The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17
LAME q. BLAINE.
How the Republican Candidate MAS
Described BY the sOriginal Blaine
Organ" Eight Years Ago.
His Record as an s'Oncial Jobber'
and aSpecuIator in Wildcat
Securities
~,o~por-e r-ANnrnATr

The latest evidence taken py the con-
gressional committee engaged IN IN
Testirating the charges against Mr..
Blaine Is Of a character to place his
nolitical friends in the most embarrass-
ing position p,....
personally and the fullest appreciation
/ of his ability and popularity can not
blind anyone to the fact that ne mas
| been irretrievably put on the deren-
s;va and that anv campaign made for
his succession to the Office Of chief mag
isfrate will necessarily be a campaign
Of denials. explanations, and excuses.
In his statement before the
house Mr.. Blaine said he had always
been guided by the maxim that when
ever once concealment is desirable,
ovoidance is advisable" but in his let
fer to Fisher relative to the sale OF
| one-twelfth share of Northern PACING
stock he said: Keep very quiet; men
ton it to no one unless 70 MI. Sal9,
we'll" This is the same Mr.. CaldWell
who left so Unexpectedly for Europe,
who is the missing INK in tle foLe
smith and Little Rock bond transac-
t;nn Another bad feature of the
/ Northern Pacific transaction IS that n
Is notorious fact that the SSs,0OO,OOO
stock 1.-THE one-twelfth part OF Jay
| Cookies half. which Blaine offered 70
secure for So, 600 was entirely hctl-
tious, since the road was 10 be pulit
from the sale of bonds. ms
ia as clear statement Of the several
| transactions and their connection as
can be made from the date so far. III
is bv no means conclusive that Dir.
Blaine acted corruptly, but it is strong
" suggestive that he acted as sort OF
stoek-broker while he was speaker OF
the house, and that he avalled hlmSel1
of the peculiar opportunities OF DIS
position to make money out OF ceriNn
! transactions in stock where conceal
rnent" was found desirable" We con
Tess that. with our present light, we
| should be at a loss to know how to re-
move this impression. and we are
forced to admit that such an impress
sion about a presidential candidate
would be like a milestone about the
| neck of the party trying to elect MN.
t-Cticdqo Tribune, Jttae ,. 1876.
SUGGESTIVE or 4 BURLESQUE.
| The people of the United States do
not want a man who has been whim-
pering before clerk for the return of
| his personal letters; the situation IS too
suggestive of a burlesque to be carried
| through an entire Chicago
| Tribune, June 2, l,76.
BI,AINE'S CROOKED RECORD IN CON
| GRESS.
Do the republicans give full weight
| to the consequences upon the success
/ of the republican party which may re-
suit from the fur GUS onslaughtS upon
| the personal and official record of Mr..
Blaine? 1t should be borne IN mind
that these charges are not produced or
presented by the democratic party; they
| have been prepared in advance, and
| fortified with circumstantial evidence
by the rivals or the friends Of the rivals
| of Mr.. Blaine-viZ., Conkling and Nor
| ton. They have succeeded in estab-
| fishing the no longer deniable fact that
for long series of years while Mr..
| Blaine has been in congress and while
| speaker he has been an extensive dealer
| in the various forms of wildcat rail-
road investments, acting for himself
| and for the corporations and for br0k-
ers. y We believe the success
of the republican party in the present
election of vital Importance to all the
great interests of the American peo-
pie, and we consider that the party can
not jeopardiZe the interests OF the c0un-
try and its own success by nominating
IL 30 OtCl hllC1ulCA VIII az
cusations preferred by republicans,
that from first to last the party must
act on the defensive as to the personal
integrity of its candidate. The c0un-
try is extremely sensitive, and justly
so, as to the interference OF the great
railroad corporations with the legIsla
ton of congress. There are now be-
fore congress, i'll various forms, appli-
cations for governmental aid in the
form of grants and bonds amounting
to several hundred millions Of dollars,
besides a permanent addition to the
payments for interests. Ii is undesir-
able that all these railroad spectators
regard Mr.. Blalne's probable election
with extreme favor, aud their advocacy
OF him will have an immensely dam
aging effect upon public sentiment.
