Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-06-17
Damned by the Party.


A TERRIBLE ATTACHMENT BY A LEADING
REPUBLICAN JOURNAL OF BLAINE-HIs
ROTTEN RECORD GIVEN TO THE COUNTRY
HIS ILL GOTTEN GAINS.
Chicago News (Republican)
1t is fair to suppose that the object OF the
National Republican Convention to convene
to-day is to place in nomination man who
has some chance of election. The Blame
men say they are opposed to the election OF
Arthur because he cannot be elected, but
when asked to give their reasons nothing
coherent can be obtained from them. The
fact is that one is surprised at the unanim-
ity of opinion expressed by even the Blaine
delegates from the close States, that Mr..
Arthur would, if nominated, poll the full
and entire party vote of the States they rep
resent. But how is it with Mr.. Blaine p
What have the noisy delegates who are
manipulating his tin-pan boom in the cor
ridors of our hotels to say to the reasons
that are given for his inability to secure a
majority ofelectoral votes
HIS GREAT FRAUD.
Take his public record as it is made up.
During his first session in Congress he pro-
posed the great fraud by which the first
lien of the government on the Pacific roads,
amounting to 100000 ,000 was surrender
ed and was lost to the Government This
great fraud wasexposed by Mr.. Washburne.
of Illinois. What he received for his efforts
to defraud the Government is not known.
A FICTITIOUS STOCK TRANSACTION.
His dealings with Fisher concerning
Northern Pacific stock, in which, by his
own letters, it appears he desired to transfer
to him for S., 900 a lot of fictitious stock of
that road, is another of those transactions
which Mr.. Phelps, in his frantic efforts to
clear Mr.. Blaine, could not explain.
His Little Rock and Fort Smith scheme,
in which he prostituted his position as
Speaker to assist corporation, receiving
$32, 600 first-mortgage bonds and $3.50, 000
in land grant bonds without paying any
thing himself, has never been honored with
an attempt at explanation.
| His arrangement with Mr.. Scott, by
which that gentleman took from Mr.. Blaine
| $75, 1000 worthless bonds, and, to relieve
him, put them off upon the Union Pacific
road for $64, 600 cash, has not been explain
ed by any officer Of that road, nor has it
ever been denied.
| DESTROYING EVIDENCE OF HIS GUILT.
His destroying of the evidence against
him as they existed in the Mulligan letters
pending congressional investigation was a
virtual admission of the truth of the charges
against him, which if proved, would have
resulted in his expulsion from Congress-
His opposition in 1874 to the force bill for
the protection of the colored voters of the
South, the defeat of which has rendered it
impossible for his party to carry a southern
State, cannot endear any southern Republi-
can. lie was persistent in his efforts to de-
feat the measure and succeeded.
He voted against the reconciliation of
silver, and when Mr.. Hayes vetoed the bill
Mr.. Blaine was one Of the nineteen senators
who voted against passing the bill over his
veto.
IN THE PACIFIC ROAD RING.
| In 1878 he opposed the Thurman bill
which was to compel the subsidized Pacific
to the government, and was the spokesman
of the powerful lobby to defeat the measure.
The same year he was the tool Of the
timber thieves, and made his famous attack
on Mr.. Sehurz, who was attempting to pro-
tect the timber lands of the government
from thieves who were despoiling the land
of its wealth of timber.
The same year he supported measure
for substituting certain steamship lines which
Senator Edmunds defeated.
1t is not necessary to lengthen such re-
cord, the proof of which is abundant in the
records Of Congress and in the columns of
such Republican papers as the Cincinnati
Commercial, the Chicago Tribune, the St.
Louis Globe Democrat, and hosts of others
less prominent. From the day of his nomi-
nation to the eve of his defeat the Republi-
can party would be kept busy trying to ex-
plain record that admits Of noexplanation
and to acquit of crimes candidate whom
his own party knows is guilty beyond &C
quittal.