The Portland daily press., 1880-01-12

to note from that gentleman to Capt.
Boutelle:
AUGUSTA, Jan. 10, 1880.
To j. W. Sinonton Agent associated Press
New York:
The special report concerning Mr.. Blaine to
which YOU referred in your dispatch to me yes
terday has come to hand. 1t consists simply
in statement that White, the alleged briber
of Swan, was seen to go to and from MIR;
Blaine's residence about the time the alleged
bride was delivered
The entire absence of significance in this
fact will be appreciated when | assure you
from my presence and personal knowledge
that Mr.. Blaine's residence from early break
fast hour to midnight of that day and 1ndee
every other day during the week has been con-
stantly filled by very large crowd averaging
from fifty to a hundred and fifty persons in
Guiding large portion OF the Republican
Senators and Representatives and their friends
from all parts of the State.
The large drawing room, conservatory, re-
ception room, dining room, billiard room and
halls have been given up to the crowd OF in
terested Republicans without limit or restraint.
Mr.. Blaine himself spent most of the day in
his private library with the advisory committee
and Mr.. White says that he never saw him
during the entire day except while he was
passing hurriedly from one room to another.
Had 1 known the character of the report about
which you telegraphed to me | should never
nave SHOWu your UlSpdlCu W MI DldlHo
thus given the charge SO serious character
as to require any notice from him.
The matter had never even been intimated in
| Augusta and the universal feeling here is that
the bribery case was one OF the most desplcable
and transparent of put up jobs. You need not
! be surprised at any absurd or wicked rumor
concerning Mr.. Blaine from the baf1ed and
dissolving conspirators for whose exposure and
| overthrow he has been incessently at work
for tie past sight weeks. One day they tele-
,>h hat Ia hos bod an
| when they know he was in perfect health and
another day they invent a bribery charge and
send lying dispatches to distant cities connec-
ting his name Herewith
Mr.. Wallace White, the person accused Of
paying the bride, is young man under thirty
years of age, a lawyer resident in Winthrop;
| of irreproachable character and stainless repu-
tation. The character of his accusers will be
exhibited to the satisfaction of the public
when the formal investigation is made. They
stand today as self confessed criminals pun
ishable with heavy penalties under the statu ties
of Maine. But the chief criminals lie behind
| them in the persons of those who concocted
the wicked scheme, and they are the men
whom public opinion is most anxious to over
take, expose and punish. The motive OF the
Democratic conspirators in putting up the job
is very apparent. They had already lost threa
of their members against whom they had In
vain hurled the charge of being bribed. They
| were in positive panic lest other members
state government, for which purpose they had
been fraudulently counted in. To coonteract
this strong tendency among their followers,
who had some decency and some conscience
left, this game of bribery was put up in order
] to warn every Democrat who dared to be hon
est that he would be branded as bride taker
and destroyed in reputation if possible.
When the whole of this conspiracy,in which
the bribery case is a mere incident, shall be
| brought to light and exposed, as it soon will
efo,
ity and the infamy with which the Democrats
and Greenbackers of Maine have sought to de-
prive whole people of the right of self-gov-
eminent.
Outside of Maine the crime with all its re-
voting details has not yet been comprehended
or appreciated.
(Signed,) CHARLES A. BoUTELLE.
- Editor Bangor Wing and Courier.
Gard from Wallace R. White.
The following card from Wallace R. White
will be published tomorrow:
WINTHROP, Jan. 10, $780,
On Wednesday last, just before the Maine
Legislature was to be organized, two aftidavits
signed by Thomas B. Swan and Moses Harri-
man, respectively, appeared in the Maine
Standard, stating that some person or agent
had given them 81, 900 each to stay away from
the Legislature. Rumor connected my name
Herewith. 1 did not see fit to reply to the
statements or affidavits which did not have
SeIuUlduCO VI IIutu ~ give tHo udlllo
of the person accused. This morning my name
appeared for the first time in said paper. The
statements contained in said affidavits so far
as they concern me are absolutely, unqualified
ly and maliciously false. never offered, paid
or gave said Thomas B. Swan or Moses Harri-
man one dollar of money, directly or indirect
ly, for the purpose of influencing their action
or votes or for any other purpose whatever. 1
make this general and unqualified denial and
shall demand the fullest investigation at the
proper time.
No fair investigation however can be had be-
fore an unlawful ,unorganized House of Repre-
sentatives, every one of whose members openly
approves the conduct of Hartman and Swan,
and glory in their shame. TWAS a sad spectacle
in Maine to see IS Democrats and Greenback-
ers rejoicing in crime which, if actually
committed, can be punished under the statutes
of Maine with five years in the penitentiary.
object to being investigated by the cocoon
spirators of Swan and Hartman. We don't
constitute iuries in that way in Kennebec
county.
(Signed) WALLACE r. WHITE.
Mr.. White has been summoned to appear be-
fore the bribery committee of the House, but
will refuse to appear on grounds stated above.