The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-04
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THE BIGGEST OF ALL BOMB sHELLs-ITs
TRUE INwARDNEss EXPLODED-
A BIG FIRE AND LIT
TIE ONE.

NEW York, Oct. 80, 1880.
Well! Before I write another Radix
the long agony will be over and we
shall know who is to be onr next Presi-
dent. Eschewing politics, as you know
i always do, they give occasion some
times for some items of news which it
would be objectionable to slur or pass
over without mention. Some pretty
good hits have already been made by
your humble servant, and / will just iu-
vite your attention to what l fondly be-
lievc is another. 1t is a surmise, and
yet something more than a surmise,
relative to the ail-absorbing topic of the
day, the alleged Garfield Chinese let
ter. "Stupid and brutal' it is acknow-
lodged by all. Some thousands of re-
while other thousands, equally respect
able, think it isn't. If it be forgery,
1 maintain that 1t has many elements
akin to that other famous sensation in
its day, the historic Bogus Proclama-
nation, for printing which, In rather
too much of hurry to believe to be
true, the editors of the World and
Journal of Commerce were clapped
into Fort Lafayette during the war,
while their papers were temporarily
suppressed, in company with the
author, Joe Howard, that loveable. but
erratlc ex-lamb of Mr.. Beecher's flock,
with his irrepressible twist to deviltry
of high and ingenious order. A bird
Philp-his moral deformity made me
think of Dickens creation-who is ac-
cused of being the forger of the docu-
ment- II 1t be bogus, L believe It will
be found that in its inception it was the
outcome Of a prolonged sitting under
juniper tree, when the boys got frolic-
some and their wit itched to find a
startling outlet. That was the way the
bogus proclamation was started. Joe
Howard declares, and know him well
that he hadn't an idea of such thing
till five minutes before he set to work
on 1t. The idea struck HIM like flash,
and in congenial company, convulsed
with laughter, the precious screed was
chievous way. Like the light Whit of
snow kicked up BY chamois on the
Alps, the thing has grown to an ava
lanchee the prime movers evidently
did not dream Of. 1t Is singular how
readily Mr.. David NJ. Stone, of the
Journal of Commerce. swallowed his
l,ait as well as the former one. He at
once adopted the atrocious sentiment,
while intimating broadly and with
little blinking the question that Gar
field was cowardly liar for repudiating
it, a back-handed slap all round in fact.
The canvass Of 1876 was hot work, but
the ginger in this Is very noticeable, in
deed. The great dry goods wholesales
shut up shop early in the afternoon of
Tuesday and marched, a phalanx of
millionaires, i'm a body TO Wall Street,
to support Bob 1ngersoll at one of the
n,ost in "A MENTAL outllOOr MEETINGS over
held, while feeling is running so high
that, on the burning of the Ansonia
Clock Company's works, in Brooklyn,
the other day, entailing the loss of mil
lions and throwing thousands out of
work, 1t was currently believed for some
time that the disaster was of incendIary
origin, and that the workmen destroyed
the source of their livelihood In order
to give hint to their employers that
they objected to Chinese Cheap Coolie
Competition. In fact, there's too much
bad blood already. 1 wish the election
was over. think the country will be
safe, after all. RADIx.