Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-22
DEMOCRATIC FALSEHOODS.
A Campaign of Lies and Forgeries
from the Chicago TribuneJ

from the Chicago Tribune.]
Inc PRESIDENTIAL camprlgn OF 1884, 80 lar as
the Democratic side is concerned, will be dis
tinguished in the future as the campaign of lies
and forgeries. Never in the history of party
contests in this country has a candidate been
assailed with so many deliberate forgeries, so
many false accusations, so many baseless cal
umnies and ISLANDERS as Mr.. Blaine. From the
time he was nominated to the present not
week has passed, and scarcely day, but Demo-
cratic and mugwump malignity has shown
itself in the invention of infamous falsehoOds
and still more infamous forgeries. The tenn
porary success of the unblushing Morey letter
of 1880 has apparently induced the Democratic
leaders to adopt forgery as their principal weap-
on Of attack.
The campaign commenced with the charge
that Mr.. Blaine a Roman Catholic, and this
shown to be false they shifted to the other
tack, and clamored that he was a Know-Noth-
ing. Then they charged that he was drunk
ard, and this shown to be false they rang the
changes on his being Prohibihonist. Next
he was accused OF being hostile to the Germans,
and this being shown to be false they denounced
him as hostile to the Irish. After all these ac-
cusations had been proven false, they attacked
his private character ana insulted his wife and
children. This lie was shOrt-IIYed, however, for
he stamped it into the ground instantly and
senced the dastards with libel-suit. Then
the whole pack, hound, mongrel, and cur, pur-
sued him with charges that he had used his Of
fetal position for private gain. Every one of
these lies having been nailed to the center, they
resorted to forgery and introduced the Morey
tactics into the campaign.
The mugwumps started the ball by attribut-
ing to Senator Edmunds the statement that Mr..
Blaine acts as the attorney for Jay Gould.
Senator EdmundS S1lenced this forgery with
the following cardi
BURLINGTON, Vt, Sept. 10.
DEAR SIR: I have yours of the 18th. am sure
that never wrote or said that the gentleman
you refer to acts as the attorney Of Jay Gould"
for am not conscious of having thought so.
AS have publicly stated, expect to vote the
Republican ticket Yours truly,
GEORGE f. EDMUNDs.
The next forgery that was started was pur-
ported interview with ex-Gov. Carney, of Kan
sas, published in lying little sheet of this city,
in which Gov. Carney was credited with saying
that MI: Blame was sWlnd die This forgery
JEAYENWORTH, Kan, Sept. 25, 1884.
To the Kansas City Times:
noticed in your issue of the oath inst you
published puqported interview with me in re-
gard to the Hon. James G. Blaine which you
credited to the Chicago -- now white to
say that there is no truth in the story as pub
1ished; no such interview ever occurred with me.
l never had any conversation with any parties
connected with the Chicago - to my knowl
edge-never said anything contained in said ar"
ticle. The whole story does injustice to me, and
is a fraud upon the public. Will you, then, be
just enough to give this denial as liberal cir
culatiOn as you did the untruthful story, and
oblge yours respectfully, THOMAS CARNEY.
Forgery No first the light in crossing
Henry Ward Beecher's sacred threshold, and
was to the effect that Mr.. Blaine, while Speaker
Of the House, had offered to appoint committees
to suit James F. Joy, the prominent railroad
man of Michigan, if he JOY would take Little
Rock bonds off his hands. Mr.. Joy promptly
knocked the life out of the Beecher canard with
the following denial
LONDON. Sept 80
r. A. Alger, Detroit, Mich:
Blaine never made me any offer to appoint
committee to suit in any manner or form, or for
any consideration Of any kind whatever.
J. F. Joy.
Forgery No was the publication of pre-
tended dispatch by Neal Dow to one Wesley, of
Portland, Me, in which the former is represent
ed as saying to Wesley in his telegram: Mr..
Blaine gave valuable assistance in the Maine
election, and he assured me he refrained from
voting at the request of prominent Ohio Repub
Leans on account Of the bigOted Germans
Promptly comes the exposure Of this forgery in
the following dispatch to the Philadelphia
Press:
ITO the Editor of the Press:
SIR had the same telegram from Column
bus, Ohio. The letter is forgery and base
fraud. NEAL Dow
Portland, Me, Sept. 30"
The lat test lie set on it's travels is statement
that Mr. Blaine was a stakeholder and an or
gan1Zer OF the Columbus and Hooking Coal and
Iron Company. which has had good deal of
trouble this summer with the striking miners.
This lie is exploded by the following:
COLUMBUS, o., Oct. l.
S. E. Bliss, No 80 Lake street.
You can say that Mr.. Blaine has not now and
never did have one dollar invested directly or
indirectly in the Columbus and Hooking Coal
ana iron Company WALTER CRAFTS,
Vice President
There is no limit to the area of these lies and
forgerles. Another favorite form of forgery is
10 attribute sentiments to Republican neWspa-
pecS and publish alleged extracts from them
which have never appeared An instance OF this
IS the circulation in New York of a senseless anG
brutal attack upon the Irish, alleged to have
been taken from the Chicago T5,ib1Ine which
we have already exposed as an infamous forgery
and silly Democratic lie. Thus one lie and for
gerry follow another No sooner is one knocked
on the head than another is set atioat. The
Democratic managers must take the American
people for gulls and fools, and fancy they can
trade upon their ignorance. They will find their
mistake in November.