Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-06
GOULD VS.. BENNETT.
A Rea.Hsf Letter to James Gordon
Bennett OF the Herald, from the
Wizard of Wall Street.
yhs Herald's Reply TO What Ic Calls .'nIsd
denirg Malice" and "QowardIY Mud-
Singing" of "Oorsair."
New York Herald, April l.

New York Herald, April l.
There was q great fer Dent srou1d the
headquarters of the Corssir yesterday.
The Buresu Ananies WAS working on
full time aud the air was blue with sus-
pended electricity. All sorts Of super!a-
tive rumors we're abroad regarding the
marvellous birth which the geoius OF the
Skunk OF Wall street was iocubs;ing. 1t
was to be the GROWING emansiioa OF his
Wonde fully fecund brain. A dozen or so
OF secretaries, stenogrsphers ind type
writers were kept busy in noting dowD,
revising and copyl6g some very mysteri-
GUS matter, upon which, one might sup
pose, the safety of one hundred and
twenty FIVE millions Of ill-g )tten money
depanded as the fate o; millions CT men
and women turned upon the grandil queut
general orders which Napoleon issued on
the eve Of battle.
0le person was bent low as with the
weight Of age 6y the burden of RESPONSE
billy, wnicn the Little Old Msu OF the
Sc mad placed on his shoulders. Tuis
wxs Colonel Herbert Z. Dickson, the
Wis Gle he sd Of The Bureau Adaniss. He
was he man vac conceived the gigantic
blow tcat was ABOUT to be struck, wlo
ergendered the motive impulsed IN the
C rs4ir's brain, and who shsrpened and
ojlsted ths wsspons thst are 20 be EN-
r.Uy d
MUD SINGING.
And such weapons!
o., We gods!
rne Skuok Of Wall street, sfter long
AMI bitter labor wlicu cuavulsed the
gqlole Of the little world that revo.ves
around him "a Will as himself, at length,
towsrd nightfsll, gave birth, like the
mou atsiu 10 the faole to something that
was ABOUT Thousand times smaller than
expec.ai n had pictured il. Il fact,
bang smaller than ever the Corsair' 3
most heartless critics had believed even
him, 1t would take something in the ma
ture of g moral microscope to discover
anything in 1t that justified 80 much fdss
and fuster snd furry and travail.
What mean, petty, weak, little skunk
ling Il WAS to be sure-this outcome of SO
much preparation and talk and mysteri-
Gus generation that people had been led
to think would smack OF Jove's thunder
and the sulphurous fumes of Erebus!
The public had supposed that the Cor
sair would discuss in something like q
serious vein the matters st issue between
himself and the community at lsrge-be-
tween himself and the outraged bond
holders of the Kansas and Pacific, who
are trying to fnd some justice in the land
for the gross wrong which they have SUI
Tered.
WHAT WAS TIP
WHAT WAS the omlnous birth?
1t had nothing whatever to do with the
celebrated legal controversy about the
embezzled bonds. 1t did not demolish
the character Of the lawyers who had
dared to engage in contest against the
colossal power, built Of insoIence and
dishonor, which the Corsair has acquired.
On, what a ker, hump was there, my
countrymen!
penny tin pesshooter.
The only thing that made it at all dread
ful, by any possible stretch of the imagi-
nation, was the fact that IL WAS loaded
with filth-hlth of the most puerile, pitt
able, disgust ling sort.
The document which Colonel Dickson
waved in triumph over his head as he
read it t. the reporters last night was sn
Hopen letter" 1t contained about 1900
words and WAS addressed to the proprie-
tor of the Herald. From beginning 10
end 1t WAS loosely linked chain Of abuse,
adorned here and there with Jewels of
vulgar Evaporation.
Think you thSt It's author or authors
desired 1t to be published in the Heraldf
Not by 8 long shot.
the head Of the bureau Auaniss sent at
an early hour for representatives of all
the other morning papers and assured
them that at 10 or IL o'clock they should
have the opsu letter IN all its glory Ct
typewriter yerbositY. At the appointed
time Hsrald reporter WAS also on hand,
"I lave nothing for you," quoth Mr..
Dickson, with heroic effort at susvlty,
which WAS, 10 fact, nearly successful.
"Whyf" wss asked.
because do not think the Herald
would publish Whist have.
"You have no grounds for assuming
that. The Herald always gives both sides
of every controversy, and II your client
has any statement to make to the public
why should it not find place in the COL
umns of the Herald7"
Here upon the head of the Bureau
Ananiss came out hitfooted and said:
''I may as we'll tell you that the letter
will not be given to the Herald. There
Is no assurance that you can give me
that would induce me to do it,"
And he stuck to It..
MODELLED AFTER JOHN KELLY.
Bat here the letter is:
"NEw YORK, March 81, 1888.
ITO Mr.. James Gordon Bennett:
'Iu Frlday's issue of the Herald you
Illuminated what am told is commonly
called In the Herald Office q scream but
that scream must have been charged with
dynamite, IS l have learned that, as II
rolled OK from Msckey and Benefits
cable direct from Paris, 1t shook that
noble structure from which the Herald is
issued from basement to roof.
'tNow, as Ia this so called scream you
hsve taken occasion to deny certain state
ments deliberately made by me as to the
New York Herald and yourself, 1t is
proper thst reply. In the first pla ;e,
l never stated that you were ever di-
rector of the American Cable Company.
Il is true you were never invited to take
seat in that board, and l doubt IL any
member of it would sit in board
with you, for reasons thst will be appa.
rent as proceed.