The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-15
EX-SE~ RETARY BLAINE AND HIS MAN
SHIPHERD.

EX-SE REIARN BLAINE AND hlS MAN
SHIPBERD.
Ex-Secretary Blaine took easily the virus OF
the Shepherd venom. This man was not to be
placated by sputter, as did not occur to Mr..
Blaine when he said "What business had you
to call on an American Minister to do your
errands ~ This had reference to documents
which Shipherd had sent to Gen. Hurlburt,
with the request that he would deliver them to
MIR. Arizona. General IIurlburt should have
thrown all your papers in the fire." added Mr.
Blaine. But the medicine man interposed
preparation for the ex-secretary, Oh which ne
had expended much ingenuity and which he
called "reports Of Hurlburt's intimacy with
Juarez," detailing the scandal contained in his
letters, by which Minister HurlDurt was placed
in the occupation of one of the finest reslden-
ces Of Lima, with a wine cellar extensively
stocked, all Of which was free of expense to
himself, having been furnished by the Credit
Industriel But the ex-secretary struggled for
a moment with an incredulous laugh, while he
said 80, they won't catch Steve that way. If
he lives in fine houses he pays for it, But,
the scandal monger had here recourse to
ready appliance of art. saying, swell
Mr.. Secretary, their intimacy was matter of
public comment in Lima. uarez is virtually
an inmate of the American Legation Craft
had won. The Secretary was melted into
compaisance by the cheap words of malign,
false and cowardly calumniator. Secretary
Blaine forgot that reports and public COM
ment, when authentic, have not the seal of au-
thority, and that these were Of miserably low
estate, reeking from the sewer of a filthy
second hand. He forgot that public COM
mentators have not argus eyes, and that
Juarez, in as good company as Minister llurl-
burt's, was entitled, in the face of the scandal
driver, to be held not to be sculion. SO,
Secretary Blaine should have blushed to say,
eff all this be true he must have sold out to
the Credit Indusuiel. | will 60 to the bottom
of this" bushed to speak of it as true, or as
having any bottom but the depth of Shepherds
mendacity. And blushed to incontnentily,
then, avow himself ready to do, himself, the
brands Of the man Shipherd, asking, COM
placently, "What do you want me to do
Shipherd?" And the ottiCious and false
slanderer of high toned minister and true
gentleman said in reply, ''Send this dispatch
to IIurlburt." Could anything more base fall
into diplomatic precedent, could subserviency
more absolutely abject be devised, could an en-
Secretary Of State Of the United States get to
any lower deep? Yet the man from Maine
rallied for an instant, not from any thought of
Justice toward the L. S. Minister, it may be
rather from momentary relapse into self-re-
spect, but he said mo, not that" ''Iie then,
said the witness Sh pherd, 'wrote dispatch in
substance as follows: "A report reaches the
State department that your conduct is such as
to lead to the suspicion of improper relations
with the Credit Industriel. You must stop it. O."
If Mr.. Blaine wrote any such dispatch it is too
unaCcountable to be explained, and too base to
be excused. But the witness Shpherd is a
liar. The ex-Secretary wrote no such dis
patch, nor word it contains.