The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-07-10
rIIE WEEKLY nEnALD DAlAs TEXAS TnINspAy IN 10 nsL

holf mllllon dollars, ft '1osa llhp one.
ihld what Oiupf sales NJ sutll Interests
won't nt" Whv NnH n also ilnl M iliis
plnin Nton transaction iuf n friend, y
lfnnsteflnn dictated VS. his "nfat Hn1
brHi" lnpulfrH, hr Should hr 80 tk.
trpmply ansluus thu llg unino should
he Eppi wholly in the dnrki "uf course,
li comforting with others, Keep my
name quiet, ucniInnluH II ~ no ono
Unless NJ. tnldWullt'
Mr.. Fisher put im the s4i,nI, aud re-
rriyod lllulnr's receipt therefor Months
passed aud Fisher received ~ Stock
certificates, and hpramp uneasy ~
Insl lee compelled Mr. Blaine Ia return
the tsi,0u, with Interest, the speaker
hcing unable tO turn over the share ~
agreed upon with Fisher. The vital n
quiry hero l., how happened II that Mr.,
Elaine, ~ soon after the "nddltionnl
legislation had been obtained" WIS able
To control u twonty-tOurth share In this
Gigantic corporHtiony II IL was n share
that was "a he had for the mono" SIM
ply, why did hr not purchase II ~ once
upon receiving the S2l,VD, from his
friend for whom he WAS 10 peculiarly
anxious to hryP Why, 'wAft aud allow
this great fortune, fvfthc ifsking almost,
to pass again from beyond his coniroly
The answer IN obvious IL was not u
share to hc bought. In some mysteri-
Gus way he was To get u share and work
II or ON his lifelong friend for
S2j 900, and pocket the money. From
some cause or other the "previous ar
rangcment "evidently did not work
noothly-somebody jumped the track,
and no was forced at last to return the
money 10 Fisher with interest.
So much for Mr.. Blaine rs Speaker.
II IL not n record that n man jealous and
sollcitous about his spOtless honor would
desire. IL is not u record of that purity
to commcnd,its maker to the masses OF
the Union as a lit occupant OF the eNecu-
tive chair, but those Republican Eph-
rains who are joined to their idols may
.ce but little Objectionable "a the view.
To prostitute a great Office for private
gain Is theoretically crime against
government and II base betrayal of tho
people, but II Is barely possible that there
arc some good honest mon who can see
nothing in I'LL this record hut an attack
on Blaine by his political foes. II so. so
he II. They are of those emphntically
'.who have eyes and yet see not
Mr.. Blainc's ugly connection VIII, an
ot her gigantic and fraudulent scheme
while he was Gariicld's Secretary of
state is still fresh in the public mind
and needs no elaboration. Ii was his
attempt to take up and enforce rs II
Government policy, the claim of certain
spectators 10 the guanO beds OF Peru.
II was u modest little claim only
amounting TO one thousand millions OF
dollars and had about as much foundn-
ton in right and justice and fact as
Austria, Russia and Prussia had in the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of Poland, or as any
other National robbery, pure and sim
pie, has hal. And yet Blaine was push
nag it tor his friend Shiphcw for all 1t
was worth. The common rnmor of the
day was that the Secretary WAS To he
''greased" literally from head to foot hut
tnat was possibly an unjust exas gera-
lou.
"a RoLD, BAD MAN
From all ofwhirh II must be confessed
that the record looks b!otchcd and spot
ted. Ink spots are scattered all over the
text and margin, and the Republican
candidate for the Presidency stands out
as cmphatically "a bold, bad II an His
common associates while in Qii'c nj posi-
ton appear TO have been lobby lists. Job
bcrs and schcming spectators, to all of
whom he was ever and enthusiastically
a iidus Achates. II he was not the re-
ripicnt ne was nj least repeatedly tho in
strument of corrupt bargains, and If
elected to tho Presidency would enter
the executive mansion with record
that indicates Enthusiastically that he
would not hesitate to install his re
sources. whether public or private, for
the fiuthorancc of his own selfish n ced
and dangerous ambition.