Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-16
DECIDEDLY EMPHATIC.

speaker Blaine Pays His Respects t,
the tribune and DIR. GreeIey-Thre.
s'anders Pulverized-Tbe ssRefor,n
Leader shown Up in His True Light
There was grand Republican dem
onstratlon IN Cleveland on Monda,
afternoon and evening, at which
speeches were made EX-SENATOR Wilson
Gen. Garfield, Speaker Blaine and
others. In Mr.. Blaine's speech
occurred the following scathing rebuke
OF the Tribune and Greeley:
This campaign will remain memo
rable as the campaign of ies-of the
most monstrous the most malicious. and
at the same time the most silly. The
leader IN this wild carnival of defama-
t1on and 'slanaer, is the New York Tri.
tbune, the personal organ and mouth
piece of the Democratic candidate fo1
the Presidency. To show you Low
reckless ard how senseless this mania
for falsehood will become, let me make
a personal allusion to myself. In the
New York Tribune of Saturday last, and
also OF yesterday I am charged, not
only as a representative in Congress,
put as speaker of the House, with
having received one million nine hun.
dred and thirty thousand dollars of the
stock OF the Eastern Division of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company for
my services and influence in procuring
the passage of the original Pa
clfic bill of 1862. The Tribune gives
the date of the act in the same article
in which it makes the charge, not
seeming to notice, in its blind desire
to assail me, that it was simply con.
v1cting itself of falsehood and of folly
Now gentlemen, please observe that il
1862, when this act was passed, / had
not taken my seat in Congress; I had
not been elected to Congress; indeed ]
had not even been nominated for Con
gress when the act to which the Tri-
bune refers became law. I was a
member of the Name Legislature, and
Speaker of the Lower House, and had
no more to do with Congressional legis-
latiOn than the fish maidens and tide
waters on the Kennebec river. and vet
the New York Tribune asserts and re-
peats that for my services and infu-
ence In Congress at the time Twas a
member of the Maine Legislature,
received nearly two millions of dollars
In the stock OF great railroad corpor.
alton. rG
And now, gentlemen, if I were to
stop here, after demonstrating the ut
ter absurdity of the charge, the Tri-
bune would come out coolly and say
that Speaker Blaine had not denied If.
Let me, then, deny it in the presence
of this vast assemblage, and deny it
IN tie most emphatic manner. Neither
IN slxty-two nor in any other subse-
quent year did I ask, receive, or own
directly or indirectly, a single dollar of
stock in the Eastern Division of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, or
any other division of the Pacific Rail-
road Company, nor did I ever receive
a dollar, directly or indirectly, from
the sale of any stock of that Company
In short, gentlemen, [ stamp on the
whole story as not only false on its
face, but absurd and ridiculous but
l do not expect to make denial that
will satisfy the Tribune. A few weeks
since when the story was started that
Secretary Boutwell,, Vice President
Colfax, Senator Wilson, Mr.. Garfield,
Mr.. Dawes, myself and others had
been bribed by presents of stock in the
Credit Mobilier, I published card
on the eve of the Maine election saving
that never owned, directly or indi-
rectly, through myself or through an
other, single dollar Of stock in the
Credit Mobilier. The New York Tri-
bune pronounced this denial evasive
and unsatisfactory. and said that did
not deny that I had received dividends
or profits therefrom.5 Any candid man,
I think, would see that my card was
to be exhaustive, and to ex-
clude all suggestions Of ownership.
Let me say now, however, that not oniysI
did never own a share in the Credit
Mobilier, but I never received, directly
or indirectly, single penny therefrom
in any manner or shape whatever. -s
g But the mania for bearing, false wit
ness. against your neighbors has seized
Mr.. Greeley personally, as well as the
New York Tribune; for I observe that
in recent speech in Pennsylvania he
states that more than one hundred
UuOuSduu uO11dIS udlt DSGH SAPOutCo
by the Republicans OF Maine IN the
purchase of votes at the recent cleo
tion. Now, in the very nature OF
things it would be impossible for MI.
Greeley to know that this was true; but
[ know it to be absolutely untrue.
am chairman of the State Committee,
and on my order every dollar of the
funds of that committee was disbursed,
and from first to last we did not have
in all the control Of but little more
than S12, 600; and I further assert that
every dollar of this amount was expend-
ed, either in the payment OF speakers,
the distribution of documents and pa
pers, or the bringing home of absent 4
voters. These accounts of the State
Committee are kept with rigid exact
ness, and the entire committee of six
teen men will testify to the truth of
what I state. I arraign Mr.. Greeley,
therefore, as the slanderer of the Re
publicans of Maine, party of as gal
liant and true men as ever cast an I'M
purchased and unpurchasable vote. /"