Morey letter
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The Morey letter was a forgery that appeared during the 1880 United States presidential election. The letter was purportedly from Garfield and suggested that Garfield was in favour of Chinese immigration. It was subsequently declared a forgery.[1]
The Morey letter was thought to be a forgery emanating from Democratic Party operatives and produced a backlash against the Democrats. While never proven, there was much public speculation at the time that journalist Stanley Huntley, of the Brooklyn Eagle and creator of the Spoopendyke humor stories, was the author of the Morey Letter. Huntley himself had made fun of the question of who wrote the letter in one of his stories.
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- ^ "The Phony Document that Almost Cost a President His Election". History News Network. http://hnn.us/articles/8061.html. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
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