The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
AN OASIS IN THE POLITICAL DESERT.
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There was a great political demonstra.
ton at Lima, Ohio, on the Goth. Judge
Thurman and Speaker Carlisle were the
central figures, the former dropping the
tariff and occupying his time in the dis
cussion of other matters. Touching
upon the Murchinson-Sackville CORES,
pondence, he said:
The republicans want to get rid of 9
discussion of the tariff. They want to
get rid of a discussion of the fisheries.
They want to get rid of the Chinese
question, and so they have started a new
dodge, invented a new scheme, which
you may have seen in the Cincinnati pa
pers of to-day. They claim that an
Englishman by the name of Murchin.
son, living somewhere in Illinois, that |
never heard Of until L saw his name in
the papers, wrote a letter to the British
minister at Washington to inquire of
him whether a naturalized Englishman
i'll California ought to vote for Cleveland
or vote for Harrison, and that the Brit
ish minister made him a reply, and this
letter, which it is alleged Hutchinson
wrote, boils over with mean i%nsinuations
against Cleyeland and the democratic
party, as if they were the hirelings of
Great Britain. and boils over with full
| the incarnation of American virtue and
patriotism. Now, my friends, L want to
say a word to you about that, not that [
am Mt all satisfied that this so-called Mr..
Hutchinson ever wrote any such letter,
OF that the British minister ever replied
to it, as is pretended, for / should
say, looking at the correspondence, and
especially at Murchison's letter, or So
called letter, that it bore on its face such
evident marks of downright shameless
forgery that 1 might be as likelya at n C.
to denounce it as a forgery and then say
no more about it. [Cheers. Whether
it is a forgery or not / don't know, but
this L have to say, that, be it a forgery
or be it a genuine letter; be it a letter
written. by Hutchinson or be it q letter
written by some cunning republican par
tisan to which Hutchinson has lent his
name; be it n or the other, it is the
production of a deliberate villain who
deserves to be scorned by honest men.
Here Judge Thurman gave the con-
tents of both letters, and continued:
Murchison pledges to the British min
lister that not only shall that letter that
he writes TO him be kept secret, but that
of the minister shall be kept secret.
Now, my friends, when you come to
look mt the letter itself you see that it
nevt> was written by q man who for one
moment thought of voting for Grover
Cleveland. On the contrary, it is writ
ten by some skillful, as he thought, cum
ming republican politician, who thought
to entrap the British minister and get
from him some reply that could be used
against Cleveland in the presidential
election, SO that when that man
professed to be friendly to Cleveland
land, and only seeking out correct
knowledge, he was lying with every
breath that he uttered, with every word
that he wrote, when he said that the
answer of the British minister should
be kept a profound secret. He was ly-
ing, for he never intended it should be
kept a secret if he we're fortunate
enough to get one, unless that letter
should ~disappoint his hopes. Now, my
friends, if that man intended to be or
was what he said, how does it come that
the letter to his British minister, which
was marked ''private," and the letter of
the British minister to him, which he
solemnly pledged his honor should
never see the light, how comes it that
those letters are in the public press to-
day? But that is not all. Just look at
it. This letter of Murchison processes
to have been written on the 4th of Sep
TENDER last, and the British minister's
answer processes to be written on the
18th of September, and yet for more
than one month. yes, considerably more
than one month, no man ever heard one
word of there being such correspon-
dence except the men who are in the
conspiracy.
Last week there was to be n greater
meeting, as it was called, of Irishmen,
although [ do not think very many hon
est, thoroughbred Irishmen were in the
gang. But it was announced that there
was to be such a meeting as that at Mad
ison Square, in the city of New York, |
and that James G. Blaine was to address
that meeting, and accordingly the meet
ing was'held. When was it held?
Speaker Carlisle-Last night.
Judge Thurman-Last night only?
Then for the first time the terrible cor
re~spondence comes out which is to prove
that the sworn president of the United
States, the sworn secretary of state, the
sworn cabinet of the president, were all
n set of conspirators against the people
of the United States. 1t comes out just
then, on the V OF BIa1ne's meeting.
the Irish meeting in the city of New
York, and among the first things Blaine
does is to hold up his hands in horror
over this theme of official ~depravity.
BLAINE.
At the republican demonstration in
No1icD, ~,,o NJ, p1,,,o rr,,41,o -.
cipal speaker. He spoke mainly to the
Irish element, and in the course of his
remarks also referred to the Murchison-
Sackville correspondence as will be seen
by the following extract from his speech:
Mr.. Chairman speak tonight to
men of Irish birth, but not in relation
to their connection with the British en-
pire. Ispeak to them in relation to their
to the American republic
applause and of the duties they Owe
and the policies they should pursue; and
lrishman i'll America is to be found in
his experience in his native land.
The fairest land and almost the rich
est portion Of all Europe, destined to
poverty and to suffering, and to the exile
of millions of her children because of
primarily to
untold p~rivation because her power is
applied for her own use and her own adj
the poor people for the protec-
ton of which all Irishmen should strug-
gle in America. So great is the agricul-
tural wealth in Ireland that only forty
years ago she shipped a greater amount
OF produce across the channel te Eng
land than the United States exported to
all counties-greater than the empire of
Russia sent to the other countries Of
Europe, and with all this, where is Ire
and to-day? She shares the fate of all
purely agricultural: she shares
The fate that wonld in a larger degree
the Initial Stnfor &c tLn f.oo