Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-01-16
Prom the New York Times Jan 9th.5
Facts about the Credit Mobllier.

II must be perfectly clear 10 any one
weo has read the evidence ia the Credit
Mobiller investigation. 80 far taken. thar
Me>>r>. Aulc-. Alloy, and NcCumb may
be successful Is railway contractors. hut
that Is witnesses they are failures. Thus
far they have had the field nearly to them
selves, and they have been freely cncour-
AGED 10 tell all they knew OF their re>pcc-
i've sides Mr.. Amcs has told his story at
length. Mr.. McComb Il still longer one.
and Mr.. Alley the longest Of any. Bur
MI Metomb iiatIv contradicts Mr.. Amc>.
and Mr.. Alley declares that Mr. McComb.,
assertions ale false. Meanwhile. M.s,r-.
Blaine and ColidX in person and Mr.. NOW
SENATOR Allison by letter, come before. the
Committee with explicit accounts of their
own transactions, IN every way consistent
which leave the testimony of the prcviou,
witnesses still more deplorably unintelli.i-
bic
No one can analyzc the testimony "A. it
now exists without marvclling at the
structure of SANDER which was built up
concerning this subject during the cam
pai@n. when the accessible element was
far lSes both In amount and moment Then
the chief organ Of the Liberal Democra-
cy continually pointed To the men men
toned IN Mcoomh'S memorandum as to
men who Were yrinaa trrie bribe takers,
and whose mere denial oil the charge was
of no account. This course was pursued
with special spitefulness aud persistency
toward Mr.. Blaine the Speaker of the
House. The motive was plain. Mr.. Blaine
was very prominent Republican; he was
the choice of its representatives for the
most responsible position in Congress: he
was powerful and interchangeable public
l.-r lAI no
whose own State was one Of the most
doubtful battle fields of the campaign. He
must be broken down at any cost and part
OF the cost to the journal that undertook
the task was the total loss of its reputa-
| ton for honesty and fair dealing. The at
tempt moreover failed. Mr.. Blaine was re-
turned to Congress by heavy majority,
and his party was overwhelmingly yictori-
Gus in his own State and in the nation
Now. going down on one knee before
Mr.. Blaine, this tardily repentant Demo-
cratic organ declares 1T would be unfair
to condemn anybody on the suspicious tes-
timony OF McComb alone or even to accept
the admissions of Ames and Alley as final
proof of guilt, until the accused have been
heard in their own defense" And il adds:
''We have no hesitation in saying that the
record of the Speaker in connection with
this affair seems TO be absolutely clean"
ct II was on the suspicious testimony.
OF McComb" not with. but without. 1.-THE
admissions of Ames and Alley" and not
before but after. ''the accused had been
heard in his own behalf" and had denied
McComb's story point blank and in detail,
tina, all the precious venture OF insinuatiOn,
inuendo, accusation and SANDER was
launched in the interest of the Democratic
ticket. And the work OF blackening hon
est mems names on suspicious testimony"
was kept up for months, to the very eve of
the election. with pertinacity and ingenu-
ity which no ahectation of candOr and
magnanimty will cause the public to for
get. There is mo hesitation" now in pro-
nOuncing Mr.. Blaine's record absolutely
clean. There was no hesitation before
election in prOnOuncing il everything that
was foul. though there was not then, any
more than there is now, a particle of trust
worthy evidence on which to found so base
an attack.
Meanwhile. as all the Congressman who
have been examined have completely
brushed away the assertion against their
good name, would it not be well to remem-
Der that verdict on partial evidence is
unjust and dishonest?
On the general subject of the Credit Mo-
bilier, its origin. management, and partici-
patton in Government bounty, and its rela-
ton to the default i'm interest by the Union
Pacific Railroad, there is much light need |
ed, which the committee headed by Mr.. |
Wilson Of Iowa, will be sure to let IN. So |
far as the public can now judge, the whole