Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-16
HIS EAR NOT TWISTED.
Another Chapter of the Chandler.
Blackburn Feud.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATOR DENIES THAT
THE SENATOR FROM KENTUCKY GAVE HIM A
CONTENTIOUS TWIST OF THE EAR"

tofidA CAUCUS on IeDruhry ":
"Mr. Faulkner efsctually disproves all the
sensational accounts published on February %
and repeatedly thereafter in the Cow-ier-Jour-
nal and Atlanta Consultation. He does not rep
resent Mr.. Blackburn as pulling my ear or
dragging me from my chair or hauling me un-
reslstlngly about the room, or represent me
as begging the protection Of the committee,
or as in any way deprecating Mr.. Blackburn's
wrath. All the Misrepresentation like these
and many worse and grosser lies Of those news
papers are now by Mr.. Faulkner proved to
have been deliberate inventions of their men
dacious correspondents.
If an effort is to be made to recall and give
to the public the substance of all the irritating
language used on both sides, Mr.. Faulkner
should have stated the fact that Mr..
Blackburn said to me: You are
damned official thief, and I can prove it. >
That must have been said before my often
sive utterance to Mr.. Blackburn, if his con-
duct upon hearing this was what Mr.. Faulkner
says il was. The chairman, Mr. Faulkner,
says, continued to sit, without the change Of .
muscle or the utterance Of a WORD. and there
upon, Mr.. Faulkner says, Mr.. Blackburn gave
the chairman's ear a contemptuous twist, to
cast an indignity upon him.
What chivairic proceeding is here de-
scribed!" How becoming the conduct Of
Mr.. Blackburn as q Senatori What noble pic
ture Of Kentucky gentleman is drawn by his
West Virginia colleague! As II conscious that the
violence of the war on Mr. Blackburn's part
ifesto in merely 'contemptuous twist of
the ear Of the chairman, who never
changed muscle or uttered word,
Mr.. Faulkner assumes the part of
. modern Herodotus and puts a grandiloquent
speech into the mouth of his hero, representing
him as saying: Damn you, cannot strike
you while you are sitting down, but
can show my contempt for you by twisting
your ear. Following up this proves on paper,
Mr.. Faulkner says he himself rose from his
seat and delivered the following grafton:
Mr.. Blackburn. as Mr.. Chandler has not
seen fit to resist what you have done TO him,
your own honor and manhood demand that you
should not, either by word or act, interfere fur
Their with him.
And SO, according to Mr.. Faulkner, the
threatened tragedy was turned into harmless
but lofty oratoricaI farce. First orator. Black
burn; second orator, closing the wordy display,
Faulkner.
1T is painful, in view Of such a self-compla-
cent epic as Mr.. Faulkner recites. to be COM
PEELED to disturb his equanimity by differing
from him. Had l seen Mr.. Blackburn as
his Sancho Panza saw him, 1 might have
been frightened; but did not so see him. Mr.
Faulkner says Of his hero: His face manifested
the most intense excitement and almost uucon-
trolable rage How fortunate for the cause OF
the Union that the frowning brow, ieryeyes and
cavernous mouth of this dangerous captain
were not seen by the forces of the federal
army When with his company he was doing
special service on the Mississippi river how
lucky that Judge Rucker did not see
such intense excitement and almost
uncomfortable rage on the face of this Ken
lucky statesman as Mr.. Faulkner saw there.
Yet in the presence Of il all the chairman at the
head Of the table continued to sit without the
change OF muscle on the utterance
of word. The intense excitement ex-
hausted itself in profanity, the almost uncon-
trollable rage subsidized in a moment and a
twist of the ear, so Mr.. Faulk-
ner says, ended the tigers rampage. Boshl
TO endeavor to be serious, Mr.. Blackburn
did not catch me by the upper part of the ear
and give it 'contemptuous twist / sat
without the change of a muscle or the utter
ance OF word, as to the best way for
a chairman of a committee under such cir
cumStances to await the threatened assault
S5 no unlikely kelly to n.o take place and which
touched my head at all it was only at the
instant when Senator Cullom seized his hand
or arm, and he stepped back and gratefully
sank into the capacious and welcome arms
of his deliverer. No such orations as
Mr.. Faulkner puts into Mr.. Black
burns mouth and his own were heard by me to
DIR. Faulkner not only undertakes to state what
he himself saw, but also iudicrously
Pintt did not see, and what Senator
Cullom did see. 1t must have been a
remarkable twist Of the ear which, fol-
Mr.. Blackburn made, Mr.. Plat looking
directly at the parties did not see. and of which
the subject of the intended indignity was not
aware. Yet, upon the proof of the con-
temptuous twist the reputation for valor
Of the Kentucky. Senator depends. Mr..
Blackburn himself seems to appreciate
the absurdity Of demonstrating physical
courage BY proving that he gave the
twist of the ear, and in his published card
dated Louisville, June p, he wisely refrains
from describing his acts, except that he says
he discharged duty, and was forced to fur
nish insolence. j. c. 8. Blackburn COM
planning Of insolence! A clown in a circus
finding fault because of joke! 1t is possible
that, while anticipating and fearing no actual
assault, ought to have realized that the
slightest touch might produce contamina-
ton, inasmuch as Kentucky had originated az
q method of warfare the communication of
contagious disease. Nothing of the sort, how
ever, has as yet broken out in me-"
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