Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-10-25
pEnocRAriC DESPERATION.

Tho most diseracsful as well as inju-
dicious Of the lies concoetsd BY the De-
mocracy during the present campaign Il
tho Morey letter. 1t is disgracsful. In
that although IL was . lie apparent upon
it's face. unreasonable. and evidently
made up for q specific object, 1t was
eagerly taken in and Endorsed by leaders
Of the Democracy a true. when they
must have known 1t wal false. there
BY committing themselves and the
Democratic party to a low. miser.
able fraud. It Is injudicious in
that 1t was so easily proven to be false
and entirely without foundation. The
result can only be detrimental to the
Democracy. Al showing to what dss'
perate straits that corrupt old party il
reduced when Il has to resort to suoh
low. mean tactics in order to win.
1t was so easily proven to be q lie.
manufactured to order out Of whole
cloth, that the Democratic leaders have
simply besmirched themselves BY their
eager seizing upon and adoption Of the
villainous Islander. without even q ques-
,ion as to its truth. In fact. they must
have known IL was q lie and all about Its
origin. Either that or they prove them
selves hopelessly stupid. They are
either fools or knaves, or both. and al
though the Democratic papers. like the
Virginia Chronicle. will continue to pa
rads the dissracsful lie as Gospel truth.
with the mistaken view, Of influencing
the campaign against Mr.. Garfield. they
simply insult the intelligence Of their
readers in doing so and gain no credit to
themselves for reliability. honesty or
fair dealing.
Mr.. Garfield has distinctly denied
writing the infamous letter; 1t has been
plainly proven that no such man a. this
pretended Morey ever existed 10 Lynn;
neither was there ever any organization
known as the Employers Union In
Lynn. Experts pronounce the letter q
forgery. and a very miserable me at
that; and even admitting 1t to DO
perfectly genuine. 1t amounts to
nothing. 1t is the silliest cam
paign canard imaginable. and instead Of
injuripg Mr.. Garfield can only act as .
boomerang on the Democracy. Lies,
like chickens. come homo 10 roost." and
this is q good illustration OF that old
adage. The sooner the Democracy drops
this Morey lie. quits moralizips upon ii,
and hunts more lies in some other direc-
ton. the better; this was too thin and
Improbable from the very start. The
New York Tribune says:
General Garfield has tho right to be
angry. He not only ~denounces the Morey
letter a. the work Of . clumsy villain who
cannot spell or write English. or initiate
handwriting. but calls upon the National
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the ablest detectives at once and hunt the
rascal down. His assertion that . litho-
graphic copy Of the letter cannot fail to be
pronounced . forgery at sight by all who
are familiar with his handwriting. 10 not
an exaggsration. Any one who compares
the so-cAlled facsimile with Garfeld's I'M
disputed letters will see thAtit 10 . cramped
and labored imitation Of the easily
flowing and rapid hand. and II 10 totally
different. too. from another fac smile OF
an alleged letter from General Garfield,
published in the same paper only . few
weeks ago. That whatever General Gar
field 10. his worst enemy will hardly say
he 10 illitsrate. and does not know how to
spell, and a. II even all this were not
enough. now come the Postofice officials
, and show that the postmark was written.
In short. the evidence Of q deliberate for
gerry for political purposes 10 overwhelu-
ipgly conclusive. Mr.. Barnum and his
associates cannot have been ignorant OF
the real nature Of the document. and must
share in the infamy which attaches to all
concerned in such IN outrage, for which
all decent citizens will yet hope to soc the
perpetrators sent to the penitentiary.