His record on this railroad subsidy
business has already been extensively
published by his republican COMPETE
tors. lie entered congress in Decem-
Der, 1853. At that session the Pacific
railroad king proposed the great fraud,
BY which the security of the govern
ment, held for its previous grants Of
$4,000, 900 of bonds, with thirty years
interest, was changed from first to a |
second mortgage on the roads. Mr.. |
WaShburne, of Illinois, thoroughly eX-
posed this fraud, and moved to strike |
out the section making the change. |
Mr.. Blaine voted with the majority |
against striking out, and the mortgage |
of the United States, for principal and |
interest, amounting to over S100.0OO, 900.
became utterly valueless. Mr.. Blaine |
voted for the bill and supported it. The |
government granted fifty million acres
OF land to the Northern Pacific Rail-
road company, for which Mr. Blaine
voted, and worked to pass it. On the
bill to grant $50, 100000 of bonds to Jaw
Cookies Northern Pacific railroad,
when the vote was taken, Mr.. Blaine
arose and said that he was paired off in
favor Of the scheme against Mr..
Thomas, of Maryland, who, if present.
would vote against it, and in that case
ne would vote for it. The bill was d.
teateq through the personal OPPOSITE
II =: Il, Washburne, John Wentwo
md j. +. Farnsworth, of Illinois.
ooked upon 1t as a gigantic swindle
he national treasury. AIr. Blaine
generally, all the propose, {
egislation asked for by the railroad I
though during the SIX years {
Re served as speaker his II. n does not Z
ppear on the list of recorded votes.
lecause speakers are only required to 7
ote on tie.-Chicdgo Tribune, June 8, !
$40. !
low MULLTGAN GOT TIE LETTERS. !
The machine papers whose motto is 2
Anybody to beat BristoW," allege that :
IuliIgan stole the Blaine letters to
Usher from the safe of the latter, and
lerefort had no business with them.
40 that Blaine did right in recaptlr
lg them. But see how the simtle 7
lets dispose of these assertions. III q
tiers We're in Fishers safe in RoaFoT, re-
I'D Mulligan went to the safe in Fish.
presence, and, with his knowledge =;
ia approval, took them am placed ~
ZEN IN green bag, and Travelled with n'
ZEN 20 Washington in company with "a
lsher, both having been summoned To OF
)pear before the committee Of iuves- tal
cation. The belief of both Fisher da
I'd Mulligan was that the Letters 81
light IN some way be needed IN tie ar
lqence IN Washing t0n, in connection fon
In the testimony Of both of them tel
sher, being present In the COMMITTEES Br
ON, was appealed to 70 state If this ne
= not the tact, and le said it was, va
4iilgd1 was merely the custodian Of thI
e letters for Fisher. and, without the sp
tiers consent, Blaine had nobusinnss TIL
carry OF the letters, because they III
re the private property, in law and Fri
Il, Of Fisher. and of Blaine. on Ne
cars from Boston to WASHINGTON The
ere sat beside Fisher a weII-knoeyn
EyeT. In front of them sat NIiII iaarl gaus
u the green bag CONTAINING tina IA. ltkss
3 whose contents haYe hags4h sncl, ! ser
sgefY IQg several days. The CONVEX :
ION naturally turned (says the dis fint
N upon the Blaine Investigation AM
ar. Fisher, pointing to tie green for
!, aald substantially that there was par
ldence ID that bag which wonId me
nn blaine, His Companion asked Gle
e tnat meant, and Mr.. Fisher re- me-
q I!laE there was letter in the bar or /
q Mr. Blaine to Mr.. Fisher. which tina
substantially: Il have had a great to {
OF trouble at the heel Of the ses. =
! 20 get this Little Rock and Fort q fl
In Dill through and subapguerfIv BE;