The daily gazette., 1880-06-16
ENTERED AT WILMINGTON PoS9
A. sECeND CIxSs MATTER
WxDNEaDAY. JUNE. ie, 1850.

the reference it makes to the letter OF
the late Hon. James A. Bayard, to
Henry 8. McComb, declining to receive
81 Credit Mobilier stock. The Ne'os
says:
'sNo one for moment could believe
that Hon. James A. Bayard ever held
a share of this stock, yet the infer
ence is, in his letter TO Col. McComb.
that his name was placed by Ames on
his list as subscriber, by the follow
ing:
my son, In letter, which 1 received
this morning, informed me OF your short
conversation with him, and that II was
TO your friendly feeling was indebted for
the subscrip.ion to what, you tell me, is
good thing"
If Mr.. Bayard's name was placed
ON the list of subscribers without his
knowledge, was not James A. Gar
fields also placed, in like manner,
upon the same list"
Mr.. Bayard's name was not "placed in
like manner, upon the same list" 1t
could not be placed on the list for the
reason shown in the letter by its writer
for the reason assigned in it, viz: 81
could not consistently with my views of
duty vote upon question in which l
have pecuniary interest" Oakes
Ames desired to place the stock
''where it would do the most good"
When he heard of the reply to Col.
McComb, that Hon. Jamos A. Bayard
could not be relied on to vote OF a
measure in which he had pecuniary
interest, Ames no longer desired to
hold him as a stockholder. The full
text of the letter declining to receive
the Credit Mobilier stock is not pub
lished by the Nes0s, and we therefore
present it, as follows:
WARRINGTON, January IA, 1S68.-MY
DEAR SIR: l received this evening
your letter of this date informing me
that Mr.. Ames, OF Massachusetts,, had
u 600 or $4,000 of stock in the Credit
Mooiher for me. NV son, in a letter
which l received this morning, inform
ed me of your short conversation with
him. And that IL was to your friendly
FEELING L was indebted for the snbscrip-
ton for what you tell me is .'good
thing" i am, however, utterly In rbe
dark as to the nature and object of this
corporation, and you will o5lige me If
you Will give 10y son as much infOrma-
non as You have in relation to them.
do not know Mr.. Ames personally, and
muSt walt, OF course, until he addresses
me on the subject 1 take it for granted
thatth corporation has no application
TO make TO Congress on which shall be
called to act officially, as l could not
vyiTh nv yvyia .Nf
upon question in which l have a pecu-
4l mary interest. Whether become the
owner OF this stock or not, | am Obliged
10 you for your intention to benefit me.
As must, of course, Day for any stock
l get, please let my son have full it,
FORMATION as TO Its prospective value
Iour communication consider, as Won
have Indicated, confidential except as to
MIN, and he and l are almost one per-
son. Yours very truly,
JAMES A. BAxARD.
81. s. MoCoMB. ESQ.
This letter, one would have thought
would have been the last 20 which the
friends of Ga, fields election would
have gone to seek an excuse for the lat
ter. Garfield took the money realized
from the stock. But Mr.. j. A. Bayard
declined to have anything to do with it,
an assigned as reason that he could
hot do the very thing the stock was in.
tended to influence those to whom il
MAS gwen to do. Messrs. Ames and Nc
Como no doubt concluded at once tba
James A. Bayard's hands was not ,
"place where the stock would do mos
good" Ames was business man after
the fashion of the day, and knew what
he was after.
But aside from this would any one
have supposed Republican Congress.
ional Committee,of which Judge POLAND
was chairman, appointed to investigate
this matter would not have made Anne
in his answers show that James A. Bay
ards name was on his list had il bee
there? Certainly it would. Ames woul
not have screened Democratic Senator
Ames' memorandum book was in ey
dence. 1t was examined, but James A
Bayard's name was not there. Ams
~ would not have been permitted to hay
put 1t there because Mr.. Bayard's vol
was not purchasable with stock. Hence
was that Ames did not go to him to pa
him the enormous dividends, as he d
to Colfax and Garfield. The Ne,
shows how sorely pressed its party is Z
an excuse for the bribn-takers when
resorts to the letter of the late Ho
James A. Bayard, and endeavors
make it serve the purpose of hiding
crime. That letter has been referred
by the ablest of the press, and alwa
cited as an honor to the writer for fou
teen years, and to the Ne,os belongs Il
> unenviable merit of having attempt
10 use 1t for an unworthy purpose.
~ The Ne,os ought to know that Carrie
was accused of this bribe-taking by bo
.s the New York Tribune and New Yo
Times, at the time the Poland Comm
oIFtee made its report in February, 1ST
- Both of these great Republican journ'
then censured Garfield openly and
verely.