Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-11-20
THE MONEY INiQUIrY.

The confessions OF the suborned and
ueriured Witnesses in the Morey-Gsrfield
Chinese letter forgery trial are extremely
interesting in a political point OF view
and terribly damaging to the Democracy,
duplicating the leaders of that dissolute
old party in a most disgraceiul manner.
In fact. according to the evidence ad-
duced thus far. Barnum, Hewitt and
others Of the Democratic National Com
mittee. deserve to be put in State Prison
for awhile. The New York papers, both
Republican and Democratic. give full
reports Of the trial. and all unite in the
severest condemnation OF the fraud. the
Democratic journals not being Of all
behind their Republican contemporaries
in that respect. The World comes out
decided and straightforward and places
itself squsrsly on record against the
disgrscsiul iniquity and all connected
with il. Tho Sun. being taken to task
by one Of its Democratic constituency
for not standing in with ''hesdquartsrs"
in the matter. replies manfully and sits
down on the aforesaid as follows:
Tho San Is q arm and constant adherent
Of democrats ideas. II believes In gov
ernmept Of the people. by the people. and
for tho people. and in no other sort or
method Of government; but IL 10 not an
organ. We owe and own no allegiance to
any political organization. We are In the
habit Of forming and expressing our own
opinions about men. measures aud events.
In matters Of fact. like the forgery OF the
Chinese letter. 10 10 our practice to make
up our opinion at irst hand. In matters
Of Judgment, 10 10 our habit to prefer our
" Judgment 10 that OF any person not
responsible for the acts and words Of the
Ssn.
The New York Herald. . very inds-
pendent paper as iegsrds men and meas
ures. but Democratic in its general polit-
ical tendencies. ~psrtinently and warn
inRly remarks:
But what will interest the public much
moro il the fact that Samuel s. Norey's
confession makes damaging imputations
against the Democratic National Commit
tee. II alleges that he was paid for his
perjury by an officer Of that committee,
whose name he mentions In the document.
and that he held repeated conferences at
the committees rooms on the errand OF
perjury for which he was imported from
New York. We earnestly hope that this
terrible reproach may be disprovsd.
The New York Nail. one OF the most
independently outspoksn papers in the
United States. refers to this forgery trial
in the following consistent and honestly
stalwart language:
In the pursuance Of what has become
manifsstly Q great public duty. the prose-
cution will have the sympathy Of every
honest. decent and intelligent Democrat.
Il 10 the Democratic party that has the
most immediate and direct interest in
purging itself Of Q style Of campaigning
that first got down into tho cutters with
the .'s29'' business, then crawled into the
sewers to hnd q conduit for its vileness,
and finally deluged the land with . foul
forgery. Reputable Democratic sympathy
with any man at all implicated. a. Access
sorry or indorssr. In the Philip forgery, 10
impossible. II Democrats who have either
political or social standing fail now to give
their moral support 10 the prosecution; II
they try TO bubble way the overwhelming
mass Of converging and cumulative testi-
mony; u they act a. though IL was Demo-
cratic to stick to IN exposed forgery
there will soou be an exodus Of Democrats
Of character. self.rsspeet and standing.
from the party. that will render Its resur-
rsction an impossibility. The very name
Of the party will stink.
Those last remarks We most especially
commend to the attention Of the vir.
ginia Chronicle, the only Democratic
paper In the whole country which tries
to ignore the exposure OF the Morsy in
EQUITY and oct rs though it believed il
Democratic to stick to an exposed for.
gerry. The Chronicle is evidently too
Bourbon to be honest. In refreshing
contrast. and in conclusion. read the
following square. honest talk from Hon.
George csssidy's paper. the Eureka
Suriinsl. the leading and not mislssding
Democratic journal Of Nevada:
Barnum and the National COMMITTEES
we're un~quesuouably imposed upon in the
Morey letter business. II seems now to
have been pretty well established that the
letter was q forgery. The committee should
wash its hands Of the whole thing. The
letter was evidently designed to influence
the voters OF the Pacific coast. II was
wholly useless for this purpose. Mr.. Gar
neld's record on the Chinese question was
well understood here. and that told heavily
against him. The sentiments expressed
in the Morey letter. had that document
been written by Mr.. Garfield. were no
more than the speeches and votes Of the
latter on the same subject In Congress.
Hence the letter. even though 10 had been
genuine. was unnecessary for this coast.
But the thing was bogus, and IS soon a.
the committee became satisfied Of this fact
10 should have frankly acknowledged the
corn. The Democratic managers owe Mr..
Garfield an apology In connection with
this iniquity. He has sins enough on the
record to answer for without making him
responsible for things Of which he IL in
nocent.