Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-10-10
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DECIDEDLY EMPHATIC.

the Tribune and DIR. Greeiey-Three
ISLANDERS Pulveri1ed-Ibe " h'
Leader shown Up I'm His True hASh''
There was a grand Republican dem
onstration in Cleveland on Monday
afternoon and evening at which
speeches were made by Senator Wilson,
Gen. Garfield, Speaker Blaine and
others. In Mr.. Blaincs speech
occurred the following scathing rebuke
of the Tribune and Greeley:
"This campaign will remain memo
rable as the campaign of hes-ot the
most monstrous the most malicious, and
at the same time the most silly Inc
leader in this wild carnival of defama-
ton and Islander, is the New York Irl-
bune, the personal organ and mouth
piece of the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency. To show you how
reckless ard how senseless this mania
for falsehood will become, let me make
personal allusion to myself. In the
New York Tribune of Saturday last, and
also Of yesterday, l am charged, not
only as a representative IN Congress,
but as speaker of the House, with
! having received one million nlne hun
! bred and thirty thousand dollars of the
stock of the Eastern Division of the
/ Union Pacific Railroad Company for
my services and influence in procuring
| the passage of the original Pa
cltic bill of 1862 The Tribune gives
| the date of the act in the same article
| III which it makes the charge, not
seeming to notice, in its blind desire
to assail me, that it was simply con-
victing itself of falsehood and of folly.
/ Now gentlemen, please observe that in
| 1862, when this act was passed, | had
not taken my seat in Congress; | had
not been elected to Congress; indeed |
| had not even been nominated for Con-
gress when the act to which the III
! bune refers became law. / was
member of the Maine Legislature, and
| Speaker of the Lower House, and had
no more to do with Congressional legls
! lation than the fish maidens and tide
waters on the Kennebec river, and yet
the New York Tribune asserts and re-
peats that for my services and lntlu-
ence in Congress at the time | was a
member of the Maine Legislature, |
received nearly two millions of dollars
| in the stock of great railroad corpOr'
alton.
And now. gentlemen, if l were to
stop here, after demonstrating the ut
ter absurdity of the charge, the Irl-
bune would come out coolly and say
that Speaker Blaine had not denied 1t.
Let me, then, deny 1t in the presence
of this vast assemblagc, and deny 1t
in Tie most emphatic manner. Neither
in siXty-two nor in any other subse-
| quent year did / ask, receive, or own
directly or indirectly, single dollar of
stock in the Eastern Division OF the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, or
any other division of the Pacific Rail
road Company, nor did L ever receive
dollar, directly or indirectly, from
the sale of any stock of that Company.
In short, gentlemen, / stamp on the
whole story as not only false on its
face, but absurd and ridiculous but
l do not expect to make denial that
will satisfy the Tribune. A few weeks
since when the story was started that
Secretary Boutwell,, Vice President
Colfax. Senator Wilson, Mr.. Garfield,
Mr.. Dawes, myself and others had
been bribed by presents of stock IN the
Credit Mobilier, l published card
on the eve of the Maine election saving
that | never owned, directly or indi-
rectly, through myself or through an
other, single dollar of stock in the
| Credit Mobiler The New York Tri-
bune pronounced this denial evasive
aud unsatisfactory. and SAID that | did
not deny that | had received dividends
or profits therefrom. Any candid man,
l think, would see that my card was
intended to be exhaustive, and to ex-
Glade all suggestions of ownership.
Let me say now, however, that not only
| did [ never own share In The Credit
! Mobilier, but never received, directly
or indirectly, a single penny therefrom
! in any manner or shape whatever.
But the mania for bearing false wit
ness against your neighbors has seized
Mr.. Greeley personally, as well as the
| New York Tribune; for | observe that
in a recent speech in Pennsylvania he
! states that more than one hundred
/ thousand dollars had been expended
by the Republicans of Maine IN the
purchase of votes at the recent cleo
| ton. Now, in the very nature of
things it would be impossible for MIR.
Greeley to know that this was true but
/ know it to be absolutely untrue. |
am chairman of the State Committee,
and on my order every dollar of the
funds of that committee was disbursed,
and from first to last we did not have
in all the control of but a little more
than SD, 900; and l further assert that
every dollar ofthis amount was expend-
ed, either in the payment of speakers,
the distribution of documents and pa
pers, or the bringing home of absent
voters. These accounts of the State