The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-02
Dndley's Dudgeou.

WASHINGTON, April 25.-The fol-
lowing alleged letter from Colonel w.
w. Dudley to Samuel Van Pelt, an Old
army comrade, living in Anderson, In
diana, was published here to-day as a
special dispatch to a Chicago paper
from Anderson:
MY DEAR SAM-Your's received.
need not tell you that it would be very
gratifying to me to see you get the In
dian agency, knowing as l do your
special fitness for the place and your
service to the country in the hour of
her soreSt need. but I am sorry to say
that / will be unable to render you any
assistance whatever with the president,
He has lost his backbone and
is too cowardly to be seen con-
reason that the cOpperheads and rebels
of Indiana have trumped up lot of
charges against me. He seems entire
ly obliviOus to the fact that it was
through my efforts that Indiana was
saved to him."
When the above was shown to Col
onel Dudley he pronounced it a clear
cold forgery and said he had tele-
graphed to Van Pelt. as soon as he saw
it in the paper to-day, demanding that
Van Pelt give out for publication the
letter which he actually wrote, and
! added: Il wrote only one and have
preserved a copy. Here it is-while
don't care to have my private CORES
pcndence published to the world yet
there is nothing in this letter which 1
am ashamed of and while it was hasti-
ly written, in confidence to an old
friend, 1 would have no objection to the
president seeing it. l have asked
nothing from General Harrison and
therefore have nothing co complain OF,
/ wish the administration every sue
cess and would not, if could, embar-
Tass it in any way. l am out of poll
tics and would not accept any public
Office. have recently associated with
Mr.. Charles D. IngersoU, of New Y ork,
and jerome Calty, of Philadelphia,
and have decided to devote my entire
attention to the practice of law.
neither seek nor would accept any
| ter:
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 10, 1889.
s. d. Van Pelt, Esq, Anderson, Indiana.
| DEAR OLD SAM.-Your good letter
of the 9Th of March got in good time
| but it found me absent. 1 have recent
ly returned from trip to the south
where / went on legal business and
had good time and a little rest from
| the crowds of people who thrOng my
| Office from morning until night
and from the mountain of letters which
pile on my desk every day. Your let
ter got into the pile where l rescued it
tonight and ! hasten now to say how
much good it has done me to hear
from you again. There is nothing
should like better than to do some
thing for you, Sam, but l am afraid
you greatly overestimated my influence
| Your old friend Reed has placed his
pension in my hands and am working
away at it to get it soon. Perhaps
there is no one in the country who has
done so much for General Harrison
during the last twenty years as l have
but because our democratic friends
down in Minneapolis have started the
hue and cry on me, Brother Ben doe:
not seem to feel that he can AFFORD
to recognize me as an acquaintance
and consequently don't take dinner
at the White house as might bC
expected. have not been inside the
White house since Cleveland's inaugu
ration, little over four years ago, bu
l will see if something cannot be done
little later on and tell you what to do
If you shouldn't hear from me agail
for the next two months don't b.
alarmed for there will be just as gOot
chances two months hence, and a little
better, as there are now. Give m,
kind regards to all the boys at Ander
son, and remember me always as you
friend. w. w. DUDLEY.