The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-10-30
SELF.GONVICTED.
GarGeId's Denial Futile i'm Face of
the Letters Inherent Proof
that IL il Genuine.
Ample Testimony to the Fact that
He adds Perjury 10 His Assault
upon American Labor.
style. Phrase and Handwriting alike
Condemn Him.

Republican candidate for the Presi-
dency, denounced his letter upon the
subject of Chinese cheap labor, pub
lished in Truth on Wednesday, as a
stupid forgery.
To-day, wherever Truth is seen, the
American people will denounce James
A. Garfield, the Republican candidate
for the Presidency, as a stupid liar.
And rs the .tdc-simile of that letter,
now for the first time made public,
spreads from city to city, from town
to hamlet, from voter to voter, the cry
will roll and swell over this great coun-
| try until from one end of the Union to
the other, and from ocean to ocean,
the name of James A. Garfield will be
synonymous with treachery and false
hood.
Nointelligent man, whereverhe may
be or to whatever party he may be-
long, can look upon that signature of
James A. Garfield, and honestly say
that any other hand traced it than the
hand of James A. Garfield himself.
None can look upon the handwriting
in the body of the letter and believe
that ii was the work of any other man
None can study the phrases and
pretend that they We're framed in any
other brain than James A. Garfield's.
No one can compare the address in
the letter with the inscription upon
the envelope, the date of the letter
with the date of the postmark, and
the handwriting in the letter with the
handwriting upon the envelope, with
out an irresistible conviction that Jas.
A. Garfield secretly wrote and mailed
this very letter to Henry l.. Morey, of
the Employers Union at Lynn, Mass,
on the 23d day of January, 1880.
The fac-similes which we publish to-
day make all arguments and denials
relative to the authenticity of the doc
ument futile. They speak for them
selves. Such letter could not be
successfully forged by the most expert
penmen, and no forger could ever
hope to have his crime accompanied
by circumstances corrobOrative of
authenticity such as surrounded this |
Chinese cheap labor letter which Jas. !
A. Garfield has the temerity to dis
own.
When men like Speaker Randall, |
Abram S. Hewett and Edwin r, |
Meade, all familiar with the hand
writing and modes of expression of |
James A. Garfield, and all of them
have examined the original letter, pro-
nOunce it genuine beyond dispute, |
Gariield's plea of mot guilty" is vain.
But when, in addition to this proof,
"A copy in fac-simile of the letter itself
is presented in the columns of Truth
to the American people for their in
divldual inspection, as it is to-day, this /
matter of difference between Truth
upon the one hand, and James. A.
Garfield, the Republican candidate for
President upon the other, will be in
decided against James
A. Garfield at the bar of public Opin-
ion.
James A. Garfield will be convicted
before that great American tribunal of
last resort, the people of the nation. of
all that the letter implies, and of
sneaking lie besides.
James A. Garfield, the standard
bearer of the Republican party in this
campaign, wrote and mailed the letter
whose counterpart we produce TODAY.
and i'm that letter he sealed the doom
Of his Presidential aspirations at their
birth.
The effect upon American working
men at this election of such a policy
Is he there fOreshadOws, will be in
'tant an overwhelming.
When the Republican party flooded
he country with cards and circulars
Intended TO show that Gen. Hancock !
vas pledged 10 promote the establish /
nent Of the doctrine of free trade and
heir orators loaded their speeches and
heir newspapers filled their columns
With similar declarations. the work ,