Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-29
LAND STEALERS.
How the Public Domain
Was Squandered.
METHODS OF LAND PIRATES.
"A Very Lively and Crushing Paper
From the Hands of the Hon.
4 George w. Julian.

read with interest. If is from the
pen of Mr.. Julian, Surveyor-G General
of New Mexico. Mr.. Julian says:
In the October number of the
North American Reuiew, Stephen w.
Dorsey makes what he calls 're-
joinder" to my article on Gland
Stealing in New Mexico" 1 find it a
palpable misnomer, for he does not
attempt to reply to the mass of facts
which constitute my indictment
against the rogues OF this Territory.
A brief notice Of his performance may,
however, be deemed proper. In some
respects Mr.. Dorsey is formidable
antagonist. He once held seat in
the National Senate from the
State of Arkansas, where he will
long be remembered as the genius
who happily blended in himself the
traits both of the carpet-bagger and
the scalawag. He has held high
places and welded large powers as
party leader. He has shown uncom-
mon ability in exploiting the mail SER
vice OF the United States and eluding
the hands of Justice. Probably no
man in the Union is so thoroughly
~ acquainted with the whole business
of 'land stealing" In this interest
ing field Of activity l believe he has
national reputation as an expert.
His selection as the apologist and de-
fender of the tribe of which he is the
ackno lodged chief, is therefore al
together appropriate, and their cause
will have to be abandoned as utterly
hopeless if he is not able to defend it.
Mr.. Dorsey damages his case in the
outset by his bad temper. 1t is not a
sym ptom Of innocence. His personal
abuse is too fervant and emotional.
He should have remembered that the
spaniel under the lash only yelps
when it is touchingly applied. The
article to which he pretends to reply
was dispassionately written. L only
referred to individuals where my task
made it necessary, dealing entirely in
facts; and if Mr.. Dorsey had kept
cool, and applied himself honestly to
the work of answering them, he
might have had the sympathy, if not
the respect, OF the public.
He also weakens his case by drag
sing party politics into the discussion
He has done this without any provo
cation whatever. His efforts to show
s that Democrats, as we'll as Republi-
cans, are involved in the exposures l
have made, is not a response to any
thing l said. have no dispute with
him on that point. My article is tho
roughly nom partisan. In overhauling
the frauds connected with Spani h
d, aud Mexican grants in New
Mexico, | struck right and left,
pursuing every ugly fact into its
hiding place, without the least con-
Germ as to whether it would damage
this party or that. think the pur-
pose of Mr.. Dorsey in thus wandering
away from the real issue is perfectly
transparent. He has become tired
of hanging on the outer wall of poll
ties and hopes to regain his lost place
of power in the Republican party. 1
sympathise with him in his distress,
bit he will find himself utterly dis
appointed. The days of his political
glory are past, because, as am con-
vinced, the leaders and masses Of all
parties regard him as hopelessly pill
loried before the nation as a Star
Route thief. He smells OF the peni-
tentiary, and no fumigation is possi
BILE. To every honest man in the
Republic the mere mention of his
4 name suggests the striped costume of
y the crew whose fellowship he escaped
through the miscarriage of public
justice.
Mr.. Dorsey damages his case still
more fatally by his absolute reckless
ness in dealing with matters of fact
In attacking me personally he sue
ceeds in missing the truth in every
statement he makes. In pretending
to give my pedigree, for instance, he
says that nearly fifty years ago l was
elected to office as a pro- slavery Dem
ocrat, and that, defeated for re-elec-
ton, l left my party. He also says
that after had posed as Free Soiler
became a Conservative Whig.
These ridiculous statements will only
provoke the laughter of my old
friends. He knows that after begin
ming my political life as Wing ! be-
came member and leader of the
Free Soil party in 1S4S, and
SO continued till it was merged
with the Republican party in
1856; and that l remained in that
party till the Greeley campaign of
1872, when 1 joined its fathers and
founders in walking out of it on ac-
count of it's shameless misdeeds, in
which Mr.. Dorsey was disgracefully
conspicuous. He says that sin my
eve, there was no public crime OF
which Ulysses S. Grant was not
guilty." and that to his personal
knowledge I denounced General Gar
field at eveyy cross-road in Indiana,
as "thief," "bribe-taker,"
"bribe.g .giver," and 'perjurer." The
extravaganza of these statements de-
stroys them, and Mr.. Dorsey knew
them to be bare fabrications when he
penned them. | have in past years
criticised the administration OF Gen
eral Grant and some of the acts OF
General Garfield, but in doing SO l
did not appear in the role of black
guard, in which Mr.. Dorsey is always
q very shining figure. refer to these
and kindred fabrications about myself
solely as illustrations of the marvel
GUS bent of his mind towards the
habit of lying, and not by any means
in self defense. In this case Mr.
Dorsey is the defendant and culprit,
and frankly confess myself hopeless
ly lost if l need to be defended against
any conceivable charges emanating
from such source. They can only
tend to enthrone me in the hearts OF
all honest men.
He asserts that mainly through my
exerlions nearly 400 citizens OF New
Mexico have been indicted for
land frauds, and that every man tried
has been acquitted. He says,
"There is not grain or shadow Of
truth that there has been, or are now,
frauds committed to any extent IN
New Mexico under the homestead and
preemption laws" Mr.. Dorsey makes
t1ulliyer respectable. AS to his "40(