The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-04-27
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Miss Anna Dickinson's First
Public Address
SINCE HER INCARCERATION
In the Danville Insane Asylum-..she
Draws Big Crowd, but Drives
Many Of Her Hearers
from the House.

New YoRx, April 26.-A performance
OF Cleopatra held the boards Of the
Broadway Theatre until late hour last
night. After it was finished the big
stage was set for q parlor scene, and
with such surroundings Anna Dickinson
appeared on the same stage this evening
to deliver a lecture upon personal
Liberty"
She opened her address upon personal
liberty with a violent attack upon the
Republican party and with bitter words
against various persons prominent in
public life. The personal characteriza.
tons were in many instances repugnant
to decency and ladies who occupied or:
chestra chairs arose and with their es.
corts left the theatre.
Miss Dickinson paid little or no atten.
tion to these defections. She frequent.
ly punctuated her uttexances by appeal
ing TO hearers with this question: !:
"Well, folks, do you think I am in
sane?" She spoke Of the Postmaster
General as "Merciiul Heaven" Wana.
maker. This queer remark was re.
csived with hisses. She dwelt at great
length upon what she termed the priv.
ate character OF Mr.. Wpnamaker and
J.S. Clarksou.
Her imprisonment at the Danville In
sane Asylum was q echeme, she de-
clared q conspiracy OF ]. 8. Clarkson,
Col. W. W. Dudley and Senator Quay.
They wanted her, she said, TO stump
the country for them In the campaign
OF 1888, and she was given blank
check to fill in whatever compensation
sbe wished. The provisions, however,
she declared, was that she should not
speak at all about the black man.
II am poor" she continued, "but as
heaven Is my witness, did not want
their money, because they wanted my
voice to be silent on heslave question"
Then Miss Dickinson, accompanied
by her lessened audience, with counter.
ances indicating pity and regret, ram.
bled on about visit to Mr.. Harri.
son at Indianapolis. She ayowed that
she was promised S., $50 for every speech
she made in 1888, and 5000 each II her
candidate should be successful. After
bitterly referring 10 various party lead.
ers, Miss Dickinson turned her atten.
tion towards General Butler, and these
are some OF her words:
1.-THE papers have said that there has
been a conspiracy between us. Yes,
Mr.. Butler has written me letters, and
they were addressed to LiEsic. He Is the
only man who has ever addressed me by
my middle name. He knew what he
was doing, but he will answer for it oil
in court oflaw. Ihave had unnumbered
sorrows, and l do not place mask or
veil over any OF them"
Speaking Of her theatrical experience,
she DECLARED in a vehement term, that
the press OF the country had magnilied
her. She never lost money by the ven.
ture. Her income from long ago, she
said, had been $4,000. annually. She
had lost $4,000 in speculation-bond
speculation.
Passing from her stage experiences,
she stated what she declared were the
reasons OF her being confined
in the Asylum. She made the
statement that she had been
opposed to the Republican party, and
she said she charged that party with
placing her in the Danville asylum.
She pleefully declared, in the next
breath, thRtt the defeat Of Mr.. Cleye-
land In 1888 was due to the fact that
she had been in the ranks
against him. Then the speaker
rambled again toward British politics.
She spoke OF dining Parnell, and think
ing him little tin god on wheels. The
Democratic party Of their country, she
said, was trying to dethrone him.