The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-11-01
DICKINSON.
The Postmaster general F,fogs Jim
Blaine, and Salts Him
Down.
He Conclusively Proves. that
Blaine Is Lair and Gives
False Figures.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.,, October 27.-
Postmaster-gsneral Dickinson spoke here
tonight in the same place where Mr..
Blaine some days ago vigorously assailed
him. After discussing. the Michigan
campaigns somewhat, Mr.. Dickinson, re-
ferring to national affairs, spoke as fol,
lows:
"Does any one doubt that the real can
didate of the republican party is the man
who controls the majoritiSs in its convGn-
tions, its party machinery, its policies,
its methods and its, leaders? If shis
party should be successful in this cam
paign, which, God forbid, land if we may
judge by the signs of these days He has
already forbidden) Harrison would be the
titular president, while, as has been, well
said, the unspeaksble man from Maine
would be regent. We have the word of
Chauncey NJ. Depew that he would be
secretary of state, and we have the assur-
ance of the personal organ of the hun
dred millionaire of California, Lee
land Stanford, that nominally Blaine
has given written assurances
to the same effect. 1t becomes, therefore,
as important as in 1884 to discuss the real
candidate; into whose keeping this great
government would be committed for four
years in case of republican success.
Within few days past you have had him
before you, and, because of what he said
here in a wanton, personal attack upon
me, may be pardoned for word on the
snme subject l am quite conscious that
L have done little for the welfare
of my country, and nothing which
merits distinction and honor at the hands
of my countrymen. 1t Is with the utmost
delicacy, therefore, that / give evidence
that have merited this action of conf
dence of my fellow citizens. Cataline's
scowl of disapproval distinguished a pa
triot. The evidence of Aaron Burr's en-
nifty was sufficient to exhonerate him
from the suspicion of treason, and here in
this place was publicly decorated with a
distinction which honorable men before
me have received in the
public and bitter criticisms
of the Cataline of American politics and
the Burr of modern statesmen. With
some vituperation he has assumed to give
me advice and has recommended the study
of the history of my country. But in
stead of standing upon the recommend
alton he has assumed to furnish that
history for my perusal. distinguished
republican statesman on being asked,
in 1884, why he did not cordially
support the national republican ticket,
replied he had three insurmountable OBJ
jections to doing 80. The first was
Blaine; the second was Blaine; the third
was Blaine. On any statement of facts
from the lips of this purveyor of history
and commended to me for instruction,
; have the same three insurmountable OBJ
jections to accepting them as truthful,
and before finish the subject prom
Use this audience to show that
every one of Blaine's statements made
here, and apparently fortified by him
from history are false in substance, false
in general and false in detail. Further
more, shall prove to you not only that.
They were false when he made them. He
gives figures, learn from the report..of
his speech, pretending to read from Of
fetal ones. Now 1 say to you that there
were no such statements as were read to
you in existence, and that the figures he
gave in this city as to the consump-
ton by New England of western
products were false and fraudulent. He
stated here, as he is reported, that these
statistics were furnished him by Governor
Alger. don't believe that, because I do
not believe that Governor Alger would be
guilty of fraud, and the statistics of the
consumption by New England and of in
ternal commerce were not in existence or
in any official form. So far as Blaine's
statement of facts is concerned, here
or elsewhere during this campaign,
he has been 80 successfully impeached be-
fore that, so far as the matter pertains to
myself, ISmight let that pass. 1 have
elsewhere replied to the ISLANDERS manu-
featured by Blaine at Detroit as to Secre.
tary Bayard's son and myself. / replied
to him in the words of Horace Greedy to
his defamers "They are classic be-
cause sooner or later speeches
and writing of Greedy will
be esteemed as American classics.
Mr.. Dickinson, reviewing Blaine's ca
reer, said: He has done more to corrupt
/
litical morals of the young men of this
generation than all other influences com
bined. He has been enabled to do this,
like all the public men of history who
have attained bad eminence, because in him
the Burr in politics has been made
so attractive that he has been sometimes
successful. Brilliancy and magnetism
have attracted but it has been an attrac-
tion to ultimate destruction. He has
attacked, maligned and slandered pure
public men of his own party, and they,
without exception, since he came to emf
nence and control, have been illustrious in
the hands of his enemies. At
their head stood the great Conk-
ling who went to his honored
grave, followed there by the revilings of
this man and his creatures. 1t is true of