Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-07-30
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Mr.. Pillsbury shows his anger iilo'e
than his discretion. His dirty fe""" VI
manor credit scandal with the nope OF
smirehing Mr. Blaine, is iecoie ehort'
The trouble is that while Mi. fhlobury :
malice is gigantic, his facts are imaginary.
IF ever there was a negative completely
nrovoJ IL is in the case of the dasfardly
do,,ocratic effort to connect Mr.. Baine's
name with that transaction Before two
Legislative Committees of Investigation,
and before the special commission appoint
ed to finally and fully investigate, every
witness whom malicious Democratic ru-
NOR had named as one possessing some
fact damaging to Mr.. Blaine swore posi-
lively that they had not the remotea kno~1-
cdge Of any such hing. There never was
a witness of high or low degree, credible
or incredible. honest or knavish. white or
black, bond on free, thai ever minated
that he knew of Mr.. Blaine having any
connection with the transaction, or knew
of any person who did know or who pre-
tended to know Of any such thing.
Hon. Geo. +. Talbot of Portland, Hon.
Abraham Sanborn Of Bangor, and General
Selden Conner of Augusta, were appoint
ed in March 1870 Commission 10 inyes-
tigate the whole affair, with the amplest
power to send for persons and papers.
nnnnoraI in thpjr thorO1Oh
labors for nearly year, and so far from
elciting any fact in the remotest degree
pointing to Mr. BIaine's connection with
the matter, they took special pains to &C
knowledge their obligations to him for the
aid he had rendered them in their investi-
CATION Alter stating that they found it
difficult to get the requisite information
from the Departments at Washington, and
that at one time they felt completely baf-
fled in their investigation, the Commits
sioners in their tual report say
lin this dilemma we applied to Hon.
james &. Blaine, Speaker ofthe Nation
"al House OF Representatives, and mem,
"ber of Congress from the Sd District OF
maine. His apprehension of the precise
"nature of our inquiries was prompt and
"compIetc, and to his effective interven-
.'tion by personal appeals at the depart
"ments, where our acquisitions for docu-
'ments were waiting compliance. we con
"sider ourselves largely indebted for what
lever information from those sources we
"have been able to obtain
In another place in their report, where
they found themselves embarrassed, the
Commissioners say that "Nr. Blaine
promptly aided as ,ctM his influence" And
throughout their entire report of over five
hundred pages, there is not an intimation
or hint of any fact or incident not wholly
honorable to Mr.. Blaine.
Mr.. Pilsbury may therefore hug
to his breast the pleasing delusion that he
is harming somebody besides himself by
this gratuitous, graceless, baseless SANDER.
1t is simply mean, malignant falsehood,
false in conception, false in detail, false
from skin to core, and from core back to
skin again-known by Mr.. Pillsbury to be
a falsehood when he utters it.
Few public men have ever been attack
ed with the malignant partizan rancor
that pursues Mr.. Blaine, but still fewer
have ever been so fortunate as he in dis
committing and disgraeing his slanderers