Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-10-02

company is referred to in the Delaware Ir.
dian treaty, which he is also charged with
having lobbied, which treaty was Pre- claim
ed August 22d, 1860. The land grant to
the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western
road was made in the Union Pacific Rail-
road charter, which was approved July
LIST, 1862. a All this was before Mr. Blame
had ever been nominated for Congress- ana
the transfer of which the Tribune makes so
much took place seven months before MI
Rla;ne first took the oath as member of
Congress. The most that could be de-
duced from the Tribune's article is that
railroad company paid an enormous and
unheard of price for services which at the
time could have been worth not more than
one per cent. of what is said 10 have been
paid, at the very highest. Mr. Blaine
was then totally unknown in national pol
itics. As for his ever having been pos
sessed of million and ahalf dollars, any
one who has the least acquaintance with
the truth knows it to be widely absurd.
The whole matter is deliberate forgery.
Mr.. Blaine's name does not appear upon
the schedule which the Tribune purports
to copy, and the use of his name, as SO
appearing, Is q deliberate forgery, and
the charge that he received, or was allot-
ted, or was alleged on the schedule to
have been allotted $4,000 or any other
number of shares, amounting to $780,
600, or any other sum is deliberate false
hood The Tribune is challenged to pro-
duce the original paper, and it it has not
been tempered with, it will prove the
truth of the above statement. If it has
been altered there are fortunately other
copies in existence TO show what it was.
At the time referred to by the Tribune,
Mr.. Blaine was not only not Speaker, but
he was not even in Congress. The sale
to Hallett was in May, 1868. but the con-
tracts by which the stock was distributed
were made in May, 1862. prior to the pas
sage VI tHc oilS iAdl dSiue AeaHic aA o''''
(Which was in July. 1922 while Mr..
Blaine did not take his seat in Congress
until December, 1868, eighteen months
after the contracts to distribute the stock
were made, and six months after the adj
mitted date of the schedule which the
Tribune produces.
There are other frauds which the Trib-
une has attempted in the matter. but
which we have not the space to detail
here The Tribune has suppressed the
names of about twenty persons said to
have received stock, but who happen to
be Mr.. Greeley's supporters.
So in regard to the base charge aga inst
Speaker Blaine, it is shown clearly
l. That the stock alleged to have been
given to Speaker Blaine was, so far as
given at ali, given to some one not only
long before Mr.. Blaine was Speaker,
but eighteen months before he was in Con-
gress at all.
2. That the schedule does not contain
| the name OF Blaine at all.
3. That the schedule does show 5000
shares, amounting to $4,000, assigned
to B. +. Camp and others, and that then
as now and ever since, all the influence
Camp has had had come from his intimacy
with Horace Greeley.
What ought to become of party whose
chief organ, the mouth-piece of its candi-
date for President, resorts TO wholesale
forgery and falsehood In order to accom-
plsh it ends Mr.. Blaine has been the
particular bright and shining mark for the
most venomous shafts of the enemy, but
they have rebounded every time upon
those who drew the bow, and have been
the indirect means of helping the republi-
can cause.