Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-10-16

vet there tne IfOnlDlllOn party Is
trying, apparently with more des.
peration than elsewhere, to defeat
the Republican party, So much for
fallacious reasoning. Remember
The Teller does not object to Pro.
hibition party. 1t rather honors men
who will separate themselves from
all the rest Of the world in cause
that they really believe to be above
all Others; but it does not believe in
stuffing people with fallacies or in
making false accusations against 9th
ers under the pretense Of the promo
ton OF that curse. This The Teller
asintains Mr. Olin did against
James G.. Blaine. He asserted, for
instance, that Mr.. Blaine went on
his knees before Mulligan and with
tears in his eyes begging MulIgan
not to expose him. He asserted this
in manner to carry the impression
that it was a proved or undisputed
fact, while he has nothing but Null
ligan's word for it and against it is
the sworn testimony of two witness
es present at the time referred to-
that they didn't see any such per-
formance-and, they were men, like
Mulligan, interested in Blaine's des-
truction. How does it help the
Prohibition cause to tell such slush?
Does it make a Prohibitionist any
stronger in his faith? or does it tend
TO lead into their party a prohibition
Republican who wouldn't believe it
if forty Olns would swear to it?
Plainly it isn't to help the cause of
Prohibition, and if not for that, then
it is to help or please some who are
not Prohibitlonists, at the expense
or modification of others who may
or may not be in sympathy with the
cause. With violent gesture and
voice Mr.. Olin repeated other of the
stale ISLANDERS current against Blaine
as if they were accepted facts. We
wonder that Mr.. Olin does not find
in every such meeting as that on
Friday evening, at least one out
spoken Prohibitionist who has wad-
ed through the columns Of the mis-
cradle swash concocted by the rail
road shark, Warren Fisher and his
tool Mulligap, shown 1.-THE former at
least) by their own proceedings to
be as base villains as ever stabbed
a man in the dark for rohbery-we
say we wonder that in every such
meeting there is not at least one
devotee of the cause Of Prohibition
to rise and protest against their
cause being put to the despicable
use of being made vehicle for such
outrageous defamation. To be sure
we were right, we devoted a day
since last Friday to careful review
of that whole Mulligan business--a
day and hours of other days There
is many man, honest enough, who
will vote wrong at the next election
because he will not have the time
nor the means to correctly inform
himself More than month was
spent in congress, eight years ago,
in that attempt To break down the
character of Mr.. Blaine, not because,
"he bartered his Office for gain" as
Mr. DIN revamped the shameful
SANDER; not because he sold his in
tluence and exerted his great talents
for the benefit of the monster rail-
road and other monopolies, but
plainly, to any who will give the
evidence the careful and impassion-
ed study it deserves, plainly because
ne could not be used by the official
plundererS and the great corpora
tions. Chartered his office for gain"
indeed {! All, why should anyone
be so blind as not to see that if
Blaine had so shaped his official acts
as that Fisher would have made one,
two, three or five hundred thousand
out of them, the Mulhgan letters
never would have been heard of
! That was what was wanted, but that
was not done, and therefore the
preversion. Blaine was not only
honorable in his official acts, but
he was the great man of the
American Congress- He was in the
way of Jealous mediocrity and the
schemes of designing rogues, and
the Mulligan business. was their
invention to get him out Of the way.
Such warfare is no new thing.
Webster was kept out of the Presi-
Dental course by the opposition of
mediocrity and venality; so was
Sumner and other great lights and
friends Of the people, as Clay and
Greeley, who were like Blaine in
the burning detraction that followed
them.
We wish, as Blaine wishes, that
every voter would fully inform him
self about the Mulligan letters
There is too much of them to give
them in The Teller. They are pub