The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-23
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE sroR1
sIr Blaine's Friends Heard Ffosss Ia Re
iation TO the Peruvian C ua4dss.

iation TO the Peruvian Gla1o5s =
- So sehenas, -. Fl
q CaIcAao, Feb. aILA wsshiaeton
special 10 the Times says an1ntifiiate
friend of Dir. Blaine furnishes, this even
ing, the following review of the latest
development Of. the Shepherd scandal,
The ChflizPeru. correspondence of The
state department has just been made
public ina volume of more than seven
hundred pages, and all the facts. great
and small, can be studied at leisure In
the entire correspondence between Mr..
Blaine and Mr.. Hurlbut there is no
reference Whatever IBade4t to the PeFaVi-
an company by either of them except to
condemn it and denounce il. There is
no mention made of the Cochet claim
except to declare that 1t has no ground
whatever for asking the good offices of
the United States. Mr.. Blaine wrote
that X had Ho foundation. and Mr.
Hurlbut replied that il Was
NOTHING BUT a swINDIE.
From the beginning to the end of The
correspondence there is not one word
even lolerating the Cochet claim. And
yet some daily papers in tie great cities,
and imitators all over The country, have
charged in every mood and tense, that
the Peruvian Company was mixed up
with the diplomacy OF tie state depart
| ment. 1t was MIXED up with 1.-THE same
| way that Belmont, and Evans and Gov.
| Morgan, and William E. Dodge, and
William Il. Astor, William IT, Wander
bilt, and Roscoe Conkling, and John A
Logan, and Henry l.. Dawes, and fifty
other prominent men We're IniXtd up
with Shepherd. Shepherd write 10
Hurlburt that these gentlemen were his
associates, and he wrote tlEtt the state
| department favored his prepCSterous
claims. Both statements rest on the
same foundation. II is easy for the
newspapers which are 5chrenicaliy hos
tile to Mr.. Blaine to: see how absurd
| Shepherds statements We're in the one
case, but not so easy, it seems, in the
other. 1t is Il fact that the letters which
| Shepherd WRITE IN lIurlbut were un
known TO Mr.. Blaine until late in No
| Vembcr. MIR. 1Iurlhut very properly sent
| the whole latch Ia the state department
Including one in whicl, Shepherd had 81
IL . z.l., OFFERED TsB BR3lE SsJ-i ..
him with S2J0,000 Of PerrRiaRz stock.
| Thcreapon Mr.. Blaine address Ell a letter
1 10 Shti'iIea advism z lin That ms name
ssiAS ,stTTck pa from tie ffst III attorneys
allowed Io practice lB-fard attI q state de
partment and That his correspondence
would he submitted 20 the President
with a-view of Getcrmfning whether a
criminal proceeding sI:niad st,c brought
| against him by, the attorney ;gcuSaral.
| Secretary Blaing adds that Shrph er.i may
possibly be excused us man Iabnring
tander delusfon, ant then. malies The
follnHliHg rutcTelFoc5fb the aneSGd. also
eIateS.,. JCG .oS: S7.1. it2si..F HIp-l =
Il find another evidence; of. Your de
fusion in the list of names you give a:
being already associated or about ia tt
associated with YOU in the prosecution
OF these claims. Your list embraces thG
names of some forty or fifty Of the mos
eminent capitalists of New York, and
among your alleged attori1eys'are some
of the, most distinguished. OF the Ameri-
can BAR | shall be surprised to fine
that any of these. gentlemen, ever au
thorized you to use his name any more
than l aHihorizcd-you to- present youl
claim to Gen ,Hurlbut,'', -, ....;.ig -.
. Meanwhile, ,44fr;; Blaiht's' friends arr
asking: why dop't the state depart
ment withhold :. .r.r-..tgss 3.iI Z
| -,, THESE NAMES G''r ..fr.
| When the correspondence was original
~ sent 10 the senate they were suppress
Il cd, and it took several weeks delay and
a special resolution of the house to gel
them. Meantime the air was full o.
rumors that Secretary. Blaine would b(
stakeholder and his intimate friends
would he found behind, and beneath
the Peruvian company. Instead OF that
there is nothing in the matter at all eX
4 cept the letters of the secretary, expos
ing theswindle and advising Shepherd
that, IF the President were! willing, ht
should be handed over to the attorney
general for criminal prosecution.
