Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-23
3 BI5LAINE'S DEFENSE.
The Crookedness Of MI. Blaine's
Speculations.

How Great Religious Newspaper Looks
Upon the Lame and Impotent Efforts OF
the Republican Candidate to
Clear His Skirts.
There is this one thing that every one can
see for himself in Mr.. Blaine's defense the
crookedness of it. We propose to tell the
Fifteen minutes after Mr.. MuIligan arrived
in Washington to give his testimony, he was
which he declined. 4 did not, SAID he, want
to have it said that l had gone to see MIR.
Blaine. Wanred to come into this committee
untrammeled'' Up. IS Moi. Doe. 17e, Part Il
When his testimony began, he went on
quietly until he remarke ed that certain letters
between Fisher and Blaine were in his pos
session. What happened then was described
by Mr.. Hunton. Chairman of the Sub-commit-
tee of the House, in the presence of MIR. Blaine,
who did not contradict him.
MIR. Mulligan was testifylng very quietly:
there was no excitement in the committee
room at all, when he happened to mention
that he had in his possession certain letters
written by Mr.. Blame to Warren Fisher, Jr.
The mention of these letters seemed to have
an extraordinary effect on MIR: Blaine; for: in
Mr.. Lawrence the republican member of that
committee, Move an adjournment 1t so
happened that l heard the suggestion. Mr..
Lawrence got up with great solemnity, and
said: Mr.. Chairman, am very SICK, and 1
nope Tue cOmniCtee Will aQlOuru.
MIR. Blaine then proceeded to make the most
OF his one chance more with the man who
would not come to him.
The first interviews are admitted to have
been friendly. Mr. Blaine. on his own account,
w, Q still hobnobbing with him, and doing
what he could with persuasives to get the let
tiers. or to lock them up.
Mulligans account of Blane's importantly
is. much of 1t, met with that gent,emans de-
NAL, and must be set aside as improved.
That MIR. Blaine tried him with hints as to
great things to be done for him in case he
proved plant is denied too feebly to leave it
Soubtful IN his own account of the matter.
81 jokingly remarked whether he would not
like TO go abroad in some official capacity. AS
he has represented here it would be inferred
that had asked him to accept a censulship;
but there was nothing of the kind whatever.
would not say that Mr.. Mulllgan fasifes. 1
do not want to say that at all. There might
nave been room for his putting a construction
on what said.
at them on the promise to return them Ihis
look apparently made him clear that he must
have them; and when Mulhgan, with easy
good-nature, put them into his hands for
another look, ne carried them Off, on the plea
that this time the promise to give them back
did not hold, and that they were his private
correspondence and not to be used against
HIM.
The next turn in this tortuous lane brings
June 5, 1876, when on a question of privilege,
Mr.. Blaine proceeded, as he said, Ito invite
the confidence of 100000 of my conntrymen
while read these letters from the desk. In
plain words, he broke away from the judicial
examination the moment it threatened to dis
close anything against him, dragged the evil
dence away from tribunal where it would be
strictly examined, to another where it could
not be examined at all. raised the party cry.
up the whole investigation.
Reports of the letters he read are printed
in the Congressional Record, but the docume ats
were never verified. MIR. Blaine treated the
House and the IA Coz, 900 of his countrymen"
as he did his lawyers He I'm vited their con
tiers were received from James Mulligan."
To Mr.. Hale's question
Does the exhibit which the gentleman has
made cover every paper. of every kind what
ever, that came from Mulligan?"
he replied:
But how could the 1900 600, whose conf
dence he had invited, know that those were
the identical papers taken from Mr.. Multi
Mr. Blaine met that point, first by his asser-
ton, and next by affirming their correspond
ence with Mr.. Mulligan' 8 memorandum seized
with them. He said:
They are dated and they correspond pre-
S Sae b wreh US wn so
lection to myself; for 1t Is valuable sho,0
ing the identity Of The letters in euerg respect"
memorandum. to the accuracy of which Mr..
Blaine had thus pledged himself. and when
the clerk came to No. s. and read the now IA
October "a, II, Fisner to Blaine. urging
settlement of N. P. r. account, $25.oo0."
Mr.. Blaine rose and said:
Os.There was no such letter in the package.
The letter he speaks of seems to have been
letter from Mr.. Fisher to myself. There was no
he has given do not call for 1t. There are fif
teen letters and three pieces of paper AT any
rate, it was not q letter from me-
The memorandum was then read through
with but one more interruption from Mr..
Blaine, and we are able to test the assertion
that the letters in his version correspond
precisely with il"
First of ali. No. s. described in this memo
randum which Mr.. Blaine had just said he
ss()ctOher
"A, n, Fisher to Blaine, urging settlement
of N. P. r. account, $4,000" was not read.
those recently published, exposes a trans
action hard to Be distinguished from com
men he and a To on tsa5
with the formidable memorandum. added
1.-THE numbers he has given do not call for it.
There are fifteen letters, and three pieces OF
Those three pieces of paper" are the con-
sand Nol 6 Mr. ~ Blaine threw them ont 1, Of
the fifteen numbers of the memorandum, and
had them printed as foot-notes in the Con-
call for fifteen letters, but for thirteen: and
of these thirteen Mr.. Blaine declared that one
was not in the package; Twelve only remain
to support himself in the assertion that No.
was not in the package, he said that fifteen
were called for, and fifteen had been read.
The examination of the letters shows three
which can not be discovered in the memoir.
andum. They follow each other in the Con-
exactly fiji the gap and round out the fifteen
numbers which Mr.. Blaine relied on to keep
him on good terms with the memorandum.
Where did those three letters come from?
But the effrontery of this crook in his de-
tense was to be surpassed by another.
the judiciary Committee proctor knott), ac-
cused him of having suppressed a cablegram
IRON hfo fr osaf The Charges bronrht against him
and moved the previous question on a reso-
luton to instruct the Judiciary Committee
This cable was traced from point to point,
until we have its history in sworn testimony,
given in open court, under cross-examina-
Mr.. Knott receivedit from London. but was
so impressed with Its suspicious FEATURES that
he held it back Until ne eosla SASSY
from Maine. exonerated Knott from the
charge of suppressing evidence. he salu
openly in Congress that the dlspatcn was not
evidence in court.
But it has become evidence out OF COURT
and this is the story OF It: .o,,,e, 70 sa,a
for Caldwell. Mr.. Whiting. manager OF the ne
Washington office, produced telegram am, to
Caldwell in London, dated that day, signed
bv Mr. Blaine's Intimate friend, A. P. Robin
eon. directing him to cable the strongest in
given to the committee. Two other dispatches
to the same person and on the same suDJect
were produced
Scott. giving the Endorsement suggested
above: and, within a few minutes OF us ar
rival while Scott was yet wondering what IL
ali meant came one Reed, with a cabiegram
to Caldwell which he submitted to Scott and
wished him to send at his own expense. Scott
refused and Reed went away. saying he
should then have TO send it himself, though 1t
would cost him $52. Y. This cablegram was
fIei at The Philadelphia Office and runs thus:
.Dispatch received. Cable this Immediately
to Chairman House Judiciary Committee,
Washington,
Then follows the dictated dispatch which
read with trifing exceptions, word for word
with that which came to Mr. Knott on the
morning of June l.. Four days later Blaine