| Show GOULD SCORCHES BENNETT war between the journalistic and railroad leviathans Levi athans new york april 1 there was an intimation about town today that jav gould was alog going to say something it was not quite correct he was going to write something this tala letter that ne lie wrote was given out just before midnight NEW YORK march 81 1888 mr james gordon bennett in fridays issue of et the herald you culminated what I 1 am told la is commonly called in the herald office a scream cream now as in this so called scream you have taken occasion to deny certain ain statements deliberately nia made aleby by m me east as te the new york herald and yourself it is proper that I 1 should reply in the first place I 1 never stated that you were ever a director of the cable it is true you were never invited to take a seat in that board and I 1 doubt it i any member of it would sit in a board with you for reasons that will lie he apparent as I 1 proceed what I 1 did say was that some years ago your father bought 10 1000 shares of the stock of the american Ame telegraph fele graph company in order to make you a director thit that you were elected and appeared in that board that you demanded for the herald lower rates than were paid by other newspapers and a precedence over them in the transmission of news in other words you were attempting to use the corporation po ration of which anich you were a trustee not only for your personal profit and advantage but to the injury of your rivals AS it is thus apparent that the herald though actuated by personal malice and selfish interests conce conceals alb this motive and pretends to act as the guardian of public interests denounce inz in in its lordly way individuals and corporations using such epithets epithet sas as wizard corsair 11 skunk etc and uttering such fearful screams that even the herald building qa bakes kes it to me I 1 should say sav a few words of and to its editor and proprietor etor As the herald says mr dennett would not sit at the same board with me it seems proper for me to state the objections I 1 might have to such an association with the editor and proprietor althe of the herald let me sa say y I 1 ibave known you over thirty years and d during u ring all that time your life nas been one ot shame your private life has been but a succession of debauches and scandal so that your name is associated socia ted on every tongue as bennett tte the libertine 11 and howie however ver gent gentlemen lemei might meet you at clubs or hotels not a gentleman in new york as you yen well know would allow you io to crass the threshold of his residence where virtue and family honor are held sacred your very touch in the social circle is contaminating A few instances such us as decency permits to put in print will suffice to illustrate and confirm what I 1 nave have to say on this head A few years ago while aa one of your debauches bau ches the police came down on a u house of ill lame in this city you were one of the victims bagged when you were arraigned past midnight at the police station you screamed 1 I am james gordon bennett pro proprietor propriety or ot the new york herald let me go do you remember the simple reply of tue fait faithful ful officer who said you may be james gordon bennett or you may inay be george washington toe case will talie the usual course officer lock the prisoner soper up 11 and you went behind the bars in in the morning when yon jad had sobered down and came to a full realization of your situation you yon no longer 66 screamed 11 1 I am james gordon garldon bennett proprietor of the new york herald but you apt spent eat the whole day in trying to ge get t the he newspapers to suppress the sickening story and with very good success at a dinner party given by yon at your residence after your guests were about through you took a revolver and began firing at the globes of the large harge chandelier over the centre of the dinner table sending the thousand pieces of broken glass in the eyes and laces of your guests who piled pell uell anell under the table no scream was made over this insult to your cuesta by james gordon bennett of the herald another incident in ia this shameful career will be enough to illustrate my present purpose some years ago I 1 am told you invited some gentlemen tu to dine with you on your yacht among them a noble lord it soon became apparent to the gentlemen that you were on OB one of your wild orgies and they hey were anxious to get ashore yo you 11 started to land them and after rowing around in ia a circle tor for a wade you finally bro brought ht rg af up to a landing without know knowing whether it was new york brooklyn or williamsburg bolt yot landed your guests at t the morgue and as you were pro needing stumbled andr and fell into what afterwards turned out to be a box for the burial of the abe days victims what scene escene it would have been it while you had been lying in that box the dead victims had bad been beba put in and the box closed up and taken away lor for burial As your senses gradually re I 1 arned methinks met binks I 1 bear the same scream team sc 1 I am james gordon ben nt antt tt proprietor of the new york herald let me out the herald prints goulds manifesto with the following headline and para gra historical introduction the the corsair esThe pirate maddened with malice adopts ue tte weapon of coarse vituperation A brutal open letter the red handed buccaneer himself sina signs an infamous us personal onslaught on the heralds proprietor honored by his abuse he not his enemy must finally walk the plank attack of a sneak and a coward while addressed to the proprietor of the herald the screed is ref refused used us for publication but we secure it and print it in full to show whar kind of animal jay gould is he be a |
