The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-16
DEMOCRATIC FALSEHOODS.
A Campaign of Lies and Forgeries,
from the Chicago Tribune.I

IRON the On1cagO Ir1Dunc.J
The Presidential camprign OF 1884, so far 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 q candidate been
assailed with so many deliberate forgeres, 80
many false accusations, so many baseless cal
umnies and ISLANDERS Mr.. Blaine. From the
time he was nominated to the present not
week has passed, and scarcely day, but Demo-
cratic and mugwump maliRnity 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 was Roman Catholic, and this
shown TO be false they shifted to the other
ing. Then they charged that he was drunk
ard. and this shown to be false they rang the
changes on his being a Prohibitlonist 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 &C
cusations had been proven false. they attacked
his private character and insulted his wife and
children. This lie was short-lived, however for
he stamped IL into the ground instantly and
silenced the dastards with a hbel-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 EdmunQS the statement that MI.
Blaine acts as the attorney for Jay Gould
Senator Edmunds silenced this forgery with
the following card
DEAR SIR: have yours of the 18th. I 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, l expect to vote the
-'''N''''N ''''' GEORGE r. EDMuNps.
The next forgery that was started was pur-
n0rtpd iutprViaw with -(fOV. CARNEY of Kan
sas published in lying little sheet of this city,
in which Gov. Carney was credited with saying
that Mr. Blaine was swinder. This forgery
was promptly squelched by the following card
LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, Sept. 70, 1884.
To the Kansas City Times:
1 noticed In your issue of the oath inst. You
published purported interview with me in re-
gard TO the Hon. James q. Blaine, which you
credited to the Chicago -. now write to
say that there is no truth in the story as pub
llshed; no such interview ever occurred with me.
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 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
obiige yours respectfully, THOMAS CARNEY.
Forgery No. first saw the light in crossing
| Henry Ward Beecher's sacred threshold, and
| was to the effect that Mr.. Blaine, while Speaker
| to suit James +. JOY, the prominent railroad
man of Michigan. IL he joy would take Little
| ROCK DOnQS OH his MINUS. MT. 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 a
committee to suit in any manner or form, or for
any consideration of any kind whatever;
Forgery No. was the publication of a pre-
/ tended dispatch by Neal Dow to one Wesley, of
| Portland, Me-, in which the former is represent
| ed as saving 10 Wesley in his telegram: Mr.
Rlaiua N a yaluable assistance in the Maine
| election, and he assured me he refrained from
| voting at the request OF prominent Ohio Repub-
Promptly comes the exposure OF this forgery in
the following dispatch to the Philadelphia
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. 80"
The la est lie set on it's travels is a statement
that Mr.. Blaine n stakeholder and an Or
ganizer OF the Columbus and Hooking Coal and
Iron COMPANY, which i mas me had good deal OF
This lie is exploded by the following;
s. T.. 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
and Iron Company. WALTER CRAFTS;
There is no limit to the area of these lies and
forgeries. Another fayorite form Of forgery is
pers and publish alleged extracts from them
which have never appeared. An instance of this
Is the circulation In New York of q senseless an
mP0H the sne 70
we have already exposed as an infamous forgery
and silly Democratic lie Thus one lie and for
gerry o Saa a @ n s II one e
Democratic managers must take the American
people for gulls and fools, and fancy they can
trade upon their Ignorance. They viii find their
tato ko In nDpF