Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-25
THE LAST DEMOCRATIC OUTRAGE.

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will be approved by all honest men. At
first he had thought it scarcely worth
while to come forward personally in the
matter, but on seeing the impudent at
tempt to fasten the fabrication upon him
by clumsy imitation OF his handwriting,
he promptly telegraphed to Marshall
Jewell "Within the last hour the mail
-" has brought me photographic copy OF
g the forged letter. 1t was the work of
"some clumsy villain who cannot spell
"nor write English, nor initiate my hand
writing. Every honest Democrat who
{" is familiar with my handwriting will de-
" nounce the forgery at sight. Put the
GO case in the hands of the ablest detectives
g at once, and hunt the rascal down y
That is the way to meet such scoundrel-
ism. 1t is not honest partisan warfare
in which Mr.. Barnum and his crew
of forgers and liars are engaged. 1t
is criminal fraud, rendering its per-
petrators liable to imprisonment in the
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no happier fate. The political manager
who is capable of doing what Barnum has
done in this matter is a disreputable knave
who ought to be repudiated and denounced
by every honest man, and party that ac-
quiesces in such practices, and is content
to profit by them, stands self-condemned.
As matter of fact no party ever did
profit by such methods, however. When
forgery is resorted to for the purpose Of
iniuring political opponent the effect is
always and invariably the reverse of what
was intended. Men draw from the course
of the felonious party the logical deduc-
ton that the candidate whose record is so
good that his enemies think it necessary to
forge charges against him, can be trusted,
while nobody will confide in the politicians
who have descended to such Infamous
crimes. The Morey forgery is as stupid
and inartistic as it is impudent and wicked.
1t is pretended that letter has been dis
covered in the effects of a recently deceased
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ployer's Union. 1t is at once shown
that no such man lived where he is said to
have lived, and that no such organization
as is alleged ever existed there. In addi
ton to this negative testimony General
Garfield emphatically asserts that he never
wrote such letter to anyone. The des-
Democratic party to ruin were not con-
tented with this refutation, however.
They proceeded to Autograph and print |
copies of the forged letter. Then it was |
at once seen that the forgery was of the
clumsiest kind. The rascal who invented |
it could not even spell English. He puts
he never could use. He cannot initiate his
handwriting. And lastly he does not even
spell his name properly. The publication
OF the letter completes the exposure of the |
infamy, but it does more than this, it
affords clew which not only Cen
eral Garfield but the Government will
follow up, for it shows that the forgery in
c!udes an imitation of one of the canceIng-
Stamps of the Postofice, and that is a
serious matter.
General Garfield has taken the right
course. The rascal must be hunted down.
And if he should turn out to be Demo
cratic manager we are compelled to say
that nobody would be at all surprised.
The himsiness of the fraud is shown in the
tact that it was offered to two Democratic
journals in New York, one being the Sun,
and that they declined to have anything
to do with it. OF course they saw through
the device, and honorably refused to be
parties to so shameful trick It was
finally published in an obscure and doubt
less disreputable sheet, of which nobody
ever before heard, and which viii sink
into its native darkness again as soon as
this matter is fully exploited. The Demo
cratic press of this State, however, has no
such scruples as restrained tie Sun. They
have printed the forgery and suppressed
the refutation, and in 50 doing they have
advertised their affinity with the worst
political scoundrelism of the time. We
hope the villain who committed the for
gerry may be laid by the heels promptly.
As to the equally guilty partisans who
have so basely testified their approval of
the dirty job, their punishment
will consist in the contempt of
ali self.respeeting men, and in
the bitter realization of the fact that they
have degraded themselves for worse than
nothing. Their abject acquiescence in
this rascally device will only cause the
defeat of their party to be more crushing,
and they win be made to comprehend that
when mud is thrown by far the greater
part adheres to the thrower. Of course
this forgery indicates the desperation Of
the Democratic managers, but it also
proves their imbecility They evidently
cannot understand what honesty means,
and so they are incapable of seeing how
the public are likely to resent so despicable
deed as they have just committed. 1t
is not to be thought that Barnum and his
colleagues were ignorant of the true char
acter of the so-called Morey letter. 1t is
not only certain that they knew it to be
forgery, but it is extremely probable that
they suggested and paid for the crime. 1t
did not need any infsmy of this kind to
secure their contemptuous rejection by the
people, but they have now shown that
they deserve, not merely to be defeated,
but to be cast in exemplary damages.
THE DEMOCRATIC STAMPEDE.