The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-10-23
L0NG-LIyED LETTERS.
THOSE FROM BLAINE 70 FISHER.
Apparently Neyor- Ending Series
Fisher Ia the Front with Sew
Batch Elninr's Sudden slCk-
ness-ritcOu- Appeals

| pldloi th' possible lipuN'lbu ol mo
additional letters of his In the hands o:
W irrcn Fisher and James MulliCan II Is
afforded in those obtained to day, That
those letters remained Ia Mulligan,S
possession 10 haunt Mr., Blaine is di-
rcct ~ tracGahle to the act by which he
seized the batch which Mulligau took TO
\ Washington in May, 1875. When Mr..
Blaine refused To return those letters he
incurred the bitter resentment ola hard
headed lrShman, WhOsu face should
have warned nim of his danger.
BLAINE GIVEN THE LIE.
! at was an outrage" SAID Mr.. Warren
Fisher to-day, "that Mr.. Elaine should
have taken those letters as ho did. Mr..
I Muiligan has ncven forgiven him, and
he mover Will. After Mr.. Elaine refused
90 return these letters Nulligan had Lent
him to look at, nothing within MIR.
BlaiEe'S power to give or promote, could
have brbed or induced him 70 give up
/ the remaining dOcuncntS,w which he hclu
on To with the tcuacity of It terrier Mr..
Biuine's denial that he over offered to
| pay Mulligan 'or those letters, Is aoso-
! lutely false. When, in lSSu, just before
the convention, he sent for me through
! Elisha Atkins, to come ana SEQ him in
! New York. | went, and we had n
| long conference mt the Fifth Avenue
| hotel. He then asked me what | though
! Mulligan would take and give mp the
/ letters he held. ! TOLD him that did
not believe there was enough money III
! the country to buy them. tie told me
| that he was willing to pay any price,
/ but that he must have them. | asked
/ how much he would pay. lie said, any
/ thing, but get thCri,' ] SAID: well,
| there must be some limit and this was
what prompted him TO name TlohNO -
the sum that would be forthcoming in
| the hands of Mr.. Cumming, Elisha At
. l. ihS' llurtnnr lln I,I nI Tho lH'-
tiers then in Mulligu'S possession,
81 came back to Boston and laid MIR.
! Rlainc's offer before Mr. Mulligan, but
he was immovable. lie spurued the
proposition, and seemed to he more SET
! tied than ever in his determination to
hold on to the letters
MORE PROOF.
This view OF the great Importance MIR.
Blaine attached to the possession of the
proofs against him by Fisher and Null
/ gan is reinforced and emphasized by
/ the letters obtained to-day, written by
Mr.. Blaine from his "sck bed" in Au
glSta, to Fisher.
In order to inform the reader as to the
/ true revclancc of these letters, ii Is nee
! essary to recall the incidents immedl-
Rtely connected with their contents: On
June 80, 1876, Mr.. Blaine made his dra-
matte explanation to i4,OOO,00O OF his
cuuntrymen, and read the letters he had
practically stolen from Mr.. Muiligan.
I At the request of Mr.. Blaine, the COM
mittee investigatir% his case, adj
iourned FROM Sat,u~a. June 10, to The,
following Monday, i'll consequence OF
| the absence of his colleagues, Messrs.
Hale and FRYE. ON Sunday, June II,
Mr.. Blaine sank down on the church
steps, complaining OF a pain in his head,
and saving he was afraid he had sun
stroke. On Monday, June II, the COM
mittee met and dismissed the witnesses
for two weeks on account of Mr..
Blaine's illness on Tuesday, June IL,
Mr.. Blaine sent the following dispatch:
| EUGENE HALE, Cincinnati, Ohio:-l
am entirely convalescent; suffering
only from phys cal weakness. Impress
upon my friends the debt of gratitude |
feel for the unparalleled steadiastness
with which they have adhered to me in
my hour OF trial.
lSignedl J. &. BLAINE.
Mr.. Hayes was nominated by the ma
tional Republican convention June III,
and on the Monday following, June 10,
Mr.. Blaine ma a ratification speech in
Washington.
SiCKAGAIN.
As the date for the reassembling of
the committee of investigation APP
preached, Mr.. Blaine's health failed RAJ
pidly, and at 80 y. m, Tuesday, June
q, he left Washington, by special car,
day, Messrs. Fisher and Mulligan ar
rive in Washington to continue their
test liOny. a dispatch to the Boston
,'rf,ld of that date says: "They were
,sre.tly annoyed at being detained until
midday, to which date the committee
I.i a jOurned."
Tue special car in which Mr.. Blaine
travelled went direct to Augusta, so that
he was not seen a. New York or Boston
en- route. He reached home Wednes-
day, June %, and that very night wrote
the following urgent letter to Mr..
Fisher, which is here published for the
; first time, the quotations being Mr..
Blaine's:
WANTED To SEE HIM.
Wednesday, Is, Evening
MY DEAR Mr.. Fl HERR want to see
YOU Just as much as before you went to
Washington. You can leave Boston at
l2:30 and return same night If you de
sire, though would prefer to have you
stay over. "COme directly to my house."
1t is, think, as important Tor you to see.
me as for me to see you. Come this
week; don't fail come D-mOrrow, if pos
sible. Yours, }. q. BLAINE.
This letter pretty clearly indicates the
malady OF which Mr.. Blaine was a vic
sim.
VERY RAD OFF.
A dispatch to the Boston Herald dated
Augusta, Thursday, June g, says that
Mr.. Blaine suffered no serious set back
by his journey and was then enjoying
the rest and freedom from the excite
ment he so very much needed. 1t con.
tinued: ''Dr. Hill, his family physician,
Saws that there is no organic trou' lie,
but that the nervous pros:ration, COM
plicated with malarial effects, is more
severe than he had calculated from what
he had read of the case. He has adopted
a careful line of treatment, prescribing
absolute rest, even forbidding Mr..
BIaine's writing letter. He
gives him no assurance that he
will be able to take any partin the pend
ing campaign"
This was on Thursday, and yet the
following letter, written two days later,
: shows that Mr.. Blaine knew better what
medicine h wanted than his family
physician. Here, too, the italics are Mr..
Blaine's:
Augusta, Saturday, evening, LIST, July, T6.
"MY DEAn Nix. FIsHER--I write from
my sick bed. ! want very much to see
YOU. l am very srry you did not come
TO Washington when l requested. Can't
you come to Augusta by train Monday?
J Express train leaves Eastern station at
8 o'clock, reaching here at p. IN.
You can return same evening; or, II
Won can't come by . O'Clock train. there
Is train that leaves at II or 1880 noon
and gets here about s p. m. you can
return same night "Do come quickly
Say nothing to any one, but do come.
Yours sincerely,
TSee over. j. G. BLAINE.
"Important to you as well as myself
f that you come very scon." On the
other side of the sheet Don't let any
bnnn.,, hpinp eyceut yOur wife know