The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-09-25
TATOOED JIM.
HOwlthe NewsBatch Of Letters is
Received in New York.
Blaine Organs Attempting TO Overcome
& Their Fatal Effect by Crying, There
Is Nothing In ThemI"

campaign, and gloom, thick enough TO
cut with q knife, prevails AZ inc Radical
HEADQUARTERS. The credit OF this bit or
enterprise, by the way, belongs TO Mr..
Horace Deming, OF Brooklyn, On the
nrlnclple that new converts are more
Jealous than old hands In the cause, MIR.
Deming determined TO get hold OF the
fatal suppressed letters which had
passed between Blaine and Fisher on
ihs Little Rock denl. He belongs TO the
Brooklyn Reform Club, composed OF OK
Republicans who couldn't stomach
Blaine. SO he went TO Boston and
buckled down to the job. Nobody can
tell how he aually pulled these. docu'
ments from their hiding place. but he
didit and that Is all the country wants
TO know. On tho morning they appeared
here. not a line was seen In the Tribune
Orran-.pOt an editorial reference 10 the
subject, and the public thought that for
once the organ was TOO paralyzeu 10
play.
following the organ published the cor.
respondence, aud made tbs cheerful and
inylgoratng statement thatit was moth,
ING bnt a TepetitiOn OF the old mud
throwing, the effect Of which had al
ready been discounted by the public,
The fact N the letters came TOO late az
night Tor the organ TO communicate
with Bur Harb0r, where the eminent
eOrrupliOnist is now cooling his brow,
and WhitelaW was NJ sea on the sub
ieet. The talk over the wires began ON
IA. n.II.YulNn dan WhAn MllInIuVV
Whs directed 10 30 ahead and cheek the
thing through after receiving IRON cial
assurances that the only salvation lay
in brass, the organ was able to adopt u
pollcy.
Tribune, edited by Murat Halstead, and
issued from the Tribune building, aud
contributed It's quota OF cheek 10 the
cause. For instance, Murat llalstead
remarked, aprOpOs OF Blyafd'a grea!
speech at Brooklyn; Senator Bayard
lends himself TO very small business
when he quotes the silly lie
thai Blaine knelt to Mulilgan
In tenor and begged for The letter.
that were his own. But Mr.. Bayarl
would prefer TO cite stale slander 10 face
the actual questions Of the day" The
general impression is that when Blaine
wrote those letters 10 MY Dear Fisher, y
and sent them through The malls, they
became from that time the property Of
Mr.. Fisher, Just as much az his watch,
and Blaine had no more right To steal
them from Mulligan than be had "
pick Mulligan's pocket. He didn't want
Them because they were his, In any
sense of tho word, but because they
formed a damnable Indictment OF his
Official career.
Elltor Halstead is good enough to
preach as follows on the same text; ut
h all the same TO the M%alligan black
guards. Whether there Is anything new
or important IN the additional letters
thew have succeeded In extracting from
peraOns who have lent themselves to
dirty work, and have supplied the mar
ket Tor private letters. There ~ TO be I'm
Internal noise 0b0nt them from this TO
the end Of the campaign There are, IN
our Judgment, matters Of higher mo-
meus that should have greater consll'
erati0u.'
II sounds as II Brother Hals.ead was
suffering from an acute attack OF clm'
palgn vertigo, when he ponued the
above. This is natural enough.
II IA a little embarrassing for
man 70 como right out In this way
and classify himself among the liars, rs
Aelstead does whom he SAYS "The new
letters prove that Blame told the truth
and his enemies lied eight years ago"
In 1870 no man threshod Blline's public
record with o heavier fall than this
same Halstead,
OF course II would be gratifying TO
the Republican machine II II could al.
vert the public gaze from this batch OF
rotten epistles TO "other matters OF
higher moment" But Il can't be done,
The issue Is now sharply defined be-.
tween Corruption self confessed aud
Honesty self.pr0yed. The radicals have
only two strings left TO their bow. 0ae
"A Nothing new I'm these lettera' aud
the other Ia "p0wn with Free Trade"
or course there Is Que more string. ]
forgot "eoap,'
following 40 the cry Of "nOthlng
new" The Tribune claims that tins
correspondence now produced contains
nothing not already published or dis
counted. Thie il a lie Rud Reid knows
n, but they hope TO blah the Democratic
four klng3 with u small pair, Thia new
batch ls absolutely new. IL Is from
certified copies Of the original let.
tors that passed between Blaine and
Fisher, the very ones Blaine stole,
M they furnished black aud white owl.
dence Of his guilt. During all these
vears Blaine has no doubt felt n sense OF
sscurity NJ the thought that this testi'
mOny, safely In his possession, was sure
never TO see the light OF day, III he had
supposed all this time that Mulligan's
safe contained certified copies Of these
letters, no would no doubt have had q
number OF aunstr0kes. Their publlCa'
lion, tearing the mask away from his
hrazen hypocrisy, must have struck HIN
like n ssreak OF lightning. SO there IL
"%nOthlng new la theee letters, ehY
Well, unless q mans reasoning pow
ers are made Of mush, II will strike him
there IN something rather fresh In the
letter of yindlcation which Blaine wrote
for Fisher to copy and mail back 10 him
AZ once for immediate and pressing use.
There Ia also something decidedly and
elegantly new In the way Fisher shows
how Blaine got the bonds. For In,
stance, compare these two. Blaine said
In the House OF Representatives. "lr
common with hundreds Of other people
in New England and other parts Of thu
country / bought some Of these bonds
not q very large amount-payini
for them NJ precisely the same rat
others paid. | never heard and Dc
not believe that tho Little Rock Com
pany ever parted with u bond to any
person, except at the regular price hxot
for their sale"
Fisher writes 10 Blaine; "0f all thl
parties connected with the Little Rocl
h Fort Smith Railroad, no one has beer
90 fortunate ~ yourself In obtaining
money out Of II. You obtained subscrlp
lions from your friends In Maine for th,
building OF tho Little Rock Il For
Smith Railroad. out OF their subecrlp
tlons you obtained q large amount, boil
- l... al 49, A.. .....