The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-04

PRONOUNCED A COMMON LIAR


N. Halstsad, of the Commercial g q
settle. assumes to be . critic Of men
and affairs. He 10 arrogant, brutal, In.
decent and Il olish In hts attacks on
public men and public measures whch
GROSS his greed or vanity, or thwart
his rascality. He Ii the scsvenger, the
sleuderer and the leech Of every CAM
patgu In Ohio. He 10 q common liar In
bic treatment OF men prominent In the
Democratic party, ami HE malice leads
him TO covert cOwsrdly attacks on the
mea In his own party Who have kept
him out Of ablect political poverty.
he 10 an migrate and . sneak, and
when 1t ie not convenient to execute
hts malicious designs In his paper,
he stabs In private correspond.
s %iSs.. or 1yse the y, 's1sss:ph
claring that Garfield was proven 70 be
mp 70 his neck In thu Moth sWiudie.
and that II would b. damned idioticH
70 nominate him for the presidency.
Halstsad has been especially vicious
In his denu nciatt0n Of men tbis year,
He has been lavish In the application
OF indecent epithets to decent people,
and has had his mean, VULGAR dis
position constantly on dress parade.
Halstsad opens his soresd TO Score.
tary Chase with . quotation frem Q
letter he had received from some man
for whom he vouchss, and who nder.
took 70 write about affairs In front OF
VtCksbufR. Thts unknown per-
son wrote that tue army
was "disgusted, disleartened and de-
morallxsd" because II was under such
men ~ Grant and sherman; that the
medical department was afflicted with
delirium tr0m0ns, ana that In Mem
phts drunken doctors rode from bar
rooms TO houses of ill-fsme 10 govern.
ment smbulanoes.
Hslstesd end ,rsed all these wild
charges. "These things are true" he
wrote ~ Secretary Chase. In fair
words he On tOrsed an assault on Grant
and Sherman, and Q contempt in.
suit TO- the medtcal fraternity. The
medical service 10 the army included
the best men Ia the profession, who
were ~ self-sscritcing and - pstri
QUO ana % brave ~ the men engaged
In any other arm Of the ervice.
HAIstead did not stop after indoors.
ing the Latter of bis correspondent. He
T~o~ """.oA uAVA0 Nio'OuoOi ulS OWus
DE Q large that the army was vast.
Ing uUdsr the "foolish, drunke
stupid Grsnt." In . paroxyism OF
presumption be exclaimeO: 81 Know
he is an ass" He called Hunter "fool.
ish," and wanted hun to die a. Mitchell
did.
Thecrowning infamy Of the letter IL
that part In which ne advocates the
assassination Of President Lincoln.
"rhe .prestdsnts weak, puiins, pid-
ding humsnitarianism,h he writes. dis
death and hell TO the army" Then be
asks: "Csn't you take him
!Lincoln) by the throat and knock
he 10 brouah. to his senses on the
war businessf" Next comes Q sen.
tence that even 70 years after It was
wrlttea ought to dive the writer Of It
In shame from the gaze Of mon: II
do not speak wantonly," wrote Hal
stead about Lincoln, "when I ssy
there are persons who w0ul feel that
II were doing God . s.rvice to kill
MIN, II II ware not feared tnat Ham
hn 10 bigger fOOl than he is."
dalstead's letter speaks contempt.
uously Of the "niSger," and declares
tnat "the proof sms'ion lof emancipA.
tom l. . posltive nuisance TO every
truly loyal m An IN the West"
But the letter 10 given in full else
wheres and We need not make further
quotations Ia this article. We print
~ 10 show that Halls cad 10 not true to
bis party; that he 10 not true to any.
body; that whatsver professions he
makes now Of l,yalty to Republican.
Ism must be hollow and worthless;
that Whatever charges he makes
against Democrats are not worthy OF
belief or even OF suspicion. Hs has
written himself down such a paIpsbls
defamsr aud traitor that no IL not
worthy OF belief In anything. He hss
not been true to the princi pies of the
Republican party, and 10 not true now,
Whatever his professions may be,
Tbs man who said Abraham Lincoln
w.s fnl; thai vi, sses 8 CIR ant wss
q dru nj ard and an Ass; that William
I. SHERMAN was Incompetent; that
Hunter was foolish, and Oh ght to die;
mat u was gOOd thing that Mitchell
oied, that the proclamation Of emsu.
cipation was u nuisance; that the med.
iosl man OF the army were drunksrds
anu liber',nes; that Hanaibsl Hsmiin
was y foo 3; that Abraham Lincoln de-
served ass, ssinAtion; an later along
that James A. G.rheld was AS sindler;
that JAMES u. Blaine wns = dishonest
mau, aud that CHARLES Foster was not
d. person ter Doli,ic.l prefer meut, Ia
not the man for any party to tie 10 now.
-lCtnotnnatt EnqUirer.