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posed to know the evidence which has beer
! given by witness. Certainly he should exatn'
Inc 1t before he undertakes to make statements
| as to its nature and to draw conclusions from
I 1t. That Judge Davis has not performed this
I duty the following comparison OF his statement
| with n'y Testimony will scr:e to prove.
| The passage il quoted from the opinion IN
whicl. it is nade to appear that the Morey
letter was not published until after Mr. Hart
had it examined by Hewitt. 1Ir. Hewitt
makes this rcjoinder:
| Now, the simple and unanswerabie reply to all
this statement, the extraordinary comments In
| which Judge Davis haa seen 1T to indulge, ia
| that tho letter had nlready beon published in
Truth before ! had ever seen Mr. hart or the
| original letter. or any copy OF It. This facr
| Judge D4vis must have known when he penned
the above lines, because had sworn In his pres
encc, and after the cross examination BY Mr.
Stouyhton, In which Mr. Bliss intcryened to vcr-
'tfy tho dates. that the interview with Mr. Hart
| and the examination Of the letter took place On
the 10th Of October. after Its publication In
Truth, and not before. do not know whether
MIR. Hart made Il mistake in bis testimony as to
the dnte, but If he did there is possible iustifl
cation for Judge nnyIs to base statement on
this mstakc iu order tn attack from the Bench
the character Of citizen after the dnte hud
been fixed beyond the possibility Of all con-
trovarsy.
While writing this statement sent a mes
scnRcr to Mr.. Hart to ascertain whether he had
ever made any dcclhradcn ut variance with the
facta us have stated them. Mr.. Hart replies he
never said, testified or thought thut Mr.. Hewitt,
or any one connected with the National Com
mittcc. saw the letter in advance OF the pub
lcaton Of the text of the letter In Truth on the
a)th of October. never pronounced the body
and signature of the letter to he In the hand
writing Of Gen. Garfield. On the contrary. in
the presence OF Mr.. Hart, ana all the gentlemen
present, declared tho body Of the letter not to
bo III the handwriting OF Gen. Garfield, but that
1bclieved the signature to be
HIS AUTOGRAPH.
AS to the second interview In the evening, 1t
took place after my speech at Chiokerlng Hall.
when I was exhausted, and took no other
part In tho discussion but to reafirm my be-
lief In the genuinencss Of the signature /
did not tell Mr.. Hart that would have made
it u forgery IL could, nor has he or any one
else testified ever used the expression.
10 Judge Davis assertion that Hewitt
event OH with his associates scattering the
forgery broadcast throughout the country"
Hewitt replies:
So far as am concerned, it would. perhaps be
sufficient answer to suy that never circulated
osJ A&noAtAPua OE laE- E-aulllca VI EllQ9F klnur
but, In order to show with what reckless eager
ness the charge Is made, I state that am as
surcd By tho person who did send out the fac
stniles thut only tho first or accurate ones were
clrcul lated md that tho second or amended fnc-
Smiles were ouly published in Truth, over
which it Is not pretended the Committee had
any control. forbenr to make any comment
arg whatever upon tho extraordinary character
OF the opinion produced by Judge Davis.
10 sohF FrA
tho foundation upon which be haa built
up an attack upon my character is false In ract,
and with this demonstration the consequences
can only be damaging to himself. l WAS pre-
pared for this attack by the evidently prear-
ranged preliminary statement OF Mr. Stoughtoa
in the Times Of yesterday, and am now forced
to believe that there is a concerted scheme to
attempt to
bitEAK s1E DOWN IN THIS COMMUNITY
where hive lived for fifty years, and to which
I can more safely trust for Just Judgment than
to judge Of the Supreme Court who forgets
that when he becomes judge be should cease
to be partisan.
DlsTR1cT-ArToRNEY BLISS PAYS HIS RE-
RESPECTS.
Special Dlspateh to The Chicago Tribune.
New YoRk, Nov. 3.-District-Attorney
Bliss and Abram S. Hewitt are not on the
best of TERMS The latter took occasion last
night TO pass some severe STRUCTURES upon
the former in regard to the Morey
letter, and to-day Mr.. Bliss replied
as follows: al see that Abran
S. Hewitt is reported to have said at the Ma
tional Democratic rooms. last evening, in |
speaking OF the perjured witnesses: For
ill know these disreputable witnesses may
have been produced by Bliss and Dayen-
port This Is a good specimen of Mr. |