Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-02
LIBERAL LIES SOUELCHED.


wilson and Garfield Emphaticany
Deny all Connection with Credit
Mob1lier Stock-That Old Know
Nothing Lie.
A special telegram to the Chicago
Inter-Ocean from Washington, dated
the 18th says:
Senator Henry Wilson arrived here
this morning. He authorizes your cor
respondent to make the most positive
denial of the charge so widely circrllat-
ed OF late that he received from Oakes
Ames an interest in the Credit Mob
ll1er. He wishes the denial to be
made IN the most comprehensive sense
and at the same time so as to meet
every detail of the scandalous charge.
He never invested in the Credit Mob
llier, or in it's shares bonds
or stocks, nor has he ever re-
ce1ved from any one or owned
any interest Of any kind in that COM
pany, nor in the bonds or stocks of the
Union Pacific Railroad, or of any other
railroad or corporation that has been
before Congress for legislation since he
has been in the Senate. In short, the
use of his name in the alleged list of
members of Congress who are alleged
to have received interests i'll the Credit
Mobllier, is without shadow of iusti-
ticatlon, and the charge based upon it
is absolutely and unqualifedly false.
THE KNow-NoTHING CHARGE.
HIS reason for not noticing this
charge in his speeches or in letter,
when it first appeared, is his expert
ence IN attempting to correct the de
liberate misstatements of the principal
Liberal newspapers in regard to his
alleged Know-Nothing speeches. He
found in that case that in spite of all
his proof and explanations these papers
persisted in their false statements, and
SO he had concluded to let their future
SANDERS go.
To-day Mr.. Wilson found among his
papers letter from Mr.. Colfax to the
New York Tribune, which was printed
in that journal November II, 1868,
which not only establishes the forgery
of the Know-Nothing speech, which
the Liberal press has persisted in cir
culating, but shows that the Tribune
knew it to be an old forgery. The let
ter from Mr. Colfax is as follows:
10 the Editor Of The ". I. Tribune
SIR On my return home from the session
IF November 10, L found nearly one hundred
Democratic papers, from all sections of the
Union, sent me by friends, containing vile
and scurriIous speech against foreigners, said
10 have been delivered by me in 1854 or 1855,
md which appears to have been published
simultaneously, and by concert, North and
South, East and West, in the closing weeks of
the present canvass. [ need not refer to this
wicked and malignant libel, now that the cleo
ton is over, were it not that it having been
circulated from Maine to Nebraska, and
Youched for as authentic, by editors who were
supposed to value their character for veraeity
some honest persons of one party or other
whose good opinion | value, might suppose it
possibly true. Allow me, therefore, to say, as
did publicly in this State last month,
when this calumny against me first ap-
peared that it is in every word and
synbie forgery that never uttered such
sentiments in 1854 or in Sny other year, and
that the vulgar and scuTriloGs language en-
bodied In It never fell from my lips nor were
Written by my pen, In that or any other con-
Ilection, or on that or any other theme. Pre-
clsely this same speech was printed by Demo-
cratic papers in this State a number of years
ago. and then attributed to Mr.. Wilson, who
was a Republican candidate for Congress, but
! having been thus used with effect in one cam
psign, it was revamped in the recent canvass,
with my name attached to it by some editors
every one of whom knew that 1t was impos-
sible for me to use such vile language in
speech on any subject. 1t will doubtless be
used against some other Republican candidate
! hereafter, and [ have felt it duty to expose
its history and its falsity. Yours truly,
(Slgned,l SCHUYLER CoLFAx.
South Bend, Ind, Nov. IA, 1868
The speech to which Mr.. Colfax thus al
ludes is Identical throughout with one which
IN this campaign has been attributed to Sena-
tor Wilson. At the time the above letter was
writ hHa NfN7.i6 ,l,oyl
made by Mr.. Colfax, and when his letter was
published in the Tribune, the editor added the
following: The World put lshed this villain
Gus forgery, well knowing it to be such before
election creditiug it to the Kentucky Yeoman.
AS it probably made few votes by the fraud
While it had nothing in character to lose, the
operation seems to have resulted in net prof
1t OF SO many vOtes.-ED. TRIBUNE"
GENERAL GARFIELD PUTS HIMSELF RIGHT.
General Garfield, who has Just
arrived here from the Indian country
yesterday, had the first opportunity of
seeing the charges connecting his name
with receiving shares of the Credit Mo-
blller from Oakes Ames. He author
ICES tie statement that he never sub
scnbed for single share of that stock.
and that be never received or saw a
share of it. When the company was
first formed George Francis Train, then
acting, came to Washington and exhib-
tied list of the subscribers, contain
ing the names ofleading capitalists and
some members of Congress. The sub
scrlptlon was described as a popular
one of $1,000 cash. Train urged
General Garfield to subscribe
on two occasions, and each time he de-
cl1ned. Subsequently he was again in
formed that the list was nearly COM
pleted but that chance remained for
him to subscribe, when he again de-
clined, and to this day has not sub
scribed or received any shares of stock
or bond of the company. It is well
known here that under the Durant
regime it was claimed by Durant and
George Francis Train, that some $780,
600 of the company's money was
used in Washington, but when the
company attempted to obtain vouchers,
and the names of parties to whom
payments had been made, it was
impossible to obtain anything
but very vague and unsatisfac-
tory statements. The list which the
Liberal papers are now circulating
beals close resemblance to many 9th
ers originating with George Francis
Train.
PittSburg Soldiers and Sailors. C0n.