Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-08-17
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN LIES.
Some of the Intellectual Attempts Alread.
Made to Injure Harrison.

It is quite evident that the managers of
the Democratic campaign have issued or
ders to make q simultaneous attack along
the whole line, to stop, If possible, the
wholesale stampede of workingmen from
their party into the ranks of the one
devoted to protection to American indus
try. On no other hypothesis can the
present outbreak of lies against Gen.
Harrison be accounted for. The Journal
proposes to catalogue a few of the baldest
and most notorious lies that have come
to its notice, with the liars who utter
them or are made responsible for them,
wherever they can be identified:
Lie No. 1.-That at a meeting in this
city in 1877 Gen. Harrison said to the
railroad strikers that he would have every
train run, or wade in blood to his finger
tips" This lie, in this special form, is
credited to uncle" Ben Zahm, of Rood
house, Ills.
Lie No. 2.-That at a meeting in this
city in 1877 Gen. Harrison said to the
railroad strikers: Were I governor I
would force you back, or you would be
shot down like dogs" This lie, sub
stantially in this form, has been repeated
q number of times, but as quoted here is
attributed to one E. F. Gould, of this city,
and is printed as coming from him in The
New York Herald.
Lie No. 3.-That Gen. Harrison said to
the railroad strikers: Your wages afford
you a living. Workingmen do not need
pie, cake or sugar. All these are Injuries
that you seldom enjoy. A dollar a day
and two meals, consisting of good bread,
butter and sow belly, is enough for any
workingman." This lie is also credited
9o n u Could .-I - -.-L.
from him in The New York Herald,
Lie No. A letter to The Journal says
that on a train of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago railroad the conduc-
tor handed the writer the following,
written on yellow manifold paper, on type
writer. accredited to The Milwaukee Daily
Review:
"GooD PRoTECTToNIsT DOCTRINE.
"tBetter for the workingmen that they
be willing to content themselves to work
for ten cents per day rather than incur
the risk of being thrown out os employ
ment by their masters, because of their
efforts, by means of organization, to Sc
two loaves of bread, and water can be
had fcs asking. Even this poor fare is
better when eaten in independence than
sNoo OAS oop W u1S hallh VI SlNGtil Ivy. w.
''These words were uttered By Benia-
min Harrison, the Republican nominee for
the presidency, while making a speech at
Attica, ind, during his gubernatorial
campaign against clue Jeans Williams in
1876"
The conductor who handed this slip to
The Journal correspondent says it was
being busily circulated by a Mr.. Reed,
lost car of the PENNSYLVANIA
company"
Lie No. 5.-Mr. E, F. Gould, of this city,
in his New York Herald interview, repeats
this lie about the Attica speech in sub
stantially the same words.
Lie No. 6.-The Golden Colo. Transcript
quotes a letter, which it says was written
by Mr.. Condor, of Bloomington, Ills, to q
c~ountryman and personal friend in this
city, in which he says:
Ben Harrison stated here eight years
ago, in Durly hall, in this city, that it was
a well known fact that the Irish race fur
nished most of the occupants of the peni-
tentiaries, and that the only thing he
knew to be good in us was to shovel dirt
and grade railroads"
Lie No. Z ct al.-These refer, generally,
to Gen. Harrison's relations to the soldiers
under his command; that he was harsh
aud cruel; stringing men up by the
thumbs for light offenses; neglected the
sick and dying of his command, ETC., etc,
and that out of 145 members of his com.
mand in this city 90 declare that they will
vote for Cleveland.
As to each and all of the. others, The
Journal desires to make a job lot of them,
and of any others of similar import OF
purport, and to say that such of them, ant
all of them, in essence, in spirit, in form
and substance, In word, phrase and sen
tence, in every possible aspect, are pure
unmitigated, baseless, venomous false
hoods, and the men and the papers max
ing themselves responsible for them, il
any way, are common liars and slenderers
Minneapolis Journal.