Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-10-09
CAMPAIGN FORGERY
LAID BARE.
Fictitious Document AS
cribed to a "New
York Banker"
WALL STREET BUGABOO
Free Silver Lien Engaged In
Circulating Another For
gery-A Search For 81.
Francis Forsythe,"
the Alleged Author,
Especial Correspondence. /

J.. Especial Correspondence.
~ NEW YORK, Oct 7.-Of all the "fakes
: that this campaign has produced nor
e has been moro widely circulated than a
= alleged letter said to have icon written I
Judge R. C. Bell of Fort Wayne, Ind ]
was originally printed in the Fort Wayn
Journal and has been widely copied b
4 the free silver press Notwithstanding il
3 obvious spurieusness it finds many beliey
! ers among the more ignorant people, tits
= question whether 1t was originally intend
ed as u joke or whether it was deliberatel
written to foster the impression that thi
is "a campaign Of the rich against the poor
It IL difficult to conceive how any person
of ordinary intelligence could be deceived
= by It's absurd sentiments. Whatever ma!
have boon its purpose 1t has not been wish
out certain Influence, and IL Is for thai
reason only that 1t Is dignified with thii
explanation.
The letter purports to have been written
! by -. Francis FOrsythe, a New York
! banker, with an alleged office at "7l1
; Wall street y "Mr. Forsythe' announces
that he Is 2 membeF Of the committee OF
political education Of Wall street, - whit.
ever that may be- and his letter is filled
with references to the Flower classes and
to 'gentiemen, like Mr.. Aston, Mr.. Rookie
Teller and Mr.. Carnegie +" He complains
That the capitalists arc forced to joan
money at such rates ne they can get If
they cannot get 10 per cont, they must
take 0, and II not 8, they must take g. Z"
He asserts that ''if workingmen cannot
get a dollar day, they ought to be salts
fled with r. cents or so cents They are
really eztFavaPans. They buy meat four
or five times in the Week, They eyeg ~
dulge in pie, which is no kind Of food for
workingmen and docs them no good. They
cat wheat bread when rye is more suit
able " and so on through two columns Of
type.
When this alleged ietter was first brought
to the attention OF the Republican national
committee, II careful inquiry was institut-
cd to discover the whereabouts of "Mr.
Forsythe," but without avail Neither
equld bis office at "7l1 Wall street, be To-
cated, fos ghs gaod and sufficient reason
that the numbers on ghat stFeep so net eV-
coed l20,pnd that"7ll Wall street, W0Hfd
be about IN the middle of the East river
This explanation WAS made to several cor.
respondents, and eventually found ita way
into print Mr.. Forsythe's" address in
the mere recent publications Is row placed
D
obviously falso character Of the letter, the
silver press hnas o Justification fcr printing
il in the "high character Of the gentleman |
30 whom it was sent These papers, |
however, carefully avoid commenting pp |
tho manifest absnrdity Of the PUBLICATION. |
Today further inquiry was made to |
discover Mr.. Forsythe's" whereabouts, |
but it resulted In u second failure, In |
other words, there is no "Wall street com.
mittee Of political cducation," there is no
"7l1 Wall street." there is no 81 Francis
F9fsythg.Y
The MortimeF building at Il Wall street
has been OYerru4 for the past twq weeIs
with peepl9 looking for Mr.. Fopsythe
Letters by the Thousand addressed to him
have been taken there, bub nobody knew
him. Firms in tho building, notably Hal
sey and Hudnut, whose names arc in the
Bankers and Brokers Directory, have boon
flooded with letters from the west and
south whore the spurious document has
been published At first tho firms in the
Dried to answer tho letters, saying
h each inquirer that@d. Francis EOrsytheN
WAS aHkH9sTD and that diligent inquiry ON
tho door Of tbs exchanges had failed to
disclose the presence OF any sugl peps.4n,
whether banker, broker, clerk or bucket
shop operator, within the entire boundaries
IF Wall street. The belief was expressed
Tint DO was willie -the=wisp, Most of
The letters, which Logan little more than
4 week ago to come in such quantities
hat the question of postage made 1t noces-
iary for tho firms receiving them to dump q.
hem in the waste paper basket, were from
Ieoplc who were satisfied that FOrsythe" :
vas a fraud, yet there were many banking
til. -
alton with "Forsythc" If there was such !
persoR Yh9 letters finally became such
nuisance That Ghey were neEey glanGed
It and thrown into the waste paper basket. ;
In the meantime the janit0r of the build /.
ng had been refusing thousands of letters =
hat had come addressed to the mythical I
Forsythc, " and they were taken back to 2
he postoflio6, where they were marked in =
lue pencil "Fraud" and dumped intg =
our barrel. First ono barrel filled up with
3tters; then n second barrel was procured,
hen others, until, as the clerk ut the gen
raj delivery window said yesterday, there :
'ere four barrels of letters awaiting 81 :
rancis FOrsythe" and more coming by the +
daily. As the letters arrive they "
re marked Fraud and put with those =
nat havo already accumulated. After 80 "
ays they will be sent to the dead letter of =
CO. 1t is more probable, however, that all "
10 letters will be consigned unopened to q
le big furnace in the basement of the gen. =
al postottico, rs the dishonest purpose Of s'
ie person for whom they Are intended has
ready gained worldwide notoriety. ~
1t is believed that y. Francis Forsythen =
one of tho fakirs who have been so pro- -
lc during the present campaign in set r.
ng newspaper forgeries afloat A notable n,
- was ohe iorgou leteer showing now G.
co coinage which the silver papers cred -
ed to the London Financial News, and n,
hich was repudiated by that paper, but =,
hich tho silver press still presents to its
aders as fact a..