The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-05-08
ELLIOTT F. SHEPARD.
AMERICA'S GREATEST LIAR AND
HYPOCRITE.
The Blathersklte Editor of the New
York Mail and Express" Throwing
More Of his Bile and Venom Against
the South.
Raleigh State Chronicle.I

innate of Col. Elliott F. Shepard, edi-
tor of the New York mail and Express
1t is possible that in the history of the
world man SO malicious, SO full of
venom, so unreliable, so untruthful ,and
so hypocritical has lived to curse the
world, but it is certain that there is no
record anywhere of his existence. Our
readers remember his conduct at De-
troit where he offended every Southern
man by charging that Cleveland and
the South were getting ready to destroy
the Union; and violated every sense of
propriety by denouncing his hosts, the
Catholics, in city where they out
number all other denominations. He
is the most determined man to gain
notoriety that every lived. He tries it
by preaching, by lecturing, by editing
and everywhere he gains it at the ex-
pense of truth and decency. He is
truly notorious by reason of his pre-
tended christianity and his utter dis
regard of the truth. He married
Vanderbilt's daughter, and obtained
enough money to more effectively ad
vertise his asinine qualities. Wander
bilt once being asked about this SON.
in law, replied in strong language. 81
have seen many d. fools, but my SON.
in law, Elliott Shepard, is more kinds
of d. fool than any man l ever saw"
We apologize to our readers for quot
ing such language, but it is the only
correct description of him we have
ever heard, and we quote it because
we believe more in truth than IN
amenities and elegance of expression.
This man Shepard is editor of the
Mail and Express, an afternoon daily
in New York. AS illustrating the kind
of man he is we notice that he keeps
this expression standing at the head OF
his editorial page:
/ 1t is natural for the patriotic citizens
of a Republic to be Republicans.
That shows the narrowness of the
man and his attempt to hide his mean
ness behind what he calls patriotism.
But he does not stop at that. He seeks
to hide it behind loud professions of
religion. Every evening in his paper
at the very top of his editorial page,
he prints a text of scripture. In the
issue of April 10TH, this text was quoted ::
"Let this mind be in you which was
in Christ Jesus"
Under this text he prints an editorial
which is SO maliciously false that we
cannot understand how any one could
be SO lost to all sense of honor as to
conceive to print it. The paper con-
tanning the article is sent us by our
friend, Mr.. L. B. Grandy, who is
reading medicine in New York. Ac-
companying the paper is the following
note:
81 do not know whether you wish
to notice any of the asinine utterances
of that old pious fraud, Col. Elliott F.
Shepard but he has recently made such
a remarkable exhibition of himself that
l send you by this mail a copy OF this
latest demonstration of his fitness to
rank as facile princess among that
large class of unfortunate human beings
the Fools. You probably receive the
Mail and Express in your office (/nrh
calls it the Vail and Distress, you
know but it occurs to me that this
paper might receive very little atten.
ton at your hands and very naturally
| be overlooked.
The Colonel has now loomed up, by
the way, On the political field as can.
didate for Mayor of this city, and has
taken an initial step in his campaign
by distributing Bibles among his politi
cal friends in the city.
Verify, verify, the Fools are not all
dead YETI
The following is the full text of his
false and malicious article:
CHANGE ARLINGTON TO WASHINGTON
| The Arlington Hotel in Washington
was SO named in the hot blood of the
rebellion, and with a sinister hope that
the rebellion would succeed and leave
the name of the rebel Gen. Robert E
Lees country seat on top.
But the patriotism of the country
: preserved Washington and turned the
traitors acres into a cemetary of dead
bones, very offensive to be thought o.
by the guests from the North who SO
numerously patronize the leading hotel
of the capital city. Arlington IS sowr
with salt, as was Jerico of old, and
like desolate Jerico, it will always fai
to recover from the sowing, notwith
standing that the salt in this case i:
the flesh of patriots who served theil
country well, and, when alive, were
! the " salt of the earth.''
/ There is no hotel at the capital b,
that name of Washington. The house
that formerly bore that name has be-
come the Belvedere. 1t is a sma,
hotel and seems to have laid down the
name as if rendering it to the leading
and now greatly enlarged hotel of tina
city, called or mis-called the Arlington
as an insult to the whole country.
+ Two thirds of the name-the last
two syllables-already belong to the
Washington, and all that is needed i
to WASH the first syllable-purify i
it from gravestones and death-and tn,
transformation will be achieved from
sickness to health, from a cemetery
for the dead to an inn for the living
from treason to patriotism, from ;