Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-09-15

nlaips ! nsnsy Shark.

1solepAx HvnNIls0. sHPT. 10. 1854.
Maine . nsney Shark.
n. nlaine's character Il In such tat
tesed and torn condition, from the as
SSnlts upon Il Of the last decade, that 1t
= hardly In . state to suffer much from
nv additional revelations. The addi-
Ioffuai LISTERS published now for the first
tImo Ia the Blaine. Fisher correspondence
wtJl. however, be interesting reading
oven to those who intend to vote for
Blaips, though theywill hardly be delight.
I'll 20 them. They may attempt to break
thslr unpleasantness by trying to think
that they are forged papers. but they
had better not commit themselves to this
Tine Of defense until they have q chance
% hear from Blaine himself. They will
remember that he took the bull by the
horns ~ to the other letters in the cor
rospondence, which he fraudulently OBJ
tanned from Mulligan, and read them
himself In the House Of Representatives,
where he claimed that they were entirely
innocent and where he, moreover, de
clared that they constituted "evefy
scrap and scrlmption" Of the CORES
pondence. 1t may be that he will con-
slider that the best way for him to meet
these additional letters will be to &C
knowledge and defend them. In view,
however, Of their character, aud of his
failure to heretofore introduce and
acknowledge them TO the public, it
would seem that there is nothing
left for him but to deny their authentic
ity. OF course he hazards the proof of
them which exists in his own handwrit.
ing and the additional evidence fur.
nished by their fitting into the vacant
places in the correspondence. But writ.
ing can be initiated; and forgery is easily
charged, ard the charge readily enough
maintained to the consciences of parti.
sans In the heat OF u political campaign
The two remaining months OF this can
vass give, 1t is true, long time in
which to maintain the burthen of eharg-
ing to be forgeries what are easily proven
to be genuine papers, but Mr.. Blaine
will hardly find an easier way to avoid
their force. 1t will be in order for him
to bring an action of libel against War.
ren Fisher and James Mulligan, who
now produce these letters, or against a
selected lot of the newspapers which have
presented them. The Indianapolis Sentinel
proposes to prove to be true, all that it
has said Of Mr.. Blalne's inducements to
matrimoDy but it will not get an OPP
portunfty ~ uU'fS TIL sftas- -ihe election |;
neither will those whom Blaine sues
upon account Of these letters have a
chance 10 prove their geNuineness TO a
jury until the jury of the country has
decided the question Of the presidency
After the election Mr.. Blaine will not
care. II he is elected he will not care !;
nor II he Is defeated. In the latter eysnt
he will fetl Ike cutting bis throat any.
way, after the fashion set by the numer
Gus respectable financier5 who have
lately sought another world upon the
discovery that they were ignominious
failures in this.
The fresh letters certified to the public
by Fisher and Mulligan show Mr.. Blaine
AS q money maker out of his official place,
and influence. Anything was fish that
came into his net. He took stocks and
bonus as commission for getting sub
seripiicns from his friends who thought
they were getting in on the ground floor.
He got advances of money and was
negligent IN making returns. He SO
liciled gratuities from corporations
whose schemes he forwarded by his de
e.sions as speaker. And he turned into
NASH The knowledge he obtained of the
iusule course Of legislation, which was
shaped BY himself and bis fellow specula.
tois in Congress to yield them q profit.
~ L shown further that lie lied before
Congress IN declaring that he never did
such things and letter is produced,
which was written by him iu 1876 10
Warren Fisher, enclosing draft of
complete exculpati0n and certificate Gf
haracler in the Little Book railroad
matter, whieh he asked Fisher TO sign
and return 10 him but which Fisher
did not do. Mr.. Blaine pos ,ibly is ready
With an answer to this last document Of
whose existence he knew, and the publica.
Lion OF which hc must ns,- ieen +, pect
w. II Is not in his hand writing save
one<Serpolatel sentence, and an alesa
tion Nsdt is forgery is ta hs A.9kfd
for.
In ihe 1869 Mr.. Blaine OWNED
that there was ios an expansion of Tie
currency to The exteS fifty or seventy.
nve millions, and he sy>Nested 20 Fisher
That as 1t would be a ma. ss favoritism
who should get the banks ia xdiffs .eut
localities. lie should consult 21k,. Mr..
Caldwell and let him know Eaer
they desired q plum Of the kES-
AS 1t would be in his power 10
cast an anchor TO windward, in their
favor. Al the next session of Congress
Senator Sherman introduced bill To
expand the currency $4,000 900, to
be apportioned among the states
aud territories which had less
than their proportion of national
tank circulation. Arkansas was one OF
,hese, and the Merchants national banl
Vi Little Rock was established through
the aid Of Mr.. BIaine's anchor. 1t /.
notable that Blaine should know 80 wei
" hat Sherman was uoinu "a J,. ILo,