Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-28
MIR. OoIfax's Reply TO the Credit NEObiIier
ISLANDERS.

The following is the speech in full of Vice
President Colax, at South Bend, on Wednesday
evening, portion Of which appeared in the
Spy OF Thursday:
Let me detain you few moments, my towns
men, while touch a fabric Of lalsehood with
the spear of truth, exposing the so-caled "Cred-
il Mobiier scandal" that you may see out of
what worthless stuff campaign charges are
manufactured. Not to put myself on the de
fensive. Far from it. In all my public lite
there has never been an hour when | would not
have trusted a jury Of my political opponents
here TO decide any charge affecting my honesty
that the btterest maligner could imagine or in
vent or to render their verdict as to whether
| could be brbed 10 cast any vote or support any
measure my conscientious conviction disap-
| proved. You are all my Witnesses, too, that
| during twenty years of editorial life and speak
| ing on the stump, never sought to make you
| believe public men were scoundrels because
| differed with them politically.
| There are, my friends, three papers in the
United States which, above all others, absolute
| ~ know, as | shall show, that bribug me to
support Pacific railroad interests is Just as in
| credible as that should need to be bribed to
vote the republican ticket. Seven years ago,
with three gentlemen connected with and CORE
spending with the Chicago Tribune, the New
York Tribune and the Springfield Republican,
crossed the continent in a stage coach, expressly
that all four OF us might see with our own eyes
the proposed route OF the Union Pacific railroad,
might decide as to its practcability, and might
hasten its construction by using our Influence,
personal and journalistic, to induce capitalists
TO accept the liberal subsidies offered three
years previously by congress. From letter
written by Mr.. BOwleS TO the Springfield Repub-
lican, dated at San Francisco, Aug. 90, 1865,
and found on page 262 of his widely circulated
book, Across the Continent, quote the follow
ing:
Government bonds are loaned to it to the
amount of sixteen thousand dollars a mile through
the plains, and fOrty-eight thousand a mile in the
mountains, besides which hall of all the land each
side of the road for twenty miles deep is donated
outright to the companies doing the work. q
The companies are further authorized TO issue their
own bonds to an equal amount to those granted by
the government, and secure them by first mort
gage, the government loan taking the second place
in security"
Mind YOU my friends, Mr.. Bowles is stating
the offer Of the government, which was yet wait
ng acceptance by moneyed men.
On page No. 273 MIR. Bowles concludes this
| letter:
"Men of the east! men at Washington! .
| Lend now few thousand of men and hundred
millions Of money to create new republic; to
marry to the nation OF the Atlantic an equal, if not
| greater nation Of the Pacific"
] need not quote from my own numerous
speeches, lectures and letters, nor from the edi.
toral letters of Gov. Bross to the Chicago Trib.
une, and his lectures before boards Of trade and
| capitalists TO induce them to subscribe the mil
lions" of money alluded 10 by Mr. BOwles, for the
| great work, nor from Mr. Richardson's letters
! to the New York Tribune. Their favorable in.
| huenee in pushing the enterprise is summed up
| in Mr.. BDwles dedication Of his book. dated
December %, 1865, four months after his letter.
as follows:
"The railroad is indeed the great work of the day;
the great want, the great reyeaer the great crea-
tor, of this empire of ours west Of the Mississippi
II is cheering TO find that, since went over the
tIa al labor the pnd q thia rnad haa
had a new impetus; 20 learn that new elements Of
capital and enterprise have become engaged"
MIR. Bowles wrote truly. The appeals OF these
representatives and correspondents OF the New
York and Chicago Tribunes and the Springfield
Republican, with, perhaps, my humble aid,
based on the personal knowledge we had ac-
quircd by our long and dangerous journey, was
inducing men of wealth 10 accept the subsidy,
offered at first by the congress Of 1862, aud re-
affirmed and approved by the congress Of 1864,
| two years aitcrward, both Of which acts were
| supported and voted for by such distinguished
senators as Charles Sumner and Lyman Irum-
! puh' nut THESE very capitalists have been de-
hounceu ever since Wy many papers aud poiti-
clahs Us NOT better than swludCrs, for accepting
Mhul haa peen proilered by congress with the
ne1Itesl popular mdhccnent, and finally risk
| w tnei hilluhs where others would not haz-
alu tleI collars Having myself made more
| speeCnes, addresses and lectures in favor Of the
! racine railroad as Il political, military and com.
mefcal necessity, than any other man in tile
nation, nothing could be more absurd and self
reiuhng than the charge that one who was its