Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-28
That CHINESE LETTER.
baVcDpori's Deputies After '"Truth''
-Ehosc Florida isepcaters-Quar-
tered in Jacksonville aud itendy
far Eku.iu.ss

the photographic copies of the Chinese
letter and TIE letter which G5B. Garfield
wrote declaring it to be II forgery, and
they claim that there is considerable
resemblance between the two. They
| reason that the disclaimer was written for
| publication and that Garfield would make
| ii as unlike the Chinese document as Dos |
sible. Notwithstanding this the people at
| tue Democratic headquarters have been
sub ecting the marks and lines and incli-
nations aud dots to severe tests, aud they
claim that the same person wrote both
letters. Truth tomorrow will say that
when The Autograph of the Chinese
letter was published here Governor
Smith was dispatched in hot haste
to Mentor. He arrived from there
on Monday morning, bringing with him |
Gariield's reply. The attempts to break |
down the damaging evidence of his hand |
writing in the Chinese letter having COM
pletey failed, the paper says it only re.
mains to consider the weak attempt of |
| Garfield and his hackers 10 show dhuRde |
| that such q letter could not have been |
written by Garfield to Morey. They claim |
that Morey did not live in Lynn and that
there was no Employers Union, and con-
seqaently Truth will publish tomorrow
a l,ttor from the executor of Morey's |
estate, u letter from Republican presi-
dant Of the Employers Union and various
other cotroborative evidences which COM
pletely break down, it claims, the Repub-
| lican defense.
Trutd this morning contained long
account of an attempt made by Daven- |
port acting under orders of the Republi- |
| can committee, to get possession of the
| al nj 49,
editors into his office and tried to obtain
m admission that the letter was forged.
Subsequently ne visited the Truth office
aud asked to see the letter and seemed
greatly disappointed because he was re-
fused. Truth claims that he wanted TO
obtain some admission which would war.
rant him in arresting the editor for for
gerry and that he would have done so had
he obtained glance at the original letter.
All the evening and up to this hour
(m,dnigh) the Office of Truth has been
surrounded by at least dozen United
States marshals, who are under Daven-
port, detectives and police. Tue latter
are guarding the Office. The marshsls
have some sort Of warrant for kenward
Philip, one Of the editors, and no one
knows who or what they are there for
unless it be Ohittenden's reward. Up 10
this hour no arrests have been made.
There is much excitement in the city ever
the demonstration against the paper, and
there are all sorts OF rumOrs in circulation,
most Of which are very foolish and with.
out foundation.
&C.! o. n.-rhe warrant against Kenward
Phlp, of YtUth Office, charges him with
forging a United Ststes postm4rk. AT l
o'clock II detectives. marshals ard police
men were banging around the Office, but
they had not caught Philip"
THE FLORIDA REpEATERs
Chairman Jewels repeaters seem 10
have turned up in Florida all right. The
following special dispatch is taken from
the Philadelphia Times and will be read
with interest
NEW York, Oct. 2G.-Mr. A. D. McCabe
of Monmouth county, N. j., was fellow
passenger with one insIalment Of Chair.
man JEWELS repsaters forwarded from
this city to Florida. An affidavit from
him is 10 be printed in the Sun to- morrow.
The weight of Mr.. McCabe's testimony ia
signay emphasized by tho fact that he
could have had no intimation of the scheme
contemplated by the Republican managers,
since hg left Jacksonville ON his return to
New York on October 10th, or nearly
week before Jewel's kilograms Were pub
lisLed He saw quite enough, however,
to arouse his own suspicious. and the
facts recited by him acquire sinister
meaning in the light Of the dispatches
The affidavit is Us follows
AsHrRy PARK, MONMOUTH County, y. L.
/ Allen u. Met abe being duly sworn. dcpOscs
and says that he is a resident of Ocean Grove.
Monmouth county, New Jersey; that on
Ifh- Il l.. 4
steamer Western Yt.r1s. for Florida that
there were ON board Of tho same vessel, in file
Storage about Il hundred rouuh-lookiny
fellows who. according to the statement made
ly Inc cnrrtnin of the vessel TO tLis denonrnt
were railway lalorcrs hired TO work ON the
Way cross X East Florida railroad. Deponent
SAWS that thr said railroad * n line protected
between Fernandma and Jacksonville that
| some work has been done ON the Fernandinn
end, but That no work is now being done or is
apparently IN contemplation on the Jackson-
VILE end: Dep9neht further says that on the
arr.ini ~ tuo n,Sna l.F"S at rernah'iha
oiie"l i, n,r. % war andnd az Tarn ",mi .,ao
but that on saturday. October 9th, den"nent
saw number OF these men in jacksonville.
and on Monday, October 1lth he saw and
recognized III the streets Of Jacksonville
workmcn who had come down with him on
! -.
VIII w., nH uorn D'i "i tllo Jaehsohyllle eild
Of tbc.e men M in th@r hnsiSass in n1' tat
| place, saving ~ thomrht Won fellow L"J
come down to work ON tic railroad" TO which
the answer was: I'VE amt going to work on
no railroad " that 10 further inquiries they
refused 10 hlake any reply ana walked away,
a a, Us i at % sass 'iat from 0c1oper
snnyiIa for New Yor, he saw ,raot nnn -
of tLe ALLEGED lalor.rs going I'm Ia tha H.,
p'i ,I ~ i'ag street mat ne
/ quarters but received no answer, and depo-
nont further says that Horatio Jenkins, Jr. is
the Chairman of the Republican state Ex-
ecn'iNe Vomml''eooi Florida; MO
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urtab"r 4 H. Iss9 b'for " me- sm' Gun u's Vi
DAVID HARVEY. Jn..
AsDum rAER, Nj. Notary Public.
| Followine is Mr.. NJ w UazIaton,a an
layit that MIR. MoCabe ia a resident NJ
Asbury Park in good social and business
J standing and that he returned fron,
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