The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-06
Thu NAN FROM MAINE
4 Shocking story" Fortified by n
PhalanX of Facts.
MEME, MEME, TEkEL, UPHARSlNl
The Handwriting on the White House
Mall-Blaine as the Belshazzar of
To-Day - Dead Mulligan IL
Dread Enough Daniel.
What Those "TattO0" Tracings Tell
--Of Theft and Trickery.
Sinister Spiotches on the Shield of the
flumed knight-A Craven Record
Checked and Counterchecked
Ever by Corruption.

icSpOnucucc' I-- W llen Il man oilers him.
self for so exalted u position as the Pres
idency Of the United States, no dirt |
should cling to his skirts, no clouds of
should hover around him, no .
question rest upon his personal honor or |
integrity.
The very fact that Il man is the candi- |
date OF great party for such a position, |
arolSeS interest in the popular mind and |
inquiry as to his personal |
as well as political or public record, and !
it is from this natural desire, and very |
proper one, indeed, that the whole cOun- |
try is now craving information Of the |
referred to, with reference to |
Mr. Blaine. In hiscasc also the interest |
is specially intense, from the fact that |
y large and respectable element of his |
party have openly repudiatcd his nomi- |
nation and candidacy on the ground that |
he represents The worst clementin Amer |
lean politics. Then, again, the famous F.,
pictorials have held him up as the "tat- |
tOcd man. and represented him as COW
cred from the "crOwn of his head to the |
sOles of his fcet' with schemes and Jobs
and corrupt bargains that occurred dur
ing his occupancy of office.
But Few OF the people comparatively, ! |
find, know just what the true history and
real significance of the familiar subjects
of Puck'S "tattOes" are; and I herewith
furnish your Texas readers with rs de-
tailed account as possible intho limits Cf
this letter Of those transactions OF the
past that now rise like BanQuo ghosts to
plague and contound the great "Pumcd
Knight of American politics. as his ar
dent admircr, the inhdCl Ingprspll.
dubbed him in the convention Of 1876.
The story commences with Blqnc's
election to the Speakershipi in 1868 in the
Forty-iirst Congress.
PLACING IiIM UNDER FIRE.
On May the md, 70 the following res
olution was submitted and agreed to in
the House of Representatives.:
"NHEREAS, it is publicly alleged and
iSnot denied by the officers OF the Union
Pacific railrOad company, that that cor
poratiOn did in the year 1871 or 1872, be-
come the owner OF certain bonds of the
Little Rock IL Fort Smith Railroad COM
pany, for which bonds the said Union
Pacific paid n consideration largely in
excess OF their actual or market value,
and that the Board Of Directors of said
Union Pacific railroad company, though
urged, have neglected to investigate
said transaction, therefore, be it
"Resolved, that the committee on the
Judiciary be instructed to inquire if any
such transaction took place, and if so,
what were the circumstances and in
ducementS thereto, from what person or
persons said bonds were obtained and
upon what consideration and whether
the transaction was from corrupt design
or IN furtherance of any corrupt obiect
and that the committee have power to
send for persons and DapCrS."
1t is needless to say that this rcsolu-
ton was aimed directly at Blaine.
To man occupying the position he
did and having his aspirations this i'm
quiry was terrible blow. The Repub-
licnn National .conv 1ntion, which he OK
pected would nominate him for the
Presidency, was soon to meet ut Cincin-
natl. Tho Investigators were working
tooth and nail. Intense interest was Ia
ken in the inquiry by men of both po-
litical parties, but particularly by The
course, anxious to avoid the nomination
OF man, no matter how brilliant his in
tellectual powers, who would he COM
PEELED at the very threshold of the cam
paign to attempt an explanation Of Ger
tain questionable transactions.
Mr. Blaine Immediately, on the floor
of the House, denounced the charges
against him, in the most passionate
terms, as malicious inventions. His
speech caused tremendous excitement I'm
the House and throughout the country.
The Sunday before the Republican
National convention was to meet ut Gin
c.nnati he started for church at Washing
ton in the company of Miss Dodge, II
relative. The day was intensely warm.
Just GS they reached the door of the
sanctuary Mr.. Blaine fell with great vio-
lcnCc to the walk, rs If dead. \ largo
crowd gathered, and he was con
vpyed home in Nn unconscious condition.
Bulletins concerning him were sent To
all parts Of the country and caused u
profound sensation. 1t appeared from
the statements of his physicians that he
had been proslratcd by the heat, but his
enemies declared that his alleged illness
was only the work of cOnsunmstC
actor, who had adopted this device To
gain sympathy, and cause an adjourn
ment of the Mulligan inquiry until after
the Cincinnati Convention had done its
work.
At any rate this fact caused the
abandonment of the investigation ut that
timc, and the fierce and critical struggle
between Hayes and Tilden coming on
Immediately after, nothing further was
ever uOnc WIN the ltlatler.
But the spot had fastened itself upon
his skirts, the White Plume had
been soiled by the dust of damaging tes-
timony and the records and miscelln-
neOus documents of the House now
contain the whole dark story. That
record IL public property, and | now
draw from 1t freely for the benefit OF
your readers. Such matters as are stated
a. facts are from the files themselves.
the letters were admitted genuine by
Blaine himself, and tho conclusions Of
the writer only are opcn TO question.
The public can Judge for itself M to the
correctness of those conclusions.
SAVING A LAND GRANT GRAN.
In tho laht days of tho session of tho
Forty-hrst Congress, in 1869, there was
pending a measure to confirm large
land grant in Arkansas to the Little
Rock / Fort Smith railroad. 1t was a
most vital measure, of course to the rail-
road, then merely n paper enterprise
whose bonds had no market value, and
In inct were not quoted In the exchanges.
Upon tho last night OF the session Ju-
liRn, OF Indiana, moved an amendment
To the hill that would have virtually
killed the measure, at least postponed II
for long period.
In this dilemma Mr.. Blaine came to
the front M the friend Of the enterprise,
calling his page, sending him to Gen.
Logan, then member of the House, and
suggesting point of order against the
amendment. Tho point was made and
promptly sustained 10y Speaker Blaine,
and the big lHnd-grnb scheme went
through. Here was Mr.. Blaine, while In
the Speakers chair, hunting up u man
on the floor to raise n point of order
against n measure designed to kill a
land grand Job. This was in the middle
of April. lSdD, before Mr.. Blaine had
fairly settled down IN the Speakers