Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-28
abe aaip spp aatoressr SATURDAY. auring September 2s 1879

! open friend when millions doubted its practica.
biliiy, had to be bribed to favor its interests.
| Enemies, not friends, are those whom brides
| seek ont and control. You might as well say
| that a Methodist had to be bribcd to advocate
| MeihodiSm, or that an editor had TO be bribed
| to support typographical interests. But, never
I having had in my life a dollar of stock of any
kind that did not pay for, claim the right to
| purchase stock in the credit mober or the
credit immohiller, if there is one; in the Union
| Pacific, or Central Pacific, or Northern Pacific.
! or Southern Pacific or Lake Shore, or South
Bend and Plymouth railroads; in oil wells or
| gold mines, promising immense dividends that
! sometimes iA; in printing offices or lur-
| niture factories; in banks or in water
works, Just like any other American citi-
| zen or the rest of mankind Nor do l know
| OF any law prohibiting il. Ii there is a man out
| OF all our forty millions Of people who knows
me- who believes | could be influenced a hair
| breadth, in private or public life, by the pur-
| chase OF any stocks in any company, should
| not value his good opinion as worth any more
than his evil one. am proud to say, too, that
/ in all my public life no man ever dared to make
me a dishonoTable proposition. Do / need to
add that neither Cakes Ames nor any other
| person ever gave, or offered to give me, one
l share, or twenty shares, or 2000 shares, in the
credit mobllier, or any other railroad stock; and
| that, unfortunately, | have never seen nor re-
ceiyed the value OF a farthng out of the 230 per
cent dividends, nor the 500 per cent dividends in
cash, stock and bonds, you have read about
every day Tor the past month"; nor 100 per cent,
nor one per cent, nor the tenth of one per cent,
| have said that if twenty shares of il could be
purchased at par, without buying into a pro-
Spect1e lawsuit, it would be good inves tment,
II it was as valuable stock as represented
And have said that would like to buy twenty
shares at par, if attaiuabe, in the Studebaker
wagon company, or the Birdsell clover separator
company here; and would challenge either one
of Iia tn Lace .rf,ra mo
opportunity now or hereafter. Bnt, never hay-
ng been plaintiff or defendant in court OF
justice, | want no stock of any kind, at any
price, with lawsuit on top oft; not even with
the prospective dividends OF 900, which, Il
am free TO maintain" neither these good eyes of
nine, nor this pocket-book, have ever seen tine
first dollar of, although it is so positively
| asserted that / have been entitled to this hand
some amount ever since four years ago
Here might stop. But some of these papers
have been so anxious, day after day, to hear
from these gentlemen, whom they would have
been so quick to defend instead of to asperse a
few years ago. that must continue this expo
sure. have determined that nothing that can
be said or charged or inSinuated against me in
this canvass shall induce me to say harsh
word in reply, and you will notice, therefore,
that ! abstain from using language which the
very midest of you would employ if your neigh
Dor had sought to blacken your character day
after day, rs infamous.
The favorite correspondent of the present
Chicago Tribune, Gath, was instructed, as he
states in his recent letters, to investigate and
write up for that paper the credit mobilier. |
shall refer now to only one single paragraph out
of his many columns so conspcuOusly printed
in that paper with sensational head lines, and
largely copied from in the New York Tribune.
He charges that Speaker COlfaX and Speaker
Blaine kept Cakes Ames at the head of the Pa
ciic railroad commitee-an untruth, Ames
having Il Ot t..
chairman. In the same paragraph he says:
Games carried through congress a scandalous
proposition by which the government abandoned
its first mortgage of this highway, and allowed the
private mortgage bonds of the railroad to take pre-
cedence."
And this is reported editorially in the Chica-
90 Tribune Of last Wednesday. | have already
shown you from Mr.. BOwles' letter of August,
1865, that this was already the law before capt.
talistS were induced by the influence of the rep
resentatives of the New York and Chicago
lribunes and myself TO accept this very prOpo-
ton of congress, and to risk, in what many
| deemed an impossible work, the "millions" Mr..
| Bowles appealed to them to invest. And this
| very proposition, which Gath denOunCes as
| scandalouS, and the Chicago Tribune denOunces
| editorially, was supported when passed by
Messrs. Sumner, Trumbull and Julian, as well
as by Mr.. Ames and an overwhelming majority
of congress. Nor did Mr.. Ames invest a dollar
in the Pacific railroad till after the letters OF
Bowes to the Springfield Republican, and OF
Mr.. Richardson TO the New York Tribune, had
been published, more than year, too, after
this very enactment by congress in 1864.
Gath says in this same paragraph of his letter
that
"Ames was able with the help of the most emf.
nent men in the republican 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
IL accrued
The facts, so utterly at war with this charge
are that the railroad has never received, nor
| ever claimed, but half of "the gross sum for
carrying the mails" the other half having been
| always retained and applied on the interest OF
| the bOnds-that Secretary Boutwell, desired in
1870 to retain the whole but the senate judiciary
| committee, having been instructed to examine
| the question, decided that the congressional
| charter authorized only half to he thus retained
| and congress so re-enacted. After twelve pages
| of debate in the Globe, the senate so decided by
| 36 TO Is, Senators IrumOull and Thurman 10 til
| speaking and voting in its favor This CORE
| spondent concludes this paragraph thus:
"In short the Union Pacific railroad first begged
| loan from the United States of from $4,000 to
$4,000 mile, and then robbed it of the interest on
the loan, forced the loan itself back to contingent
place, and passed it with another aud private
| loan OF its own, and then swinded it out of the
whole gross sum for the mail service"
These charges are very grave, and, if true,
WOuiu OldSU forever Inc character OF men capable
of such conduct, and give color and confirma.
| ton to the original charge or bribery and cor
ruption. The only answer necessary to them is,
that not only does the Confessional Globe
| prove, us | have shown, their entire falsty be-
yond all contradiction, but the editors and pro-
| pretOrS of the Chicago Tribune know, of their
| own knowledge, that there is not a particle OF
truth in any one of these sweeping lalsifcations
| What could have induced them to print them,
even with all the excitement of a political can
| yass, is a mystery to me.
Let me ask you, now, if the public have not
| the right to demand from the editors and pro-
| prictOrs OF these two great newspapers, the New
| York and Chicago Tribunes some personal
| explanations. Day after day their papers have
| been filled with inuendoes and charges some OF
| which they happened TO know, better than all
other men, co uld not possibly be true, and near
| ~ all the rest of which they knew their own
files explained and dsproved. Day after dav
| they have sought to make the people of the
| United States suspect a number of their promi-
| nent public men, and the builders of the Union
| Pacific railroad generally, as a band of thieves,
| scoundrels and swindlers, and they haye de.
| manded that those thus assailed "shOuld be
| heard from Well they have heard a calm,
| dispassionates statement from one of those whom
| one OF the iribunes stigmatized as the "Tweye
| Apostles who sold out to the Credit Moblier at
$40 900 apiece | submit in sorrow for those who
| thus "bear false witness against their neigh
| bor," that clearing their own skirts from the
scandal OF their course is the next thing now
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