The Cheyenne Daily Leader

Abram S. Hewitt in a letter to the editor of the Nation defends himself against what he terms "the extra judicial" attack of Judge Davis, and says that he believed the Morey letter to be genuine and hence decided to refer to it in his speech, and accordingly did so in what he then regarded, and still regards, as cautious language. If he formed too hasty a judgment he must accept the censure due to unintentional indiscretion. The letter concludes: "With this statement I submit my conduct to the candid judgment of your readers, but not without expressing the deep regret which I feel that unlucky chances should have brought me where my opinion was asked in regard to the authenticity of a letter, which, so far as I was concerned, was a matter of profound indifference, and in regard to which I never supposed any controversy could arise. This regret is intensified by the fact that I, rather than General Garfield, have been the victim of the forgery, for he has been elected president while I have had the singular experience of denunciation from the bench in a case to which I was not a party, in which I had no hearing, and before a judge who seemed to confound the witness with the alleged criminal. I have, therefore, more reason than General Garfield 'to hunt the rascal down', and to insist that due punishment shall be meted out to those who have violated the law."