Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-23
Blaine's Guilt Established.
Cincinnati (Ind.) Post. |

ination of James &. Blaine the New |
York Times editorially stated that
only portion of the Little Book
Mulligan letters had ever been made
public. The New York Sun remain
ed silent under this statement until
sometime after Governor Cleveland's
nomination at Chicago and until it
had worked itself up to the boiling
point. Then the Sun began a half
hearted defense of Blaine, and it took
the times to task for its mulligan let
ter statement. The Times paid little
attention 10 the Suns quotation of
Congressional records but reiterated
its statement that all Blaine's self
convicting epistles about the Little
Rock railroad had not been published.
1t took up William Walter Phelps
defense of Blaine, as against those
letters already published, and showed
its utter weakness. Senator lloar
then went to the defense of Blaine
and Carl Schurz, opened his battery
on Blaine in response in his Brooklyn
speech, and again Senator Ioar de-
clared the Mulligan letters were ca
pable of an innocent Interpretation.
|
The Times denied this, and added
there were unpublished letters which
would forever establish James q.
Blainc's guilt beyond the dimest
doubt. The Sun howltd back that
the Times was maliciously misrepre-
senting. The Times has sweared
Phelps, Iloar, the Sun and all of Mr..
Blaine's friends by producing the
letters in cold print. What are they?
They are the missing link i'll the coll
elusive proof that James G.. Blaine
betrayed his public trusts for private
| gain. There are these who say they
prove Mr.. Blaine was bribed. They
do nothing of the kind. They prove
that Blaine himself first conceived
the idea Of plostitutiIg his official
power for personal peculiarly bche-
fit D.; that he made the infamous ruling
as Speaker OF his own volition; that
he subsequently called the attention
of those it benefited tv it, and sug-
gested to them the propricty of a
liberal compensation, intimating that
he might be similarly useful in the
future, as he was seldom "dead-
head" that he persisted in his limiting
at compensation until he secured it;
that to secure it he had to induce
his trusted friends to invest
their money in a doubtful cn-
terprisc by which they subse-
quently lost heavily; that when
the stocks and bonds lie re-
ccived for his mess of pottage
failed to turn out as valuable as
desirable Mr.. Blaine begged, whined,
demanded and coaxed by turns
to be made whole up to his brightest
expectations, and was in the act of
threatening when partial exposure
of the whole transaction was made,
and in an instant Mr.. Blaine was on
his knees to the men with whom he
had been in cellusion and whom he
was just previously threatening, beg
ging piteously for furnishing the
draft ofthe certificate himself. These
additional letters forever must set at
rest this controversy. They complete
| ly prove that Jas. G.. Blaine was Il
corrupt public Official; that he led the
way to his own corruption; that he
was hoggish in his demands ofa cor
ruption price: that he betrayed his
intimate friends for private gain !:
that he become groveling bcggar
before those whom he had forced to
corrupt him; that he subsequently
committed perjury in denying his
guilt before an Investigation COM
mjttee and that he has never repcn-
ted of the immortality of the transac-
ton, but has often regretted its po-
litical effects.