Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-01


lard'sl The two hardest men | had to
fight we're Holman Dana's letter-pad
candidate) and Washhurn. Yesl this
was time referred to when | beat Belmont
and made him postpone Chicago conven-
ton 1864 from July 4th to August Goth.
Some day ! will show how Rothschild
, put up Mcclellan to elect Lincolnl as
Seymour was launched to elect Grant,
Greedy to re elect him! and Tilden to
count in Hayes! ss Hancock was put up
to elect Garfield. All democrats expect,
like II ,rriman, when Rowell and Ennis
coached him to get shar g of syndicate
gate money.
GARFIELD n CREDIT MoB1LIER.
Reporter Did you really offer Gene
raj Garfield Credit Mobilier stock, Mr.
Trainl
G. F. T.-No, his memory is at fault.
/ never mentioned Credit Mobilier to
him, had no occasion for his service in
congress. Could not in any way use his
legislative influence! he connects another
transaction that took place in 1865, three
years before Ames memorandum book.
My conversation was on Credit Foncier,
another financial institution of which L
was and am president, and William p.
Furniss, Augustus Kountze, Cakes
Ames, William III. Macy and Charles
McAlister, directors, to develope lands
along Pacific Railway. Wishing leading
men of nation in enterprise, l offered
Garfield thousand dollar share at par,
which he declined, because he had no
means to buy it, and did not wish to
have his name down unless he could pay
when called upon. This shows that
he evidently committed himself by mis-
taking Credit Foncier for Credit Mobi-
lier.
Reporter. SO you %exonerate Garfield
G. F.T.-Yes, Garfield continually
made this mistake. l nave the following
extract from Garfield's speech at Warrent
Ohio, in 1864:
In the winter of 1867, Mr.. Train came to
me and showed me a list of names and SUBJ
scribers to the stock of the Credit Mobilier
company, aud asked me to subscribe 81, 600.
l should say their were fifteen or twenty MEM
bers of congress on the list, and many more
prominent business men. He said that the
company was going to buv lands along the
line of the Pacific railroad at places
where they thought there would cities and
villages grow up aud develope, and he had no
u Ihtb olO El'hb " WIG 'bi "oulo
make that investment double itself in q very
short time.
Deacon Richard Smith, in the Cincin-
natl Gazette, of the same date, like my
friend, Dana, was also on the wrong
scent. He says: "When the company
was first formed, George Francis Train,
then active in it, came to Washington
and exhibited a list of subscribers, of
| lao1i,r ,,nit ,1;sts ,rA sop,n p,ap,horo af
congress, to the stock of the company.
The subscription was described as a pop
ular one of 81 600 cash. Train urged
General Garfield to subscribe on two oc-
~casions, and each time he declined" So
you see Garfield mixes up Credit Foncies
with Credit Mobilier, to his own con-
fusion, and this sets him light on the re-
cord. Yes, Simon Cameron, Forney,
! Senators Allison, Pomeroy, and Harlan
were all subscribers. John Sherman ia
! also co-partner. The one hundred names
! were all men of mark, and when Gar
fields work for solid coin wrecked every
body, | gave up speculation and let re-
sumption swamp the men who made it.
The black mark | made against Gar
field can be made against both parties.
l would abolish coin, while he would
abolish g~reenbacks. But, as g%reenback
platform is stronger than SPECIE payment
if possible, than democratic or republican,
the people get their throat cut no matter
how they vote. Their only escape is alb
stention from ballot box.
OMAHA M TRAIN.
Reporter-Then you don't take all the
credit, MIR. Train, in building the worlds
| hlphway betW cen the Oceans2
G. F. T.-Oh, no! I am willing to
divide honors! Durant could not have
built it without me, nor l without Du-
rant! Nor either of us without Brooks
in congress! Nor Ames among banksl
laying! Or, more important, the army
men at other! (After such work, why
should Chinese goa They did more than
all the Kearneys! all the anti-Chinese
connections combined to iron continent
and save Pacific states to the union.)
Each played his part! No! New York
will please stand aside! Boston raised
the first money! After the wheels were
oiled, New York, at usurious rates, kept
up oil supply! In 1865 | saved compa-
ny's notes from protest by loaning Union
Pacific $50, 900! (See my check on city
bankD Yes! Durant was as much in
debted to Ames as Ames to Durant in
building road! One of his kilograms
read, abiding to cash drafts on Boston
to pay labor, "Durant draws like a
jackass!"
No! the bulk of stamps when days
were darkest came from the Ames treas
ury! Yes Durant deserves the credit
which Gould, who stole the road after it
was built, now gets! His history This
is what l said in 1866:
DURANT, PACIFIC RAILWAY KING,
Bern about time Napoleon died at Hell
ena! Educated a physician early in life,
he left medical college for counting
house at New York! Twenty years ago
he was building steam boats! shipping
flour to England! controlling New York
corn market! and giving orders to Barring
Brothers d Co., to sweep the market of
all breadstuffs there! The speculation
would have paid enormously, but for
exile of Louis Phillip and advent of
Bonaparte! That French revolution in
1S4S upset many a mans calculations!
But the Durants were too strong to be
capsized by change of dynasty of France!
From steam boats and produce markets
he went into railway building mania!
His first experience was pushing along