National Republican., 1884-10-25


SIN Mr.. oyster has some suggestions TO
make to me in this mornings Post. have
carefully considered them, aud this is my
answers
l. Mr. oyster suggests o deliberate false
hood when he asserts that "tho twenty-nine
employees of the government printing Office
signed a paper TO withdraw from Co
inmbia Typographical Union, No. lOl, because
DioV could not turn Il into q Blaine aud Logan
club" He knops that the noble twenty.nine
| land there are six times twenty.nine others)
signed that paper because, being n large ma
Jority Of the union at a special meeting, they
were deprived by violence, and fraud on the
part of its officers, of the right to protest
against the action Of the International union
and union No, 9, which bad for months made
Columbia union and her 300 sisters virtually
Cleveland and Hendricks clubs. lie knops that
an overwhelming majority of our union Is
opposed TO any politics OF any stripe in the
| union, and that the twonty-nine have simply
and solely protested against political action
fthe dirty democratic sort engineered BY Mr..
Oyster and his contemplate aiders and
abettors.
.. AS to your sneer, Mr.. oyster, at my at:
tempt at dictatorship of the workingmen Of
America" that is worthy of YOU. For your
edificatlon and that of your little junta OF
cownrdly defamers extract these sentences
irom private letter to me by Mannis j. Geary,
president of Typographical union, No. 6: "If
you think am indifferent or iorgetiul of the
stalwart efforts you have mnde IN behalf of
No g. then you have not iathomcd me. L
speak IN a homely way, but they are words
- II any man has done more 10 close The
breach botlcoea Tie printers and James @. Blaine
no, viii not say Blaine, but Whtelaw Reid
1 would like to grasp his hand" And during
the very days l was doing in New York what
the president of No. 6 thus describes (mind
do not say ~, you and your cowardly kuklux
snaaE %ers up here al sorts q s9nds d
the "boyootting committee" of No. O to de-
stroy my usefulness there. Thank God, you
and they did not succeed, and to-day possess
no warmer or more grateful friends anywhere
than among the boycotters OF No. 6, although
we are as wide apart as the poles in politics.
Ihey Will give me certificate as to my faith.
i9lness as a union workingman. Apply to
them, Mr.. Oyster.
Q. You speak of "the frantic and ridiculous
efforts am making to obtain the position of
chief OF the bureau of labor statistics" That
Is another stalwart ialsehood of yours first
coined by Whltelaw Reid. Mr.. oyster am
not and never have been an applicant for that
position. There Is not and never has been u
scrap Of fpaper in existence showing me to be
an applicant for 1t. But III were an applicant,
there is no law against 1t that know Of
a; do not think that senators Plumb and
Hale Will ever try TO rat the government
printing office, but, ifthey should, they would
have ample warrant In the suicidal and
wholly incomprehensible action of the oysters
and the sixteen Federation Of Labor conspira-
tors and their associates.
o. ",He (Brock) believes that every printer
should be weeded out of the government
printing onice." confess don't understand
the meaning of this Ifyou would furnish
list OF the printers you have had discharged,
Mr. Oyster, In your brief term OF forenanship
in that office, and the still more extensive list
you prepared for discharge, in the days when
you were blatant stalwart republican and
military hero, l could understand your mean
ING. Please explain.
G. Brock is failure as a printer" you saw.
Well wos good enough printer for you, Mr..
Oyster, when sixteen years ago, being fore
man ofspecitications gave you position as
voluntarily to go Into other business. Re
signed Mr.. Oyster; something you never did,
and evidently couldn't be slammed into doing
And more Being retained In your place un-
der Capt. A. w. Bartlett, my intimate friend,
you conspired to oust him from his place and TO
get 1t youself on account OF his (Bartletts)
political opinions. You didn't get 1t, sir, and
the then public printer denounced your action
TO your face "as the most wanton and desplca-
Bile act of treachery OF one workingman to-
ward his superior that ever came under his
notice |"
may be "a failure as printer" but never
was guilty of treachery toward a friend or
my superior in Office
Neither do l claim to be an expert "oyster
shucker," but l can WELD the knife with
yigor If not "with neatness and dispatchri
must beg pardon of the reading public for
thus trespassing upon their patience with so
insignificant specimen of tho bivalvular
species, and the only excuse is the use of the
telegraph and the newspapers abroad by this
gang TO magnify this mans treachery as
STRAW" to indicate the detection of the "work-
ingmen" to Cleveland. Why, he don't even
control his own vote, much less that of others.
His relatives, as am reliably informed, pro-
pose ito tie him with ropes 10 prevent him
from voting for Cleveland They, TO man
and tc0mdn, are stalwart republicans, and
have no apology to make for his trgrachhery g h.,,
| WASHINGTON, Oct. "a, 1884.