Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-02
The Morey Let,er-yt, Iuside u,s,ory.

The Mercy Letter-Its Inside History.
CHICAGO, October 1st.-The Inter Oceans
New York special purports to give the inside
history of the celebrated Morey letter on the
Chinese question, whose publication carried
California against Garfield in the last Pres
| idential election.
The dispatch is to the effect that j. l. Da.
| venport has been at work twenty thrse months
in an endesvor to ferret out the authorship of
the forgery that he finally got its coucep-
| tion and execution, together with the confess
| sion OF the forger, and that he is about to
publish the facts in pamphle. form.
The party who forged the document
is named H. II. Hadley, renegade
Republican III the employ of the Democratic
National Committee. and thst some of the
Leading spirits in that body we're ccgniz ant of
and approved the forgery. The story told is
to the affect that Hadley, as the protested
leader of q certain body Of voters in New
York, wrote General G irfeld, asking an ex.
PLANTATION and answer to tie Credit Mobilier
charges. The letter was answered by private
Secretary Brown, inclosipg the manuscript of
Garfsld's speech on the subject to his con-
stituents in 1873. He thus got Garfield's |
autograph.
TIE dispatch continues "Hadley is an ex-
pert psnrlau, and spent several days study. |
/ ing and practising upon the Handwriting ard !
|
| cry stores were rsnsacked and paper similar |
to that used at Mentor was found, and |
then Hadley wrote the famous forgery to |
correspond with that which Hadley mad re-
csivea from Mentor. TWAS put through |
process TO max, it look soilad and worn.
| When it was finished, Randall, Hewitt and |
| several other Democrats saw it, and all had |
no doubt that it was genuine"
The dispatch concludes with statement |
that an e!ectrotyps similar to the letter was |
| offered the Sun which refused to publish it. |
1t was then taken to the Truth, and therein |
published. A special train was chartered to |
convey copies Of the paper to Californis. |
IL is said Davenport not only has Hadley's |
oa!ession, but number of his practice sheets |
and the fEal copy fiom which the fac simle |
| was made.
That Forged Dispatch.
New YORK. October 1st-The World pub |
| fishes letters from a correspondent in whose |
| accuracy 1t has great confidence, who says, |
| in effect, that Hustled and Collector Robert |
| son cJnspired at the Grand Central Hotel to |
| get up the French forged dispatch. He says |
that on the day before the S .ratogs Conven. |
ton he overheard a conversation between |
| them, Ii which Robertson expressed annoy |
ance because he had committed himself to |
French for Folger, and he asked Hustled TO |
| protect him against the consequences of the |
pledges he had given IN the event of a certain |
emergency which he thought not unlikely to |
| arise at Saratoga. Hustled advised the Col |
iecter to support Folger, though French must |
| only DE used for the purpose of pirating from |
Folger upon another candidate. Hustled and |
the Collector had an understanding, and |
Hustled assured tie Collector that he would |
6x the matter. lie had young man in |
Saratoga, who if nece ssary could turn the |
postcfice and telegraph inside cut.
The Colorado Train Robbery Further
Particulars.
DENVER {Col.). October 1st.-Full particu.
| lara of the train robbery at Granada, Col, |
last night, were received here to-day as fol- |
| lows: While the west-bound train was side |
| tracked to allow the east bound passenger to |
pass, two men Inouated the engine with |
drawn revolvers, and compelled the engineer
to run the train mile and hall out Of
town, where fifteef - feTalysrs took |
possession of the en- IN. The only shots |
J fired were at Cordacsor Dees, who had gone
/, forward 60 learn tie csute of the train stop
pirg. The conductor ran back into the
smoking car, where were Sheriff and Deputy
Sheriff from Ration, also tee Sheriff from Las
Vegas. They drew their reyolyers, which
saved the passengers from losing their vaiu-
| ables. The robbers then robbed the express
car OF s., 900 il money, ordered the engineer
to move out, got on their horses, which were
hitchsd near by, and departed. A safe in
the lear car containing $4,000 was not mo-
lasted. A posse of citizens ale in pursuit of
the robbers.
Beecher and the New York Political Sit
uatssn.
