The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-10-11
THE CHAMPION LIAR.

TO eNculpate Blaine from one Of the
many shameful lies that have been proved
upon him the Ottawa Repubiicdn says his
statement that he never owned dollars
interest in the Hooking Valley Coal and
Iron Company is confirmed by Vice Presi.
dent Crafts, of that company, who says
Blaine never did have dollars interest in
il. The ReDUbiicah is "A week behind the
times. President Crafts has been proved
an ignoramus and liar and the interest of
Blaine in the Hooking Valley enterprise
has been demonstrated, not only in the
records of the concern, showing that he
WAS one of the original directors and one
of the authors of the huge swindle of is
suing S2j 100000 Of stock on the Hooking
Valley property when it was not worth a
million, and actually, as in the case of the
Little Rock d IT. Smith Railroad stock,
sold lot of the watered stock to his veal
thy friends in Maine. No lying by Crafts,
or W. d. Lee, or Steve Elkins can get over
the following correspondence:
SENATE CHAMBER, Washington,
December 30, 1880.
DEAR SIR: Find enclosed my draft for
$25, 900 in payment Of my subscription 10
the Hope Furnace Hooking Valley enter
nrise
Very Respectfully,
JAMES G.. BLAINE.
Mr.. Denison
BosToN, Dec, -, 1880
Received of James c. Blaine 500, 1880,
being payment in full for one share in the
association formed for the purchase of
lands known rs the Hope Furnace Tract,
situate in Vinton and Athens counties,
Ohio, }. n. DENIsoN, Agent,
NEW YORK, May %, 1882.
Received of J. Henry Brooks $4,000 of
the first mortgage bonds of the Standard
Coal and Iron Company on account of
James G. Blaine, numbered from 35l to-
400 inclusive. ). Is. ELKINs.
The Republican, is equally unfortunate
when it undertakes to defend Blaine
against the charge of James f. Joy, made
in the presence of Henry Ward Beecher
and others, of having offered to make up
a committee in congress to suit Mr.. JOY for
what was equivalent to bride of $4,000
AS soon as the story appeared in print,
says the Republican,, "a cablegram was sent
to Mr. JOY, who is in Europe, 10y Gen AL
ger, of Michigan, and reply was received
from him as follows
LONDON, Sept. 80, 1SS4-R. A. Alger,
Detroit, Men,: Blaine never made me any
offer to appoint a committee to suit me in
any manner or form or for any considera-
ton of any kind whatever. j. F.-JoY."
And thereby Mr. James F, Joy seems
10 have put his foot into it on account of at
to impugn the veracity of Henry
Ward Beecher, Both the dispatch of
Gen Alger to JOY and joys reply are a
tricky and dishonest evasion that has
stirred up Mr.. Beech!er's pious indignation,
and he goes for Mr. JOY in pungeht letter
in which he says, of course, he never did
report Mr.. JOY as saying that Blaine him
self had made him the offer but that it
came through friend OF Blaine with such
credentials of intimacy with him that he
joy had no doubt Of his authority, AT |
Ter some sharp comment on the pitiful |
rick involved in Gen Alger's dispatch to
Joy and joys reply, Beecher closes by dar- |
ing Gen. Alger to ask Mr., JOY to reply cate
yorically whether or not towards the |
lose of dinner at Mr.. joys house in De
.roit Sept Goth, 1877, in the presence of a
dozen gentlemen who were at the table,
Mr., Joy did not make" substantially the
statement In reference to Blaine's attempt
10 blackmail him as reported by Mr..
Beecher OF course Gen Alger will new.
er put that question to Mr. Joy,