New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-11

the rescript to strict monarclllcal tfau''io"''
This seems to be Bismarck's deliberate PURPOSE
4 THEFT 4ND ITS EXPOSURE.
Tho CORRESPONDENT of he Herald who re-
Gently published confidential dispatch from
Mr.. Reid to General Garfield, did so rs " frlend
of the late President" He signed himself thae'
He described himself as "an admirer" OF Cen
era Garfield, "and often the recipient OF MS
confdences.r He claimed that in his inter
views with the President, previous to the
assassination, he became convinced that Tar
field was made "a puppet" Wy men of stronger
will. He undertook to clnch all this by the
publication of Mr.. Reids dispatch, which, he
said, the President "showed him, one day,
and allowed him to copy"
Now, if all this were true, people would
still wonder at the strange "trendShlp'
which was shown in efforts to prove the Pres
ident "a puppet" and in charging him with
betraying confidential messages he had HIM
self asked for. But, suppose it is not true
Suppose it can be shown, demonstratlveiy,
that it could not possibly be true; -
what follows7 If lie of this sort had to be
invented as the basis of the whole publication,
what were the motives of the llarf Was he
"a friend of Garfield" or was he malignant
enemy bent only on reviving fractional bitter
ness. even at the cost of delillng the grave
over which the tears of two continents had
hardly ceased to ilOw2
Well we propose to show, beyond the
possibility of dispute just what he was. We
propose to show that he lied when he said that
General Garfield allowed him to copy the dis
l. I'll ha CaiI
Garfield showed it to him; and that he lied
when he said he saw it or heard OF 1t at the
White House. These are just the things
a man VINO had stolen such dispatch
would think never could be shown. The
dispatch undoubtedly went to Garfield.
He might have shown It. He might have lett
it lying on his table. He 10 dead, thanks to
the unhung and unCOnyCted Gulteau,
and can tell no tales. Now see just
where the liar and thief who has so shamefully
imposed upon The Herald, reckoned without
his host. Read first his exact words:
But had the opportunity to know that whenever he
was thus upon the point Of providing solution OF the
trouble by e acceptable compromise the pressure came
at once upon him against such wise course, ana ths
pressure was always from Mr. Baincs friends To give
YOU one significant Instance, He PeSidcnt sho,ced me
ceivcd from New-York in the following words
The reader will remember that 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 that friend saysi
No 500 EUCLID-AyE.,
CLEVELAND. ONO, jan I, 1882
write in haste TO let you know that your dispatch 10
mo must have stolen from the wires Ihave it here
under and key. Nobody has ever seen It but myself
not even Garfield took It over 10 him aud redd Il to
him lie nerer Sap Il GIcept IN rly handS-neyer
touched 1t with his 1t has been under lock and
key over since. You may proceed on this with abso-
lutte confidence 1t was either stolen from
your own copy Ia NewYOrk stolen from the wires.
repea-no being except myself has ever seen 1t
after It left the telegraph Office in Washington read
It to Garfield and you remember ne at said
withdra wing Robertsons nomination: "They may
take him out OF that Senate head first or feet first
will never withdraw him" have only minute to catch
this mail Yours faithfully, JoHN HAY.
To that statement 10 words need to be
added. The man stole the dispatch. He
thought it would surely be LETT with Gar
field, and that therefore he could safely
say the dead man showed it to him and
allowed him to copy it. But liars sometimes
need something more than long memories.
We need not ask the public what they
should think of an attack on Gmfeld's mem
DRY and his friends, based on a performance
like this. Neither have we the slightest dis
postion to apologize for or explain the dis
patch itself. It is not given with accuracy,
and there are some words interpoldted, as the
original copy, in our hands, and the
telegraphic copy, i'll Colonel Hays hands,
show; but it is near enough, and well
enough. What we may ask is whether Mr..
Bennett, whose efforts to make his paper just
and gentlenaniy have often attracted praise,
does not now 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 the public for the purpose Of mis-
representing and belittling the martyr Presl-
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