Nav YORK, October 1st,-Henfy Ward
| Bzecher, in his sermon tonight st Plymouth
Church. said: In the great Convention which
met at Saratoga, why was Cornell set aside
| 1t has bsen the custom from time immemorial
when Governor has administered his office
| hp,, s.-hk a., Al.
peo pie recognized the fact. Ia this case no
national principle involved, aud the
young msn would naver get batter oppor-
| tunity of administering reproof to the
party than the present. Judge Folger was
an upright man. For that reason the re-
proof would be administered to the corrupt
nomination aud not to the mau himself |
Once let Judge Folger be sent home, and
never again, IN this generation at least, would
this thing be repeated. Beecher in emphatic
terms deprecated the Administration taking
part in the management of the local govern.
ment. He ridcuied the idea of the Presi-
dent Of the United States having as boom
friends men like one of the Police Commits
sioneEs. Mr.. Beecher was frequently inter.
rupted by applause, which he checked once
by telling his audience not to "boil over" as
he was merely discussing the morals and
ethics of politics.
BloOd-Cnrdlfng Homicide Another
Temperance Lecture.
WHEELING wv. W, October 1st.-A spe-
cial 20 the IntelIigencer says: A most blood
curdli0g homicide occurred about fourteen
miles from Clarksturg this morning about l
o'clock. John ID. Boggess, Jr., killed his
wife and daughter of Ii while ia fit of
mental arrangement induced from strong
drink He attacked his wife while in bed
She called on her daugher, who came and as
sisted her mother to get loose from the
grasp Of her father. They then fled the
house. and he picked up large iron poker
and followed. Overtakiag his wife, he hit
her two blows, the last Of which proved fa-
tai. The daughter was killed by one blow.
The other child en- fed. When found the
mother and daughter were lying together in
the road near their home, dead Borgess. was
found 10 the house in state of intoxication.
He denied the killing, or knowing anything
about it.
Postal Changes for The Pacific Coast.
WASHINGTON, October 1st.-The following
Pacific coast postal changes are announced:
Offices stablished-Evergree u, Grant county,
Oregon, Mrs. Mary Bedelle, Postmaster
K5na, jackson county, Oregon, w. G.
knighter, Postmaster Vernon. Garfield
county, Washington Territory. Daniel w.
Smith, Postmaster; Tahurita, Pima county,
a. T., James X. Brown. Postmaster. Post
masters Observation-Disclosures, San Barnar-
dino comfy, CAL. Mrs. A. E. Carpenter
Bethel Fresno county, Cal, Lewis Carman
Mount Tabor. Muitnonah county, Or, John
S. Newell (; Primary, Garfield county, W.
T., Benjamin b. Day.
The ARti-MOnop0lisfs and Democrats.
New York, October 1st-The Executive
Committee Of the Autobiography League
agreed, without dissenting voice, that Gov
e9Hor Cleveland and David 3. Hill, Demo-
cratic nominees for q overror and Lieutenant
Governor, should have the auti.mopopolist
Endorsement. The committee agreed that
the Democratic platform was satisfactory to
their organic alton, and if the Democratic
candidates stood tquarely upon it there was
no further need Of separate action by the
Anti Monopoly League.
Postage stamp Counterfeiters.
New YORK, October 1st.-Louis Degen
cour snd DE-. Felix Maidez have been arrested
for counterfeitiBg postage stamps The
officers seized large number of dies plates
and quantity of finished and unfinished
stamps. Besides making counterfeit postage
stamps, ths accused were engaged in the
manufacture of counterfeit reyeuus stamps.
some of which were for 81.
Great House Closes its Doors.
NEW YORK, October 1ss.-The house of A.
7. Stewart Il Co. has closed its doors. What
stock remains on hand viii be disposed of to
Wholesale buyers. Judge Hilton said to a
reporter: "Tne Tensh-strees building will
be remodele1, made com pietely fire proof and
lighted by electricity We will furnish all
the light and heat necessary for the building,
and divide il into sections or rent the whole
as Wholesale department house. The Cham
bers-street building will also be rcmodeled
and made fre-proof in the same manner for
| Offices snd business purposes
Return of the HIiIsdaIes.
PHILADELPHIA, October 1st-Amorg the
passengers on the steamship Indiana this
afternoon from Liverpool wsre the Hillsdale
Rowing Club.