Show OSE OF tho most contemptible tricks of which the republicans have been guilty in this campaign is tho disreputable cowardly way in which thsy have assailed the character of General Hoeecrana The general is democratic candidate for Congress in California and a Hancock snpporttr for which offenses be has been shamefully shame-fully abused by the radical l press and party The ether day Garfield made it convenient to meet a reporter and to him utter mean slanders of Rose crane who had been his warm personal per-sonal friend Too latest exhibition of republican spite and vindiotiveneea is the connecting of Hcaecrana with the GarfieldMorey letter forgery charging charg-ing that the general eont east a Garfield letter that ho had aa a specimen of Girfields handwriting hand-writing for Philp to imitate In an interview published dsewfaere Gen Eoaecrana emphatically denies the truth ot the cowardly accusation and unlike Garfields his denial will not have to ba supported by other testimony testi-mony The general took occasion during the interview to hit the republican re-publican nominee a good square blow in return for the latJera meanness in referring to him a few days age Said Itosecrum I never yet have attacked Garfield but I do now and I pronounce him a fraudan unmitigated unmit-igated fraud OJ |