Prof. Dickie's Embarrassment

The professor of prohibition in Albion College by his IndUcreet utterancea bas potten himself into an exeeedingly embarrassing position. For some time be has been making charges against the Republican party and its managers which he must have known wcre untrne, and a montb ago in a speech at Jackson he affirmed tbat tlie Kepublican conventlon of 1882 "was Insincero in eiidorsing the plank proposed by the prohibitionists there, and the man who headed the ticket nominateil there was iusincere, for he said publicly that he coukl and would not indorse that plank." That speech was reported in the daily and weekly papers and after sufficient time had elapsed for Mr. Dickie to make any eorrectious or explanations of being reported incorrectly, if such had been the case, ex-Qov. Jerome sent him ao open letter charging hlm wttb misrepresentiition and falseliood. He recalled bowhe had said at the convention which nominated him : "I accepted its uomination on the platform adopted with all its responnibilities." Furtbermoru in a letter to the liquor-dealers' association he reallirmcd hits rcsolution to stand sqaarely ou the platform plauk of the subniisbiou of thu constitutional atneudtiient to tbc peoplc. This stralghtforward letter at last brought out a denial from Dickie tbat he had used mch langnage and made sucb assertions, thu placing i upon the reporters of tbc papers the onus ! of a lie. Hxwejer, !n tliis the bright liglit of üieiUuiion party ajrain reckoned withoutlUsitost and the reporter iu last niífbt'-ti Ewnlng Journal publislies an affidavit of its corree,tue8s, which is furthcr endorsed by botb the chairman and aecretary of the meeting Mr. Pickie addressed. Over tlieir own minies tbey declare the report wiis correct and accurate. In the face of tliig overwbelmlnx refutation of the niiilicious si anders emnnating from the professor it only remains now for liim to hide his diniinished head and hereafter have a care for the truth. In regard to him Mr. Jcrorae's words are worth quotnj: "It seems to me that a man who assumes to become an instructor of public moráis is guilty of a positive wiekedness, ¦which approaclies the magnitude of a crfmc, whcn he attempts to mislead the public by a willful perversión of facts or even by loose statements of which he has o proof. I confess, to, that in the code to which I have been accustomed, the fahe witness violates the laws of God and of common honesty just as surely as those who commit other sins, and in ray judgment the man who has been so unfortunate as to fall under the bondage of strong drink will get off quite as easily in the final sfttlement of accounts as the hypocrite who practices deceit or the calumniator who secks to blacken his neighbor's character."