, 1880-10-23
A lie HAS No q1;cs
1t Cannot Stand But It
Has Wings Like q
Vampire.
The Wings Quickly Smitten
from Two Democratic
Roorbachs.
Fifty Bank Experts Declare that
the Chinese Letter lisa
Forgery.
"Companys" Is Represented as Gar
fields Way Of Spelling
Companies"
Even the Official Stamp on
the Envelope Is Of the
Mrong Kind.
Besides, Morey" and the !" En-
ployers' Union" Have
Never Existed.
Equally Summary Puncturing Of the
Lie as to Gov. lcweII's Florida
Dispatch.
Tie Great "Fraud" Scheme Now Fnfrly
Determined Upon-Tilden Hun.
ming The Machine.
An Extensive View of the Campaign
Throughout the East and
Waef
Equally Summary Puncturing Of the
Lie as to Gov. lewelI's Florida
Dis patch.
Tic Great "Fraul" Scheme Now Fafrlr
Determined Upon-'iilden Hun.
ming tllc Machine.
An Extensive View of the Campaign
Throughout the East and
West.


T1IE FORGERY.
TIE CONFIRMATION Or IRIS CHARACTER
sTi,OSN 4! PROOF or HOLY WHIT.
Special 0hpd'eh i" 1h< chstden Tribune.
NEW IolsE. Oct. !o&!..-:Tllc letter which ltns
bccls published within thu prst tiay or two by
sensational! morning paper Of this city
called Truth, ani which ii edited by one ut
the lltost irresponsible 1,ers,,,s tint ever fol-
loved the profession III Journalism, Is nrv
must completely explutrd md stamped rs
one OF tho 1ln,st palIl,c fUrgerlcs Of the lny.
This lGtter represented AIr. Garfield MS suy-
Ing, uudcr tlnte Of jan. -, lSSV. that he b..
Iieyeu thu " Treaty wilt, the Chinese t;oycrn-
1,Ient sl'omht be reliRiously kept until
!ts provisions are nbroeatcd BY the action
Ut the Gel,tral Government Eal,d l. ntll not
prepared to say tint It should be aorog,.tc.l
nntit our great manufacturing alld corpornta
interests 'lre conserved III the natter Of In.
bor." Willie Gen. Garfield ltns dente. tIla
authenticity Of tic letter, and the fact l,.!l
beeu established upon the testimony uf lead.
lug shoe manufacturers Of Lynn, Mass.. TINT
NJ suCli MAN.
rs Fl. l.. Morey, to whom tho letter purport
to have bccn written, llns resided IN TINT city
fur yrarX. n11i tllut tierH never way my such
organization as tho ''Enp1oyers' uninnn In
that place, tic Democracy Ut New Iork per.
sst In insisting that tlc document IL genuine
trltth. n1d Truth this morning contained
what It calls fac sfnIi1c OF ti'o letter. i1,Es
Is the first opportunity tic public has hu,l to
determine the authenticity ot tho letter, as
the lE.per publishing It llad heretofore given
only the cun&enls, printed III platm lype. The
evidence Of the fraudulent character uf this
invention dhn be easily seen By whoever will
compare genuine letter Of Gen. Garfield
witt, the turgcd document, which tic Delnoo-
racy have lad
L1T11onHAr11ED.
md ara now indaIstriulIs!y circulating. Tha
signature, which ought to IlnyN been ex-
ecuteu will, the greatest care, is slovenly
done. lnsttah Of "Garlieltl," It Is "Gut.
field "Dr (;utfnh." The .tot over tho IL"
wlIlcl! IL supposed to belong to thu ii" In
tic lust syllable Of tho name, Ii plnced be-
fore instead nj uttcr tho IT." Anybody NOT
nf expert Gull sep Mt glance tl,at tie Ivttel
IL forgery, AMI yet the netuocrats continue
10 send II nut by thousands Ut copies. not.
wllhstanllng they ca,1 furnish no evidence
tint the l,u,t Aturcy was alEye iii .Jn,luary,
lsA>. a,d that such alI organization as tha
employers uul0n" ever existed. a more
sI,AME1.fSs <AHp uXl'1uSc1lLED
piece Ut work waS never cUncuved.
Col. 4. Il. Parker, 1T the United Stntca
Postal Scryirt. llas telcgraphetl to thu Post
tnstcr-tieneral at Washington aaktng Wllett.
rr t!lu 1'1st-OilirH stamp on tite facu 0t tlla
envelope Is thu sort used by tile Department
nj tho time 1t Ia alleged tbs letter WIS writ
ten. Tl,a I'ost- -0tllce authorities here rcgard
thu stamp ~ n forgery. The Chairman Ut
the Democratic National Committee lns 0l
COURSE, lrlt hI1 nal,Iu to thu fraud, a,,tl III.
torses thu letter rs genuine. The paper
which Enve tho letter publicity to-day f0l-
lows up the allegation at Its authenticity In
lengthy editorial, In which occurs the tol.
lowing
vn.LA1Nous l'AssA0E:
" No Intelligent ltl:n, wherever lle mny be,
or tn whatever party ht may bcul'g. can
look upon TINT signature Ut '.ta,ues 4. 0nr-
field ailtl honestly kay that my qtllor hn1d
traced 1t thnn tho lIansl Of james \. Garfield
himself, None cnn 'noh upon tic hardwrft-
ing IN the b0Ay Ut tho letter nlln believe TINT
1t was tho work OF any other Ina1' than Jau.e5
a. Garfield"
*rl.e representative OF Tnx TRIBUNE
I!as taken greut pa!ns to-lay IN aSccr-
tatn thu vicws nf exparts ill.clliroEraphy
as 10 the similarity OF handwriting sAtween
the NOW note1 .E,Enss6 document and q let-
ter knnwn 70 1laye been written by lien.
GARFIELD.
nKTwEEN FIFTY AND s1xTf NANKERs
werH visited, md tho two letters exhibited,
and t!eru w,ls not single lMstAncu III which
the slightest similarity tIetwetll the original
letter nllh Iruth'y torKery WaEa luted.
Iilrse bank officers WeIH nut blase4l lu their
judgment by pul|tleal prcdEleclou+. fur they
were abtIut evenly divided between ltepll-
lca,s uni Democrats, They: gayo theis
oplnul,s It's baukrrs entirely, u men acens-