St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-07
We This spreading generalltY was an

ality." This spreading generality was ap- |
parently intended to touch line of discus |
sion that would awake the slumbering ele- |
ments begotten by the civil war without |
evoking hostile criticism for such pushing of |
dead issues to the front. Mr.. Blaine knows |
there is no danger from the old state rights |
idea OF the con stitution or from the policy |
the south would pursue in case an admins |
tration succeeds to power in which that sec |
ton feels an especial interest. The trouble |
will be in an opposite direction, il the pre- |
valence Of too latitudinarian views respect |
ing the duty fthe general government. The |
great probability would be that the south !
would exhibit too much earnestRess for the |
''old flag and an appropriation" 1t is,
therefore, very cheap electioneering to as
sumo that state rights is an issue of this cam
paign.-Boston Transcript (L1d. Rep.)
One of the oldest and staunchest Republi-
can papers in Connecticut, the Litc1ytaeld En-
qatirer, has been overcome by the last batch
of Mulligan letters, and bolts Blaine. In a
vigorous editorial it says, among other
things: "The new Mulligan letters will prob
ably convince a few who were not before
convinced that Mr.. Blaine was engaged in
railroad transactions which he has at various
times, and with more or less directness, de-
MED. The former letters show that, while
denying positively in congress that
he had ever received S64, 900 from the Union
Pacific Railway company directly or indirectly
for himself or anyone else, there was a
letter in existence in which he acknowledges
having received the money, but claims to
have paid IL over within less than forty eight
nrr oft o{,,;, 20 H.
trying to protect. The new letters show that
while in his speech in April, 1876, he denied
having any dealings with Thomas A. Scott
regarding Little Rock and Fort smith bonds,
he had in point of fact sold him 100000
of those bonds. In the same speech he
asserted that he had bought some of those
bonds in open market at the same prices as
Others bought them, and he sends letter to
Warren Fisher to sign and return containing
the same statement, plainly intending to have
1t believed that that was all of his dealings
with those bonds. Yet these letters show
that ne ha1 dealt largely in these bonds and
had received over 100000 in them as 8
| reward or commission for such dealings, and
that he did not purchase them in open mar
ket as others did. We can not come to any
other conc clusion than the above from read
ing these letters. If any other reasonable
explanation is possible, our columns are
open for the publication of such an explana-
| tion."
| Mr.. Blaine's triumphal march across the
state of New York demonstrates the fact that
the people want to see Mr. Blaine, but won't
pay 25c for the privilege. This was brought
out very conspicuously at Waterloo-a name,
By the way, more or less suggestive of
the winding up of Mr.. Blaine's campaign.
Mr.. Blaine was to visit the county fair
in progress at Waterloo, along with the
fatted calf and other products of the farm,
and the managers were to collect twenty-five
cents head for admission to the fair on
that interesting occasion. Mr.. Blaine came
as announced, and large crowd followed
his carriage to the fair grounds. 1t is not
stated whether Mr.. Blaine paid his way
through the gate or not. 1t is presumed
that he did, inasmuch as he is known to en-
tertain sentiments against being dead
head in any enterprise after he has
once embarked in it. But the crowd
had no such scruples, and, knocking
the gatekeeper down, rushed pell-mell into
the inclosure after the ''plumed knight, >"
without money aud without price 1t was a
sad blow to the fair association, and leaves it
in somewhat crippled condition. The in
cident did not cast gloom over the entire
community, as some may imagine, as by
this means the community was enabled to
see Mr.. Blaine and the fair at the same time
without putting up nickel. Agricultural
associations along the line of the Blaine
march should cut this out and paste it in
their hats.
The Springfield Republican Qnd.) makes
this tabulation of Mr. Blaine's transaction
disclosed by the Mulligan letters, mot enter
ing any sum where the evidence falls short
of probable case Of jobbery within the per-
iod of Mr.. Blaine's official life:"
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