Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-17
The cream rEohIIier sInnder.

Ii was not necessary for Senator Wilson, Mr.
Dawes and Mr.. Garfield TO deny the wild charges
OF corruption made against them, and repeated
with such pertinacity by the Greeley papers, in
defiance of all probability and the respect due to
years of public life spent usefuly and without
reproach; but they have done so, and in such Il
manner as should silence their accusers No
one, however, who has watched the course Of
the leading newspapers in the Greeley interest
believes that they viii abandon this SANDER.
They do not appreciate the value OF
that influence which public journal
acquires by publishing only that which
it has reason to believe true, and frankly
acknowledging errors or misrepresentation
when it has been unwittingly led into them.
Perhaps, however, they would admit that this
source OF influence is desirable for those who
can afford it, but are conscious that their cause
will not bear fair dealing. We do not expect,
therefore, to and in any of the Greeley organs a
retracton of their accusations against Messrs.
Wilson, Dawes and Garfield. Neither of these
gentlemen, we presume, would have thought it
necessary 10 notice the SANDER, but when urged
by their friends to deny 1t, they do so in the
most unqualified terms.
A Washington dispatch says of Mr. Wilson.
that his attention having been called to tue
story that he had received a number of shares
in the Credit Mobilier, he authorized a full and
absolute denial Of the entire charge in every
particular. From neither Cakes Ames nor any
other person did he obtain the slightest interest
in that enterprise. He desires the fullest and
most complete contradiction Of the whole ale
CATION as without the slightest foundation in
fact; and he asserts further that he has never
owned bond or share in the Union Pacific
railroad company, or in any other railroad or
corporation that has been before congress dur
inc all the wears that he has been in the senate.
Another denial from Mr.. Wilson is contained in
the following letter to the Troy Wing whose
editor had asked from him a contradiction of
the story:
NATIcK, Sept. 70, 1872
TO the Editors Of Tie Troy Wig:
] send you "a speech Of Gen Hawley. His
statement is correct, but do not wish 10 write
any more letters, and do not intend to do so, if
l am charged with every crime Since went
TO the senate in 1855 have made one specuIa-
ton; bought house lot in my town for $50
and sold it for $500
(Signed) H. WILSON,
NSAs 'AeNiNf p SlNNNh NDhAaliio Nlit i1llOWlIlHs :
'Henry Wilson has been seventeen years ia
the seDa:e, aud defy the world to prove that
he is worth $4,000 to-day. / defy the world to
prove that he ever took dollar interest in any
measure which has come before congress. |
defy the whole world to prove that he has a
cents interest In the Northern Pacific Central
Pacific, or Southern railroad, or in any stocks
bonds, or contracts Of any sort / tell his SLAM
derers to 20 to Washington and 20 among the
lobby there, and eanyass with the most no.
torious gamblers, and they viii find that among
the men who cannot be bought viii be the name
OF Henry Wilson.
Mr.. Dawes also has been requested, by per-
sonal friend, to authorize denial of his connec-
ton with the Credit Mobilier, which he does in
the following note addressed to Mr.. J. X. Rogers
Of Syracuse, New York:
sPITTsFIELD, Mass, Sept. II, 1872
MY DEAR ROGERS: / thank Won for de.
nOuncing as false libel the charge of the New
fork Sun, 50 far as ! am concerned Neither
Oakes Ames, nor any other man. dead or alive
ever gave me, directly or indirectly A pennv al
the stock Of the Credit Mobilier" or al env
other corporation In this world never owned
a dollar Of any stock or any property Of any
kind that did not pay the full value Of with
my own money, earned with my own labor.
Truly yours, II. l.. DAWES.
General Garfield Of Ohio is equally explicit in
denouncing The calumny. His statement made
10 gentleman IN Washington is TO the effect
that he never subscribed for a single share of
the Credit Mobilier stock. and that he never re-
ceiYed or saw a share Of IT, when the company
was FIRST formed, George Francis Train, then
active in ii. came 10 Washington and exhibited
list Of subscribers 10 the stock, including
some members Of congress. lie urged General
Garfield 10 subscribe, but he twice refused. A
ihird Tins he was visited and informed thai the
~ was nearly completed but chance yet re-