The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-11-03
BLAINE.
A Pen Picture by Postmaster.t:eneraf
Don NJ. Dickers0n.

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nan NJ D;clerson. .1af
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, OCT. Il
Postmaster General Dickinson spoke
mere ao-n'gnt IN the ss,ne place wne.e
Mv. b'Slne mas ssoce viGosooely aesS'''
ed him. After discussing the Mich
ieass campaign somewhat, Mr.. Dickin.
son spoke as lolioWs:
Docs any ono doubt that tho real candi.
date Of the Republicai, party ia the man
Who controls tie maiorities In its conyen.
tons. its party mac6inery. its politics, its
mathotls and itn ieadern@ IF this perty
should be ) suceessfuI IN this mpsign
(Which God forbid-Av. II we NAV INDIE
bv the sions OF these days, He has already
f5rbidden) Harrison would be the titulaf
president, white is has we'll been said, the
rsssns We have et the % word Of cSs~ncey NJ
Dans,W that he would be secretary OF State.
aud have tho assurance OF the personai
organ Of the hundred -miilion.irs Of G..i,
candidate has given written assurauces to
The Same effect. It becomes, therefore, as
important as in 1854, to discuss this real
government would be committed for four
years in case OF Republican success.
Within tew days you have had him b.
In :wanton personal attack upon me, /
may be pardoned for q word on the same
subject. II am perfectly conscious that
have done Mttiefor the welfare Of my eoun-
try and nothing which merits distinction
aid honor at the hands Of my countrymen.
Its with the Utmost pride. therefore, that
notice any 'evidence that have naeTited
low-citizens. Cataline's scowl Of disappro-
val distinguished patriot. Evidence of
Aaron BnFr's einnity WIS sufficient to ex-
here In this place was publicly decorated
with the distinction which honorable mon
before me have coveted-thep public criticism
Of the Cataline of Anerical politics and the
With some vituperation he has assumed
to give me advice aud has recommended to
me the study Of the history of my country,
but Instead Of st landing upon the reconi-
incubation he has also assumed to furnish
that history for my perusal. A distinguish
ed Republican. statesmen once being asked
tho national. Republican ticket, replied that
he had three sinsurmountable objections to
TO doing so. The first WAS Blaine: the
the sh1 ths
lips Of this inprovisor Of history, and COM
Iiended to me for instruction, have the
same three unsurmountable objections To
accepting them as truthful, and before I
finish the subject promise this audience |
to show that every one of MIR. Blaine's |
statements made here, and apparently !
false in substance, false in general and |
false in detail. Furthermore shall prove
to you not only that they were false, but on |
his own record that he knew them to be |
false when lie made them.
He gives figures, as learn, from the re- !
port OF his speech, pretending to read from !
official ones: Now, I say to you that there |
were no such statistics as read to you In ex-
istence, and that the figures he gave In this !
city as to the consumption by New England |
Of Western products were false and frXudu- |
liant. He stated, here, as he is reported, |
I hat these statistics were furnished him by |
Gov Alger. don't believe that because |
do not believe that Gov. Alger would be |
guilty Of fraud, and the statistics of con-
sumption Ey New England, and of internal |
commerce we're not in existence in any Off
cial form: So far as Mr.. Blaine's state
ments Of facts are concerned. he has been !
so successfully impeached before I got |
here that SO far the matter personal to |
IL yself il concerned, might let that pass
I rave elsewhere applied to the slander |
man factured by Mr.. Blaine, at Detroit. as |
to Secretary Bayarl1' son and myself. re-
piled to him in the words Of Horace Greely, !
to his defamer. They are classic because
sooner or later the speeches and writings |
OF 6reely will be esteemed as American !
classics. 1t Is my plain duty to discuss es-
study Of history, somewhat, but briefly tho |
public history OF this witness and candi-
date, As a statesman and public man. Com
plying with his Injunction have made re-
search to some extent as to the figure lie |
cuts in the history OF his country. But
whatever record he has made upon his
HISTORY that is still extant, is bad.
Whatever Is not extant is burned. He has
done more to corrupt the public conscience
and to debauch the political moral OF the
voung men ofthis generation than all other
fspa 1NS M n 1Noo no hi v0H