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Show A GARRULOUS OLD FOOL. Editor" mcCullagli's Compliments - to General Sherman' for Attacking' Attack-ing' Correspondents. St. Louis, September 29. An interview inter-view with General Sherman was published pub-lished by a morning paper to-day, in which the General, speaking upon the ! Halstead letter,' unburdened himself as to the part played in the war bv war correspondents cor-respondents in general. He said: '?Hal-stead '?Hal-stead was not the only man that wrote and felt like ' that. McCullagh was just as bad, if not worse. The fact is, these parties remained at - home and wrote about events at long range." ; "On what did he base his assertions? simply on the word of some $100 a week newspaper .correspondents,- who hung around our eamp and acted- as spies. These fellows were more particular about writing good English than telling the truth." ; - " General. Sherman said that army, men had: tried to get rid of these spies, but -could not do so, and declared that the newspaper men' sent home the worst kind of lies to create sensations and the editors at home believed them. He went further and asserted that "the good newspaper men were all enlisted, and-the and-the papers had to take the riff-raff that was left." J. B. McCullagh, of the Olobe-Democrat, who was thus particularly classed among the letter-writers of the Halstead stamp and the "riff-raff," was found by a reporter re-porter in his office. The subject of the Sherman interview was introduced, and was met by a shrug of the shoulders from Mr. McCullagh. "Have you anything to' say about General Sherman's charges?" asked the reporter. "There is nothing to say. It is a lie, that's all. It's a lie. Sherman is a privileged privi-leged character. He can say what he E leases ; no one can say anything against im. He is a garrulous old fool, and goes around making assertions concerning things he knows nothing .about." "He was severe on war correspondents?" correspond-ents?" " "Yes, unnecessarily and unjustly so; but there is nothing to say about his statements. Sherman has been retired on $13,000 a year, with nothing to do but to make a garrulous ass of himself." |