me were that this thing would be
closed out after election, aud that | had no
need to fear anything" Under these circum-
stances, in great need and in the power of
the keeper of a place of low resort, to whom
he had become indebted, the false witness
came to New York. He was taken possession
of by agents of the National Democratic Com.
mittee and of the newspaper in which the
| forged letter was printed. Such was the anxi-
ETY. of the former that he was kept at the
headquarters of the National Democratic
Committee part of the time, at least. OF
| the members of the committee who had charge
of him. the perjurer recalls one-B. B. Small
/ ey. And when the poor wretch had done his
work he was paid $3.50 in check drawn on
the Park National Bank, in behalf of the De-
moclatic National Committee, this payment
being made at the National Democratic head
quarters in this city. This is the end of the
first of the two false witnesses suborned to
establish the assertion that such person as
IL. IL. Morey ever existed, and that he was the
person to whom the Chinese letter was SENT
On the morning of November Q, election
day, Mr.. w. II. Barnum caused to be printed
in the Democratic newspapers an affidavit
purportng to be made by one Robert Lindsay,
| Of Cumberland, Md. to the effect that the
ailiant knew II. l.. Morey, aud that Morey
had shown him the so called Chinese letter.
or a copy of it. A witness subsequently came
to New York, and, under oath testified as to
the identity OF the man aud the letter. in the
most explicit and circumstanial manner.
This man, who appeared here as Lindsay, was
sent by William NJ Price, one of the Hancock
electors for the State of Maryland, and was
consigned to the Democratic National Com
mittee, of which Mr.. w. Ii. Barnnm is Chair
man, but more directly to the persons en-
gagged in publishing the newspaper in which
the so called Chinese letter first appeared. It
is not shown that any such person as Robert
Lindsay ever existed. 1t is unlikely that a
man answering to that name ever made any
affidavit concerning the 50 called hinese let
ter. The man who swore 10 court that his
name was Robert Lindsay and that he knew
ii. l.. Morev, and that he saw IN Morey's pot
session the 81. called Chinese letter, now con-
tesses hat he swore falsely that lie never
knew Morev, never saw the Chinese letter,
except in the forged fac simila ; that he never
was in Lynn, Mass, and that his real name
is " Brien. the name Lindsay being assumed
for this occasion. For his perjury he says he
was to receive the SUN Of 800.
Thus il appears that the Democratic Ma
tional ommittee, in company with the per-
sons engaged in printing the sheet in which
the forged letter first was published, managed
to secure two false witnesses, by whose per-
inred testimony it was intended to verify tie
existence Of II. l.. Morey and the genuineness
of the letter alleged to have been written to
him. These witnesses were confronted by
facts, their ignorance of which betrayed them.
They broke down abjectly, exhibited their
real character as false witnesses, and finally
confessed their crimes With great prompts
ness the attorneys who had used them washed
their hands of the whole abominable business.
Will Mr.. w. III. Barnum aud his colleagues
on the Democratic National Committee be
able to do as much? Does Mr.. Barnum, who
boasts that he has circulated hundreds of
thousands of copies of forged letter, have
anything To say for himself in explanation of
this infamous business? 1t was hoped and
believed by Barnum. his colleagues, and his
creatures, the perjurers, that "the matter
would be closed out after election" The
election is over and the Democratic party is
greeted with the humiliating spectacle of the
Chairman of its National Committee pioried
betwixt two self-confessed perjurers
Every certificate we publish regarding DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup is genuine, and we will
pay reward of 81, 900 to any one proving the
contrary in a single case.--Vogeler, Meyer %