Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
HOAR ON BLAINE.
The Allegations Made by Schnrz in
His BrOOkly Speech Effectively
Answered.


Boston. Mass, Aug. 2e-The Journal
to-day publishes a letter from Senator
Hoar, in which he cOntrOverts and dis
proves the allegations in Mr.. Schurz's
Brooklyn speech. which furnishes the
Independents their sole ammunition.
Senator Hoar shows that Mr.. Blaine
has not been charged with a dishonest
or even erroneous ruling; that he has
not been charged with any corrupt or
dishonest act whatever. He shows that
the sentences in the letters to Fisher,
which Mr.. Blaine's enemies have dis
torted into evidence of guilt, are sus-
ceptible of an Interpretation more natu-
raj than that which Mr.. Schurz gives
them-better in accord with the estsb>
lished facts in the transaction and per-
fectly consistent with personal and pO-
litical integrity-and he well says that
the Interpretation which Mr.. SchurZ
forces upon these letters is "the very
essence of uncharitableness." The want
on charges of falsehood which Mr.Schurz
makes Senator Hoar dispOses of briefly
and effectively.
Senator Hoar starts out by saying:
Il have received your kind and excel
lent letter. With what you say of the
right and duty of every citizen to obey
the dictates of bis individual conscience
and judgment in casting his vote fully
agree. If the principles of our party be
injurious to the public welfare, if the
party or its candidate be corrupt, we
ought to leave it. Indeed, it can easily
be shown that the attitude of the party
calling itself Independent is such at this
moment that every honest and cOnscien-
tious man in it ought to bolt and come
over to US. You asked me if | have
read Mr.. SchurZs speech and what l
think of it. have read it carefully.
Mr.. SchurZ is very able man. His
ability consists in his power OF clear and
skillful statement He has never shown
his superior skill more conspicuOusly
than in this speech, Mr.. Blaine is to be
congratulated that his ableSt antagonist |
has put together the case against MIN |
where it can be met and encountered. |
We may take il for granted that what
Mr.. SchurZ has bot said in this speech |
against the personal honesty of Mr.. |
Blaine is not worth saying. Other sto- |
ries, more or less plausible, are occa-
sionally seen in the papers which slight |
Investigation and consideration easily |
refutes. But what Mr.. Schurz has not
thought worth indorsing it cannot be |
very important TO answer"
Speaking of the Little Rock & Fort !
Smith matter Hoar says:
MR. Schurz says Mr.. Blaine refused |
to let the letters 60 into the hands OF
the officers of the House that such
a thing was ever done by any one who
read letter to the House. If Mr.. SchurZ
means to say that the letters were not
seen by the stenographers, do not now
remember on what he can base such
statement. But az any rate they were
shown to Judge Black. a Jealous Demo-
crat, and to Senator Carpenter, an intiu-
ential memcer of the portion of the Re-
publican party most opposed to his can
didacy, and to ether gentlemen in high
standing. But Mr.. SchurZ says he is
amazed at Mr.. Blaine's energetic protest
at the prying into his private affairs.
Here was aSpeaker charged with cor
ruption. Should he not have said:
Take everything, search, sift, question,
let in the sunlight? think he forgets
the circumstances. The American peo-
pie do not forget them. The House had
ordered the Judiciary Committee to in
quire whether the Pacific railroad COM
panies bad complied with the law and
applied the noley, lands and
bonds granted them by the Government.
Some months after further resolve
was introduced inquiring whether the
Union Pacific Railroad had received cer-
tain bonds of the Little Rock & Fort
Smith road at price far beyond their
value. This grew out of rumOr that
Mr.. Blaine was connected with trans
action OF this kind. He, as the country
well remembers, had just rendered the
COnfederates in the House extremely
angry by his charge that jefferson Davis
was responsible for the horrors of An
dersonville. The Democratic chairman
of the Judiciary Committee referred this
investigation to subcommittee of
three, of whom the chairman was reb-
ell general, and another member of the
rebel Congress. They investigated this
and the evidence absolutely
and beyond all question exonerated Mr..
Blaine. There was no evidence of the
charge but two pieces of hearsay."