The Portland daily press., 1884-08-27
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to have seen the lion wrath Of George Washington.
If, after the revolution, committee Of Tories had
proposed to rake into his Crivate correspondence on
such an errand. The supreme court of the United
STATES has since expressly held in the Of Hallett
Kiburn that the House has no constitutional auth
GRITTY whatever to require the production of private
papers in such a case. There were many thug in
those let ers which il must have bitterly mortified
proud spirited man to exhibit to the public without
the least implication of guilt or dishOnor. There
are disclosures of pecuniaTy embarrassment, Of III
success IN great transaction, OF danger Of Dank-
ruptey and financial ruin, which the most honest
man would struggle to conceal from public view.
But Mr.Schurz lays great stress upon Mr.. Blane's
interview with Mulligan. The version of that IN
tervew given by Mulgan seems to me utterly i'm
probable 1t is fatty AID contemporary contradict
ed by Mr.. Blaine. Mulligan eoutradieted in one
very important particular where no testified 70 the
injury Of Mr. Blaine by Elisha Atkins His appar-
emit hostility 10 Blaine had been remarked long be-
fore. He admitted that he thought Blaine had
wronged him The narrative itself seems full of
improbabty Mr.. Schurzs statement might give
the impression, which l acquit him Of intending TO
give, that Mr.. Blaine disclaimed meaning to say
hulgan falsiaed-"not at alln-in relation to the
whole interview He used the phrase in relation to
one statement only. The
INTERVIEW To WHICH MULLIGAN TEsTIEIEs,
was partly in the presence of Foster and Atkins,
and partly with hifna1one the parties passing and
repassing from one room to another. 1t seems to
utterly Unlikely that Mr. Blaine would pass
from calmness to distress and agony. and back to
calmness again in that way. To those who have
known that courageous and high-spirited gentle
man. there does not appear to be much Of James G.
Blame III hlQtllgans 3 story.
Mr.. Sehurz charges Mr.. Blaine with falsehood, and
says he is discredited a witness. He seeks to
maintain this grave accusation by two instances.
First he says, Mr.. Blaine told the House Of Repre-
senratives that the Lutte Rock road derived ali its
value from tne state of Arkansas, ana not from
Congress-" In this, he deliberately said what was
not true" This, Mr. S hurz thinks, is shown by
Mr. b ane's own declaration in his letter, that in
his ruling he did favor to Caldwell who vas the
builder of the road and who certainly was not
the State of Arkansas. Why, how can Mr. SchurH
so misunderstood the matter? Mr. Blaine was ar
N nj IA uhna man f,a~u FrIv
stood the transaction, that member of the House
had perfect right to ho.d ock in the road, be-
cause it got its franchise and property from Arkan
sss, and not from Congress. He had stated in the
same speech. few sentences before, the facts ex-
actly as Mr.. Schurz states them Congress made
the grant to Arkansas TO give TO what road it pleas
ed and Arkansas gave part of it to the Fort Smith
road of course, If the grant failed, the road suffer
ed. Mr.. Schurz might as well charge lawyer with
lying who urged on the supreme court what he
thought was the legal effect of decision they had
themselves Just made as to impute falsehOOd To
Mr. Blaine on account of his claiming to the House
what the legal effect of their own legislation,
which he had Just reeitej to them.
The other falsehOOd is said to be Mr.. Blaine's
statement that he never had any of the bonds or
stock of the road, except on the same terms
they were bought in the market. This is lie says
Mr.. Schurz, because Blaine writes to Fisher thank
ing him for the berality and generosity with which
refers to wholly different matter. II refers to
the allowance m ide to Mr.. Blaine as a commission
for the sale to other people. This it appears,
made by Mr.. Blaine, who guaranteed this stock to
his friends in Maine and afterwards obliged to
take it back. There is no inconsistency whatever
in the two statements.
Mr.. Schurz further says that the election Of Mr.
Blaine will be declaration by the American people
that 'honesty will be no longer one Of the
requirements OF government" think
MIR. sCHURZ IS ENTIRELY MISTAKEN
here, also. 1t will be a declaration on the part of
the American people that they do not agree with
him in his estimate of Mr.. Blaine. 1t will be a
declaration that they do not find in Mr.. Blaine's
conduct and letters what Mr. Schurz thinks he finds
there. 1t will be declaration that they agree
with Dr. Clarke when he paid Mr. Blaine his glow
ing tribute of admira ion and honor when all these
facts were fresh and familiar II win be declara-
tion that they agree with Mr. Curtis, who declared
that Mr.. Blaine's vindication of the principal
charge against him was triumphant. 1t will bs q
declaration that they agree with Mr. Blaine's
neghboTs Of his own district and of his own State,
With the representatives OF vast majority Of the
Republicans of the country, who have three times
since all these charges were made, declared for
MIN as their candidate FOR the Presidency. 1t will
be declaration that they agree with the Governor
and the legislature OF Maine when they twice in
succession made him senator. IL will be declara-
ton that they agree with Garfield when he made
him Secretary of State, and with the almost half
Democratic Senate, when they, without an in.
stants hesitation, confirmed him for that high Of
fee.
