The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-06-21

"es oFor: was 10 act directly in
favor of fraud, against the company
of which he was director The resolution
was offered and Withdrawn as early as 1871:
and although, taken altogether, Mr.. Har-
rison's conduct was no better than it
should be, still he is willing to make 1t the
ground of official martyrdom. Hence il is.
as ne informs us, that Mr.. Delano deter.
mined to remove him from the director
ship OF the road. And Just here we come
TO indubitsble proof OF Mr.. Morton's con-
nection with Mr.. Harrison throughout this
entire transaction. Mr.. Morton being re-
sponsible as senator for the appointments
or Mr.. Harrison, was notified by Mr.. De-
lano to furnish him another Indiana name
to fill the place of that of Mr.. Harrison
In the list of directors. A letter to that ef-
feet was introduced by Mr.. Harrison before
the mmittee OF the House of Representa-
tives. For sught that appears it is the only
letter that passed on the subject between
Mr.. DeIano and Senator Morton. Though
brief, it is important TO our present inquiry
in several ways. 1t recognizes Senator
Morton's responsibility for the appoint
ment of Mr.. Harrison, and tscitly comedies
his right to control that of his successor.
Mr.. Harrison was not removed, some in
fuence countersctiug the design of Mr..
Delano. 1t can scarcely he doubted that
that influence proceeded from Senator
Morton. Now, as the letter of Mr.. Delano
ended in nothing, it ceased 10 have any
Importance whatever as soon as it
was determined that Mr.. Harrison
should remain in his office, unless
1t should be to bolster up and
give color to some attack to be made
in the future upon Mr.. Blaine. The letter
was properly the properly of Senator Nor
ton; and legitimate inquiry for it could
only be made OF him. Yet after years have
elapsed it is found that Messrs. Blaine and
Morton are both ambitious of preferment
to the highest Office in the gift of the peo-
pie. Their ambitions are equal and oppo-
site. Whatever tends TO advance the one.
tends, in the same ratio, to retsrd and de-
feat the other. And 2st now when these
opposite ambitions are about to eliminate,
Mr.. Harrison steps to the front and makes
a direct attack upon Mr.. Blaine with fact,
which he had been told five years before,
would be sufficient to defeat his
election to the House of Representa-
tives at that time. He now proposes
to make the fact do more important service
to the senator than it would have done If
brought to the light five years before. But
ne must be supported; and just in this
emergency the letter of Mr.. Delano finds
its way from the pigeon-hole of the sena-
tor to the pocket OF his vssssl. 1t is in Mr..
Hsrrison's hands, and It is there without
him strong in his attack upon Senator
Morton's great rival. He uses it before the
committee for the only purpose which it
could possibly subserve. How did he get
it? He could only have gotten it from
Senator Morton. When did he get 1t? He
does not deign to tell us. Why
did he get il? He has left us
to infer the purpose from the use
which he has made of 1t. In whose
interest has it been used? In no other
mans than Senator Morton's. If Mr..
Hsrrison's only purpose had been to SUBJ
serve The interests OF the government, the
should have taken place
years ago. He brings it forth, now, how
ever, after the interests which his trust
bound him to subserve, had been passed
so long that he had no capacity to protect
them. The only object that he could pos
sibly attain by making the exposure when
he did, was to injure Mr.. Blaine, in whose
behalf he had withdrawn his resolution
at time when he could, by pressing it,
have advanced the public interest. Why
not now protect Mr.. Blaine as well as
then? There can be but one reason. Sem
stor Morton's interest, not involved in the
inquiry of 1871, now demands the exposure
and sacrifice of Mr.. Blaine. Hence the attack
by Harrison, supported and backed up
by MIR. Delano's letter from the files OF
Senator Morton. The cooperation of
the Senator and his vssssl is thus made
clear. Every int renee except the one
that Senator Morton placed the letter in
Mr.. Hsrrison's hands support and boil
ster up his attack upon Mr.. Blaine Is ex
ciuded. The evidence would, if brought
to bear in support OF charge of murder
against Mr.. Harrison, as principal, and the
senator, as advising, aiding and sbetting
him in the commission OF the offense, be
quite sufficient to convict both. 1t is true
the evidence is circumstsntial, put then 1t
is entirely conclusive.
All that Is wanting 70 make 1t sstisfsc-
tory, in the highest 20 sible degree, is
proof of q sufficient motive on the part of
the senator. We have already alluded to
the existence of sucn a motive. 1t is found
in his political am bition, which must suf-
fer defeat and final overthrow should Mr..
Blaine succeed in obtaining the nominal
ton for the presidency. Was the Senator
actuated by any adequate motive? Wit
ness the situation at Cincinnati. A motive