Show THAT SOAn LET LETTER president garfielda Gar fields body bod y as the song says lies in the grave but his soul goes marching on but not only his soul but the memory of his good deeds and his high ideals continues fresh resh f and green in the memories of liis his thankful countrymen true there were blemishes in liis his character blunders in his career but as ther suns spots do not diminish the solar splendor to the I 1 common eye neither do the 0 failings in the history of ofilio tile statesman from mentor detract from tho exalted opinion in which lie la is held by liu his fellow citizens nud the citizens of ofilio the civilized world ono one of the dil dubious bious features in in president Gar garfielda fields life lifie is tho notorious storey morey letter which lias been spoken of so an editorial some months ago afro wo lye endeavored deavo red in the light 0 of revelations thrown upon the matter by an in ohio journal to show the true inward ness of that alivs myc rious ini iiii sive which was claimed claimed by republicans and democrats alike to have exercised an all injurious influence on oil the election of november 1880 our tica that president garfield might have written the letter consistently with other authentic ex pres of liia his mind on the chinese question and that if lie did lie acted in accord with the true spirit of the majority of his eastern constituents hag has been shared b by r other writers it is even almost impo impossible SIR i to comprehend how the republican party press could go into the spasms of assumed indignation about the morcy letter when wo remember that the successor of president garfield vetoed the first anti chinese bill of this cpr spring in i ail and d only signed the second in in orge order r t to avoid or rather postpone the impending alienation of the pacific bolst coast republican vote the daily report 1 a I republican journal published in san francisco says en on this matter johnny davenport is a political politic 1 I striker of ot the basest sort and whatever V or object ho ma may I 1 have 1 aye in in so industriously triou sly hunting lor clr the writer of the letter we nye may way bo be certain it w was asa a selfish one it if the authors author of the letter were discovered tomorrow to morrow were to mako make a full confession no good would be accomplished by it president garf garfield beld is dead and his memory need no justification for anything lie may have done in life were it proven that he lie rc really ally did arito the morey letter it would not lower him in in the estimation ofa of a largo large proportion of the people cast of the rocky mountains ains hold precisely the same vie views s on th that at question eliat were expressed in the letter nor could tho the discovery of the real writer and the tile positive disproof of garfielda Gar fields authorship accomplish anything as a campaign issue the attitude of president arthur and a majority of e eastern republican senators and represent Re representatives presen ta shows that the sentiments of t tho io republican party in tile east are in accord with those contained in m the morey letter and no of garfielda Garu Gar elds fields authorship of that document anent could licup the republican party in in a campain campaign n in which the chinese question mi gli t appear as an issue issue |