Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-13
GOULD VS.. BENNETT.
4 Rsd.Hot Letter to james Gordon
Bennett Of the Herald, from the
Wizard Of Wall Street. g.
dening malice" ana "0ouardly Mud
Singing" Of q "Corseir."
New York Herald. ApriIl.

| Luli tlIAe anu the alr was elue Win SuS-
pended electricity. All sorts of superla
tive rumors were abroad regarding the
marvellous birth which the genius of the
Skunk Of Wall street WAS incubating. II
WAS to DE tie GROWING emana,ion Of his
wonderfully fecund brain. A dozen or sc
of secretaries, stepographers and type.
writer's were kept busy in noting down,
revising and copying some very mysteri-
Gus matter, upon which, one might sup
pose. the safety Of one hundred and
twenty fve millions of iIl-gotten money
depended as the fate Of millions of men
snd women turned upon the grandilcquent
general orders which Napoleon issued on
the eve Of battle.
| One person was bent low IS with the
| weight Of age by the burden of RESPONSE
bilily, which the Little Old Mau OF the
| Sea had placed on his shoulders. This
was Colonel Herbert E. Dickson, the
visible head Of The Bureau Ananias. He
was the man who conceived the gigantic
| blow that was about to be struck, who
engendered the motive impulsed in the
Cnrsair's brain, snd who shsrpened and
| adjusted the weapons that are TO be en-
ployed.
MUD SINGING,
And such weapons!
Oh, We godsl
The Skunk Of Wall street, after long
and bitter labor which conyulsed the
whole OF the little world that revolyes
around him as well as himself, at length,
toward nightfall, gave birth, like the
mountain In the fable TO something that
was about thousand times smaller than
expectation had pictured it. In fact,
being smaller than ever the Corsair's
most heartless critics had believed even
him, 1t would take something In the ns
ture of a moral microscope to discover
anything In it that justified so much fuss
and fuster and furry and travail.
What mean, petty, weak, little skunk
ling it WAS to be sure-this lutcome OF so
much preparation snG talk and mysteri-
Gus generation that people had been led
to think would smack of Jove's thunder
and the sulphurous fumes of Egebus!
The public had supposed that the Cor
sair would discuss in something Ike q
serious vein the matters at issue between
himself and the community a. large-be-
tween himself and the outraged bond
holders of the Kansas and Pacific, who
are trying to fud some justice in the land
for the gross wrong which they have SUI
iered.
WHAT WAS II?
What WAS the ominouS birth?
1t had nothing whatever to do with the
celebrated legal controversy about the
embezzled bonds. Il did not demolish
the character of the lawyers who had
dared to engage in contest sgainst the
colossal power, built Of insolencs and
dishonor, which the Corssir has acquired.
On, what ker, fump was there, my
countrymen!
The thupderbolt was only little two
penny tin peashooter.
The only thing that made II st all dread
full, by any possible stretch of the imagi-
nstion, was the fact that it was loaded
with fllth-6lth Of the most puerile, pitt
able, disgusting sort.
The document which Colonel Dickson
waved in triumph over his head as he
read it to the reporters last night was sn
"open letter" 1t contained about 1900
words and WAS addressed to the proprie-
tor of the Herald. From beginning TO
end 1t was loosely linked chain of abuse,
adorned here and there with Jewels OF
vulgar vituperation.
Think you that its author or authors
desired it to be published in the Herald?
Not by 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 open letter IN all its glory of
typewriter verbosity. At the appointed
time Herald reporter WAS also on hand.
al have nothing for you," quoth Mr..
Dickson, with heroic effort at suavity,
which wss, in fact, nearly successful.
"Wby?" WAS asked.
because do not thlak the Herald
would publish what 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 Herald?"
Here upon the head of the Bureau
Ananias came out fItfooted and said:
81 may IS well 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,"
Aud he stuck to II.
MODELLED AFTER JOHN KELLY.
Bat here the letter is:
"NEw YORK, March 81, 1888.
ITO Mr.. James Gordon Bennett:
sIn Frlday's issue of the Herald you |
Illuminated what am told Is commonly |
called in the Herald office "a scresm,' but |
thst scream must have been charged with |
dynamite, as l have learned that, as it |
rolled of from Mkckey and Benefits |
cable direct from Paris, it shook that |
noble structure from which the Herald is
ssued from basement to roof.
"Now, as in this So called scream you
lave taken occasion TO deny certain state
nents deliberately made by me as to the
New York Herald and yourself, it is
proper that 1 reply. In the first pla e,
never stated that you were ever 8 d.
.ector of the American Cable Company.
L is true you were never invited to take
, seat in that bosrd, and 1 doubt If any
member of 1t would sit in q board
With you, for reasons thst will be apps-
rent as proceed.
"When made these statements had
before met certified copy of the records
II the American Telegraph Company,
low Western Union, and I had also a
made by one Of your asso-
late directors, who WAS then connected
With the actual name cement. This state.
nent proves the truth Of what said
md the falslty o! your denial. This
is as follows:
MEMORANDUM.
Notwithstanding the New York Herald