Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-02
Speaker Blaine and his Enemies.
He Speaks at Cleveland, Clearly and I'M
equiVOcnIIy DENYING the Absurd Charges
Made Against Him.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct 1.-Speaker Blaine
made speech at Public Square tonight, in the
course Of which he alluded in the following
words 10 the personal charges made against him :;
In the New York Tribune of Saturday last, and
also Of yesterday, | am charged, not only as
representative in congress, but as speaker of the
house, with having received $4,000 OF stock
of the eastern division OF the Pacific railroad
company for my services and influence IN pro-
curing the passage of the original Pacific rail
road 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 It's blind desire
to aSSail me, that il was simply cOnvicting itself
OF lalsehood and Of folly.
Now, gentlemen, please observe that in 1862,
when this act was passed, had not taken my
seat in congress; ] had not been elected to con
gress. lnd |, had not been even nominated
for congress. When the act . which the
Tribune refers became a law, was a member Of
the Maine legislature, and speaker OF the lower
house. hG no more to do with congressional
legislation than the fish wardenS and tide wait
erS on Kennel river, and vet the New York
Tribune asserts and repeats that for my services
and influence IN congress at the time | was a
member of the Maine legislature ! received
nearly e2,O0OO00 in the stock of a great railroad
corporation.
And now, gentlemen if | were TO stop here
after demonstrating the utter abSurdty of this
charge, the Tribune would come out coolly 2"d
'say that Speaker Blaine he'd not denied L. Lei
me then deny il, in pr cnCe of tl,S vast assem-
blage; and deny it in lhe most emphatic man
ner Neither in tSo2, nor In any thsequent
year, did even ieive or own, dir city or in
directly Il singledOlar of stock in the eastern
division of the Union p ''fic railrOa company.
Nor did ever +, eve q dollar, directly or in
directly rom the sale of any stock of that
company. lin short, gen emen, ] stamp the
whole StDly 6 not only false on its face but
absurd and ridiculous. But do not expect to
make denial that will satisfy the Tribune.
A few weeks since when the Sol was started
that Secretary Boutwell,, Mr. e lax, Senator
Wilson, MIR. Ga. ield, Mr.. Daw y, aud myself
and Others, had b n biibed by pr ,ents of stock
in the "cr dit mobicr," publish d card on
the eve of the Maine Ell elton, saying [ he'd never
own d, dir city or indirectly, through myself or
another, single dollar of stock In the credit
mobilier. The New York Tribune pronounced
this denial evasye and unsatisfactory, and said
l did not deny that had r-reiy ID dividends on
prohts. Ihererom any candid man, ! think,
couM see that my card was Intend d TO be eX-
haustlye and exclude all suggestions of owner
snip. Let me say, however, that not only did
never own share in the credit mobiler, but !
never received, dir city or indirectly, a single
penny therefrom, in any manner or shape what
ever. But this mania for bealng false
witness against your neighbor has seiz d
MIR. Greeley personally as well as the New
York Tribune; for | observe that in a recent
speech in Pennsylvania he states that more than
hundred thousand dollars had been expend
by the republicans in Maine in the purchase of
voters at the r ent el"cton Now, in the very
nature of things, it would be impossible for MIR.
Greeley to know that this was true; but know
it is absolutely untrue. | am chairman of the
state committee, and on my order ever dollar
OF funds OF that committee was diSburSod and
from first to last v did not have, in all, the
control of but little more than S12 900; and |
further assert that every dollar of this amount
was expended either in payment of speakers,
disu button Of documents and papers, or the
bringing home of absent voters. These ac-
counts of the state committee are kept with
rigid eXactness, and the entire committee OF six
teen men Will testify to the truth of what
state.
arraign Mr.. Greeley, therefore, as a slanderer
of the republicans of Maine, party of as gal
liant and tlue men as ever cast an uupurchased
and unpurChaseable vote.