Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-06

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of race Blaine had approved the
movement designed TO restore the con.
troll OF local affairs to the people
and most If not all these masters of
Arkansas We're adventures who, at
the closing of hostilities, had stuffed
off In moral rOttenness from Northern
or Southern armies.
AN HONEST CARPET~BAaGER.
Col. A. z. Curry of the Union army
had been sheriff after the war In Mem
! phis, Tenn. There he was esteemed a
faultless officer and citizen. He be.
came railway contractor and builder
and thus a citizen OF Little Rock.
Curry was brought before Proctor
Knottls committee and stated under
oath that A. p. Robinson had said to
him that Joseph Caldwell, the Bos-
tonian builder and owner of the Fort
Smith q Little Rock road, had sent
10 Blaine $50, 900 of the bonds of this
railway corporation, Robinson stating
that he himself bore and delivered the
bonds to Blaine, even In the speakers
room Of the house OF representatives
| The United States marshal at Little
Rock was telegraphed to send Robin
son to Washington. He came instant
ly, but o. A. Hadley, who had figured
In the history of Arkansas as a quasi
reconstruction governor OF that luck
less commonwealth, telegraphed Rob
inson, while Robinson was en- route to
Washlngt IN; III must meet you 200
miles from this city; WHEREOF Had
ley was Clayton's man Friday and
supposed to be inimical to Blaine, but
was really, as soon discovered, In
Blaine's service.
Robinson telegraphed Hadley: "Meet
me at st, Nicholas hotel, New York
city" There Hadley met and soothed
Robinson rs best he could Hadley
sent rom the st. Nicholas telegram
TO Poker Jack Mcclure, chiefjustice of
Arkansas, then with the whole bevy
of reconstruction rulers of the state in
Washington, telling him by what
route and when he and Robinson left
New York for the federal capital Cur
ry met Robinson at the railroad sta
ton in this city at 6 a. m, and re-
NAMED with him till . p. IN. Then
Curry and David Il. Slckles and the
rest of the Arkansas carpetbag mag
mates went over from the senate corri-
dor, where they met, TO the Congress
sional hotel, hardly Ben Buffers
granite quarry, to drink and discuss
the situation. While crossing the
street railway Sickles asked Curry,
els Robinson to be trusted?n "Yes,n
answered Curry, HE will swear TO
just what he told me-"
WHAT HE DID SWEAR.
Next morning Robinson went be.
fore Proctor Knotps committee and
swore that Caldwell, the railroad
builder, did give him q package sent
by Caldwell to Blaine but that he,
Robinson, did not know what the
package contained, and that Blaine
threw it carelessly on the sofa in his,
the speakers room. Proctor Knott
asked Robinson when and where
he last saw Blaine and Robinson was
finally forced to tell the truth, that he
had seen him the evening before at
Blaine's own house and at Blaines
request.
d. e. mot Gen. DAM Slckles resided
in Arkansas for time but was citi-
zen of New York and in Washington
at this period cooperating with other
carpetbaggers of Arkansas in opposing
Blaine's political and other schemes.
He wac the confidential friend of
Josiah Caldwell, then residing in q
small town in Italy. Caldwell could
only be reached through London
office and Sickles alone knew how TO
confer with him. Sickles "cabledr
Caldwell for the numbers of the bonds
which Caldwell had given Blaine, that
he (Slckles) might know whether they
conceded In their numbers with
those sold by Blaine to Tom Scott.
IL is well TO note this fact since IL
had been stated that Blaine was only
Caldwelps agent in selling these
bonds.
Blaine was advised, next day, of the
Geographic transmission of this In
quiry to Caldwell and he was instant
ly 'sunstruck"! The godly man was
en- route TO his church and fell another
Ananias at its gateway. Blaineis act
ing was as admirable as Ananias'
honest death. Mccullough, the
tragedian, says it is inimitable. But
the desperate condition. of Blaine
suspended the prosecution before Proc
ter Knotts committee. From the day
that Blaine fell Sickles became his
closest friend and constant visitor al
Blaine's residence.
After Blalne's recovery Sickles be-
came consul-general to Bangkok
at q salary of $500 and
his son was the consul's marshal at
800. Blaine had Sickles appointed
as from Arkansas; but Dorsey forced
him TO change his pretended place of
residence, threatening, otherwise, TO
defeat his nomination. Meanwhile
Blaine's protracted suffering from sun
stroke dispersed Proctor Knott's com
mittee. Curry was forced 10 return TO
Arkansas. The witnesses, like alckles,
Were Bangkoked and others coddled
and induced TO give indefinite and
soothing statements, and on its gen
eral outside appearance Blaine's dab
bling, while speaker, in Immigrant
railroad bonds and stock, as
stated by that exceedingly nice
and proper aud gushing young man
from New jersey, VIM. Walter Phelps, |
seemed little more offensive to the |
popular sense and standard Of hon
esty, than Senator Edmunds' trifiinp |
Wall street operations.
IL was the tremendous absurdity |
involved in this assumption affecting
Edmunds that excited his ire and |
VIM: Walter was made, by the burly
old WarfpOntar n WALTZ into, eN .....,. /