St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-24


this man is fifty years old or more, and yet
it would be hard to guess within ten years Of
his age, so neat ana nice does he look for
man of his years.
Mulligan, continues this narrator, has had
curious career. For time he handled the
cash of one of the best theatres in Boston.
Afterward he was the confidential book
keeper of the Stanwoods, relatives of the
Blaines, and is now and has been for many
years the trustee of what is known as the
Fisher estate. He has handled millions of
money without mistakes in his accounts and
still is trusted expert in financial affairs.
In the capacity Of court manager of the Fish
er estate these letters of Mr.. Blaine's came
into his possession. They were part of the
assets of Warren Fisher when he passed
through bankruptcy. Mulligan did not in
the first instance intrude them before the
public and was in nowise responsible for
their being given to the world. When called
to Washington in 1876 to testify he was a
most unwilling witness, but the facts of Mr..
Blaine's transactions with Mr.. Fisher were
forced from him by the action of some very
prominent Republicans of Boston.
Warren Fisher, like Mulligan, was and is
an involuntary party to the revelations in
which he occupies so conspicuous place.
Blaine's letters to him passed out of his pos
session in the regular order of proceedings
in bankruptcy and he has simply been in
truded into this matter as an accident of the
occasion. Mr.. Fisher is well known char
acter in the business life of Boston. He is
quite an old man now-perhaps ifty-fve
years of age. Just at present he is living
quietly upon his farm up in Vermont, and
he only comes to Boston when business re-
quires his presence. 1t is said of him that
he feels very keenly the unpleasant position
he has been placed in by this political adj
venture, into which he has been dragged
against his will, and that whatever he does
in this matter now will be to protect himself
against the assaults which may be made up
on him by Mr.. Blaine or his friends.
And now comes a most interesting scrap
of information not before possessed by the
public. During the Congressional investi-
cation of 1876 Aquilla Adams wrote a note
which called ont the Blaine letters to Fisher.
Mr.. Adams is President of one of the largest
Boston banks. He was one of the men who
knew of the existence of these letters through
having some business relations with the
Fisher estate. Adams is described as a large
man, with bald head and big moustache.
He is rather tall, stoutly built and gives one
the idea that he is solid man of affairs. An
important and pertinent story is now told
for the first time which shows how earnestly
many Republicans in Massachusetts were
anxious that Mr.. Blaine's fiscal operations
should be known to the public besides those
who are now figuring in these matters. 1t
is stated upon authority that r. NJ. Morse,
Jr., who was the chairman of the recent Re
publican State Convention of Massachusetts,
was the real power by which Mulligan and
his letters were brought to Washington by
the Congressional committee. He was the
assignee in bankruptcy of the Warren Fish
er estate and all these disclosures which are
now gradually coming to light are said to
have been brought out in examination be-
fore the register in bankruptcy. 1t is told
upon the disclosures made Mr.. Morse took
steps to call out for the benefit of the public
the letters which were printed in 1876, and
presented for the edification of the United
S ates. So it would appear that neither
Mulligan nor Fisher were in any way re-
sponsible for the publicity given to this sub
| ject in the first instance. It also now ap-
pears that Mr.. Mulligan took only such let
tiers to Washington as he was obliged to
take under the call of the committee. The
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ply called out by the personal assaults being
made upon him by Mr.. Blaine's partisans.
In the light of this information it is seen
1 how absurd and bootless are the Blaine at
| tacks on Fisher and Mulligan, and none
but blubbering fools will indulge In such g
| performance. The end of this business
there is high authority for saying, has not
been reached. There are additional and
racy Developments yet to come and new
witnesses can be called to the stand. There
is a Republican mem Der of Congress from
Massachusetts who rushed off to Europe
in 1876 to escape giving testimony, and Il
he does not get into hiding somewhere HI
will be called for soon. Indeed il is sale
that the man is down upon a sick bed at tn,
revival of the scandal and his near relation t
it, In his madness to produce an aggressiv,
campaign Blaine has blundered at every step
His melting the burst Of scandal upon Glove
land, his Indiana episode, his MANUFACTURED
churchyard outrage and his foul attacks upor
Mulligan and Fisher have each and all re
acted upon him terribly. At last it is his
fate to be engulfed in the destruction
wrought by his own corruption.