The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-25
Philip to Confess.
THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THI
FORGERY CASE.


THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
FORGERY CASE.
Especial Despatch to Philadelphia Press.)
New York, November 21.-Theie
will probably be further delay in bring
ing the forgery indictments 10 trial ,ow
ing to the promised onfession of Ken
ward Philip, which is announced to
be made tomorrow. They were being
drawn on Saturday with great care,
and q consultation over them was ap-
pointed for that afternoon. 1t was
postponed on the announcement that
Philip would confess his guilt on Mon
day. Counsel believe he has nothing
new to confess and that he can throw
no additional light on the manufacture
of the letter and certainly little on
the construction of the language
which it contained. They say that
the adroit wording of the letter was
something of which neither Philip
nor any one of his immediate associ
ates was capable. They We're not
sufficiently acquainted with American
politics to have devised it, The time
chosen for the publication of the for
gerry and the methods employed to dis
tribute it also indicate the hand of an
old and skillful politician. When it
was made public the indications of the
campaign pointed to the inevitable de-
feat of Hancock, largely on account
of the question of protection to Amer
lican manufactures and workmen.
The greatest detection from the DEM
ocratic ranks was among the business
men and skilled laborers. The letter
was designed to show that the protec-
tive principle of the Republican plat
form was pretense, and that General
Garfield was committd to it only 80 far
as it promised protection to the manu-
facturer at the expense of the work
ingman, 1t has been found that
many thousands of the handbills on
which the forged letter had been
printed were distributed directly by
servants in the houses of Republicans,
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kitchens, where servant girls and
their visitors discussed the letter as
meaning that the Chinese were to be
put in their places as house servants
as well as in the place of factory
hands. Every effort was made to
reach these classes of people, and
hence the original publication was
made in penny paper. 1t is esti-
mated by those active in the campaign
in distributing tariff cards. that
this publication cost the Republi-
can candidates in this State alone at
least twenty thousand votes, chiefly
in the interior. Investigation has
shown that the forgery was not of
General Garfeld's handwriting or
signature, bnt that of Mr.. Brown, his
stenographer and amanuensis. When
this idea was first suggested inquiry
was made in this city for original let
ters of Garfield, and, although scores
of communications were found signed
with General Garfield's name, they
were almost without exception written
and signed by Mr.. Brown. For this
reason Colonel Rockwell of Washing
ton was called as a witness, and q
letter of confidential character was
used in the examination of Philip.
The forger or fnrgers had to get a
letter from General Garfield before
they could do any work. 1t can he
shown, so council state, that such a
letter was procured by II. II. Hadley,
who wrote to General Garfield a letter
intended to draw out a personal reply
from him. But the reply was writ
ten by Mr. Brown and signed by
him. 1t was not of the slightest con-
sequence, being merely reference of
his correspondent to certain printed
documents sent by the same mail.
Yet it was carefully photolithographed
and published in Truth about two
weeks before the forged letter ap-
peared. The forgery, it is now known
was based upon the letter of Brown,
to which he had attached the name
OF General Garfield by authorization,
and it is believed that that letter was
in imitation of that of General Gar
field. 1t is common among persons
having large practice thus to have
imitation Of their signature made by
their confidential clerks. II Is not
believed by council in the Philip case
that Mr.. Hewitt has ever had an au-
sograph from General Garfield.