The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-12-08

DO worship lnt IN ltT,
Spirit swcet-all else above
Love is God, since God is love-
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THE TRUTH OF HISTORY
The desperate efforts OF the Ma
tional Democratic Committee to es-
cape all responsibility for the forged
Chinese letter viii not be allowed to
succeed. The record of their trans
actions condemns them utterly We
propose 10 arrange in chronological
order the successive steps by which
that infamous forgery was ioistcd
into public notice and partially fore
cd bv ingenious explanations aad
fat falsifications into public ere
dencc. The narrative IS simple and
mansWcrable.
The forged letter was FIRST publish
cd in printed form in T7sh ON
Wednesday, October % 1t attract
ed no notice whatever. Even the
World newspaper rcfrained from
copying itOr from making the slight
est allusiom TO it on the following
dav. According to theotiicial state
ment OF the Democratic National
Committee, the original letter was
taken to their headquortcrson We'd
nesdav afternoon and was there cX-
amined bv several eminent Demo-
Gratis, including Mr.. Barnum, Mr.
Hewitt and Mr.. Randall. On We'd
nesday evening Mr.. Hewitt in a
speech at a Democratic mass meet
ing in Chickering Hall, read the let
ter and said +:
Some people may incline to pro
nounce it a forgery. / have seen ii.
| am familiar with General Gar
fields signature. 1 have compared
itwith his letters in my possession,
and | have no doubt it is genuine.
If it be a forgery it is the work Of a
consumate artist but if | thought,
after examination, there was the
slightest doubt OF It's authenticity, !
should not refer to it.
None the less emphatic was the
dispatch sent out over the signature
of Chairman Barnum, on the same
evening, and published the next
morning in all the leading Demo
cratic journals of the country:
New York, Oct. %.
The following IS published in
Truth this morning. The letter IS
authentic. 1t is inGeneral Garfield's
handwriting. Denial is worse than
useless. 1t should have the largest
circulation among all clases, as it
unmasks the Republican hollowness
and hypocrisy on the labor question
through their chief He declares
himself adverse 10 the laboring
mans interest, and in favor of the
employers Union, advising them to
employ the cheapest labor available
". H. BARXUM.
(IEere followed the original letter.
The original letter, OF which the
foregoing is a true copy, Is in Truths
possession. 1t was mailed at Wash
ington, bv the Republican candidate.
for President, to Henry /. Morey, a
prominent member Of the Employ
crs Union, Lynn, Mass. At his
death. which recently occurred. It
was found among his effects. The
inclosing it, the original OF
which is also in TruiAs possession,
is marked Personal as carefully as
the letter itself Is marked Personal
and confidential" " b.
1t was these simultaneous an
nouncements by Messrs Hewitt and
Barnum which lifted the letter into
public notice. Both gentlemen
spoke after they had seen the letter
and the envelope The closing por-
ton of Barnum's dispatch shows
that the envelope he'd been under
examination. On the same morn
ing that these announcements were
published, October q, General Gar
fields denial, denouncing the letter
rs a stupid forgery, was published
in every newspaper in the land.
Not single newspaper OF any
III New-York City even on
that morning digniiied the forgery
with a single wordof editorial men
ton. On Friday it was shown by
dispatches from lynn that TO such
man as II. l.. Morey had ever lived
there. and that no such organization
rs the EMPLOYERS Union had ever
existed there. The World was still
silent on the subject, and the other
journals of the city treated it with
On Saturday, October
%. a fac-simile of the forged letter
was published in Truth. Then the
hand Of Barnum appeared on the
ear of the editor of the World.
That newspaper broke Its silence,
hastened to approve the forgery edi-
torially, and in its news columns
published a printed copy of the let
ter for the first time, taking care to
prop it up with reproduction OF
Mr.. Hewitt's Chickering Hall IN
dorsement. The World also went
into the business of manufacturing
evidence TO sustain the forgery, for
on the same morning It published
dispatch from Utica containing the
bogus news of the discovery OF a
man there who said he had known