Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-09-05

II i!ih Hnh Figures.
The blackmail character of Blaine $
Mullisan letters has nowhere been
better AMI more briefly exhibited
than in a letter to the New York
Erup1q Past 10y Mr.. Stelne Chit
tenden. Headlines and all, it is as
follows:
\ CHANCE FOR MIR. rIELrs-How He
MAY SECURE SO, Geo TO YALE co.,
LICE or The NATIONAL. EErtBIIcAN
COMMITTEE.
To the Editor of the Er,ni,,y Post
Sir: In the present canvass thoie
is ground for saving that the issue
is between filth and figures. But
since best men are noulded Of
their faults. an;l since filth. like the
Animal parts, does decay, but III
scrupulousuess never while self-ill-
tcre st lives, it docs still concern men
If independ, ut mil Us To scrutiniZe
Tie sta,emtnia Of Mr.. Blaine through
Mr.. Phelps in connection with fig
uits. as these statements and figures
are st forth III Your pamphlet en-
'i;!,d " Mr. Is aine's Railroad Trans
actions | have been doing this.
not laying claim to any extra indie
penicnc".
o. Mr., Phelps says MIR. Blaine
negotiated as purchaser for a block
of the Little Rock Railroad securities
with the former partner of his
brolherin-law, within ninety days
after lie, as presiding Legislator, had,
with the all of his colegislator and
present cocandnlate, Logan, taken
determining step in granting United
States lands to that railroad. The
aid mentioned was secured by send
ing his (Blaines) Speakers page to
Logan in his seat as Representative.
The purpose of my note is to ask
you whether, while pushing Sena-
tors Dawes and Hawley for an "hon-
orable construction" of the Mulligan
letters, you will not also push Mr..
Phelps to tell why it was that Blaine
was to receive, according to figures
in his own handwriting, from the ex-
partner Of his brother-in-law, 81 500
in money and $32 800 in first mort
gage bonds (besidcs the $50, 600 in
land grant bonds) il the sale was
made, as Phelps has written to
Blaine and hot through Blaine 40
broker to Hazeltine, Joseph Sanborn
and others. The memorandum of
the magnetic statesman printed in
your pamphlet shows it was agreed
that he should receive so much cash
and these securities.
(2.) 1t being true that the San
borns and others were to pay $l42,-
500 for what. according to the states
man memorandum, they, and not
he, bought from the ex-partncr of
his brother-in-law; and that Blaine
was TO have 81 500 of that very
money, $32 800 of first mortgage and
$3.50, 900 of land grant bonds, with
out paying anything therefor, in
what sense was it true that he did
yet pay " for them precisely at tie
same rate as others paid as he de-
clared he did upon the floor of Con-
gIess, before the sunstloke in the
glare of the Mulligan lightning?
3D. If he lied about that, is any
belief TO be given to the theory that
when he sent tue page to Logan he
did not know that he was doing
something in the special interest of
himself and the eX-partner OF his
brolher-in.law? Was he then hatch
ing in his brain and with the help of
the plume of the American eagle a
scheme for getting for nothing S162,-
500 of mortgages upon United States
lands and $500 in cash ?
A wager is but vulgar argument,
but if Mr.. Phelps will answer the
question first above written so that
President Woolsey shall say his
statement is not discreditaUle to his
candidate, $4,000 shall be paid to
Yale College or to the National Re
publican Committee, as the arbitrator
may prefer. SrERNE CHrrrENpEN.
l16 Broadway, New York. August
II, 1854.
The writer of this letter is IL law
yer i'll practice in ibis city and
of Yale College. Editor
Errniiig Post.
To this offer to benefit his alma
mater or the treasury of his party
committee, to the extent of $4,000,
MIR. William Walter Phelps has
made no reply. The referee named
by MI. Chittenden has been declared
by Mr.. Phelps to be the best Judge
OF the ethics of business or pub
lie question now living. That was
probably why Mr.. Chittenden Sc
lected him-and why Mr.. Phelps
fights shy of him-pulling down his
bangs over his eyes to shut out from
his view the venerable ex-President
of Yale University. The inquiries
and the offer of MIR. Chlttenden will
it is very certain, be conspicuously
ignored by all the Blaine advocates. |
BLAINE's SUIT AGAINST THE ARGUs.-,
The Portland, Maine, -1ryus has this
to say about the suit of Blaine
against the indianapolis Sentinel: |
" Mr.. Blaine has gone into the libel
suit business, it seems, to the tune
of $50, 900. What tue occasion of it
is we have not learned, but we sup
pose repetition of tho old Ken
lucky incident. Ii that be SO, why
did he not attack The Chicago Times,
that had two columns, supported by
affidavlts? This is very old trick
with Mr.. Blaine. He tried it on us
more than twenty-five years ago, to
the tune of $4,000 if we remember