Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-10-11
Speaker Blaine's Exposition Of the
Liberal Campaign of Lies.

AT Cleveland, Ohio, few day ago,
there was immense mass meeting of Re
publicans, at which Senator Wilson and
General Garfield were the chief speakers.
In the evening there was grand torch
light procession, and meeting in the
public square. Speaker Blaine made q
speech, in the course of which he said
This campaign will remain memorable as
the campaign of lies--the most monstrous,
the most malicious, and at the same time the
most silly.
The leader of this wild carnival of defa-
nation and ISLANDERS is the New York Tri-
b1tne, the personal organ and mouthpiece of
the Democratic candidate for the Presidency.
To show you how reckless and how sense
less the man is, let me make personal al
lusion to myself. In the New York Tribune
Of Saturday last, and also of yesterday, 1 am
charged, not only as a Representative in Con-
gress, but as Speaker of the House, with
having received $1,930,000 of the stock of
the Eastern Division of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company for my services and in
tluence in procuring the passage of the
original Pacific Railroad bill of 1862
The Tribune gives the date of the
act in the same article in which
it makes the charge, not seeming to
notice, il its blind desire to assail me, that 1t
was simply convicting itself of falsehood and
of folly. Now, gentlemen, please observe
not taken my seat in Congress; | had not
been elected to Congress; indeed, had not
even been nominated for Congress. When
the act to which the Tribune refers became q
law, was a member of, the Maine Legisla-
ture and Speaker 0bf the Lower House, and
had no more to do with the Congressional
legislation than the fish raiders and tide
walters on the Kennebec River, and yet the
New York Tribune asserts and repeats that
for my services, and influence in Congress, at
the time was member in the Maine Legis-
lature, l received nearly S3,000,000 in the
stock of great railroad corporation.
Now, gentlemen, | never received any
stock of the Union Pacific Railroad Compa
ny, or any other division of the Pacific Rail-
road Company, nor did ever rreceive dollar,
directly or indirectly, from the sale OF
any stock of that company. In fact, gentle
men, I stamp the whole story as not only
false on its face, but absurd and ridiculous,
but do not expect to make denial that
will satisfy the Tribune.
A few weeks since, when the first story
| was started that Secretary Boutwell,, Vice
| President Colfax, Senator Wilson, Mr.. Gar
field, Mr.. Dawes, myself and Others had
| been bribed by presents of stock in the
Credit Mobilier, I published card on the eve
of the Maine election, saying that l had
never owned, directly or indirectly, through
myself or through another, single dollar
| of stock in the Credit Hobilier. The New
| Y ork Tribune pronounced this denial eVaslVt
and unsatisfactory, and said that l did moi
deny that had received dividends or profits
therefrom. Any candid man, think, would
see that my card was intended to be 0x
haustive, and to include all suppositions o.
ownership. Let me say now, however, tha
not only did never own share in Tho
Credit MobilieT, but never received, directl.
or indirectly, single penny therefrom il
any shape or manner whatever.
But this mania for bearing false witness
against your neighbor has seized Mr.. Greele.
personally, as well as the New York Iri6un'
for l observe that in a recent speech in Penn
sylvania he stated that more than $4,000
had been expended by the Republicans o
Maine in the purchase of votes at the recen
election. Now, in the very nature of things
1t would be impossible for Mr. Greeley t.
know that this was true, but know it to b
absolutely untrue. | am Chairman of tn
State Committee, and on my order every dol
lar of the funds of that committee was dis
bursed, and from first to last we did no
have, in all, the control of but little moF
than Sl2, 900; and further assert that ever
dollar of this amount was expended eithe
In the payment of speakers, the distributio
of documents and papers, or the bringin
home of absent voters. These accounts c
the State Committee are kept with rigid eN
actness, and the entire committee of sixtee
men will testify to the truth of what STATE
arraign Mr.. Greeley, therefore, as the slar
derer of the Republicans of Maine, party {
as gallant and true men as ever cast an III
purchased and unpurchasable vote.