St. Paul daily globe., 1891-04-18
That Is What a Washington
Citizen Says Of DR..
Verdi.
Over $1,000 Acres Of North
Dakota Land Withdrawn
From Settlement.
Indians at Pine Ridge Are
Uneasy, and May Fight
Again.
General News and Gossip
Culled at the National
Capital.

WASHINGTON, April 17.-The Star
this evening publishes an open letter
from George ii. Harries, addressed to
DR.. Il. S. Verdi. of this city, who
recently published statement denying
that he gave utterance TO language
about the Italian affair which HarrieS,
in an interview, credited to the doctor.
Verdi is prominent physician here, OF
Italian birth, and all along was a close
friend of Baron Fava, the recalled
Italian minister. The Objectionable
words which the doctor in his published
statement said were untrue and unuU-
tered read as follows: "What can we look
for from sucn community as New Or
leans, where the mayor is murderer, the
sheriff a murderer, the board of trade
and clubs are composed of murdererS,
where murder has common and open
possession of the heart" Harries i'll his
letter does not mince words, but among
other things says to the doctor: That
denial is a carefully prepared docu-
ment; a series of utteranceS from which
there can be no retraction. For Two
weeks past you have been circulating
lOose-jointed and negative assertions OF
MISREPRESENTATION, assertions to which
paid no attention, but you have at last
stated fatty that the interview pub
lished in the Star on the first instant is
false, and |, in reply, declare most em-
phatically that the only apparent differ
ence between Ananias and yourself
lies in the fact that AnaniaS is
dead. Not only did you say
all that was attributed to you in
the interview. but you said 1t with such
force and evident passion that the pri-
mary effect Of your denunciations need
ha i,,4N
that of a man whose interest in the
question could not easily be measured
by words, and your Indignation was at
Italian fever heat when you recited the
sentence which you now specially dis
claim responsibility for. When you
charged New Orleans with being a city
of murderers you did so with a vehe-
mence that compelled belief in your
honesty of assertion. When you first
attempted denial it was craftily done,
and was done because you saw how i'm
polite you had been. The first of your
alleged denials did not deny, and had
you rested there this letter would never
have been written. But embOldened by
the silence of those whose regulations
were attacked.you proceeded to greater
lengths, and have at last reached
the end of your rOpe-the moose
end. For thirty years you have
received your sustenance mainly
from the American people, and as soon
as the unpopularity of your views
spread abroad it was PLAIN to your
Machiavellian intellect that somebody
had talked too much. You strongly
suspected yourself of being that un-
fortunate individual. Your denial, in
warp, woof, fiber and finish is a pain,
unadorned lie. Not the semi-eXcusable
falsehood of brave man who denies to
shield somebody else, but the lie of
cOward-of one whose sentiments are
stronger than their creator. The inter
view you now complain of is a literal
and absolute fact, and you know it to
be so, but American condemnation
speedily convinced you that you had
made the error of your life, and in your
wild rush for shelter you abJured manly
principles. wrapped yourself in slavish
fear as in garnet and shiveringly tes-
tilted TO that nebulous samething which
might, In police court, be termed your
previous good character