Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-09-13

the same rate that others paid. !
never hcard-and do not believe, that
the Little Rock company ever parted
with bond to any person except ut
the regular price fixed for their sale.
Instead of receiving bonds of the Little
Rock and Fort Smith road as graft uity,
| never had one except ut the regular
market price" When Blaine said this
to the house of representatives OH
April "a, 1876, before the Mulligan
papers became public, he knew, but
the public did not then know, that he
had received large quantities of bonds
upon the following contract:
BOSTON, Sept. 8, 1869.
Whereas, have this day entered
into agreements with A. u Z. Colburn,
and smndry and other parties resident
in Maine, to deliver to them certain
specified amounts of tho common stock
preferred stock and first mortgage
bonds of the Little Rock and Fort
Smith Railroad company, upon said
parties paying TO me the aggregate
sum of $3.50, 600, which several argu
mcnts are witnessed by J. q. Blaine
aud delivered TO said parties by said
Blaine:
Now this agreement witnesses. that
upon the due fnltilmcnt of the several
contracts referred TO, by the payments
of the $3.50, 600, and for the other valu
able considerations the receipt of which
is acknowledged Il hereby agree todeliv-
er 10 G.Blainc Or order, rs the same
come into my hands AS assignee of the
contract for building the Little Rock
and Fort Smith railroad the following
securities,viz: Ofthe land bOntls.7 per
cents. $l3O, 900; OF the first mortgage
bondsgoid q, ,$S2 800. And these 1O3 900
of land bonds, and 1872 500 of
first mortgage bonds thus agreed
delivered to said Blaine are over and
above the securities agreed to be de-
iivercd by Warren Fisher, Jr., as
signec, to the party making the COLI
tracts, which parties, with the several
amounts to be paid by each and the
securities to be received by each, are
named III a memorandum on the next
page OF this sheet.
And it is further agreed that, in the
event of any one Of said parties failing
to pay the amount stipulated, then the
amount OF securities to be delivered
to said Blaine under this agreement
shall be reduced in the same proportion
that the deficit Of payment bears to the
aggregate amount agreed to be paid.
WARREN FISHER, Jr., Assignee.
That this contract was carried out
appears from q memorandum in Mr..
Blaine's own hand writing produce by
Mr.. Mnlligan before the investigating
committee in Mr.. Blaine's presence
without word of objection from him
a. to its correctness. And in the face
of this contact, and of the fact that
large quantities of Little Rock bonds
went to Mr.. Blaine, according to the
memorandum, without any payment
OH his part, as gratuity Or commits
sion for Little Rock securities passing
to A. and z. Coburn and other parties
from Mr.. Fisher, Mr.. Blaine had the
hartlihoOd TO say that the "Little Rock
company never parted with bond to
anyone except mt the regular price fixed
for their sale" and that he himself
"ncver had one except at the regular
market price," In both these eases
Mr.. Blaine evidently said what was
not true; he knew it to be untrue when
he said it, and he said it with the
obvious intent 10 deceive the house of
representatives aud the GA ,OOO, 900 of
his cOuntrymen," whom Mr.. Blaine
"took into his confidence" How do
you call this? know how YOU would
have called it before Mir Rlaine's "onl-
inatiOn, but that nomination seems 10
have had II strangely confusing effect
upon party mems notions as TO public
morals. TO call il "brilliant alltiacity
in the handling of truth" may suit the
vOc;.b ulary of the modern era better.
s. You say that | lay too much
stress upon Mr.. BAimc's energetic prO
test against "the prl ing into private
affairs ;.''tllat forget the circumstance
that Mr.. Blame was then a candidate
fpr the presidency; that the in'lmn y
was Instituted by his Democrati' "ppn
ments, etc. Do you mean to s.'"scst
that IL public man in high station, wI.use
official integrity is seriously question.
ed, should accept and facilitate imvesii-
CATION only by his party friends? You
will certainly not deny that Mr.
blaine had strong friends upon the
,mmittec. But II public man Of IL
init to continued suspicion, will invite
Investigation by his opponents, not try
to battle it. Feeling himself inno-
cent, he will throw wide open the doors
of knowledge, the wider the better
lie will not fear the appearance Of s,ls-
piciOus circumstances, for he will he
ready and eager to explain them. He
will not increase and justify suspicion
by concealn,cnt. Only the guilty will
rest under suspicion, because he fears
exposure and conviction. The charac-
ter of the things Mr.. Blaine succeeded
i'll covering up, we are left to infer
from the character of those which came
out against his remOnstrance. You
think George Washington would have
raved with anger if his "priyate CORE.
spondence" had been inquired into by
Il committee of tories. Neither you
nor know how that would have been.
But of one thing am very sure--ii
WashingtOn's ''private . cOrrespOn-
dencc" nothing would have been found
in the renotest degree resembling the
Mulligan letters.
6. You say that Mr.. .Blaine's Of
fences have not been "cOndoned," hui
that he has been "triumphantly acquit
ted;;" that this has been done b,
the governor and legislature il
sending him to the senate
by his appointment to the cabinet
and by his nomination for the presi
dcncy. Let us see. Did these event:
in the least change tho facts in MIR
Blaine's recOrdI Can it be said after
these events that MIR. Blaine did moi
write the Mulligan letters, that he die
not make false statements before the
house, that he did not protest anG
struggle against inquiry into what ht
called his "private business!" o
course not. Did they change in any sense
the character of those facts? Certainly
not. What, then, did they effect
They showed only that some people
when they bestowed public honors
npon MIR. Blaine, either did not know
those facts, OF chose to overlook then
for party reasons, or regarded them Il,
compatible with the standard accord
ing 10 which, in their opinion, public
hnmors should be bestowed. But doe.
this relieve other people OF their duty
AS citizens to form a cOnscientiou.
Judgment upon these same things
and TO vote accordingly? l wonder
whether you would apply your trium-
phant acquittal rule with equal readi,
ness to other cases. l am informed
that your opinion of General Butler
has long been quite unfavOrablc. Gen
Butler was elected to the gOvernorship
of Massachusetts two years ago. lie
has been nominated for the presidency
by Greenbackcrs and anti-monOpolist.
Did that chance in auy WAY the fact