The bee., 1884-03-01
AN APPREcIATlvE ENDORSEMENT
Col. Geo. III. Arnold Rises to Remark.
tFrom the Louisiana standard.)

| My DEAR Mr.. MATINET: read with YER
great pleasure your editorial in the Standar
of February ID, OH the Fortune banquet.
Your idea in regard to that very much talke'
of matter is to the point and reflects the sen
timents OF all whomI have spoken to in re
| gard to the matter.
The banquet, ii was not banquet but a re
ception, rendered by certain gentlemen o
this city TO the editor of The GLOBE had m
political significance, none whatever. Man.
who sat at the table do not wholly agree will
some of the doctrines enunciated in the col
umns of the paper edited by Mr.. Fortune
but there was not man in the reception
room, or at the table, but what entertained
for Mr.. Fortunes genius, intelligence ant
force of character, and eminent success, thu
| largest amount of respect. assented to m!
name being used out of personal regard fo
him and for these things that We know are
prominent in Mr.. Fortune. Besides, holo
him in close esteem as personal friend
| and even at times l cannot agree with al
the notions and ideas of q personal friend
in politics 1 shall not foget to still regard
the personal feelings entitled to some con-
| sideration and reepect, and will not allow
any bitterness of feeling engendered by q
dwarf my esteem of such friend and so re-
markable q genius as Mr.. Fortune. Your
| friend,
GEO. NJ. ARNOLD.
Washington, d. c., Feb. ), 1854.
n. B.-Praise from such a man as Col. Geo.
NJ. Arnold is praise indeed. We thank him
for his approval and appreciation Of our
views of that much talked of banquet to Mr..
Fortune.
y. B.-We thank the Standard for it's very
cordial editorial, copied in our last issue, and
Col Arnold for his very friendly endorse
ment of the editorial. We have very lagre
number of friends and they hold up our hands
handsomely. Differences of opinion must
exist, but they need not engender bitterness
and malce.-ED. THE GLOBE.
The above article is clipped from
the Globe which will explain the
false position assumed by Mr.. Geo.
NJ. Arnold. He not only perpe-
trated breach of faith as an asso-
ciate editor of the BEE, but proves
himself to be contemtible
tralt0: tv tue gontiemou With
whom he is associated. The ar
ticle that received the endorsement
of this gentleman was an editor
ial that appeared in the Louisiana
Standard some several weeks ago
criticlzlng the BEE for its condem-
nation of certain men and meas
ures at recent banquet rendered
to Mr.. Fortune. Allow us, there
fore, in justice to ourselves to
show the public and the patrons of
BEE the duplicity and cowardice
of a man whom we have always
respected and honored. Some
time ago certain gentlemen through
the engineering of tine Washing
ton correspondent of the Globe,
rendered to the editor of that pa
per banquet. We were invited
by Mr.. Smith, a gentleman for
whom we have the most profound
respect to take part. We declined
for the reasons heretofore stated.
Mr.. Arnold, one of the associate edi-
tors of this paper, accepted the invi-
tatlon and went. The next morn
ing after the banque he called to
see US bright and early, full of fire
and indignation against Mr.. For
tune, R. T. Greener, and others
saying that most foul attack
had been made upon gentleman
for whom he professed 80 much
friendship, and a man whom we
honor and respect. His wrath
against Messrs. Fortune and
Greener was so great, he would
have defied a Caesar or an Ajax.
He said that the banquet was
failure; it was not representative
In any particular; messengers of
certain officials, laborers in the
departments were there and repre-
sentative O'Hara got dlsgusted
and left. lie asked US to allow
him to write the article, as he
would give it HI, was the Ian
guage used. Honestly speaking,
we would not have made any crlti-
cism had it not been for represen-
tions made to US of the affair by
Mr.. Arnold. The next week he
did write piece condemning the
bill of fare which he dare not
deny. Everything that appeared
iu the BEE against the banquet
was inspired by this gentleman.
Again, had it not been for Mr..
Arnold, we would not have known
anything about the speeches made
by men against colored or chronic
Office holders, as they were styled,