The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-20

and is trying to straighten out his affairs He
belonged to the class of Cakes Ames, DIR. Duranf
and other big projectors here. The worst thing
about Caldwell was his enormous extravaganza.
and that probably led to the downfall Of tho
property, He issued too many bonds while he
was building that road. and the number OF these
bonds broke down the market Value
'sWho was Warren Fisher2r
Warren Fisher was a igure-head whom Cald-
well selected for a private reason to be Tia
president of the railroad. Caldwell himself was
the outside man, the contractor and builder. He
wanted to get interested with him in the proper
ty Mr. Adams, the head of the great house Of
Adams Il Co., express men. Adams was sup
posed to have a large fortune and a big follow
ing, and Caldwell adopted his suggestion that
Fisher would make a good president. Fisher
himself was a dissipated man of but very little
account. His action with regard to these letters
shows what his ideas of honor are. He and
Mulligan, seeing Blaine rising into public pomi-
hence and popularity, got the idea that these
letters were OF some value. Blaine refused to
scare, so Mulligan came on to Washington.
bringing the letters. Mulligan, I understand
IS a timid fellow, of no force of character, and
Blaine took the letters and said: What right
have you to thesel They were never written to
YOU So he put them in his pocket, and Multi
gan went off on his ear. Blaine then brought
the letters out in Congress and explained
every one of them. He said that one
was missing. Now, Fisher and Mulligan have
known all this intervening time that Blaine was
FlglI wien ne SdlU 6ndL lebLer was missing, be-
cause they had the letter, and they knew it But
they did not have the manly sense to come out
and say they had it. This alone ought to com
vict them before men of any record of being
mere hucksters in private correspondence
Said /: Mr. Mcdonald, what is this quarrel
about Mr.. Blaine borrowing money from Warren
Fisher2'
why, as near as / can get at that matter, il
is just this: Blaine had sold a good many Of
these bonds, probably giving his personal guar.
antee that the interest on them would be paid.
He suddenly found himself in a very unhappy
condition. Some of his friends and c%onstitu-
ents were coming to him, as Mr.. Morrill, did,
saying: 1 cannot afford to lose this money!
So Blaine made a manly effort to save his
friends, 1t seems clear that he took 500, 900 out
of his own pocket in addition to his commissions.
and paid it here and there in order
not to be upbraided and affected in
his public life. He was then a man
OF very ordinary means, and it sweat him hard
to raise the money and to lose it. So it seems
that he went to Fisher, the president of tha
road, and the man who ought to have helped
him out, and asked him for assistance to pay
some of these people back. Fisher turned over
to him about $25. 900 worth of the bonds Of the
road. Blaine sold them to somebody. Now
Fisher makes it a question against Blaine that
he got more than $25. 900 for the bonds. What
was that Of Fishers businessl He let Blaine
have the bonds, and Blaine did the best he could
with them, and after that was out $40. 900.
1t IS not often nowadays said Mr.. Mac
Donald, that you find a man who has sold q
pond willing to make you good for it if it falls
below expectations You don't find Mr.. Horace
White buying anybody's bonds back to whom he
may have sold them, when he was in the Oregon
Transcontinental, the Northern Pacific and other
properties, but Blaine, with that impulsive dis
position he has always shown, did make his
friends sound at his own loss.'