Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-09-19

documents which have been in our pos
session, we have placed the originals for
safe keeping in the hands of Messrs. So
hier & WEIGH, counselors, of Boston, and
herewith submit their contents without
comment. The letters from Mr.. Fisher
are letter press copies of the originals"
There are fifteen OF these letters. which
prove that Blaine is up his neck in the
Fort Smith and Little Rock Railroad
jobbery. We have only space to repro
duce the following:
XVIII.
[Confidential)
WAsH'TN, d. c., 10Th April, 1876.
My Dear Mr.. Fisher: You Can do me a
very great favor, and know it will give
you pleasure to do so-just as I would do
for you under the circumstances. Certain
persons and papers are trying to throw
mud at me to injure my candidacy before
the Cincinnati convention, and you may
observe they are trying 1t in connection
with the Little Rock and Fort Smith
matter.
| want you to send NE a letter such as
the inclosed draft. You will receive this
to morrow (Mondayl evening; and it will
be favor | snail never forget if you will
at once write me the letter and mail tn 9
same evening.
The letter is strictly true, is honorable
to you and to me, and will stop the
mouths of slanderers at once.
Regard this letter as strictly confden-
tial. Do not show it to any one. The
draft is in the hands Of my clerk, who is
as trustworthy as any man can be. Ii you
can't get the letter written in season for
the O'Clock mail to New Y ork, please be
sure to mail it during the night 50 that it
will start first mail Tuesday morning; but
If possible, 1 pray yoW to get at an the 8
o'clock mail Monday evening. KIND regards
to Mrs. Fisher. Sincerely J. G.. B.
Burn this letter.
XIX.
Endorsed on the back.
Not knowing your exact address | send
this to the Parker House in order that it
may [nOI] be subjected to any danger in
the hands of carrier. j. q. B.
The Western Union Telegraph Co.,
Dated WASHINGTON, d. G., 1875.
Received at 9.44, April 16.
To Warren Fisher, Commonwealth Hotel:
Please go to Parker House tomorrow,
Monday evening, on arrival morning mail
from New York; find letter. Answer by
return mail.
10 d. H. J. G.. BLAINE.
3Sml
The following is the Enclosure referred
to in the preceding letter:
Boston. April -. 1876.
The Hon. james G. Blaine. WASHINGTON,
D. c.:
Dear Sir I observe that certain news
papers are making or rather lnsinuating
the absurd charge that you own or had
owned $150,O00 of Lite Rock and Fort
Smith Railroad bonds, and that you had
in some way obtained them as a gratuity.
The enterprise Of building the Little
Rock and Fort Smith Railroad was IN
dertaken in 1869 by a company of Boston
gentlemen, of whom l was myself one.
The bonds of the road were put upon the
market in this City upon what was deemed
very advantageous terms to the purchaser.
They were sold largely through myself.
You became the purchaser of about $780,
600 of the bonds on precisely the same
terms that every other buyer received,
paying for them in instalment5, running
over considerable period. just as others
did. The transaction was perfectly open.
and there was no more secrecy in regard
to it than if you had been buying flour or
sugar. l am sure you never owned bond
of the road that you did not pay for at the
market rate. Indeed, am sure that no
one received bonds on any other terms.
When the road got into financial diff
culties and loss fell upon you you still re-
tanned your bonds, and you held them
clear through to the reorganization of the
company in 1874, exchanging them for
stock and bonds of the new company.
You required also some demands against
the new company by reason of your hav-
ing joined with Others in raising some
money when the company was in presslng
need. For the recovery Of that money
proceedings are now pending in the Uni
ted States Circuit Court in Arkansas, to
which you are openly party of record.
Concealment of the investment and every
thing connected with it would have been
very easy had cOncealment been desirable;
but your action in the whole matter was
as open and as fair as the day. When the
original enterprise failed, [ knew with
what severity the pecuniary loss fell upon
you, and with what integrity and nerve
you met it. Years having elapsed, it seems
rather hard at this late day to be compell-
ed to meet a SANDER in matter where
your conduct was in the highest degree
honorable and straightforward.
You may use this letter III any way that
will be Of service to you.
Very sincerely yours,
W. F., JR.
The words 'Indeed, am sure that no
one received bonds on any other terms,' -
were interlined in the foregoing letter in
Mr.. Blaine's own handwriting.
Of these letters the N. Y. Herald says;
CATER eight years Mr.. Mulligan now
gives to the public fifteen more letters of
Mr.. Blaine, as duty to his fellow eoun-
trymen.' There is scarcely one which
does not contain damnlng proof of Mr..
Blaine's corruption and of the debasement
to which the republican party has sunk
itself by nominating him for President -
The New York Times Gays:
ITO those who have rightly understood
the sordid and shameless character of
James G. Blaine the publication this
morning of a fresh instalment of his COR
respondence with Warren Fisher, IN which
his prostitution of his official position aud
his gross untruthfulness are presented in
new and startling light, will bring no
surprise. To those republicans who have
denounced and repudiated his nomination
this new evidence of his unworthiness
will afford a not unexpected justification
of their course, and it's sure effect will be
to bring further important accessions to
their numbers.
The New York World says:
sit is with humiliation that we print
this morning the extraordinary eorrespon-
dence, now first given to the public, be-
tween Mr.. Blaine and Warren Fisher
The amazing exhibit made by these let
tiers Of sordid subsel viency and OF guilty
implication on the part of a Speaker OF
the House of Representatives is one to
bring the blush of shame to every Ameri-
can, and no mere partisan feeling can