Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-21

role Of "make- believe" lovers.
a Letter Which Explains Itself.
Allentown Chronicle.
The Democrats had meeting at Mauch
Chunk Oh Saturday evening [ Sept. II j..
The principal speaker was W. L. Hensel,
one of the editors of tho Lancaster
INTELLIcENcER. The Easton Free
Press says: "We are panied to
enlighten the public on the fact that the
able editor of the Jefsrsonian, published
| at Stroudsburg, after having taken cOpious
notes of Brother Hcnsel's speech, COM
pared his report with one made stenograph-
ically of the speech of ex-Gov. Trumbull,
Of Illinois, and found them to be identical
i'll substance and meaning. From a Dem
ocratic standpoint the speech is undoubt-
cdly good one but to know that it is;
not entirely original, to put the case mild
ly with Mr.. Hensel, detracts greatly from
the charm of his portly and fluent clo-
quence. Brother Ucnsel needs 4 new
campaign speech before he comes to Eas-
ton."
Now fTt VI
Brother Hensel is evidently alarmed at
the fate of his friends Wade Hampton and
Representative Beltzhoover, in the denial
business. 1t is now five days since the
Easton and Allentown papers charged him
with appropriating a good speech of
Judge Trumbull, and the Young Warwick
of the Lancaster Democracy hasn't whis-
pered, nay! A remarkable illustration Of
the negative force of example.
New Era of Monday.
According to the Easton and Allentown
papers, the Young Warwick of the Lancas.
ter Democracy, the junior editor of the
INTELLIGENCER, in his late speech ut
Mauch Chunk, applied this principle Of re-
production to the fructifyins thoughts of
Judge Trumbull, and found that all na-
ture, or at least his nature, bowed SO sub
missively to the primeval law. that Il
"good" speech of the Illinois ex-jurist and
statesman was so correctly reproduced as
to be ut once recognized by 4 Democratic
reporter, who had = copy Of the original in
his possession.
Mr.. Hcnsel's Reply.
Ed. Ne,o ErG.-Whcn it was first good
humoredly noticed in the Republican news
papers of this city that the Allentown
Chronicle learned from the Easton Free
Press that the democratic, you say)
editor Of the stroudsburg JeJersoniaa
had found a speech made by myself at
Mauch Chunk (Stroudsburg p to be eden
tical in substance and meaning" with one
made some time before by Hon. Lyman
Trumbull, scarcely deemed any notice of
the matter necessary, to preserve what
little of literary rcpute l may have with
you or with this community. Since, how
notice it into 4 possible admission
Of having appropriated ''. good speech
Of Judge Trumbull,' 1 beg leave
to enter with You my broadcast
possible "nay." 1 appropriated no
speech of Judge TrumbuIl, nor of anybody
else, at aIauch Chunk, Stroudsburg nor
anywhere else. The speech which made
substantially at both places is almost
g identical in substance and meaning"
with one that had made in this campaign
several times and at several places before
any made by Mr.. Trumbu,l had been pub
lished. In fact, except brief extract
from Mr.. Trumbulrs speech, republished
in the 1NTELL1GENCER some weeks ago
never saw, nor lead, nor heard his speech
until last Friday, when had some curiosity
to examine it carefully to see wherein
mine made at Mauch Chunk (and at
Stroudsburg) had any identity of "sub-
stance " or meaning" with it. The only
things discovered in that search were
notices Of the facts(very differently stateiD
that so many illustrious Republicans of
1S60-5 had abandoned their party, and
that Missouri, 4 state Of the 'solid South
had sent more troops to the Union armies
than some half a dozen Northern Republi
can states.
believe neither of these observations is
They have certainly been
features of ma,fy Democratic speeches for
some years.
1t would not be very strange, You will
admit, if considerable identity of "sub-
stance and meaning" could be established
between the political speeches of different
persons Oh the same side in the same cam
paign and yet, by some chance, it would
be quite difficult to find two speeches on
the same side Of the pending political
issue SO widely different in "substance
and meaning" as Mr.. Trumbull's and
mine. My first impression to this effect,
On lately reading Mr.. Trumbull's sneec,,
IS strengthened by close comparison Of
t with my notes of my own speech and
with an undesevedly "copious'' - report of
t published in the Monroe Democrat. Had
he matter enough interest to you or to
he public l would cheerfully place all