Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-11
A THIEVING RASCAL,
Not the Friend of Garfield-The New
York Tribune's Story Of How
the Private
Dispatch of Whitelaw Reid TO the Late
President Came to Light-StOlen
from the Wires.

NEW YORK, January 1O.-The Tribune, o.
this "wednesday morning, returns to the
correspondent of the Herald, who recently
published confidential dispatch from Mr.
Reid to General Garfield, and says:
We propose to show beyond the possibility Of
that he lied, when he said that General Garfield
allowed him TO copy the dispatch; that he lied
when he said General Garfield showed it 10 him
and that he lied when he said he saw it or heard oil
il al the White House. Those are lust the things
the man who had stolen such dispatch would
doubtediy went to Carried. He might have
shown it; he might have left it lying on his table.
yicted Gulteau, aud can tell no tales.
Now, see just where the liar and thief,
Herald. reckoned without ais host. Read
first his exact WORDS; "But had an opportunity
to know that whenever he was thus upon the point
Of providing solution OF the trouble by an ac-
eeptable compromise. the pressure came at once
and this pressure was always by Blaine's fIiends.
To give you one significant instance: The presi-
dent showed me one day, and allowed ne to copy,
a dispatch which he received from New York in
the following words" The reader will remember
the dispatch was not addressed to Garfield, but TO
a friend, who was asked to lay the points of it
before him. Now read what the friend says;
No. &c EUCLID Avenue.
CLEVELAND, o., January :, 1SS2.
write in haste to let you know that your dis
patch TO me must have been stolen from the wires
have it here under lock and key. Nobody has
ever seen it but myself. not even Garfield. took
il over to him and read it to him. He never saw
1t except in my hands; never touched ii
with his II has been under
lock and key ever since. You may proceed ON this
wi absolute confidence. II either stolen
from your own copy in New York, or stolen from
the wires. repeat that no human being except
myself ever il after it left the telegrR phi
Office in Washington. l read it to Garfield,
and you remember what he at once said about
Withdrawing Robertson's nomination. "They may
take him out OF that Senate head first or feet first
| will never withdraw him. have only a min
ute TO catch this mail. Yours faithfully,
JOHN HAY.
To that statement no words need be added. He
thought it would surely be left with Garfield and
that therefore he could safely say the dead man
showed it to him and allowed him TO copy il. But
liars sometimes need something mo than long
memories. We need not ask the public
what they should think of an attack on
Garfeld's memory and his friends on Perform
ance like this; neither have shown the slightest
disposition to apologize for explain the dis
patch. 1t is not given with accuracy and there
are some words interjected, The original copy
in our hands and the telegraphic copy in
Colonel Hays hands show. But ii is near
enough and well enough. What we may
ask whether Mr.. Bennett, whose efforts
to make his paper just and genilemAnly have
often attracted praise. does not consider it
his duty to surrender to the public the name of
the person who has thus betrayed his confidence
and used his paper to deceive to public for the
purpose of disappearing and belittling the
martyr president.