Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-15
envelope in court and counsel expressed his
thanks for the courts remarks.
The court room was then vacated.
Mr.. He,Utts's Reply to Judge Davis.

Mr.. Hetcttts Reply to Judge DGvtS.
NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-Abram s. Hewitt
makes reply to the opinion of Judge Davis
in the Philip case, in SO far as it relates to
himself. Mr.Hewitt says:"The judge who sits
upon the bench is supposed to know the evil
dence which has been given by witness.
| Certainly he should examine it before he I'M
| dertskes to make statements as to its nature
| and to draw conclusions from it. That
Judge Davis has not performed this duty the
| following comparison of his statement of the
testimony will serve to prove" The pas
sage is quoted from the opinion in which it
| is made to appear that the Morey letter was
| not published until Mr.. Hubbard had it ex-
amined by Mr.. Hewitt. Mr.. Hew-
| lit makes this rejoinder. "Now
the simple and unanswerable reply to
all this statement and the extraordinary
comments in which Judge Davis has seen fit
to indulge, is that the letter had already been
| published in Truth before I had ever seen
Mr.. Hart or the original letter, or any copy
of it. This fact Judge Davis must have
known when he penned the above lines, be-
cause had sworn in his presence, and after
cross-examination by Mr.. Stougnton, in
which Ma. Bliss interviewed to verify the
examination of the letter took place on the
Goth of October, after Its publication in
Truth and not before. do not know whether
Mr.. Hart made mistake in his testimony
as to the date, but, if he did, there is no
possible justification for Judge Davis to base
a structure on this mistake in order to
attack from the bench the character
of citizen, after the date had
been fixed beyond the possibility
Of all controversy. While writing this
ascertain whether he had ever made any de-
claration at variance with the facts as I have
stated them. Mr.. Hart replies that he never
said, testified or thought that Mr.. Hewitt or
anyone connected with the national committee
saw the letter in advance of the publication
of the text of the letter in the Truth on the
Goth of October. never pronounced the
body and signature of the letter to be in the
handwriting of Gen. Garfield. On the con-
trary, in presence of Mr.. Hart and all the
gentlemen present, declared the body of
the letter not to be in the handwriting of
Gen. Garfield, but that believed the sig
nature to be his autograph.
AS to the second interview in the evening,
it took place after my speech at Chickering
hall, when l was exhausted and took no
other part in the discussion but to reafirm
my belief in the genuineness of the sigma
ture. I did not tell MIR. Hart that I would
have made it forgery if could, nor has he
or anyone else testified I ever used the ex-
preston
To Judge Davis assertion that Hewitt
"went on with his associates scattering the
forgery broadcast throughout the country"
Hewitt replies: $50 far as I am concerned
it would, perhaps, be sufficient answer to
say that 1 never circulated any Autographs or
fac SMILES of either kind, but, in order to
show with what reckless eagerness the
charge is made, state that am assured by
the person who did send out the fac SMILES
that only the first or accurate ones were cir
culated, and that second or amended fac
simiies were only published in the Truth,
over which it is not pretended the commit
tee had any control.
II iorbear to make any comments what
ever upon the extraordinary character of the
opinion produced by Judge Davis. It is
enough for one to point out that the foun-
dation upon which ne has built up an attack
upon my character is false in fact, and with
this demonstration the consequences can
only be damaging to himself. was prepar-
ed for this attack by the evidently prearrang-
ed preliminary statement of Mr.. Stoughton
in the Times of yesterday, and am now
forced to believe that there is a concerted
scheme to attempt to break me down in this
community, where I have lived for fifty
years, and 70 which I can more safely trust
for just judgment than to judge of the gu
preme court who forgets that when he be-
comes judge he should cease to be a par
tisan."