National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-01-20

nh. hAhLAN'S CASE AGAIN.
The Chronicls yestevday morning contained
three editorial articles upon the subject Of the
credit mobiller, and Mr.. Harlnn's connection
with that gigantic swlndle. Two were in re.
ply to this journal, and one In reply to our
evening contemporary, the Star. The Star l.
abundantly able to take care Of itself, 40 that
we dismiss that portion Of the case.
The Chronicle thinks that we ought to he
fully Informed as to It's proprietorship and Its
edltorship, and declares that we deliberately
misrepresented II when We said that II was
owned and edited by Mr.. Harlan. We spoke
from popular report when we said so. Il has
been printed In every paper in the country
that Senator Harlan owns q controlling In.
tsrest In the Chronicle. 1t was stated In every
journal In the country that he was its editor
during the late campaign. When he bought
an interest In the concern he succeeded Mr..
Morris, a. Its editor, and Mr.. Teesdale sue
ceedsd Mr.. Fox as Its managing editor.
Within month the correspondents in this
city have alluded to II as "Mr Harlan's
paper" 'the paper edited by Mr.. Harlan"
&C., all of which the Chronicle has allowed
TO go uncontradicted. We did not know
whether the Chronicle stock wns four hun
dred or four thousand shares. II seems now
that 1t 10 only four hundred, Of which Mr..
Harlan owns one hundred and seventeen.
Whether he ever owned larger interest In ii
we cannot say. II changes owners and ed
itors 80 often that II Is really more than We
can do to keep track Of 1t, even II we were
disposed TO bother ourselves about so unim-
portant q matter. So much by way Of an
swer to one article, which Is purely personal
and scarcely relevant to the subject In hand,
which is Mr.. HarlanIs connection with the
credit mobilicr and the Union Pacific rail-
road. with which we propose to deal, and
not again be led away from II, no matter
what provocation Mr.. IIarlan's editorial
champion may give.
Our contemporary says that we have en-
deavored to convict Mr. Harlan Of 'faIsehood." ."
We have endeavorcd to do nothing Of the
kind. We have endeavorcd to point out the
discrepancy between the statements Of Mr..
Harlan and those Of Mr.. Durant, that we may
assist the public, and perhaps the committee,
In getting at the whole truth in this matter.
We have endeayored to show not only that
Mr.. Harlan used money in procuring his cleo
tion TO the Senate, but that he used the money
Of the Union Pacific railroad and Of the credit
mohilier company, and that he Is to all intents
and purposes the agent Of the road In that
body to-day. To that end we quoted that
portion Of the testimony In which Mr.. Durant
declared that he had contributed ten thousand
dollars TO the Iowa election TO "elect Mr..
Harlan" The Chronicle says that our state
ment on that point Is incorrect, and that we
deliberately misstated 1t to injure the honor
able Senator from Iowa. 1t objects to our
holding Mr.. Harlan responsible for W hat Il said
next morning In reply to Durant's evidence;
and says that Mr.. Harlan neither saw, read, nor
inspired IL. Lot us examine and sec in what
the misrepresentation consists. Durant swore
that he paid Harlan the money direct" The
following morning the Chronicle said at
was not until some time after the alleged ex-
pendlture for his benefit that Mr.. Harlan
heard of 1t. He made inquiry of DIR. Durant
by letter as to the facts, and received au as
surance that what he had spent he had spent
as a friend. Let IL be understood
that there Is no pretence that Mr. Harlan had
the handling or the use Of the money, or even
touched a dollar Of it," The Chronicle de-
clares that Mr.. Harlan Is not responsible for
the above statement and In Its issue yester-
day declares that 1t was in error. Il makes
q correction as follows, for which we suppose
Mr.. Harlan is responsible "Our recollection
was that Mr.. Harlan In a conversation upon
he subject had said he wrote to Durant in
luirlng In regard to the alleged expenditure.
We were mistaken. What ho said, as he In. !
Iorms Us, was, that having heard in the
-ecent contest for seuator that his opponents
,harged him with being brlbed by the road |
10 wrOts to DR.. Durant TO know what
he facts were rs to the money he expended |
n the contest seven years since. The reply |
vas, a. we stated, that he had expended his |
,wn money, Of his own yolltiOn, and that the |
directors Of the company could verify his |
tatement, II necessary, by an examination
II the books of the road" There Is Mr.. Har-
ans case amended and corrected. For the
ife Of us we cannot see how II alters the facts
me lota. II is six Of one and half dozen Of
he other. Durant swears that he paid the
honey TO Harlan direct-twO checks Of five
housand dollars each, Harlan says, or the
hrOHicle says for him, hat he did not. Now
-ho Is lyingl Did Harlan expend the money
r did Durant eXpsnd itl Did or did not
Iarlan get two checks fer ilve thousand dol
Lrs each2 Did Durant pay him ten thousand
OllarS, aud In addition expend other moneys :
his election "in his own way and Of his
wn volitloni"
This donation Of ten thousand dollars to
IT, HaTlan's election by the president of the
Obilier company was made In 1896 -'67. Mr.
arlan's paper, or the paper In which he is a
and which defends him as best !
can whenever he Is attacked, tells us that
, was not In Congress Rt the time; that !
ere was no necessity whatever to corrupt" !
IN, because he was q friend to the road,
ld had always favored 1t. According to the q
stimony that has been adduOed before the I
ongress committees, the credit mObllier a
,mpany was In that very year 20 en- ,
short OF money In other words a
at Mr.. Oakes Ames and Mr. John b. Alley {
ere endeavoring TO induce their colleagues r
the House 10 take some stock to help i
lid the road. Mr.. Ames was piteOusly i'm z
oring Mr.. Dawes TO let him have the one
ousand dollars that was to his credit in the T.
iice Of the Sergeant-at-A Of the House.
{ was so pushed that Mr.. COlfaX loaned him .
'e hundred dollars; that he tried to get poor h
ldge Kelly and Mr.. Bingham and Mr. Gar
Id to make contributions for so laudablo 4
purpose. 1t was trying time In h
C history Of the credit mObillcr when, L
cording to all appearance, ten-dOllar bill II
,uld have been acceptable TO the inpUv- Of
shed company, 1t was u matter Of life aud y
ath, II we may believe the testimony. The Ii
)st supeThuman eXertiOns were made to
lee money, especially in Congress. And yet ~
this trying juucturc Mr.. Harlan, friend ii
the road whom 1t was unnecessary to cor u
lt cOolly accepted ten thousand dollars to N II,
his election In Iowa, or allowed ten thou III
ID dollars to be used TO elect him. Isn't II 81 81,
ange 2 The president OF the credit mobilier an
npany, ut a time when the leading stock to
isrs Of the company were borrowing nve 5u