The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-10-31
SCHURZ ANSWERED.
Ex-Chief Justice Marston Replies
to Schurz's Falsehoods.
The Mulligan Letters Examined and
Accounted For.

supreme court OF Michigan, delivered a mas
terly speech In reply to the at ack of Cur
Schurz on Mr.. Blaine in regard to the Null
gan letters. From it the following extracts
are mad:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN--It has not beer
my privilege or good fortune to attemp
TO make a political speech In the
last ten years. l do not wish to be un
derst0od that during that time | had en-
tirtly lost all interest i'll politics or that
/ had paid no q tention to the politica
Issues of the day. During that time | had
reaf, Ii tened and formed opinions, although
l expressed them not in public, and upon
SOME of Jh- questions OF the day had male
up my mind from the information thai |
then OBJ aimed. Years ago some questions
that are Ggitating the people at
the present day were brought forward
aud discussed, not only in congress:
bur spread broadcast among the people, who
read for themselves aud came to conc usion
thereon. had thel read what were know
rs the Mulligan letters. and had come to a
conclusion. supposed that question was
entir, " SO tied ard that the author of those
letters had b Ell vindicated by reelection
after reelection, by placing him in positions
of nonor and political trust, and finding him
true in each and every instance.
OF late days the same question has been
raised again. l re member when about 90
years of age reading the speec es of one who
then delighted me and was one Of my early
political educators. But few short weeks
ago he commenced making speeches upon this
question, discussing these letters. and draw
ing from them conclusions different from
what had drawn many years ago; and re.
memecring the plea lre with which had
read his sDeeches on those occa siOns / con
cluued sgain 10 review what he had to say
gain To read the arguments he had made
aud the evidence that he produced, so that
l might honestly and conscier tiou,ly come
t. a correcr conclusion. and if ] had erred
in the conclu ion that j previously arrived
AZ that l might revise it. and at least vote
In ELI emily.
l consd it the duty Of every citizen to
inform himself upon the polit ca issues of
the d V, 20 cas- his vote for ne of the two
grr at parties, arc thus perform his duty. IL
is dly for him tn remain a. home.
and | decline TO do 1T, AM it is equally
co sardly for one tn throw his vote away by
voting for third party, OF whom there
is no. the slightest possibility of election.
Applause ] therefore procured the argu-
nj mt of The Hon. Mr.. Schurz at he mad
m de in this clty, and 1 T. adj il carefully.
confess to you { at the first time | read it
over it was with astonlsbment, and / re-
turned and read IL with ams cement as TO the
conclusions which he had drawn from tue
evidp, &c which be produced, and ak vour
candid atent on tonight while direct your
att mt on to that argument. And tina may
not misqu tie The honorable gen lemau. / will
c1pfine myself closely o the language VIII ch
he then used, although IN so doing may not
be quite so interesting as | would like TO he
on an ccasiOn ~ this kind. ask your care
full attention VIII lie | present thu facts aud
cha, ges to you and theu show The evldence
upon wb Gil i is based. do not wish to do
1t Ia any cavlling md techni al spint.
wish to MEET he ques Ion IN the full st and
brOndes extern, not only the char-e th@t h.
mad, but from the evIdei ce and all the
evidence have been bic ub ain. 10 SHOW
you that James q. Blaine stands pure before
the Amer can eople.
THE CHARGES sERIATIM
general charge is made by Mr.. schurz:
First thai Mr. Blaine belongs to that class
81 po ttic,sns who represent the principle in
public life hat as much must be made as
can be made. You will SEQ lhas this is a
very broad. gener | and comprt hensve
charge; but he follows it with this more
specific statement that in 1876 rumors-mark
the la guage, rumors-srOs. Of the Union
Pacific raj road company having purchased a
lot Of Lit lie Rock & Fort Smith bonds,
paying S64 00O theref r, and that
these bonds when sold were worth
but SIS 00O to So, 900 Secondly, IT, was
fumored hat tlrese oonds were b ugh from
NJ Blame, ana that the SG4.000 pas ed inio
hi hands. Third, that su b sum Uaid was
Vastly larger than the market value of tn.
bDud-, and IL might be supposed Mr.. Blaine
hsn ione some KIND of favor to the Union
Pacific railroad mPany. To these rumors
the speaker then gives more definits desig-
nation by saying that those accusa ions e.
ME go serious tina on Apr "A, 1876. Mr..
81 ne arose l. his seat aud satd, first, The
ST ~ of tn S64 900 was not true; condly.
the uwnersh p of Lutte Rock bonds was
entirely harmless, because toat railroad COM
pany nan absolutely hing TO do With The
& venmert and congress; and, thirdly, that
he had paid full market vice for the
Ii tie Rock bonds, like anybody else.
These are the three specific charges
which Mr.. Scturz u dertopk C. prove by
Mr.. Ri ines words aud pen to b. untru |;
md suppose enc first stated Is d so 10
b ak II in'o consideration, as that seems 70
mprehend the whole, namely, that Mr..
81 inc bel u gs to tbat class of politicians
who believe that In pu lie life as much must
be IN d. as can he made.
After ne had thus m de his specific
Charge, after he had stated that he was
gong to prove the truth thereof, from the p II
and rne lips Of James q. Il aine-conscIous,
r. it seems To me, OF the fact chat tho evil
dence which he was about to produce would
not sustain the cbarges-and although upon
that occasion he had an audience If citizens
Del 'neing To this city, composed largely, rs
have right to presume, OF the Democratic
party, an audience In no way favor.
nt'sfcd with the prejudice existing
against him, he attempted G. CRATE and
enlarge that prejudice aud embitter t, so
hat he might max a still deeper impression
by he evidence that he would produce. For
his purpose he rec ted the fact that when
Nu ligan came to Washington Blaine went
here and begg, of him t. let him have
hose l. tiers, went down upon his knees, and
II the anne of his wife and his children
isked that Trey he given To him; and UT.
when he mad that recital he knew us we'll
Is my man could know, that, 50 far as any
act C ud be proved TO be untrue, tn Sc
acts that he sat as to what Mr. Blaine
aid on that OCCASION were not borne out and
nsiained by the evidence [Grrat applause.
Nuigan himself Is fled that upon two
,ccasion~ Blaine had repea ed the same Ian
,uage. On one OF those occasions fortunately,
fisher and others we're present and they tes
ify that Blaine used no such language In
heir hearing upon that occasion, and Blaine
hims IL denied having made use of any such
language. Yet the honorable speaker takes
Muligan's story, and throws aside all other
evide' &c IN the case, for the very purpose of
prejudicing his arers Not only that, but
le saws the telegraph flashed across the
sountr' the manner in which M. Blaine
aad Obta mad Jhase lRtIprs and Rlaina