Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-10-03

was its open friend when millions doubted
its practicability, had to be bribed to ia
vor its interests Enemies, not friends
are those whom bribes seeks out and con.
| troll
You n light as well say that a Metho-
dist had to be bribed to advocate Method
ism, or that an editor had to be brbed to
support typographical interests. But,
never having had in my lite a dollar
of stock OF any kind that l did not pay
for, | claim the right to purchase stock
in the Credit Mobilier, or the Credit I'M
mobilier, if there is one; in the Union
| Pacific, or Central Pacific, or Southern
Pacific, or Northern Pacific, or Lake
Shore, or South Bend and Plymouth rail
ads; in oil wells or gold mines prom
Using immense dividends that sometimes
fail; in printing offices or furniture lac
tories in banks or in water Works-iust
| like other American citizens or the rest of
mankind Nor do | know OF any law
prohibiting it. If there is a man out of
all our 40,000,000 of people who knows
me, who believes could he influenced a
hairs breadth, in private or public lite,
Dy the purchase of any stocks in
any company, l should not value
his good opinion as worth any more than
his evil one. | am proud TO say too, that,
! in all my public lite, no man ever dared
to make me a dishonest proposition.
no INTERESTS, DIRECT OR INDIRECT,
GIVEN MR.. CoLFAN.
Do need to add that neither Oakes
Ames nor any other person ever gave or
offered to give me one share, or twenty
shares, or 30 shares in the Credit Mo
hDr ail l. ,,ri
hat unfortunatel Ihurc uecer Seel nor re-
ceioed tie calue Of a .tarthing out of the 270
per cent dividends, nor the 500 per cent.
dividends in cash, stock and bonds you
have read about every day for the past
Eonth, nor 100 per cent, nor one per
cent, nor the tenth of one per cent |
have said that if twenty shares of it could
be purchased at par, without buying into
d prospective lawsuit, it would be a good
investment, it it was as valuable stock
as represented; and | have said that
would like to buy twenty shares at par if
attainable, in the Studebaker Wagon
Company, or the BirdSell Glover -Separa-
tor Company here; and | challenge either
one oftwo the best companies to give me
such an opportunity now or hereafter
But never having been plaintiff nor de-
fcndant in a court of justice | want no
stock of any kind at my pnce with law
suit on tine top of it; NOT even with the
prospective dividends of S22, 900, which |
am free to maintain" neither these good
eyes of mine nor this pocket-book have
ever seen The first dollar OF, although it is
80 positively asserted that | have been en-
titled 10 this handsome amount ever since
four years ago. Here | might stop But
some OF these papers have been SO anX-
nus, day after day, Ia hear from those
gentlemen whom they would have been
80 quick To defend instead of to asperse a
few years ago that | must continue this
exposure. | have determined that Moth
ing that can he said or charged or insinu-
ated against me in this canvass shall in
duce me 10 say harsh word in reply !;
aud YOU will notice, therefore, that | alb
stain from using language which the very
miIdest Of you would not employ if your
neigi Dor had sought to blacken Your
character. day after day, az infamous
oAKEs AMEs NEVER CHAIRMAN or THE
RAILROAD COMMITTEE.
The tavorite correspondent Of the
present Chicago Tribune Gath, was in
stTuccd, lis he states in his recent letters,
to investigate and write up for that paper
the Credit Moblier. ! shall refer now to
only one single paragraph out of his
many calumnies so conspciously printed
in that paper with sensational head Lines.
and largely copied into the New York
Tribune. He charges that speaker Celfax
and Speaker Blaine kept Oakes Alnes ut
the he0d OF the Pacific Railroad Commit
tee; petty untruth, Ames having only
been a member of it, but never its Chair
man. In the same paragraph he says:
"Ames carried through Congress a scan
dalous proposition by which the Govern
ment abandoned its first mortgage of this
highway, and allowed the private mort
rage bonds Of the railroad to take prece-
dence.' And this is repeated editurially
in the Chicago Tribune Of last Wedneo-
day.
The falSehoods as to abandonment of
Government mortgages | have already.
shown you from Mr. Bowles' letter of
August, 1865, that this was already the
law before capitalists were induced by
the influence OF the representatives, OF the
New York and Chicago Tri6unes and my
self to accept this very proposition of
Congress, and to risk, in what many then
deemed an impossible work. the mil
lions" Mr.. Bowles appealed to them to
invest. And this very proposition which
Gath denOunces as scandalous," aod the
Chicago Tribune denounces editorially,
was supported, when passed, by Messrs
Sumner, Trumbull and Julian. as well as
by Mr. Ames and an overwhelming ma
jority of Congress. Nor did Mr. Ames
invest dollar in the Pacific Railroad till
after the letters Of Governor Bross to the
Chicago Tribune, of Mr.. Bowles to the
Springfield Republican, and of Mr. Rich
ardson to the New York Tribune, had
been published, more than q gear, too, after
this enactment By Congress in 1864
Gath says in this same paragraph of his
letter that "Ames was able with the help
of the most eminent men in the Republi
can party, to collect from the United
States the gross sum for carrying the
mails over this road, while, at the same
time, he never paid the interest on the
Government bonds AS it accrued"
The facts, so utterly at war with this
charge, are that the railroad has never re-
ceived nor ever claimed but half of '':he
gross sum for carrying the mails," the
other half having aSscdys been retained
and applied on the interests of the bonds
that Secretary Boutwell, desired, in 1870,
to retain the whole, but the Senate Judi
ciary Committee, having been instructed
to examine the question, decided that the
Congressional charter authorized only
half to be thus retained, and Congress SO
re-enacted. After twelve pages of debate