The daily gazette., 1882-08-22
ANOTHER LIE NAILED.
THE MORNING ORGANS SLAM.
DEROuS CHARGE REFUTED.
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Forcible Communication From the
President Of the Diamond Match Com
pany.

To THE EDITOR OF THE GAzETrE- Dso,
SIR Will you do me the favor to pubIisl
the following letters and accompanvint
statement. They explain themselves ans
are offered for publication for the reasor
that the Morning News and Republico,
newspapers of this city, have been pleased
Tor reasons best known to themselves-.tT
charge by implication and assertion-more
or less clumsily veiled-that Senator Bavard
was influenced, by considerations of personal
interest, to oppose the repeal of the tax on
niaVcnes. Although 1t its not probable thai
single person In this community be-
lieves there is a grain of truth In sucb
charges, it seems to me proper they shOuld
be met by an explicit denial; hence this
communication to you.
WILMINGTON, nEL., August Ia. 1As2-Hou
ihomGs +. BGygrd, Rehoboth, DeI,-MY DEhR
Dir ~ seems to me proper to make the In0uirv
maEe you nhl Wnether II Dc your wish that should
tion M over our signature through the newspapers
OF the vile and sanderous charge made by,
sp s1lhe papers touching your motive in opposing
@ the repeal OF the match tax. 1t is needless for
me to say that have been palned heyond ey-
preston by the attacks made upon Won in this
connection, and II YOU consider it worth while
tSe ~ no.lee Them, we are ready to publish over
.ne name Of our company the fullest and most
e1pllclt denial OF any connection on your mari
WIN our cOmpany-pr any Of Its mem6ere-Jnro
'essionai or otherwise Of the remOtest kind
l nave been away nearly all of the past ten
DAYS 0r would have seen you personally abont
thls, called at your office this morning and
railing TO hnd you, learned upon inouiry that
you mad gone to RehobOth N'
Very respectfully,
WILLIAM H. SWIFT,
l., WILMINdToN, w DEL, August Ie lSs2-WiJ
hdm y, Stctf, Esq.EMY DEAR SIR: Tecaived
Soth SSonr letter OF the 10th as was leaving Reho-
D9th on my way home. The defamatory charges
Of a press, controlled by sueh influenced as seem
lust now 2 have full SWAY in the Republican
pnrty Inn ,h l'eiaTare, appear to me unworthy of
ders die their natural deaths and nerish
speedily by the force of public opinion-whieh
Is never intentionally uniust-and upon which
tbfn u Un1. a9 can safely rely IT. however, you
note 70 the public press, the silly hlsehood thai
liver Il ever had any lnteEest or connection, profess
sional $40 or otherwise, with you or your company
you should not do it--and there are raasnns
perhaps why you should. 1t may serye 70 show
ene ylndiGtive and calGmntGus spirit OF a
tIeir os nepuDllca9s IN Wilmington, who use
Seit ht ~ newspapers not TO enlighten the public,
Dut 10 blackeh the representative of their politi
MI BArARp.
Touching the subject referred to In the
above correspondence have this to saw.
l. That Senator Bayard has not and
never has had the slightest pecuniary in
=, "a my ouSlncbb WITH winch or alY
other member of the Diamoud Match Com
pany have ever been conn cted.
=. That ha has never been retained as
counsel, nor consulted ,,rof4 4sSioaaIly by me.
or by any firm or corporation Nth which /
have ever been connected, nor by any
thereof,
4, That during the whole of our long ac-
luaintance Senator Bayard has never re-
'eived from me, nor from any firm or com
pany of which | am or have ever been A |
member, nor from any other member of such
lrm or company retainer or fee, profess
onal or otherwise, nor the smallest gift of \
my kind whatever,
In conelqsion ! eap only say that this
tatement fs made with keen sense of /
humiliation as a citizen of Delaware, that
he repetition and circulation of such SLAM
lers by newspapers in Delaware has made
even seem necessary to meet them with
at and Simple denial, and / believe this
ceiling will be shared by all fair minded
len, irrespective of party.
Very respectfully,
WILLIAM II, SWIFT,
President of the Diamond Match Co.