The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-12
TELEGRAPAIG NEWS
WHITELAW RETD'S DIS
PATCH.
TIE Editor Defends Himself
by AftnckIng Another. -

New York, 10-The ITbune returns to
| the correspondent Of the Herald who re-
Gently published confidential dispatch
from MIR. Red ~ Iieneral Garfield, and
says: ne propose tn snow beyond the
possibility OF dispute, just what be was.
w 9 propose to show that De ed when he
said Genera Garfield allowed him to
copy the dlspatch; Il NJ he lied when he
sald G-heral Garfield showed it to him,
and that he lied wh+n he said he saw or
heard Of 1t as tue White House. These
are jus: the things mah who had stolen
such Il dispatch won d think never could
be shown. The dispatch undoubtedly
vent 10 Garfield. He might have left it
lyiI on his table. He Is dead, thanks
To The unhanged and unconVicted
Guiteau, and can tell no lies. Now
see just where the liar and
thief, who has go shsmefully
imposed upon the Herald recKoned
without bis host. Read first his exact
words; "But had an opportunity to
know that whenever he was thus upon
the point OF requiring the solution Of the
trouble by an acceptable compromise
the pressure came at oIce upon him
against such wise course, and this pres
sure was always from Blaine's friends.
To give you one significant instance, the
President showed one day, and allowed
me TO copy, dispatch which he received
from New York in the following Words"
Che reader will remember the dispatch
was not addressed to Garfield, but TO
friend who was asked to lay the points
of it before him. Now read what that
friend says:
No. SOC EUCLID AVE, CLEVELAND,
January z, 1882.
write in haste to let you know that
the dispatch to me mist have been stolen
from the wires. l have it here
under lock and key. Nobody
has ever seen it but myself,
not even Garfield. took
it over to him and read
| it to him. He never saw it
except in my hands, and lever touched
it with his. Il has been under lock and
key ever since. You may proceed in
this case with absolute confidence. 1t
was either stolen from your own copy in
New York or stolen from the wires. l
repest no human being except myself
has ever seen it after it left the telegraph
| Office In Washington. l read it to Gar
field, and you remember what he at once
iaid about Withdrawing Robertson's
NOMINATION.. ley may lake MIN OUT OF
that Senate head frat or feet first, l will
never withdraw Aim." l have only 8
minute to catch this mail.
Yours faithfully.
,(Signed) JOHN Hay.
To tLat statement no words may be
added. He thought it would surely be
left with Garfield, that, therefore, he
could safely say the dead man showed it
to him, allowed him to copy il, but liars
| sometimes need something more than
| long memories. We need not ask the
public what they should think Of an at
tack on Garfsld's memory and his
friends, based on a performance like this;
neither have We the slightest disposition
to apologize for or explain the dispatch.
It is not given with accuracy. There are
some words interpolsted as the original
copy in our hands, and tina telegrspbic
copy in Col. Hays hands show, bet it is
near enough and well enough. What
We may ask is whether Mr.. Bennett,
whose efforts to make his paper just and
gentlemanly, have often attracted praise,
does not us~ consider it his duty to sur
render to the public the name of the per-
son who has thus betrayed his confidence
and used bis paper to deceive the public
for the purpose of incorporating and
belittling the martyred President