Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-10-03
THE CREDIT MOBILIER.
Speech of Vice-President Col
fax at South Bend,
Sept. 25th.
Testimony of Liberal Editors in
Ref-tation of the Scandal.
How Governor Bross, of the Chicago
NTribune,' Lectured to Induce
Capitalists to Subscribe to
the Union Pacific r.. II.
The New York 'Tribune's" Ad.
vOcacy OF the Scheme.
Action Of Cha2les Sumner and Lynan
TrumbuN in the Premises.
The New York 'Tribune's" Ad
vOcacy OF the Scheme.
Action Of Cha2les Sumner and Lyn1a7l
I'yunabuN IN the Premises.
THE MEETING.


SOUTH BEND, Ind, Sept. 25.-General
J. +. Hawley, with others, having been
| advertised to speak here to-day, arrived
alone, and on his appearance in the Court
House Square, Vice President Colfax
Was elected by the audience to preside,
and ON taking the chair said that it al
forded him great pleasure to introduce to
the people Of his own home his valued
personal and political friend, ex Cover
nor Hawley, of Connecticut distinguish
ed both in civil and military life, who
would speak to them in favor Of Republ-
can principles and their chosen standard
bearers, State and national, Grant and
Wilson, Brown and Saxton, Packard, and
all their Republican associates on the
| ticket. Mr.. Coliax then sal
SPEECH OF HON. SCHUYLER CoLFAX.
Mr. Coltax said Let me detain you a
few moments my townsmen, while
touch fabric of talsehood with the speai
of truth, exposing the so called Credit
Mobilier scandal that YOU may see 0u1
/ of what worthless stuff campaign charges
are manufactured Not to put myself on
/ the defensive. Far from it. in all nv
public life there has never ueen an houl
when | would not have trusted a Jury OF
! my political opponents here to decide any
charge affecting my honesty that the bit
terest malignant could imagine or invent
or to render their verdict as to whether
could be bribed TO cast my vote or sup
port any measure my conscientious con
victions disapproved You are all my
witnesses, too. that during twenty years OF
editorial life and Speaking on the stump
never sought 10 make you believe public
! Il I.
with them politically
TESTIMONY OF LIBERAL EDITORS IN REF
UTATIoN OF THE CHARGES MADE BY
THEN.
There are, my friends. three papers in
the United States which, above all others
absolutely know, as | shall show, that
bnbing me to support Pacific Railroad
interests is Just as incredible as that
should need to be bribed to vote the Re
publican ticket. Sevc. years ago with
three gentlemen, connected with and cor
responding with the Chicago Tri6nhe.
The New York Tribune, and the Spring
field (Mass.) Republican, | crossed the
continent in stage coach, expressly that
all four of us might see With our own ewes
the proposed route of the Union Pacific
Railroad-migbt decide as to its practica-
bility, and might hasten its construction.
by using our influence. personal and jour
nali>lic, to induce capitalists to accept the
liberal subsidies offered three wears pre-
viously by Congress From "A letterwrit-
ten bv MIR BOwles to the Springfield Re
pGblicaa dated at San Francisco. August
70, 1865, and found on page 262 Of his
widely circulated book, Across the Con
tinent,' 1 quote the following:
! s.(,nH-nrnp1nr,t bNp6- aro lOo,,o1
the amount of $ 5000 mile through the
plains, and $4,000 a mile in the noun
tails, beside which half of all the land
each side of the road for twenty miles
deep is donated outright to the compan.
les doing the work
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 mortgage, THE GOV
ERNMENT LOAN TAXING THE sECONE
PLACE IN THE SECURITY"
! Mind you, my friends, Mr. Bowles is
stating the ofer Of the GoUernment, a1iich
tcoy get ecaitl,g acceptetace By n7oneyed men,
| On page 273 Mr.. Bowles concludes this
, letter: Men of the East Men at Wash.
! ingtonl Send now q few thou
sand of men, and a hundred millions of
money, to create new republic; to mar
ry to the nation of the Atlantic an equal if
not greater nation of the Pacific"
! | need not quote from my own numer-
GUS speeches, lectures and letters, nor
from the editorial letters of Governor
Bross to the Chicago Tribune and his lee
lures before boards of trade and capital
/ lists to induce EN- to subscribe the mil
lions of money" alluded to by Mr. Bowles
! for this great work, nor from Mr. Rich
arlson's letters to the New York Tribune
Their favorable influence in pushing this
enterprise forward is summed up in Mr..
Bowles' dedication of his book dated De-
cember 20, 1865, four months after his let
ter, as fellows: 1.-The railroad is indeed
the great work of the day; the great want,
the great revealer, the great creator of
this empire of ours west of the Mississip-
! pi. 1t is cheering to find that, since we
went over the plains, labor upon the east
ern end of this road has had a new i'm
! petus; TO learn that new elements of capi-
| tai and enterprise have become engaged"
| Mr.. Bowles wrote truly The appeals
| OF these representatives and special cor
respondents of the New York and Chica-
60 Iribunes and the Springfield RepubIi-
can, with, perhaps, my humble aid, based
on the personal knowledge we had ac-
quired by our long and dangerous journey,
was inducing men of wealth to accept the
subsidy, offered at first by the Congress
OF 1852 and reoffered and impr 1ved by the
Congress of 1864, two years afterward,
both of which acts were supported and
voted for by such distinguished Senators
as Charles Sumner and Lyman Trumbull
But these very capitalists have been de-
nounced ever since by many papers and
politicians as not better than swindlers
for accepting what had been proffered
and re-proffered by Congress with the
heartlest popular Endorsement, and finally
risking their millions where others would
not hazard their dollars. Having, N.Y.
self made more speeches, addresses and
lectures in favor of the Pacific Railroad