The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-08-20
Republican Newspapers on GarGclds Cor
rupt0ns.

FAIRFIELD ; CREDIT MOBlLIER RECORD.
From his own sworn testimony before the
Poland Committee, Jan. II, 1878.
never owned, received, or agreed to re.
ceive any stock of the Credit Mobilier or
of the Union Pacific Railroad, nor any divi-
dcnds or profits arising from either of them.
From Judge Polaud's Report Feb. IS, 1873
--Garfeld's testimony perjurod,
The facts in regard to Garfield, as found
by the committee, are that he agreed with
Mr.. Ames to take ten shares of Credit Mo-
bilier stock, but did not pay for the same
Mr.. Ames received the eighty per cent divi-
dend in bonds and sold them for ninety
seven per cent, and also received the sixty
per cent. cash dividend, which, together
with The price the stock and interest, left a
balance of 1920. This sum was paid over to
Mr.. Garfield by a check ON the sergeant-at.
arms, and Mr.. Garfield then understood this
sum was tie ba"uce Of dividends after pay
ing for the stock
HOW THEY VIEWED IT THEN.
Criticism Of the lcadiag Phitadelphia Jour
mails on Credit HoJiiier IN 1873.
ALL GUuIY-DIFFERING ONLY IN DEGREE.
(From the Public Ledger, iad., Ftb. %, 1879
II Oakes Ames is guilty of bribingo or 9TH
erwse corrupting his fellow-members land
| the evidence shows that be is) then some of
| them must have been bribed or corrupted.
| There is not one of them who made public
denial of his alleged connection with the
"Credit Mobiler' who did not .falsify the
real facts by prevarcaion or by suppressing
essential truth, or by false suggestion, or by
direct alsehood-proyed to be iasehood by
he.record evidence. If these members
did not feel that their Credit Mobilier trans
actions were dishoncrable why did they re-
sort to prevarication and concealment in
their first denals.
| THEIR MEAN, TRICKY, FALSE DENiALs.
| From tie Public Ledger, Ind. FEB 2S, 1873 J
Then came their mean, tricky, false de-
mails, shifts, evasons and fast following ex-
| plantations Of their explanations, every
change in which showed more and more
their own sense of their own culpability.
|
holding public trust were more thoroughly
covered with proof of malfeasance in office.
| The guilty knowledge of all these men was
as visible as the plunder of the government
money was stupendous. And Congress pun
ishes all this by passing its partial resolu-
tions of censure, letting the guilty go free
upon the false pretense of having no jurs-
diction. This is so transparent a sham that
it will command the belief of no one pos
sessing the conmonest intelligence.
NOT ONE FIT TO SIT AS A LAw-MAKER.
| From the Evening Telegraph, Rep, February
Is, 1879
There is not one man whom the testi-
mony of Oakes Ames has connected with
| the Credit Mobilier who is fit to sit in the
seat of the law-na aker If Oakes was the
bribe. giver, they must have been the bribe-
takers.
THE DELIBERATE AND wILFUL LYING.
From the Evening Telegraph, Rep, Esbrua-
ry 26th, 1871
The bribe-taker is as guilty as the
bribe-givei, and Mr.. Ames decidedly OBJ
jews W 'o iii1uS a oSafcSoat ioi wv oibo Vi
other people. For him to work corruption
with his Credit Mobilier stock there must
have been some corrupt material for him to
work with, and admitting that the accused
parties from Vice President down, were ig.
norant of Ames' motives in the first place
what can be said in extenuaton of the will
ful and deliberate lying they have INDUCED
in from the time an exposure of this infa-
nous business was first hinted at, through
the whole progress of the investigation up
to the present moment.
oAKEs AMEs' BRIBE. TAKERS AND LIARS.
From The Erening Telegraph, Rep, Ebrua-
ary 27M, 1879
Andrew johnson, whatever might have
been said of his sins commission or omis.
sion, was an angel of light in comparison
with Oakes Ames and his sneaking crew OF
bribe-takers and liars, from the Vice.
President down to the memLsr from Ohio
who spits his venom at the press because the
press has done its duty in exposing gigan.
tic wrong,