Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-02
Mr.. BbATNE SAID.

This campaign will remain memora'
BILE as the campaign Of lies, the most
] monEtrOus, the most malicious and al
the same time the most silly. The
leader in this wild carnival Of defama-
ton and slander is the New York Tn
blsRe, the personal organ and mouth
piece OF the Democratic candidate fol
President. To show you how reckless
I and how senseless this mania for false
hood will become, let me make a per
sOnsl allusiOn to myself In the New
York IFfbaiRe Of Saturday last, and also
of yesterday, am charged not only a.
a Representative in Congress, but as
Speaker of the House, with having re-
1 eeived one million nine hundred and
| thirty thousand dollars of the stock OF
the Eastern division OF the Union
Pacific Railroad Company f0f my ser
vices and influence in procuring the pas
sage Of the
ORIGINAL PAcIFIo RAILROAD BILL
Of 1872. The Tribune gives the date OF
the act in the same article in which it
makes the charge, not seeming to no
tiee Ia its blind desire 10 assail me that
it was simply 'convicting itself of false
hood and Of folly. Now, gentlemen,
/ please observe that in 1852, when this
act was passed I had not taken my seat
in Congress; had not been elected to
Congress; indeed had not been even
nominated for Congress when the act to
/ which the Tribune refers became a law.
/ l was member Of the Maine Legisls-
ture and Speaker of the lower House,
and had no more to do with the Com
gressional legislation than the fish maid
ems and the tide waters of the Kenne-
bee river; and yet the New York TFi-
6u7e asserts end repeats that for my ser
vices and influence in Congress, at the
same time l was a member Of the
Maine Legislature, received
NEARLY Two MILLION DOLLARS
in the stock OF a great railroad corpora
tion. And now, gentlemen, IL were to
stop here, after demonstrating the utter
absurdity of this charge, the Tribune
would come out coolly and say that
Blaine had not denied it. Let me then
deny it in the presence Of this vast as
semblsge, and l deny it in the most
emphatic manner; neither in 1862, nor
IN any subsequent year, did 1 ever re-
ceive, or own, directly or indirectly,
single dollar Of stock in the eastern d.
vision of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, or any other division Of the
Pacific Railroad Company; nor did /
ever receive a dollar, directly OF indi-
rectiy, from the sale of any stock Of that
company. In short, gentlemen, stamp
the whole story as not only false on its
face, but absurd and ridiculous. But /
do not expect to make a denial that viii
satisfy the Tribune. A few weeks since,
when the story was started that Eecre-
tary Boutwell,, Vice-President Colfax,
Senator Wilson, Mr.. Garfield, Mr.. Davis
myself and others, had been
BRIBED BY PRESENTS OF STOCK
in the credit mobilier, I published a
card on the eve of the Maine election
saying ] had never owned, directly or
indirectly, through myself OF through
another, a single dollar of stock in the
credit mobilier. The New York Tribune
pronounced this denial evasive and un-
satisfactory, and said I did not deny
that had received dividends or profits
therefrom. Any candid man, l think,
would see that my card was intended to
be exhaustive, and to exclude all suppo-
sltions of ownership. Let me say now,
however, that not only did 1 never own
4 sharein the credit mObilier, but never
received, directly or indirectly, a single
penny therefrOm in any manner or shape
whatever. But this mania for bearing
false witness against your neighbor has
seized Mr.. Greeley, personally, as well
the New York Tribune, for observe that
in a recent speech in Pennsylvania he
states that more than one hundred thou |
sand dollars had been expended by the |
of Maine in the
PURCHASE OF VOTES
at the recent election. Now, in the
very nature OF things, il would be i'm |
possible for Greeley to know that this |
was true, but know il to be absolutely |
untrue. am Chairman Of the state /
Committee, and on my order every dol |
lar Of the funds OF that committee was |
and from first to last we did /
not have, in all, the control Of but little /
more than twelve thousand dollars. |
And further assert that every dollar Of |
this amount was expended either in /
payment Of speakers, the distribution OF
documents and papers, or the bringing
home of absent voters. These accounts
Df the State Committee are kept with !
rigid exactness, and the entire commit |
tee of sixteen men will testify to the
truth Of what I state. l arraign Greeley,
therefore, as the slandeIer Of the Repub- /
leans Of Maine-a party OF as gallant |
and true men as ever cast an unpur-
chased and unDurchasable vote.