Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-09-16

TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT, Ie. 1854.
Blaine Confesses and Avoids.


TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 10. 1884.
blaine Confesses and Avoids.
Mr.. Blaine has determined upon his
policy ss to the new batch Of Mulligan
letters, and advises everyone to read
them and every Republican newspaper
TO publish them. Their genuineness is
conceded, n was that Of their predeces-
scrs, and q like policy Of bravado is
adopted with these as with them.
Their course being thus pointed out
to them by their chieftain, we trust that
the Republican journals will carefully
and consistently pursue 1t. Those of them
that have been tempted into declaring
the letters to be forgeries will withdraw
that opinion, and will make proper
amends to Messrs. Fisher and Mulligan
for having suspected them Of such a
crime. 1t will be right for them also to
endeavor to restrain their feelings to-
wards these gentlemen, 80 as to repre-.
sent them as trustworthy and respecta'
BILE citizens. They are now disposed to
call Mr.. Fisher drunken loafer and Mr.
Mulligan a beastly Irish informer.
Inasmuch as Messts. Mulligan and
Fisher have done Mr.. Blaine great
service, in his judgment, in publishing
this last correspondence, it is evidently
unbecoming in Mr.. Blaine's friends TO
abuse them. We assume that Mr.. Blaine
feels under deep obligations to Messrs.
Mulligan and Fisher for their publica-
tion, since he advises every one to read
it and declares his opinion that the cor
respondence reflects great credit upon
him. 1t is seemingly only Mr.. Blaine's
great modesty which has heretofore pre-
vented him from giving the letters to the
public himself.
To be sure, there are some difficulties
in the way of coming to the conclusion
that Mr.. Blaine is thankful to Messrs.
Fisher and Mulligan for uucovering his
virtues to the public gaze. For in
stance, why did Mr.. Blaine ask Mr..
Fisher to burn the letter in which he
requested that Fisher would copy and
return to him with his signature that
eulogy Of Blaine's conduo. in the Little
Rock & Fort Smith railroad matter
Was it Mr.. Blaine's modesty here, too,
which led him to desire that no one
should know that he had asked Fisher to
commend him And is Mr.. Blaine glad
to be pilloried as a man asking his friend
for letter of praise and exculpation,
which he does not getp
Mr.. Blaine, we fear, has undertaken
more than he can carry in assuming the
burthen or these letters. rs.-------,-------.--
1t Is very well to whistle to keep ones
courage up, when nothing more effective
can be done and this seems to be the
excuse for Mr.. Blaine's whistle. AS the
letters cannot be repudiated, they must
be accepted with the boldest front possi-
BILE. The Republican journals, which are
called upon to publish and defend them,
have our profound sympathy. For the
next six weeks they will have them
served up to them daily in every form
If the most toothsome viands, such as
broiled partridge, for instance, cannot be
partaken of daily for . month, without
sickening results, what will be the con-
sequence to the Republican constitution
of a six weeks diet on the MuIligan let
ters 7 Our contemporaries will need to
part;lke as sparingly as possible. They
will avoid the subject, as sedulously as
they shun the discussion Of Mr.. Blaine
indianapolis libel suit and will stick to
the tariff nest as their only decen,ly
comfortable place of rest.