Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-22
THE LATEST IHFAMY.

an aspirant for the Presidency, and
unless he can explain away the
homemade Caldwell dispatches he
will henceforth meet the frown oil
all decent men everywhere. Inc
morning dispatches confirm the
story as first told. 1t is briefly
this: The manager of the Western
Union Telegraph Company at
Philadelphia, was examined yester-
day before the House Judiciary
Committee. He produced, after
the usual protest in behalf Of the
company, the three original DIS
patches already testified to. Two
of them were addressed to Favo,
London, without signature, and
the third was addressed to Josiah
Caldwell, London, over the sigma
ture of Scott. The latter, he said,
had been left at the Office by Col.
Scots messenger. He did not
know who left the one reading
"Oable nobody excepting Scott"
AS to the third dispatch telling
Favo to send a telegram to the
chairman of the Judiciary Commit
tee, the witness knew that it had
been brought to the office by a gen
tleman who, when the clerk asked
him to leave his address, said that
it was not necessary. The clerk
said that as $57 u in gold had
been paid for it, they would like to
have an address to which to send
an answer. The gentleman re-
peated that it was not necessary,
and smilinglY left the name Oh John
The New York Herald of
day before yesterday thus comments
on this disgraeeful transaction;
The Republican party has reason for
gratitude, not unmingled with terror, at
its narrow escape from Mr.. Blaine as It's
! Presidential candidate. The notorious
Caldwell dispatch, which he so fercely
! assailed on the floor Of the House for
, suppressing, is proved to be a shameless
and unscrupulous trick for practicing
anon the committee. Mr.. Knotts sus.
%picions of its genuineness, which induced
, him to withhold it, are fully justified BY
I the facts, now that they have become
known. That dispatch was telegraphed
, from this country to London, in order to
I be cabled back, for the purpose OF i'm
8 posing on the committee and deceiVinl
the country. Its skulking c~oncoctor die
d not dare to sign it with his name nor t
address it by name to Caldwell. 1t wal
:, sent from the Western Union building, II
. this city, addressed to "Favo," in London
e subscribed Philadelphia" with this dl
rection: "Cable this Immediately t
> chairman House Judiciary Committee
e Washington" What followed was a.
exact draft Of the London telegram re
ceiyed BY Mr.. Knott. This is one Of tn
e basest fabrications ever perpetrated, AM
it will cover with ineffaceable imam,
every man who was a party to it or a.
L accomplice in it. Its detection aud ez
posure are due to Mr.. Hewitt, whose IL
innate knowledge of the telegraph bus
} ness, from his having been the presiden
re OF one of the cable companies, enable
a him to direct the investigation with th
requisite skill for %uneovering this seal
j. daious fraud. We trust that its skulkin
i authors and all their sccompliceS ma
be detected and put in the pillory
D. public contempt. 1t is clearly II
D. work of Mr.. Blaines friends, an
there is a strong presumptIo
le that it was done with his knowledg
e. The fact that be knew all about It befol
:, Mr.. Knott, to whom it was addresse
10 and the two orthree gentlemen to who
ce be had mentioned it disclosed its ext
III tenee, is a strong circumstance again
Mr.. Blaine. His acquaintance with Il
ak transaction was so minute that he 81
To prised and almost COMPOUNDED Mr.. Kne'
by telling in the House the substance
res it's contents ami the very hour when
,er had been received. Mr.. Blaine's 9th
m attempts to tamper with witnesses al
l. to manufacture or suppress evident
lal seem small matters in comparison wi
"A this. Even his method Of procuring
letters from Mulligsn is less disgraeeil
lily This extraordinary and astoundi
10 transaction j~ustiies the suspicion Il
the Mslligan letters were not read
IN Mr.. Blaine as they were written, a
RI that he garbled them to deceive
House aud the country.