New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-04
CHILLED FIRE-EATING.
AN INTERESTING ANALYSIS By A DIsPAssIONAT,
OBSERVER.

FROM me Cincinnati Cozette-Atrays anttBtaiae.
Which is the bully and the coward Mr,
meaning that Peru must not make peace without rccog
nizins Landrcau calm He put tis statement into
before hr. Blaine came 10 testify TIE words
o. tie dispatch gave no such meaning. When Mr..
Blaine came 10 TESTIFY ne called me committees alien
ton 10 Ills msquOtatiOn Mr. Belmont tried 10 ain
himself by insisting that the dispatch meant this. In
fh ca III tnr worls he made tine tily declaration that
there was meaning dc OF inside OF the words. 10
ts nsni,taon Ins at last caused Mr. Blaine TO
ch.raceriLe ns statement a. "untruIhIu" anu IN tie
| alteration which enshed ne said:
say that MI Belmont states there that which Is not the
truth absouel, the trHth ana without the sembancf II
that up 70 Shis time being adylse4o. 1t Monday
mistake he has persstenuy refused TO do H.
That is wnat state
Here the committee nterposed. but Mr.. Belmont re-
sisted THIS, saying This my affair entirely, thus
assuming il to himself rs iers nal affair h then AS.
to MIR. Blame that tue construction when ne had
put upon his dispatch tie oOrrec; one. - 10 NJ.
Bues assertion ABOUT the cAaIicJer Oh us lDeiIOLt1
statement, he SAID
AS to your statement-the mai at you made 10
propose this committee or the press the country
your assertion That significantly. and pointing pen hAl
die in the direction Of Mr. BiAnes Lace VIII convey 10
you private"
After Mr. Blaine had again pointed ont the miscon.
srdcon, SIR Belmont III the same angry tone as IN tho
pr vous reasserting that Ills construction was correcs
SAID:
the construction to be put on your dispatch bat =
have Just my course VI action IN that regard "I %
scene hero you make any capital way th9
other You may note hat II you please think mat .
your method; thinA that 10 What usually gcIJ
Of; / tnink that you bully and coward.
IN the further alteration. ia wnon MIR. Blaine said
not IN M BelmOhts power ~ Insult Al'h MI DE-
mont repeated:
What say entirely my responsibility, and re
Pst ,' ma. Win tn in: question YOU
INA assumption OF IL AS personal affair, and these
words as 10 conveying 10 Mr. BLAINE IN pflFale h.5
ernod of replying such assertions. thrice repeated,
- to mean he would send Mr. Blaine
demand what 10 called honorable Satisfaction, other-
- "a r,ullrn.e IL Mr.. Belmont did not mean THIS
ncn ne se words which ali accept Us declaring II, hs
dofng an cheap
the quality OF Oully and coward ,.,--,,,
it men who really intend To appeal 10 "hat is caied
thn con. of honor proclaim with trumpet In
country whose LAWS fofDid aIeling An ADVERTISEMENTS
of AN tent send Challenge Il resaruea AZ All INVITA-
lion 10 and officers Oh the law 10 htclOse 20 put
th hecose person under bonds not 10 hight Therefore,
among those who observe the cole, the puDc pIOcama-
tinn o threat send challenge Is Regarded ~ piece
~ hsrer and brayado wlicn intends TO avoid night.
This is performance OF the CHARACTER VI Ou4! ana
coward .,.,, po,..o.. !. M u.tao., 90 thu
of friends and has decided not " MAKE per
acn Al affair OF it, BY this No has completed Ia az az
pearances the performance oi Duster, oistAIo anu :
threat OF challenge without any intent 70 1AAo Any
II would be better for Mr.. Belmont II he had taken
counsel of hs friends before he threatened hr Blaine 10
hs face win "A onaIlenge and adser II 10 tue world
The counsel OF fIlonds cannot eAtIiodto mn lion s
predIcament Tue duty Of i,ienas ~ suSn e ,n S,r
of ther respective parties IN ulahy cases where MS
Understandings arisen and words OF rrepaIaoie ~
Ii NOT passed the affair admits or honorable adj
,xirbont "A hostile meeting But Mr. Belmont,
In Mr. Blaues face, atter addressing o hl the most u
sulting epithets threatened nm WIN 81 III 20
world How his friends counsel hiin out Oh thst
situation There no way oul pus LOa an 20 s
,nt. hs s.ands ak posed Ia threatening man WIN
Ssen ge before all the world when lao did not mean W
ar, ar w hen upon reflection Ills courage iued ihtn.
r. "a an au u braysdo, with oauon AGAINST per-
i y,sL or win subseQuent cooling Of courage which
oonooses tho character VI bully and cowAr1