New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-21
,rr ar 1YSUER AT ONCE.

remarl-a Me Too. Thomas A. Hendricks"
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LET ALL ANSUER At ONCE
Mr.. Rarnum. as the chairman OF the Demo
cratic National Committee OF 1851, which WAS
RESPONSIBLE for the forgery OF the Morey letter.
hos IN individual account to settle with the pub
liz ubom he aided TO deceive. They are all the
mare onvious to hear from him because he Is
chairman again this year. and they wish To Know
if they are to Judge his present methods by HIS
mast We have already enumerated the serious
offences laid at his door by the proofs that the
Morey forgery was probably suggested DIV MIN,
and was certainly disseminated and sustained
NV HIM oven To the extent of hiring the forger
Of the original document TO bolster 1t up with
suhsenuent falsifcations of records. The other
members and the leading party managers then
&c nov have Joint account which they might
rs well make UP their minds to settle at an early
d,v for the people of this country have neither
forgotten nor condoncd that Infamous political
crime. Let us see what they have to answer
for.
Frederick .. Prince was in 1850 ana is III
1854 the secretary of the committee lie was
MAYOR of Boston then, and his duties requiring
him to remain there while headquarters were
here. his work was chiefly confined to directing
matters in New England. While the judicial
investigation of the MOrcy forgery was going
ON in this city i'm October, 1880, Mr. Bamnm
sent the forger of the letter to Prince, under the
assumed name of"O VI. Wilson," to perpetrate
\ crime in the town of Lynn. Mr.. Prince aided
and abctted the man in this work to the extent
of ndorsng him to the Lynn managers as one
TO whom he should give his entire confidence
The fac-simile letter of his son and secretary
is printed in Mr. Davenport's book. Mr.. Prince
has stated to Mr.. Davenport that he has the let
ter of Mr. Barnum on which he vcnturcd To
make this strong and emphatic Endorsement OF
n stranger Doesn't Mr. Prince think 1t of I'M
portance TO produce that letter as evidence that
he was warranted in using the strong language
he did use in introducing the forgel under an
alias to the chairman of the Democratic Conn
mittec in the town where two crimes were COM
mittcd TO bolster up the forgery
Mr.. William l.. Scott, of Pennsylvania, was
in $50 and is in 1881 an active manager OF the
Democratic canvass. On Thursday, October
II. 1850, 81 days before the Morey forgery
was published, it was reported on the Srock
Exchange rs coming from Mr. Scott that such
letter was to he produced by the leaders OF the
Democracy. Does not Mr.. Scott think this "A
lie - worth the mailing by denying it Then 1t
may be seen to whom hc impaired that interest
ing forehnowledge. As late as October %,
1850 nine days after the publication of the
forgery, and live days after its denuncation as
such by General Garfield, Mr.. Scott sought to
circulate il by procuring plates of the tdc smile
as published in TrUth. Can he give row any
honest reason for engaging in that business
Halley, the forger of that letter. and the one
who falsiicl the register of the Kirkland House
so as to make it appear that II. l.. Morcy existed
when he was, in fact, a myth. and who altered
the affidavit of Clara T. Morey 50 as to make it
appear that the fictitious Morcy was her living
son. says that William l.. Scott paid him $500
for the former dirty job. Does ladley lie or
not7 Is it not worth settling that little matter
also2
Bradley B. SmalIcy, Of Vermont, was and is
an active manager OF the Democratic party, and
committeeman to-day. lie indorsed the
forged Morcy letter in writing on October 23,
three days after its publication, and declared
il was " a big thing aud would beat Garfield
He also recommended person who had novel
scheme for disseminating the letter in durable
form printed on linen. That doesn't look very
serious unless one reflects that this in orScmcnt
and this suggestion of preserving the forgery
on linen were made days after the clumsy, mis-
sneled forgery had been made public in tIc-
simile anu after General Garfield had denounced
it as a stupid forgery" BY what ethics of
Justice, or even hy what practices of any pOliti
cal party other than his own, does Mr. Smaley
justify that action 7
Mr.. Edward i. Diekc nsOn now fills the same
| part he occupied in 1SSO-that Of stenographer
and acting secretary of the committee. When
IIadley was on his Infamous errand in Boston
and Lynn, manufacturing evidence to sustain
the forgery, Mr. Dickinson was constantly in
Geographic communication with him under his
fictitious name, although it was certain he knew
the man as Hadley. On October 20 he tcle-
graphed Wilson one hundred dollars and
assured him that the stamps on the envelope in
closing the forged letter addressed to Morcy
were genuine. 1t is easy to imagine that during
the investigation lIadley was nervous over that
point. The same day he autographed Wilson
to get money from his (Dickenson's) father
The same day he put Wilson in communica-
ton with one Mann, who to aid him in get
ting Mrs. Clara T. Moreys affidavit, and assur-
ing him that we will, of course, pay all ncces-
sary expenses" The next day he sent him
another hundred dollars, and was urgent to
know if lie had seen Mrs Morey. If Mr.. Dick
ensOn was honest in his relations to this deliber-
ate fraud he ought to be able to make it appear
more clearly than he does now.
NnT ACC DECurryE,