THE LANDREAU CLAIM
never had any connection whateve
| with fl, 20. Tho e,
. ly of Landreau reside III this city
Landrcau himself is United States con
sui in Cuba, and his attorneys and rep
resentaiives, who. are all reputable per
sons, deny. that; the Peruvian compan,
ever had the slightest ownership of thu
Landreau clain. Nor was there AM
truth in the oft-repeatcd statement tina
the Landrcau claim WAS for $125, 900,
600. AT the extreme limit it was only
| for S7,600,000, The Intervention. which
Hurlbut was instructed to make in be
half of the Landreau claim was simply
to the extent of Z. using his gOoC
office 10 secure LandreAu a hear
ing before a Peruvian tribunal Gen
eral Hurlbut answered that al
the Landreau case the proofs are sufh
cienf, and the condition in. which thu
: Peruvian government have. left the,cGm
plainant ferns jGst grounds for 4 decid
ed appeal to their sense of Justice ME
Blaine further instructed Gen. HHrlbu
that the request in. behalf of Landreal
must not be ain any manner that woulS
seem to .-s I r. --.a l.,-.ss.... /
EAIBARRAss PERU .s,....-,.. /
in the hour of her great distress". So fa
from Mr.. Biaine's being SUBJECT TO cen
sure for asking that his claim: he con
: sidered by Peru, he would have neglect
ed a plain duty If he had failed todo SO
The .casq had been examined by the Law
. officer OF the state department and pro
Lnounced TO he ono in which 4his govern
ment ought to ask from Peru the justice
of its consideration before lis own tribu
mails. To three separate American min
! listers at Lima, Mr.. Brent, Mr.. Thomas
and Nr, Gibbs, instructions were sen
. by Secretary Fish authorizing them Il
use their good Offices .in.. behalf of tlIi
Landreau claim. There has been an al
tempt 10 contradict this, and to aSger
that Mr., Fish Withdrew his support from
. the Lapdreau claim. The Official doeu
ment5 show this TO be uutGuQi Mr.. Fisl
tlIrce times authorized the. use of goo,
Offices on its behalf. To Dir. Brent, tn
! Grst minister soaauthoFiZpd, ;MFy'JIFisl
subsequently, wrote that he should tax
no further steps in The matter; huS tia
|
,-. .5-E GRAVE CHARGES -' +"
against Mr.. Brent in connection with tn,
claim Twice arfterwaINi, in a period o
five years, MIR. Fish renewed : to Mr.
Thonias and to- Mr.. Gibbs autliofitytt
use theirigood offices on behalf OF The
| I1anGreau claim. Before Mr. 1}laint
took action in the Landreau'" claim
another important event had happened
The house Of representatives, in "fhC
congress preceding his appointment a.
secretary on state, had considered The
Landreau claim and unanimously passed
a resolution requesting the president @tc
take such steps as, in his opinion, may
be proper and in accordance with inter
national law to- secure j ohm G. Landreau
Il final settlement and adjustment of his
claim against the government of Peru
Following his strict duty; Mt Blaine
instructed Gen. HCribut to use his rood
offices.to --'s" a. "s"i- Effi
E4nsaisl 50 SECURE 4 IfEARiNti'f t''i .'i''
for ,Landreau before Peruvian tribunal
HBut not TODD s0'in a! way TO embafrass
OF distress Peru.7' But nothing ever
Jeanne of 1t. GENT Hurlbut wroie that
The claim was n good one, but fie no
doubt found that the fortunes of war
had swept everything from Peru, in.
Guiding the property 10 which the Ian.
NiSou Sldlul dtSdCucds NO Quiet c1alHl
was ever referred TO in the PERU Gillian
correspondence. = ~ '-zis7 80
t'-' SOcia1istic Schemes.
NEW York, Feb. 1S.-The socialists
are renewing their efforts. it is said, to
get control of the laboring classes of the
city as preparatory step in the cxecu.
ton of their talked of plan to become
| the strongest political power in the
United States. The printed and oral re-
ports which come from Europe concern
| ing the proposed movement of the social.
istic party there, the intimate and grow
| ing relations between the socialists of
Europe and those of New York, and the
fact that last summer the persons con-
nected with the Volks Zeitang made