Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-21
DORSEY'S VENOM.
He PCurs Out His Wrath on James
and kacvsa9h.
A Vigorous Defence Of lngersOII and a
Hint Of Startling Facts to be
Disclosed Soon.

SANTA FE, y. NJ, March 20.-In reply to
On editorial paragraph quoting ex Post
master General Thomas L. James as saying:
If General Garfield had taken lower
view Of his duties he would not have fallen
q victim to the assassin's bullet" the Re-
view publishes the following communica-
ton from Dorsey:
The Reply.
Ny answer il worth while to answer al
all creature like James is that while
General Garfield may have been very low
IN bis view sometimes, as all men are, he
struck the lowest ebb Of low hCe when he
appointed James Postmaster General and
Mcyeagh Attorney General. lie caught
the evil.:arged crab in one case and the
devil fish in the other. Th.Se appoint
ments were against my most earnest pro-
test, which was written at the reQuess OF
the president. elect and which were pub
lished long ago. didn't know James or
McVeagh except by sight, but the first
scent or the irst sight was sufficient. !
knew enough Of them to know that they
we're not iii representatives Of two great
States, which they claim to represent. |
once said that the only credit that McNeagh
waL entitled TO was the fact that he wa the
it,le SOD in law of a great father in-aw.
The product of the best potato generally
results In vicious and vapid eyes; the
.rspsnitted power Of great men loses its
effect IN the course OF transmission.
Defense of InEersOII.
In writing this to you, my chief purpose
is 10 reply to statements made by James
NJ -, 20 rnl Tp1orgnll
As a lawyer, as a man, IS friend, and as
the head Of family he has not now, and
never did have, an equal in rhis or any
other country. As an orator his peer
never stepped on the rostrum. The init.
nation of that man James that lngerSoll
hsd in sonic way q part in the assassination
of Garfield by furnishing the assassin
money 10 bay pistol represents the ao'
horrcnt character aud the idiocy Of James
as we'll as anything can. 1t would be an
insult to the vilest professional witness at
the Tombs 70 say that James contradlcts
him 1t seems to me that many persons
are Eorn liars, without judgm ent to conceal
their lying and many others whose capac-
ity is equal in falsehood have the
cunning to conceal it, Both classes
are aGorpe by James and McNeagh. A
msu who defends Ingersoll against
thsn the man who made the charge. The
mpn whose intellect has enlightened every
na'ion called civilized aud most OF those
called barbaric, whose charitable sayings
are repeated at every hearthstone oil the
world where Language will permit repen-
tiCn; nan whose genius is recognized in
Canton, Moscow, London, as we'll as New
York, possess s power the world likes to
feel. When a century produces good
,,-ol-o,I he IN
great.
The Facts will Come Ont.
Whatever reply Ingersoll, A. B. vii.
liams, or myself have to make before the
committee will be made on oath, and |
rar cy the facts will come out. have no
doubt that the falsehood OF fools will be
stamped out. pever kpew a work more
unproftsble than an attempt to contra.
Dict liars. II YOU could convince them
of a ialsehood one day they would
produce ten the next day on
the sane subject and probably on larger
scale. Men who try 10 hide behind the
monument Of q martyr can only be found
by The boys who are hunting chirping
oiTds that even a bov with his hrst shot
gun would not shoot at The man who
mas defraudcd the government out OF mil.
lions OF dollars, and VINO has, in order to
conceal bribery, accepted an office OF the
man in whose favor fraud was perpetrated,
is much the best qualified to tell about
frauds, being engaged in them all his hte.
He understands them, being reformer
with one hsud in the bank vaults stealing
the funds of widows and orphans, the
other sticking out OF the door, with
voice screaming reform in behalf OF pro-
teciion Of the public treasury and OF pub
lie morals.
-SicLeGI SrEruEN w. Dorsey.