The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-09-16
THE MULLIGAN LETTERS.
MIR. Blaine indicated by the Publ.
cation Why tho Letters Have
Roam NVffI,I,auH

Mr.. Blaine Vindfcnted by the Pub1i-
cation why tho Letters Have
Been withheld.
A special from Boston To the Now York
Tribune says: "The long promised, much
talked Of additions to tho Mulligan letters
are at last out, published in the opposition
papers here under tho most extravagant
headlines. The letters have been hawked
about, discussed and lobbied for several
weeks. They have been several times on
the eve of publication and as often with.
held as not amounting to anything, but
now the tremendous victory in Maine and
the rising tide for Blaine everywhere made
it imperative that something should be
done, and done quickly. Hence the forlorn
hope Of these letters for forced sensation.
But the attempt has proved most melan-
choly failure, and tho comments among
business men have been uniformly favorable
to MIR; Blaine. They say with one accord
that the letters prove two things First,
that he was willing to make any effort and
any sacrifice to fulfil his business obliga-
tions; and second that tho story of his
great wealth is necessarily false. When %
man is absolutely unable to pay $25, 900 the
stories of his being millionaire fall to the
ground and need no further rofutation.
thO lcbtSio bubL b0C uuCu-
quoted phrase in which Mr.. Blaine declared
he would not prove deadhead in the en-
terprise Is splendidly vindicated by the
strenuous efforts which he made to keep
up the financial credit of the company. In
short, as n well-known political opponent
Of Mr.. Blaine said These men have I'M
Willingly done him great service by show
ing him TO the public in such an honorable
and favorable light as a business man. An
nthnr harO wall apnnoipNa1 With n
tho parties, says: Mr.. Blaine's friends
have been approached divers and sundry
times since his nomination. in order to eff
feet some arrangement by which the letters
might DO suppressed. But there was not
friend of Mr.. Blaino's in Boston who had
the slightest desire to suppress these let
tiers. They were evidently withheld at tho
time Of the Congressional investigation, be-
cause they would weaken tho case. This
last attack to iDjure Mr.. Blaine, therefore,
is about in the same condition as Judge
Hoar described the Independent move
mcnt 1t was born dead
Boston Independents Disguised.
Another dispatch to the same paper says
THE Blaine letters published this morning
through the instrumentality of the indie
pendent Committee are considered in Bos-
ton by candid men of all shades of political
faith as boomerang. One gentleman who
has been considered an Independent told
the Tribune correspondent tonight that he
was much surprised at the short-sighted
policy Of the Independent managers in pub
fishing those letters: for said no, Il con-
slider them good Republican campaign docu-
ments. l know Of at least three Independ-
ents who had expressed their intention OF
voting for Cleveland, who told mo to-day
that they will certainly vote for Blaine.
They arc disguised by this evidence of
meanness on the part Of Fisher in publish
ing confidential letters, which do not con-
vict Mr.. Blaine Of a wrong act, and which
are Straightforward business letters"
Peoples party man writes to the Jour
nal as follows: "They show the existence
of financial controversy between Mr..
Blaine and Warren Fisher, jr., in the settle
useful. l do not understand that Mr..
Fisher, in these eight years, which surely
is plenty of time, has brought his claims to
trial, and used the letters as evidence where
only he had right to use them, to eluci-
date the rights of the controversy between
himself and Mr.. Blaine. do not under
stand that Mr.. Blaine has, In any way,
within the eight years, done or said any
thing with regard to Mr.. Fisher that en-
titles the latter to give even limited pub
licity to these letters.
"a long series Of judicial decisions In
England and in this country have fully es-
tablished the rule that the property in the
tangible part of the letters as a manuscript
and as manuscript only, is in the receiver,
but the right of publication Is in the writer
of the letter, and in him only, except such
limited publication in the course of legal
controversy between the writer and re-
ceiver, and then only as may be requisite
for the personal vindication of tho receiver
or the receivers rights in the LEGAL contain