Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-04-21
THE PLAN OF BLAINE.
HIS Version of the railroad Tran
saction-Whtt Ffe Did with Ezis
.s6I."0O ard How He Got Et-A
LabOred and Not Very Likely
Suns Washington Letter.

story.
Suns Wash hgtDn Letter.
The Blaine matter, which is the new
| sensation, continues one of the princi-
| pal topics of conversation. It has al
ready been the means of causing a
''iittle unpieasnntness" between the
rival several Republican candidates
and their followers l. seems to be
the fact that the story on MI. Blaine
was given to the public through tie
| instrumentaiity OF close friends of
S nator Morton, and yet it Is charged
| by some of those III the interest OF
| Mr.. Blaine that Gea. Bristow and his
associates are responsible for the pub
| llcatlou. This has given great offence
| to the latter, and it was said to-day
! hat if Mr.. Blaine does not stop these
destinations against Gen. Bristow it
will be the worse for him. A strong
| friend OF Mr.. Bristow said that if the
whole Blaine STOW was published it
would be very interesting reading.
Mr.. Blaine has been asked why, if
he was innocent, be had not asked for
| a committee of investigation ? he
| replied that he could expect no Justice
or fairness from the House; that he
was conscious that he had by his polit-
lUai course this session made himself
extremely obnoxious to the democrats,
! tnat If he asked for committee of
Investigation it would be purposely
planned so that the charges should be
lett hanging over him during the
VIII lie Presidential campaign. Mr..
Blaine is undoubtedly correct in his
opinion that the mean aud narrow
minded partizsn policy which he has
seen fit to pursue on the floor of the
House this session has not commended
him to the affections of the Democratic
maj GRITTY. But Mr.. Blaine has no right
to assume il advance that a com mittee
of the House will be partizan or IN
fair in its investigation. 1t is believed
that the matter has now assumed such
phase that Mr.. Blaine will be COM
PEELED to SIX for the investigation.
He realizes as we as anyone the overs
whelming evidence in the political
horizon that the Republican party will
not dare to put up any man as its
standard-bearer upon whose fame the
least faint of suspicion rests.
Things have come to such a pass
here i'll Washington thet If a man has
money people are not satisfied until they
know how he got it. Mr.. Blaine came
to Congress twelve years ago a very
poor man. The salary, which at that
time was 50, 600 per annum, was quite
an obiec5 to him. He has been en-
gagged i'll no business, yet he now ranks
as one of, the wealthy members, aud
lives III style which consumes more
than double the amount of his salary.
1t has been said here for some time
that Mr.. Blaine was "ioadAd up" with
Western land grant railroad bonds.
Among these bonds were said to be
the Little Rock and Fort Smith rail
road bonds, a railroad which came to
Congress In 1869 and asked and OBJ
tanned an extension of It's land grants,
which were about to expire.
Mr.. Blaine has not yet explained
how these bonds came into his posses
sion, and IN advance of hi; explanation
Ii would not be proper to intimate
that the Legislation which the company
desired OF Congress had anything to
do with it; neither would 1t be doing
justice to his Yankee shrewdness to
intimate that h3 would invest his
Money i'll wild cat railroad securities.
1t Is remembered now that Mr.. Blaine
Onsv emerged with clean skirts from
the Credit Mobiiier pool of corrup tiDn
by the skin of his eth. His own
friends were then constrained to admit
toat it was not his superior purity
which we'd him. but his superior sd
ga -lty by which !.e >uw The coming
storm aud was enabled 20 get out ID
tine. i devoted adheIznt OF Mr..
BiAiUa said this evenin Z: If JIM had
on'y had any ri ten years ago that
h would stand a chanc,, Of being
President they never would have got
any thing on him " For the love OF
public morals it is to be hoped that
after all Mr.. Blaine may be able to
prove that they" have got nothing on
him now