St. Paul daily globe., 1884-09-24
FISHER IND MULLIGAy.

The most natural reJoinder the partisan
Blaine papers have TO offer to the mass of
evidence so damaging to Slippery Jim is to
make the wild charge that Messers Fisher
and MuIligan are men unworthy of credit.
While this is about the only thing the
cornered Blaineites can say, it is one of the
most ridiculous methods of defense. The
damaging matter in the whole affair is the
evidence furnished by Blaine himself, the
letters that he begged for on his knees with
tears and piteous entreaty in behalf of his
wife and six children. II is idle to under
take to dismiss these letters as campaign
fiction, but that is what the dishonest, ras-
cally Blaine editors endeavor to do. The
fact is, and squirm and twist make faces
and call names as they please, the Blaine
advocates cannot escape the rugged fact that
the whole series of Fisher and Mulligau let
ters have produced a profound sensation,
and that the more recent revelations have
the effect to clinch the former averments, so
evasion and explanation are utterly impos-
sible. Mr.. Blaine himself feels this, and puts
on the bully as he did while in Congress, not
only in the Little Rock and Fort Smith mat
ter, but in the Credit Mo5lier transactions
when he caused Oakes Ames and James
Brooks to be bounded and driven into their
graves, simply to divert attention from his
own black and devious position. The new
letters may be no worse than the first but they
are fully as serious and possibly more damag-
ing, as they bring the whole dark case up
freshly in the public mind, exactly what
Blaine and his strikers would like to have
avoided.
Where Warren Fisher and James MulIigan
are personally known it is absolutely idle to
assail them with partisan abuse and maledic-
diction, and If Mr.. Blaine were not cursed
with fool-friends there would be nothing OF
the kind anywhere. Mr.. MuIligan is spoken
of as singular individual. He has resided
in Boston for more than thirty years and al
ways occupied positions Of trust and respon-
siaility. In all Of them he has shown him.
self an exemplary citizen and no man:
word stands higher than his.
Mr.. Mulligan came to this country from
the north OF Ireland, and leans to the Prot
estaut rather than the Catholic faith On,
who knows him intimately, simply as a per
sonsl friend and not in the political scop,
says that ne is endowed with "a stubborn
idea of integrity and is everywhere known a
man whose word is as good as his bond
| No one in Boston or elsewhere could charg,
him with an untruth or with bad faith and b,
believed. Ever since he landed in this eoun
try he has occupied the highest couhdentia
| positions with business men. As seen slonl
the streets one would wonder that such graT
responsibilities had been committed to hi
charge. II Dickens had ever known him il
his palmy days no more interesting charzcte
than this could have been woven into hi
beautiful stories. He reminds one Of ID
confidential clerk Of great law firm as fhi
individual is presented in the plsys-
about medium height, with an easy, shut
ding gait aud slender build, he moves abou
his business aud leisure in perfectly meth
odical way. His face is small and the line
in it rather severely drawn. Like almost a
old bachelors, he is scrup1louslY neat in b