The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-01-13
UNION PACIFIC BRIBERY IN 1894.
Astonishing Statements by an Early Friend Of
Garneld'a

Astonishing Statements BY an Early Friend OF
GarAeld's.
To THE EDITOR OF THE N, Y. SUN-Sir:
Here is only the text book Of strange
story for many years locked up;
Inasmuch as 1 passed the Union Pa
cific bill of '64 bought Duff Gre l's
Pennsylvania Fisbal Chartdr Of 80 pay.
ing H Ill, Meyer and Barnes $4,000, paid
the Legislature $500 to change the name
to Credit Mobilier, and sold the charter
to the Union Pacific for $4,000 mas
much as l got my friends to subscribe
81 100000 out of the $4,000 900 required
to organic, Union Pacific inasmuch as
my father.in-law, Col. George I, M. Da-
Wis, was one of the Executive Com
mittee of three. holding full power,
and my brother in-law, Captain James
". Davis, had the $4,000. 900 Ames con
tract and inasmuCh as DR.. I. c. Durant
the chief director, manager, president
and cash keeper of this great enterprise,
was my guest for ten years at my Mad
ison avenue residence, l certainly ought
to know what l am talking about when
speaking of Credit Mobilier.
My children had 100000 Of Credit
Mobilier stock as collateral for $4,000
cash loan in 1865. This was part OF
the 100000 gold paid me by McHenry
through Citizen Barlow for building the
Atlantic and Great Western, when Sir
Morton Peto had that $751; 900 banquet at
Delmonico's-property which Jay Gould,
Dillon & Co., have tried through the
courts, without success, to make valueless
They also owe me two and half per
cent. on $4O,OOO,OOO, or 100000 COM
mission, which l allow to accumulate
and compound during my psycho'evolu'
ton, now rapidly coming to a head,
Tom Scott also owes me $4,000 on Kan
sas Pacific, but with peanuts at five
cents and one meal day, leave that
also to compound.
When l gave away half of Omaha
City, six thousand lots prospeCtiVely
worth $4,000 each, or $50, 100000 in all,
prevented my children from cutting me
up in probate court, to see which part
was most rotten, and prolonged nay own
life. 1 live like a fighting cock on ten
dollars week sent me by my daughter
from her rentals, while my sons earn
their living in Kountze's bank, instead
of driving four in.hand, sailing yachts
and dying in clubs at thirty.
tits time for Democrats to claim credit
for saving the Uaion Pacif'-that gigant'
ic enterprise where labor got ninety mil
lions of the hundred millions spent, |
The Republican party did its best
through Thad Stevens, Garfield q Co.
who were striking for stumps-to kill
the project saved it through my per
sonal friends, not one Of whom Was
known to Durant, who was working for
NOpuDllCph puppOAb' ~ 6NiANAV ONhN Va |
Democrats backed me without receiving |
dollar, penny, or any expectation Of
reward while half million of dollars
went to the other side, VINO tried to kill
the bill in order to strike Durant for a
million.
The bill was saved by a superior STRAIT.
egy of James Brooks. He should have |
monument alongside of Oakes Ames on
the summit of the Rocky Mountains.
These two men saved the road one
Congressman, who paid cash for his
STOCK, the other as capitalist. BJth are
Tree from taint. Both we've square and |
above board. Both were outraged by as
big band ofknaves as ever stole purse |
or cut a throat,
Here are the names of the Congress-
men who helped me cheCkmate Thad |
S.evens's swindling Ring, in passing the
Union Pacific bill In GA. But for these
Democrats our Pacific road would never
have been built to this dBy;