The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-07

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IL this article the doctor overlooked all
other considerations, and spoke very kind.
y Of DR.. lloynton. To this letter Mrs.
Garfield made no reply. Several weeks
ngo DR.. Hiss learned that there would be
an attack upon him In Congress, In which
his official position wonfd bc questioned,
nnd 80 lie took occasion to secure s.atc.
mcnts FROM Alessn. Lincoln and Hunt,
which set ut rest MI questions in tho mat
ter. In the course OF his working up this
side OF the case. DIR. Bliss claims 10 have
learned that Mrs. Blaine Ind been very
bitterly opposed 10 him, and that she hal
used her influence with Mrs. Garfield and
others TO dlscrctit him. Dr.. Bliss was In
Charge OF Mr.. Blainc's case when tho latter
was stricken down ut the church door on
that memorable Sunday preceding the bal.
loting in tho Cincinnati Convention. Mr..
Blaino was carried home suffering, from
all appearances, from MI attack Of apo.
plexy. lle lay unconscious, breathing with
heavy, stertorious gasps, indicating n seri.
0us, II not fatal attack. DR.. Bliss was with
MIR. Blaine nearly NIL night. II was after.
ward charged that he tclcgraphcd to peo.
pie in Cincinnati that Mr.. Blaine had been
stricken down by serious attack Of
paralysis, and that there was very little
chance 'of his recovery, and that il lie did
recover he would DO helpless. Mrs. Blaine.
according 10 DR.. Hiss, las firmly believed
TINT he sent these dispatches, md that
they were the sole means OF Mr.. BlainG's
defca. in Cincinnati. This belief, it IL
charved, is the secret Of Mrs Blaine's
alleged efforts To discrelit him, md tile
cause ot Gail TIamilton's article in The
North american RcrieU attacking the doc
tors. DR.. Bliss states that he called upon
Mr.. Blaine after he Ind seen McSsrs. Liu-
coin and Hunt and asked him Tor M in
dorscmcnt OF their statements. Mr.. Blaine
sid he.would give il verbally, .hul tlinthe
did not care to write any statement about
it, because it was not needed. The doctor
was ut liberty, however, 10 use his name in
saying that the history OF the, case, as given
by ntho two secretaries of the Garfield
cabinet, WIS unqpestiOnably correct. }, An
explanation then followed, and DR.. Hiss
took up and disproved the charges about
his sending the dispatches to Cincinnati,
and u full and free understanding was ar-
rived at, Mr.. Hlainc's, mind being entirely
disabused OF the idea that DR.. Bliss Ind
been the cause of defeating him for the
presidency.
DR.. Baxter, who has been one OF the
most bitter opponents of the doctors, has,
says DR.. Bliss and his friends, rs basis OF
his personal feeling disappointed anbi.
ton. lie was close friend OF Gariicld's,
and was occasionally called upon By him
as physician. A few weeks before Gar
field w;is shot lie made ont DIR. Baxters
nomination rs Surgeon.General OF the
army. DR.. Baxter thought it was SO sure
that hc. went upto tho Senate and received
congratulations Willie he waited for the
nomination which never came. InWashing-
ton no appointment is certain until the
commission is made out and signed aud
the first months salary drawn. Hardly had
DR.. Baxter left the White House when
kind friend came in and made q little State
ment TO Gen. Garfield which inclined him
tohangup the nomination. DR.. Baxter never
gave up, and probably had Garfield lived
he would have succeeded in becoming Sur
geon-Gencral. The day Garfield was shot
Baxter was out OF town. 1fe saw in IN in
slant that il he had been in town he could
have got into the White House in time to
have hcen called into the case, and then hc
certainly would have been the future Sur
geon.General. But hcarrivcd too late. Bliss
& Go. were there before him, and "staid by"
the case with the pertinacity OF the proics.
sion, Once, when DR.. Baxter tried 10 make
his way into the sick room, he was fOrcibly
elected by the son OF Dr. Bliss. Naturally,
DR.. Baxter las done everything in his
power 10 retaliatc upon the man who sup.
planted him at such critical itime.t Y
All OF these personal elements entering
into the case make it one OF more than or
binary interest. Between now and the
first settlement Of these bills there will be
n great deal OF sheartbnrning and hard
fighting. Blackburn is great friend OF
DR.. Baxter's, and the bliss crowd fear he
has been prined by the would.bc surgeon
general with statements to the deiriment
OF DR.. bliss Meanwhile DR.. Bliss has
been preparing himself for Blackburn,
and says that if Mr.. Blackburn sees fit to
assail his personal character there will be
music by the brass band.,. lie says openly,
Mr.. Blackburn, WHO lives in n Slllss house,
can hardly afford indulge In The pastimc
OF throwing atones. 't.;;nsJ tli:
1t should be. borne in mind that the
physicians in charge lluvc never presented
any bills or claims whatever for service,
and for that reason their advocates say the
criticism that has been made from time to
time about the eXliorbitaut sums to be up.
propriated for their benefit isuniust.