The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-25
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CONFIDENTIAL
WASHINGTON, d. c., April l6, 1876.
My DEAR Mr.. FIsHER-You cIn do
ME very great favor, and l know it will
give you pleasure to do so, just AS l
would do for you under similar circum
stances. Certain persons and papers
are trying to throw mud ut me to injuN
my candidacy before the Cincinnati
Convention, and you may observe they
are trying it in connection with the
Little Rock and Fort Smith matter. l
want you to send me letter rs the in
closed drafts. You will receive this
Tomorrow (Monday) evening and it will
be favor shall never forget, if you
will ut once write me the letter and mail
it the same evening. The letter is
strictly true, is honorable to you and to
me-, will stop the mouths of slanderers
at once. Regard this letter as strictly
confidential Do not show it to any one.
The draft is in the hands of my clerk,
who is ms trustworthy as any man can
be. Ii you can't get the letter written
in season for the nine O'Clock mail to
New York, please be- sure and mail it
during the uight, 80 it will start frs
mail Tuesday morning; hut, if possible,
pray you to get ii in the nine O'Clock
mail Monday evening. Kind regards to
Mrs Fisher.
Sincerely. j. &. b.
(Durn thus letter.
lniorspd on the back. Not know
ing your xact address, | send this TO
the Parker House, in order that il may
(no) br subjected to any danger in the
hand, of II carrier. J. G. b.
The following is the Enclosure referred
to in the preceding:
BosroN. Anril, 1876.
To Hon. Jas. q. Blaine, Washington, DC.
DEAR SIE--l observe that G rtain
new, papers are making, or rather insin-
Mating the absurd charge that you own,
or had owned $4,000 of the Little
Rock and TT. Smith railroad bonds and
that you had in some way obtained
them MS IL gratuty. The enterprise Of
quilting the Little Rock and Fort Smith
railroad WIS undertaken in 1869 by II
company of Boston gentlemen of whom
[ was myself one. The bonds of the
road were put upon the market in this
city on what was deemed very advanta-
geous terms to the purchaser. They
were sold largely through myself. You
became the purchaser OF about $50 600
worth of the bonds on precisely the
same terms that every other buyer re-
c, wed, paying for them in installments
running over considerable period, just
~ others did. The transaction WIS
perfectly open and there WAS no more
secrecy in regard to it than if you had
been buying -four or sugar. nm sure
you never owned bond of the road
that you did not pay for at the market
rate Inneed am sure that no one res
ceived bonds on any other terms. When
the rond got into financial difficulties,
and loss tell upon you, You still retained
yous bonds, and You held them clear
through the reorganiz ltion of the com
pany in 1876, exchanging them for stock
and bonds of the new company. You
acquired, also, some demands against
the new company by reason of your
having joined with othera in raising
some money when the company WAS in
pressing need For the recovery of that
money proceedings are now pending IN
the United States Circuit Court in Ar
kansas, to which you are openly party
of record. Coucealment of the invest
ment ond everything connected with it
would have been very easy had conceal
ment been desired; but your action in
the whole matter was open and as fair
rs the day Very sincerely yours,
Sigued, W. II, JR
We regret that the want of space pre-,
clndes us from publishing all the cor
rpspondence between the trio, Blaine,
Fisher and Mullgan, but the above let>
ttrs are II fair sample of all of them,
and are sufficient to damn forever politi-
cally, the Knight OF the White Plume"