Daily globe., 1883-06-18
HINDsD4rE ..DTDy,T BL4B.Y

b. A. Hindsdale, a former president of
Hiram college, and now superintendent of
public schools at Cleveland Ohio, was an
intimate friend of President Garfield,
whom the latter intended to appoint to a
prominent mission abroad, but was pre-
vented by the fatal occurrence of July >,
1881. Since the Presidents death Mrs.
Garfield appointed Mr.. Hinsdale the editor
of her husbands literary remains and con-
tided to him all the correspondence, papers
and materials necessary for an authentic
work. For some little time a report has
been current at Washington that during
the campaign of 1880 Garfield made a
compact with Jay Gould to appoint Stan
ley Mathews justice of the supreme court
in consideration of 100000 subscribed by
Gould to the Republican campaign fund.
Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune
is said to have engineered the scheme and
after some persuasion got Gould to pay
over the money. 1t was common rumor
at Chicago at the time of the nominating
convention that if Blaine was made the Re-
publican candidate for President, Gould
would on the spot pay $25O,OOO to the
campaign fund ana further either secure
from others or pay himself an additional
sum making the whole contribution from
that quarter not less than a half million
dollars. This knowledge naturally induced
desire to secure from Gould
contribution to assist Garfield. That
Gould was approached and that he con-
trlbuted has always been known, though
the terms of the compact have not been
public property. Two or three days ago
report was telegraphed from Washington
that among the papers in the possession of
Mr.. Hinsdale are letters and kilograms
that passed between Garfield and New York
politicians during the presidential cam
palgn, and pending the trouble with Conk-
ling growing out of the Robertson appoint
ment. Among this documentary matter
are said 10 be letters confirming the COM
pact with Jay Gould. Another branch of
the story is that the letters and documents
held by Rinsdale, would if published show
that Garfield was reluctant to break with
the stalwarts and that he was persuaded by
Blaine and Whitelaw Reid to take the
course he did, which provoked the wrath of
the stalwarts, and raised up d Guiteau,
whereby he came to his death. All these
things, the dispatch alleged would be sub
stantiated if Hinsdale would give out the
letters for publication.
In consequence of the direct statement
assoclating Hinsdale with this store of in
formation, a reporter of the Cleveland
Plain Dealer called upon that gentleman
to make inquiry in regard to
the matter. In response Mr.. Hins-
dale dictated reply to the effect
that ne mad published no such documents
aud did not Intend to at present." To
direct inquiry as to whether he had any
such documents, Mr.. Hinsdald would make
no direct reply, but intimated that he
knew great }eal that would interest the
public If he ''were to
blab,'' but that he didn't
blab." He further iGtimated that it was
no business of the public whether he had
the documents in question or not. The
treatment of the subject by HinsdaIe is
very like that gentleman, and was intend
ed by him to be an exceedingly adroit and
wise reply, one that would throw every
body off the scent. But does it? vel, hardly.
The public will not fail to draw its own
inference, and it will draw a correct one.
Hinsdale don't need to publish his docu
ments. He's ''blabbed''