Mir. schurz says "the friends of Mr. Blaine say
his offence has been condoned." They say no such
thing. They say he has been triumphautly ac-
quilted. They f0d him not guilty of these foul and
injurious charges. They say that. in this compli-
Gated matter Tn repeated tokens OF public con-
tidence and affection ought to outweigh million
times the breath OF rumor and OF Islander, or even
the possibility OF an adverse Interpretation Of the
meaning of single phrase. He saws that
our answer is only the cry Of party. 1 think him
mistaken in this also. Your par is but the instru
ment by which fresmen execute their will But it
differs from other instruments in this. It is an in
dspensable instrument. 1t is an instrument made
up of the men, and, practically of all the men who
wish to accomplish the things you ish to accom-
pish, and deem vital to the prosperity honor and
glory of your country. 1t is an instrument itself
possessing intelligence judgment conscience puT-
pose, Will majority Of that party must necessa-
rly determine its plan of battle and the commando
er under whom 1t viii fight. And when you sep
arate yourself from the party whose principles and
purposes are yours, you etfectually abandon those
principles and purposes You might as well say,
when the army of the Union was about to engage
the enemy az Gettysburg or Lookout Mountain or
Five Forks, that you didn't approve the plan OF
battle, or didntike the general and that for that
day ny, you would 60 over TO the enemy fight
at another place. You cannot do it without being
deserter. No matter whether you dislike Grant or
Meade or Sheridan. The battle on which the hope
of Union and humanity hangs is to DO fought there
than Grover Cleveland. II am chosen" he SAYS
ito represent the plans, purposes and policy of the
Democratic party" If elected be will do il. james
G. Blaine is selected to execute the plans purposes
and policy of the Republican party,
AND HE WILL DO IT.
You may not like the general the commissioned
authority of the Republican party has selected But
you fight on the Democratic side, with the Demo-
cratic party against the Republican, on everything
on which these two parties differ if you vote for
abandon further hope of civil service ref orm for
this generation. You take the side of free trade
against protection. You bid farewell for lifetime
to honest elections in the South. You suffer the
great Mormon cancer TO spread over the breast Of
the Republic. There is but one thing on which
Grover Cleveland has unmistakably planted him
self That is that if elected, he will be party in
strument What he said in his speech Of accept
ance he echoes in his letter. In that feeble dOcu-
ment, which, as compared with Mr.. Blaine's Is as q
molehill to the Allegheny mountains, he declares
that, when "the party his outlined its policy and
declared ma ia doF
the candidate than the suggestion of certain well
known truths" Is he for protection? Nobody
knows Does he wish to put down Mormonism? No
body knows Is he in favor of repeating the tenure
of office law? Nobody knows. There is not a single
which you have any warrant of his action, except
IN his aVowed purpose to carry out the will of his
party.
Mr. Schurz further says that, '1f anybody here
after charges that the opposition to Mr. Blaine is a
free trade movement. it will be lie. Hitherto, It
may have been a mistake but since he has remind
ed you that they we're ready to support Mr. Ed
munds, you will lie if you repeat the statement"
ell, 1t is true they favored the nomination of Mr..
Edmunds who is protectiOnist. But is it not true
that every newspaper and every prominent man
who has come out against Blaine leaving the Re
publican party this year, has strong leaning to
free trade? DO you think of an exception? The
men who love- honor and support Mr.. Blaiue have
quite as lofty ideal Of purity and integrity in
pu0hc station as those who oppose him. They
make no distinction between public and private
virtue If man be not controlled by the law OF
right and duty in private life, he is not to be trust
ed amid the temptations of public office. We will
vote for no corrupt or unclean man for President.
At the same time, do not mean TO help any par
ty to gain the presidency by crime. said in 1875,
just after the Belknsp trial, that there had been
NOT ONLY LESS CORRUPTION
relatively to the size of the country in the twelve
years that followed the rebellion, but less absolutely
| than in the twelve years of administration Of
Washington and John Adams. That is equally true
if we compare the last twenty years with the first
20 under the constitution. The independent ad-
dress enumerates some recent cases of dishonesty
in high places. In some Of Them retribution has
been tardy. In some there has been a natural but
1ndetensibe reluctance to accept evidence of guilt
against political associates But, in the main these
are cases where dishonesty has been detected and
remanded to private life by Repubtcans themselves.
The party has been growing better and better. 1t
was better in '6S Than in "a, better in rs Than in
6S, better in 'S4 than in 80. Attention ia called
to the fact that there unworthy men still con-
spicuous. i think it likely. Wherever a victorious
army is on the march, you viii see these vultures
| flying in the air. The company of men who have
| formed hasty and unjust judgment of Mr.. Blaine
contains many persons whom l love and honor
many or whose friendship am proud They have
been honestly mlsled. But in the main the honesty
purity, education, strength of the nation is in the
Republican party. The men who saved the nation
are more patriotic than those who tried 90 DESTROY
it. The men who abolished slavery love freedom
and labor better than the who struggled TO pre-