Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-26
UNION PACIFIC BRIBERY IN
1864.

To The Editor Of tie Sm.-

a strange story for many years lock,
cd up:
Inasmuch rs passed the Union Pa.
ciGc bill of ga, bought Duff Green's
Pennsylvania Fiscal Charter of 80,
paying Hall, Meyer and Barnes $780,
900, paid the Legislature $500 to
change the name to Credit Mobilier,
and sold the charter to Union Pacific
for $4,000; inasmuch as | got my
friends to subscribe Sl,6OO,OOO out of
the s2,OoO,0OO required to organize
Union Pacific; inasmuch as my father.
in-law, Col George II, NJ. Davis, was
one of the Executive Committee of
three, holding full power, and my
brother.in-law, Captain James W. Da-
Wis, had the 100000 Ames con
tract and inasmuch as DIR, T. c. Du-
rant, the chief director, manager, pres
idcnt, and cash keeper OF this great
enterprise, was my guest for ten years
at my Madison avenue residence, l
certainly ought to know what | am
talking about when speaking Of Credit
Mobilicr.
My children had $4,000 of Credit
Mobllier stock as collateral Tor a S5O,.
600 cash loan in 1865. This was part
OF the 100000 gold paid me by Nc.
Henry through Citizen Barlow for
building the Atlantic and Great West.
ern, when Sir Morton Peto had that
$1,000 banquet at Delmonico's-prop-
erty which Jay Gould, Dillon & Co.
have tried through the courts, with.
out success, to make valueless. They
also owe me two and half per cent.
on $40, ,OOO,0 900, or 81, 100000 commits.
sion, which | allow to Accumulate and
compound during my psycho-evolution,
now rapidly coming to a head. Tom
Scott also owes me 100000 on Kan.
sas Pacific, but with peanuts at FIVE
cents quart and one meal a day, l
leave that also to compound
When | gave away half OF Omaha
City, six thousand lots prospectively
worth $4,000 each or S3O,0O0,0OO in
all, ! prevented my children from cut
ting me up in probate court, TO see
which part was most rotten, and pro.
longed my life. live like fighting
cock on ten dollars a week sent me by
my daughter from her rentals, while
my sons earn their living in Kountze's
bank, instead of driving four.in-hands,
sailing yachts, and dying in clubs at
thirty,
1t is time for Democrats to claim
credit for saving the Union Pacific
that gigantic enterprise where labor
got ninety millions of the hundred
millions spent, The Republican party
did its best through Thad. Stevens,
Garfield 4 Co.-who were striking for
stamps-to kill the project. ! saved
it through my personal friends, not one
of whom was known to Durant. who
was working for Republican support.
A gallant band Of Democrats backed |
me without receiving a dollar, a pen.
ny, or any expectation of reward
while half million dollars went to the
other side, who tired to kill the bill in
order to strike Durant for million.
The bill was saved by the superior
strategy Of James Brooks He should
have monument alongside Of Oalles
Ames on the summit of the Rocky
Mountains. Those two men saved
he road one as Congressman, who
paid cash for his stock, the other as
'apitalist. Both are free from taint.
Both were square and above board.
Both were outraged by as big a band
If knaves as ever stole a purse or cut
. throat
Here are the names Of the Congress.
men who helped me checkmate Thad.
stevens swindling Ring npassing the
Union Pacific bill in '64. never paid
hem dollar. But for these Demo.
rats our Pacific road would never
ave been built to this day,