Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05

GOarsely nOSCli6 terms. IL mas bSeu my
hap" Mr.. Watterson said, ste have been
the subject of a good deal of this sort of thing.
Yet am not conscious of having ever OBJ
truded my personality upon the public.
When | was very young man, and lighting
for my spurs, any notice was preferable to
no notice; but for long time notoriety OF
every description has been offensive to
me. Not unnaturaliy, therefore, while
inwardly resenting these unwarrantable
Observation-Disclosures which are never taken
or tolerated except among Journalists, who,
of all living men, are least considerate Of one
another, their profession and themselves
have shrunk from descending into the cess
pool. The truth Is that journalism was new
er fallen so low IN tone-was never so despl-
cably unfair and partisan-as it Is now.
went into an honest effort at reform a few
years ago with Sam Bowles, Halstead, Hor-
ace White and Whitelaw Reid, and the re-
suit is that-Sam Bowles dead and Horace
White retlred-Reid and Halstead have gone
to the other extreme, and /, being lett alone
to tell the tale, do not find it worth the tell
ing, but sit upon the banks of the muddy
stream, like a certain biblical person, weep
ing, and see the poor old Courier Journal
drift and drift with the rest.
But of your whack at Governor Hend-
rickss"
80. that! Well, what of thst2"
You saw what he SAID Of it!"
eyes"
And what did you think of itP"
81 thought be had turned editor Of his
own home organ"
'But you called him a fool and CON
spirator.'
'If it wsre SO, it were GrievOus fault-in
Governor Hendricks"
'Is it not sop
81 certainly thought SO, or I should not
have said so. l take it that the folly OF Gov
ernor Hendricks conduct the last few
months Is apparent to every sensible person.
He has no more chance of the Presidency,
except upon the ticket with Mr.. TIlden, than
you have. Of all men, MS nomination by a
national Democratic convention IS impossible.
While Mr.. Tilden lives, Governor Hendricks
has no political entity, and represents 10 par
tisan quantity, save as MIR. Tilden's prehen-
sile, or appendage. HE nomination over Mr..
Illden would be such rebuke, and such an
undeserved rebuke, and would create such a
schism, and such a needless and fatal
schisn, as no party would dare to face. That
Governor Hendricks does not see 50 plain a
case sufficiently proves his foolishness. In
spite of it, he has gone on IN covert, I'M
manly way to behttie Mr.. Ihlden, and, by de-
taching himself from the idea represented by
them Jointly, to make himself the cat 's-paw
of those who seek to dethrone it. In this
latter-looking to his own elevation at the
of a conspirator. John Kelly is now engaged
in an intrigue with the Republican party to
lose US New York next fall. Governor Hen
bricks Is John kelly's man, and It matters
not how fast or loose the relationship-or how
familiar he may be with the details of the
scheme-he cannot escape the association,
and it's attendant plan to set aside and dis
grace Mr.. Tilden. In my ascrlptlon OF all
this | might have used milder language.
am sorry on myown behalf that overstepped
the bounds of courtesy. But l am no more
proof against the rude promptlngs OF an
honest Indignation than other men, and am
in the habit at times of using. yernacular
that were better honored IN the breach than
the observance"
Governor Hendricks says he always
treated you with friendly respect, and that
your relations have been cordial"
GAS to the matter of relations, the boot Is
mainly on the other leg. For many years,
and IN the face of much provocahon, l have
treated Governor Hendricks and his friends
with ali possible consideration. When favors
were gong, they were given. not asked or re-
celved by me. AT st. Louis | went out of my
way to be more than fair In spite of this,
Governor Hendricks and the clique immedi-
ately about him, have permitted hs home or
gan, wantony and unprovoked, day IN and
day out, to assaIl and defame me. The pa
per itself, save its reflected light, ID of no
consequence Of itself, 1t could IN 70 wise
ruthe me. But its constant villidcation was
calculated to do a harm altogether dispropor-
toned to its influence or even its conception
and, In the interest of good will, | called the
matter to the attention of the people who af-
feet, through the columns of this vile sheet,
to make the cause of Governor Hendricks
their own. | talked earnestly with Judge
Hoke, of Louisville, and General Mcclure,
Of the army, two of Governor Hendricks &
closest friends. l represented to them
that | would neither distinguish such an as
sailant nor lower myself by the sort of con-
test that was sought to be put upon me; that
it could only lead to misunderstanding and
hard feeling between my friends and Govern
or Hendricks's friends-with perhaps some
thing more than merely personal results
that In so hard a fight as that which engaged
the Indiana Democrats, they should receive
help, encouragement, sympathy, not the cole
shoulder, from Kentucky; that necessarily &
newspaper war would disturb the operations
of these kindly and needfui agencies, and
begged them, IN the name of common inter
ests and common friendship, to put d stoI
to such billingsgate. Nothing came OF 1t
| The tide of filth continued to flow, and stIl
flows with uHceasing, UNMARRIED feebleness anc
malice. Now it Is absurd to suppose tina
Governor Hendricks and ais friends at Indian
apolls could not have stopped this at an
| moment. 1t Is absurd to suppose they coulC
not have SAID to the owners of a newspape
which subsistS upon donations, Come, yoI
| are allowing an obscure empIoye to use you
property to exc out an old grudge OF his owl
upon one who is tireless IN his services to thu
| Democracy of Indiana, and that such a sug
| gestion would not have been mandatory
Either Governor Hendricks has no inhuenc
over his home organ, Or else he has been (
| party to it's abuse Of me, or else 1t Is trfllto
to him, for without suggestion or proyocatlon
and in the vIlest language, it has tor year
| filed it's columns with epithets and false
| hcols. These were read each morning witt
apparent complacency by hose who are nov
| Mortified by the thought that have dared L
| speak words other than those OF praise O
| their idol; tina. instead of stopping TO quar-
| rel with the scullion IN the kitchen, nav
| gone directly for the master in the parlor.
| ''But Governor Hendricks says that b
| neither owns nor controls a newspaper; tina
he has nothing to do with newspaper quar-
rels; that you are an editor and can do you
| own lighting"
Certainly. That is a cheap way out 9
his responsibility for set OF rresponsloi
people, who, pretending to represent hin
| assail me- But there has been no quarrel
The fighting has been all on one side. AM
be, and his friends, permitted it to go o.
when they knew l was personally enlisted 1
work of moment to themselves, and IN tn
face of repeated friendly remonstrance
There comes occasionally In this world
time when forbearance Is not virtue, and
can discover no reason why, when l behol