The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-01
DICKIEsON'S REVENGE

Blaine Etigmatizsd IS the Incarnation Of Every
thing False and UnKightsous.
GRAND Raids, Mich, Oct It,
Postmaster General Dickinson deliver
ed political address here tonight.
He devoted most of his speech to Mr..
Blaine whom he characterized as the
Catiline of American politics and the
Aaron Burr of modern statesmen.
He congratulated himself on the fact
that Mr.. Blaine had criticised him.
He denied the accuracy of Blaine's
figures and statements in a vigorous
manner and continued: He has done
more to corrupt the public conscience
and to debauch the political morals of
the young men Of this generation than
ali other influences combined. He has
been enabled to do this like all 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
truction, he has attacked, maligned
and slandered the pure public men Of
his own party and they without excep-
| ton since he came to hts eminence and
control have been illustriOus in tho
ranks OF his enemies. at their head
stood the great Conkling, who went to
his IGNORED grave followed even there
by the revihEgs of this man and his
creatures. 1t Is true of MIR. Blaine as
OF no other man that while all honest
men are not his enemies, all dishOnored
public men have been his friends.
do MT know that his character as a
man, when brought to the touch, where
any innate honor or total moral obtuse-
ness must be shown in men can be
better illustrated than by one incident
which became historic in the last
days of the campaign of 1888.
This is the man who goes about the
country slandering others in the Ian
guage of untruth and unrighteousness
This is the man of false pretenses up
on whom was placed the insignia of the
soldiers of the cross, the plumes Of
knights by an infidel and a scoffer. A
plumed knight indeed. A plumeC
knight was he who kissed the first ray
OF sunlight in the morning as IL glanced
, from the cross of his sword hilt ovel
the walls of Jerusalem, praying thai
, perchance it might rest again in bless
, ing upon his country in the west. Blu
this man so far as his public life hai
shown, has had no thought of hi
} country, save as means to his owl
ends of self and power. He never or
iginated a measure for the benefit o
mankind. His name is connectet
with no policy to advanc
, the interest or renown of America. NJ
high and noble sentiment can be quot
ed as having fallen from his lips during
all his public career. True men hav
3 been mentioned by him only to be ma
T ligned. He entered the lists to do bat
tie only when the battle was done AM
then only to charge the crippled ant
defenSeless and like craven TO inSul
the vanQuished. A plumed knight, in
} deed, from the time of his beginning o
3 service in the national field as the agen
T and lobbyist OF the Spencer Rifle com
pany at washington, during the frs
: year of the war, through his record i
congress- .thFoaelS the bleGk 4uHigal
T history, at the close of which he save
s Stimulating a stroke of divine prov
. dence, through the state department
7 when the power of the government
q through him was eXerted in the LauT
: dreau jobbery in Guano, down to hi
4 last record, he has been the centre an
u light OF systems of jobbery, corruption
a fraud and falsehood. There was n
9 jobber in Washington but was hi
- friend. No other man when in til
speakers chair ever intImated to, {
ever caused statement to be sent to
man with money scheme before Col
q gTess calling attention to the none
3 value of the speakers ruling. n
4 other man was ever turned from tt
state department and his entire polio
in shame reversed.
)r Mr. Dickinson concluded his speed
II with mass of statistics in opposite
ia to Mr.. Blaine's statements.