New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-01
BAD AS THE MOREY LETTER
COLONEL DUDLEY DENOUNCES A DEMO
CRATIC FORGERY.
AN INNOCENT LETTER OF HIS BAsELY GARBLED
AND LISToRTED-GoRMAN AND HIS ALLIES
WISH THEY HADN'T STARTED THE


WISH THEY HADN'T STARTED THE
FRAUD CRY.
Realizing the stupid and disastrous blunder they
made in raising the fraud issue here, the Demo-
cratic managers are trying to wrigge out of it by
dlverting public attention from this State to In
diana, which they attempted to show yesterday
was in danger of being captured by the Repub-
licans through improper methods. The means
adopted by German and the others for this pur-
pose arc the same as William III. Barnum en-
ployed eight years ago, when he tried to make
General Garfield appear the author of letter
favoring Chinese labor-that is, forgery. Yes
forgery, for this is what General Dudley declares
the letter to be which was published in The
Times, yesterday, and asserted by that paper to
have been sent by the General to Republican
in Indiana, whose name is pot revealed. The
General not only denounccs it as forgery, but
declares that he will begin suit for libel at once
against L" The Times and every other paper that
published the article.
MORE CUNNING THIS TINE.
The Morey letter, it will be remembered, was
an entire fabrication but this time the forgers
acted with cunning. Instead of making
up letter entire they took of perfectly proper
character and garbled it to suit their purposes
lncy attribute 10 me WOruS tndJ L never uSen
said the General THE entire letter is dis
tortcd and mutilated. Forgeries appear every
where / propose to prosecute every paper that
has published or shall publish this forgery, and
| shall not want ten days to began proceedings
This emphatic denial and denuncation of the
outrage caused so much alarm at the Democratic
Headquarters that the fgurehead Of the com.
mittee, Colonel Brcc deemed it expedient 10 admit
tbot fhnra mi OH bav m a alyes' made in
the letter " in telegraphng it here AS an
attempt to divert attention from their prepara-
tions for fraud in this city and State the forgery
was a complete failure.
These preparations have been considerably in
terfered with by the exposures made in The Trib-
une yesterday and Tuesday, but they have not been
abandoned by any means. Just now there is an
unusual amount of activity of questionable
character in and around Troy and Albany. Troy,
as every one knows is the home of the chairman
of the Democratic State Committee, Edward Muir
ply, jr who, by the way, has been especially
loud-mouhed of late in charging fraud against
the Republican State Committee, while he in the
meantime prepares to carry Rensselaer, County in
the same way as he has in past years, that is by
bribery and intimidation lie is still the idol Of
the thugs there, and though he has grown rich
out of the profits of his big brewery he is just
as INSCRIPTIONS in the employment of fraudulent
schemes to pcrpetuate gang rule as he was when
he ran a rat-pit in Troy thirty years ago. Con-
sequently there is suspicion that something un-
usual is going on when he raises his voice against
impure elections
GOOD GROUNDS FOR THE SUSPICION.
1t appears that this suspicion is wcll-founded.
According to reports that came into Republican
p.
to food Troy and Albany on election
day with some of the worst gangs that can be
brought together They have even arranged 10
bring ruflians from Montreal and other Canadian
cities, as well as from Cohoes, Mechanicsvie, and
other points. An immense fund has been placed
at their disposal, more money in fact, than ever
has been devoted TO this purpose in any single
year. These gangs will be voted in the strong
Democratic precincts of Troy. in the morning
often is thought necessary and then taken
to Albany in the afternoon, where the same
operation will be repeatcd-that is, il they are
permitted to do so. It so happens however, that
ihe Republican Committee has made arrange
ments to meet just such "A scheme, and the pros
poets that Mr.. Murphy will find it exceed
ngly difficult work next Tuesday to employ the
tactics that he has used with such audacity and
success in the past
The attention given by this paper yesterday
o the gangs that are here from Baltimore and
made the leaders of them "A trne
hy yesterday. They kept out of sight as much
Is possible. Some of them were so cmba rrasse
" the publication of their names that they kept
'ut of public view entirely. They are still here,
Iowcver, and their number increased last
hight by several new arrivals. One of these
he notorious Butch Murphy, who is considered
me of the most reckless members of the Baltimore
rang. He is always on hand when German re-
luircs particular dirty piece of work done.
lis nickname indicates the brutal type of ruflan
hat he is
WOULD GLADLY DROP THE FRAUD CRY NOW.
Undoubtedly German and Barnum would he
glad to drop the fraud issue now. They really
egret that they were so indiscrcet to permit
attacks to be made upon the men who
ire conducting the Republican canvass, but their
opponents are relentless in pressing the question
hat has been raised. 1t is not necessary to 20 to
Maryland TO find out anything about Senator Cor
mans career That is known everywhere as one
If the blacllest record. Some episodes of it
we're recently given by member of the Senator's
md most reputable Democrats of Balti-
nore In open letter explaining
Why he opposed the return of German TO the
Tnited States Senate Mr.. WOotton made these
harccs among others against the present director
# the Democratic National canvass:
l. That YOU with your hands assisted by others,
distributed 80 600 among the runs that roughed the city
4 Bal timore in 1875
o That when you recommended Higgins Tor the posi-
ion he now holds you Of his deflcment OF the ballot
,ox in 1875.
g. That you were an active participant in the fraud
4 1879 had Higgins at your headquarters in Bal
imo.e and in this county at least two occasions
loseted you and other conspirators against tho
tights and liberties OF the people, perectng the details
4 the conspiracy, comforting to what names should
e dropped and should be misspeed, and by
What route the negro rcpcaers should be sent You
conference with j. Frank Morrison at Woodstock
station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. eighteen
niles from Baltimore and Elk Ridge Landing in the
st Election District and to these district repeatcrs
lspatchcd election day
Again he says:
In this inamy Mr. Higgins bore the leading part
,vCry link in the chain binding him 10 the body Of this
rimc Is soldly welded, and prepared prove the