The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-02
BLAINE'S INTRIGUES.
More Light on Blaine'S Corrupt
South American Policy,
And the Wars, Money and Jobbery
Back of It Arthur Getting in His
Work on the Ohio Republicans.


! WASHINGTON, January 28.-The mass
| of the Chili-PeTuvian correspondence
| sent to Congress from the State Depart
| ment is almost a sealed book to the pub
| lie. 1t is no small job to wade through
| 1900 pages of manuscript and catch all
| the salient points of the subject matter.
| Enough has been disclosed, however, to
make it clear that a gigantic scheme
| was on foot to establish an American
prOtectorate in Peru to control guanO
| claims valued at thousand million of
| dollars, and that under the policy of
! Mr.. Blaine we were sure sooner or later
| to be involved in a foreign war. The
| correspondence that passed between
Jacob r. Shepherd, the President of the
| Peruvian Company and General ). A.
| HurlbuTt, United States Minister to
| Peru, now for the first time made pub
| lie, gives some startling revelations
and involves a number of very prOmi-
| nent statesmen in questionable trans
| actions. In a letter to Secretary Blaine
| dated November ,, 1881, Minister Hurl-
| burt expresses his surprise at receiving
a dispatch from Blaine cautiOning him
| against using his influence in aid of the
| Credit Industrial, and adds:
81 do not know the reasons why such
/ d wal NM ollOulN NC oCllb AiAN' AltA'NS
| of course, known that the Credit Indus
| trial had made arrangements with the
| Peruvian Government to furnish them
| the funds wheTewith to pay the money
! indemnity which might be demanded,
| but the whole matter of that contract,
of which never knew the particulars,
was concluded long before l arrived in
| Lima"
He then goes on to suggest that the
al haNra amongfnI from Shpn-
| herd who had written to him COM
planning of the little interest he took in
the supposed claims of the Peruvian
Company. After setting forth some OBJ
iectiOns to the scheme, Hurlburt says:
81 presented these defects to Mr..
Shepherd, who does not like my criti-
cism, and writes to Mr.. ----- that he
can get on without me, as he has the
whole Government and all their friends
on his side and pledged to his scheme"
With this letter to the State Depart
| ment General Hurlburt enclOses Shep-
| herds letters to him. In one of these
some interesting facts are given i'll ref
erence to the Landreau claims to the
guanO beds in Peru in the United States
Senate.
Sufficient of the voluminOus mass of
letters has been given above to show that
Blaine's South American policy was
Just what Mr.. Jacob r. Shepherd and
the other iObbers who hoped to realize
billion of money on the COchet and Ian
dTeau claims desired, and it may be add
ed that Minister Hurlburt shOWcd him
| self a willing instrument III the hands
of The schemers. The expose is a start
hing one and makes it plain that only
the change in administration saved the
United States from being plunged into
war which would have lost the cOun-
try men and money only to enrich a
few unscrupulOus jObbers. The success
sion of Frelinghuysen to the State De-
partment nipped the conspiracy.
SYSTEMATIC STEALING UNDER SHERMAN.
The letter of Secretary Folgcr to Con-
| greSs, transmitting a statement Of the
expenditures of the Treasury Depart
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1881, furnishes evidence of systematic
stealing that would do infinite credit to
Pennsylvania Radical Legislature.
Among the items is one of S1,1OO for
Street car tickets. This is a steal on its
face, as it is evident no such number of
car tickets is required, and what are
needed by the various bureaus ought to
be furnished by those who use them.
Several of the bills are not itemiZed as
required by law, and number of the
accounts are now undergoing inyesti-
, | cation at tine hands Of the Senate Com
mittee, and are supposed to be for arti-
cles appropriated to John Sherman s
own use in putting up his residence.
The whole amount of the disbursements
for the year was $119,230.O2, when it is
safe to say that $4,000 would cover all
the legitimate expenses of the depart
ment.
SOME OF ARTHUR'S APPOINTMENTS.
Colonel Whitefeld, the newly ap-
pointed postmaster at Cincinnati, who
has spent half a years salary lOafing
around Washington waiting for his
prize in the assassination lottery, has
gone home happy as clam. Before he
started west he showed his gratitude to
the distributor of the assassination
! prizes by taking a reporter into his con-
fidence and sounding the praises of Ar
! thur, and telling of the wonderful pop
ularity of his administration in Ohio
From Whitefield's talk one would I'M
agine that the hills and valleys of the
, Buckeye State were echOing and re
+ echOing the joyful demonstrations o.
the Ohio Radicals over the work of Gui
teau's bullet. Not only does Ohio takC
an interest and delight in "the nict
new elegant President" but the elegan
Arthur reciprOcates the friendly feeling
by taking an abiding interest in 0hi(
8 politics. Whitfield says he does not be
, lieve that there is a man in Ohio who il
, more cOnversant with the political stu
alton in that State than Mr.. Arthur
The latter must be getting in his wOrl
3 early on the Buckeyes for 1884, and i
= may be Arthur and Keifer next time.