Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-10-29
THE WORK ORA CLUMSY VTLLATN
GEN. GAnr1ELD's DENUNcrAr1oN or THE ALEC

GEN. dAnF1ELD's DENUNCGATIoN or THE ALLRd-
I'D LETTER ON THE CHINESE LABOR QUESTION
MORE CONVINCING PROOF OF FORGERY.
The National Republican Committee re.
ceiyed last Saturday, and has in its possession,
the following telegram from Gen. Garfield,
in reference to the forged letter recently pub
lished by the Democratic Committee on the
Chinese labor question, q general denial OF
which is published on our first page to-day
MENTOR, Ohio, Oct 90, 1880.
To tie Hon. N. JereH and the Hon. S. W.
Dorsey:
will not break the rule have adopted by
making public reply to campaign lies, but
authorize you to denounce the so-called
Morey letter as a bold forgery, both in its
language and sentiment. Until its publica-
ton / never heard of the existence Of 1.-THE
Employers Union" of Lynn, Mass, nor Of
such person as II. l.. Morey.
j. A. GARFIELD.
The following additional dispatch was re-
ceved by the committee Saturday evening
from Gen. Garfield
MENTOR, Ohio, Oct. 23 1850.
To Tie Hon. Marshall JereH.
Your telegram of this afternoon is received
Publish my dispatch Of last evening, il you
think best. Within the last hour the mail
has brought me the photographic copy of the
forged letter. 1t is the work of some clumsy
villain, who cannot spell nor write English,
nor initiate my handwriting Every honest
and manly Democrat in America who is IA
miliar with my handwriting will denounce the
forgery at sight Put the case in the hands
of the ablest detectives at once, and hunt the
rascal down. j. A GARFIELD.
The following telegram was received Sat
urday from the Postmaster at Washington,
d. c., by Marshall Jewell
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. %, 1880.
The Hon. Marshall JepeR:
The New York Truth publishes what pur-
ports to be a fac -simile of letter alleged to
have been written by Gen. Garfield to one II
L. Morey on the Chinese question, together
with the envelope in which it should have
been inclosed. That the whole thing is a
manufactured, bold, and viainous fraud the
following facts will clearly show No such
cancellng stamp as is shown on the envelope
was in use in the Washington Post Office on
the 23d of January, the date the letter is
claimed to have been mailed An entire new
set Of canceling stamps was placed in this Of
fee on the 18th of April. The Truth fac
simile is very good representation of the
new stamp, but is totally unlike the one in
use in this Office on the 23d of January, the
old stamp being made of rubber and the new
one of steel, and very unlike in their arrange.
ment. This shows conclusively that the
whole matter is an unmitigated forgery, for
which the authors should be sent to the peni-
Tertiary. ID. b. ANGER,
Postmaster Washington, d. C.
The Boston Herald states that interviews
with prominent Lynn manufacturers of all
shades of politics substantiate the statement
that no such organization as the Employers
Union ever existed in Lynn and that H. l..
Morey is wholly unknown to them. Old EN-.
ployGs in the shop with which Morey is al.
legged to have been connected deny all knowl.
edge of any such person.
If anything further were wanting to prove
this letter clumsy forgery" the letter itself
bears the internal evidence to condemn it,
The newspaper Truths fac -simile copy shows
that the very spelling had to be corrected to
make it fit for publication. The man who
forged the letter wrote "companys" for
companies as published, and the sigma.
ture is ]. A. Garfield, with a dot over the run
ming r. in the first syllable of the name Iu
minor matters the letter does not follow Gen.
Gar6elds epistolary habit, beginning truly
yours" with small letters instead of with cap
itals-"Truly Yours"-as Garfield does. Last.
ly, the phrase, 1.-THE question of employees, is
awkward and bungling and meaningless, an
expression which an accomplished and scien-
tifc master of the Kings English like Gen.
Garfield would be incapable Of