The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-14

10 give q sufficient seeming value to the bonds
to put them on the market, become the Re-
publican evidences of the reform labors Of
their candidate, and. when bankrup. and
overwhelmed by the demands for the return
of their money by those who purchased the
useless scrip from him, the intervention, Of
the Pacific RAILROAD company, by psylng him
enough to pay sil his debts, viii become
"proof" that there Is no pond, or sympathy,
or interest between their candidate and the
vast corporations who are now asking from
the Government several hundreds OF millions
OF dollars OF subsidy.
IT will be useless TO try to evade that issue.
In every joint discussion. the Republicans
will have to defend BlaIne's railroad votes.
Blaine's reports of sales, Blaine's letters,
Blaine's appeals for money, and Tom SCOTS
or somebody's payment OF $4,000 to enable
him to pay his debts.
The Republican speakers and press viii be
kept with their noses on the grindstone and
forever main tanning the prepriety of electing
a man to reform abuses whose whole record is
mixed up with an active participation in the
abuses which are to be reformed.
In the same paper is an editorial a column
long attempting 10 show conclusiveIy:
1. That Blaine, In spite of his explanation,
was mixed up with the Spencer rife contract.
II says:
- 1t seems that Mr.. Blame admits Ia his own
letters that he received the stock without
paying for it, and that he drew dividends on
that stock all the time he was in Congress
and while assisting the company securing
legislation to avoid paying their taxes.
2. That he was mixed up in fictitious stock
of the Northern Pacific railroad, and that he
tired to dispose of this stock for $4,000 cash.
g. That he undertook to "job or dispose of
$4,000" stock of the Little Rock and Fort
Scott railway "for cash, and that "he re-
ceiyed as commission for selling, sS2, 500 IN
first mortgage bonds and $4,000 in land grant
bonds, without paying any money himself"
"The commission or grabuity received by Mr..
Baine," continues the Tribune, would APP
pear to have come from his saving, while
speaker OF the House, the bill which renewed
the land grant after it had lapsed."
4. That the Little Rock enterprise having
gone wrong, Caldwell relieved him of $4,000 of
the bonds by getting Tom Scott to put them
off on the Union Pacific company for 600 in
cash.
In its issue of the 9Th the Tribune announces
that the prop has been knocked from under
Mr.. Blaine's explanation" and says that the
letters read by him in the House "prove more
than ever was charged against him."
On the 10th, the Tribune grows still more
malicious, and says that his co-laborers in
Congress have exposed his record.
"rhey knew him." says the Tribune, "as the
man who had voted for, or failed to oppose,
every subsidy"
"rhey knew him as the man who had voted
for the audacious robbery by which the Gov
eminent lien for it's s6I,OO0,0OO advance TO the
Pacific railways was changed from a first to a
second mortgage.
"They knew him as lobbyist before he en-
tered Congress, seeking contracts for the sup
Ply of arms.
"They knew him in Congress. and while as
speaker, as the inside friend of wildcat corpor-
atiOns; concerned In legislation to benefit
such corporations; ruling as speaker to save
their bills and as claiming rewards for his off,
cial actions; IS engaged in selling the worth
less bonds OF such corporations, receiving
large gratuities therefor, as confessed in his
letters; and, fiually, when pecuniarily in
voIved, getting the Pacific Railroad company,
as it seems almost certain, to give him $4,000
cash for what was VIGOROUSLY not worth $4,000
cents. These letters are all Mr.. Blaine's-his
own record of his own operations as jobber
in contracts, In railroad legislation, and wild
cat securities"
1t may be possible to paint a blacker
ord, but it will require labor. The fore
going is the Tibune's estimate of Blaine,
and the Inter-0,ssn gives IL fresh publicity.
While this work is going forward TO crush
Blaine, other r publican papers are equally
distinguished in setting forth Grants noto
rious iniquihes while president, and John
Sherman in other quarters is pronounced
equally unfit for Office. A beautiful set, in
deed Indiana Republicans are welcome to
look upon the Blaine picture, as published
by the Tribune and republished by the