Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-16
Blaine's Private Letters.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
Blaine's Private Letters.
New YORK, September l5th.-The follow
ing introduction to Blaines private letters
is printed this morning in all the principal
Eastern Democratic and Independent pa
perS
To the People Qf the T5,ited States: Believing it
our duty to lay before our fellow-countrymeu
.the following documents, which have been in
our possession, we have placed the originals, for
safe keeping, in the hands Of SOhier Il Welch
cOunselors, of Boston, and herewith submit
their contents without comment. The let
terS from Fisher are letter-press copies of the
originals.
Here follow the letters
The Times says If anything short of
actual horse-steaiing will convince ardent
Blaine Republicans that their candidate is
man without honor and shame a scOun-
drel himself and an instigator of scoundrel-
ism i'll Others, We are sure that Blaine 5
letter of April 16, 1872, TO Fisher with its
inclOsure, WI have that effect. After eight
years Mr. hZtlligan now gives TO the public
fifteen NOR letters from Blaine, as duty
to his fellow-counuymen; there is scarcely
one which does not contain damaging
proof of Blaine5 corruption and Of the
debasement to which the Republican party
has sunk itself by nominating him for
President. The people Will understand
now why Blaine went on his knees and
threatened suicide to move Mulligan to
lend him that package 1t is with humili
alton that we print this extraordinary cor
respOndence. The amazing exhibit made
by these letters of sordid Subserviency
and of guilty implication on the part of
the Speaker of the House. is one to bring
the blush Of shame to every American.
The Si0a says Few citizens, we imagine,
who had made up their minds to vote for
Blaine in spite Of the recorded evidence of
jobbery while holding Office and of his
falsehood when brought to bay, will find
serious trouble in disposing OF Mulligans
last budget on the same principles of tOer-
alton that enabled them to withstand the
first shocks. On the other hand, people
who have already found sufficient reasons
in Blainc's relation with Boston men, for
opposing him in the canvass, will be
strengthened in their convictions that he is
unfit to be President of the United States
The same paper predicts that Cleveland
will be beaten in New York by not less
than $4,000 majority.
The Sur prints the letters without edi-
tOrial comment.
SECOND DISPATCH.l
New YORK, September 15th.-A new
batch Of the so-called Mulligan letters is
the principal topic among all interested in
the political canvass, without, so far rs can
be perceived, greatly eiIecting public opin
ion one way or the other. As the SUH init
mates this morning, those whose minds
are already made up are not likely to find
enough in the letters TO change them. The
only noticeable effect among fair minded
men is to bring Fisher and Mulligan into
and apparently unpToyOked breach of
honor and trust. The Republican papers
treat the matter cody. The Independent
papers, of course, are jubilant.
The Boston Post says of the letters :
What a shameless liar, grovelling sneak
and attempted swindler they show Blaine
to be-
The Boston Globe says: Blaine must now
withdraw This is the third and last call,
and cannot be eyaded.
The Philadelphia Tines publishes the
letters without editorial comment.
the MqH ana Erpress (Republican) says
of Fisher and : diligan's use Of this CORE
sp0ndcnCe; They reserved the publication
Of BlGines confidential notes concerning
confidential business until long past the
time when they had found out that neither
Blaine nor his friends would see Fisher
and Mulligan and come down hand
somely for the suppression of The much
| hinted-at documents. Had Fisher and
Mulligan been simply desirous Of saving
| the country from the Presidency OF
Il " bold bad man, they would
easily have escaped all suspicious as
! to their motives by opening their unpub-
/ lished budget of letters from Blaine the
! day he WIS nominated. Whatever their
motives, it is certain that blackmailers
would have pursued precisely a similar
course IS it not equally certain that in
the eight years when Fisher and Mulligan
| have had these letters as a menace Blaine
and his friends could have made some
terms for settling with his excessively
sharp Old partners had they Been 50 dis
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