The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-10
p Is BLAINE DAFT?
q Claim That He Is Afflicted With In.
sanity.
Evidences of Distorted Sind-His Reck-
less Contradictory Statements
Dominating Egotism.

EBotlbAa
I''sciolist'' in Eastern Argus. Portland, Mel
In previous paper l offered some cOnsid
erations and presented some striking illus
frations geing to establish an affirmative an
sWer to the question propounded in the
above heading. 1 maintain that a mind out
of balance is insane-that Mr.. Blaine's i'm
pulsi7e temperament, the quickly absorbing
nature of his mind, coupled with the strong
grasp he takes of an idea presented to it, to-
gether combine to sway his mental faculties
from their mOorings and give to him
partial and distorted views OF things.
adduce his Connecticut 4th of July
address his City Hall speech on
frauds of the census and his brochure on
The division of surplus national revenue, as
graphically illustrating the completeness
with which an overmastering idea, for the
time, controls his thoughts, his reasoning,
his kutterances. Probably none of Louis
Napole0n's Authorizations were more strik-
ing or more baseless than were those o. Mr..
Blsine-not even the last, fatal one, under
which, with an army ill-officered and I'M
prepared, he marched serenely, and with I'M
usual pomp, to meet his fate at Sedan. 1
also adduced his apostacy to the Catholic
Church and his communion with the
Protestant Church to illustrate the entirety
of the change of which his mental Organiz-
alton is capable. he not only changed from
Catholic to a Protestant, but from the
former to the very extreme OF the latter-to
Know-nOthing bitterness and anti-popery
nonsense.
So
/ will now make an inspection of his ca
reer as politician, and inquire whether in
this department also he has developed SINH
lar insane traits. In this aspect of bis char
acIeristics his honor and his honesty have
ken questioned. Were his ideals of these
traits of character wrOng2 1t would not ap-
pear so. On the contrary, when his conduct
was called in question in 1876 with reference
TO some alleged negotiation of bonds between
the Little Rock and Fort Smith and the Mis-
souri, Kansas and Texas Railroads in which
1t was charged that he had pecunisry inter-
est and had used his official influence to aid
it, he rose in the House on the 18th of April
of that year and declared:
81 bad no pscun1aIy stake in the neg0tia-
lion, and l should have loved infamy for in
Iamy's sake had 1 bartered my personal and
official honor in the transaction"
"When secrecy IS necessary Tin transac
tion) an avoidance is desirable"
81 have never done anything in my pub
lie career for which could be put to the
faintest blush in any presence, and for which
can not answer to my constituents, my
conscience and the great Searcher OF
Hearts"
Confessional Record, 1876 vol. 4, part D.
page 2,725-
No public man ever made more complete
disavowal of everything dishonorable and
dishonest. He even admits that if the
charge brought against him were true-that
ne had pecuniary interest in the railroad
bond transaction and had used his personal
and official influence in that behalf it would
have been infamous in him. He plumply
denies that he had any such interest, and
declares, therefore, that if he mad exerted his
personal and official influence, as alleged
him, il must have been because he loved
1nfamy for infamy's sake"-a thing incredi-
BILE of any rational being. He goes further.
He denies the commission of any act in his
public career, which could put him TO "the
faintest blush in any presence" and he in
vokes the great Searcher OF Hearts TO bear
witness to the truth OF what he said. Now
as a matter of fact it is proved:
1. That Mr.. Blaine obtained sundry let
Sers from Mr.. James Mulligan On his SOL
emn promise to return them, which letters
he never did return, but defiantly refused so
TO do
? Mr. Blaine declared IN regard to the
little Rock and Fort Smith bonds: II
bought ,ome OF these bonds-not a very
he same rates that Others paid. 1 never
heard and do not believe that the Little
Rock Con pany ever parted with a bond to
any persOn except at the regular price fixed
for their sale. Instead Of recsiv-
ing the bonds Of the Little Rock aud Fort
Smifh Road as a gratuity, 1 never had one
except at the regular market price
On the contrary 1t is proved conclusiVely
that Mr.. Blaine became an agent or broker
for the sale of those bonds; that parties in
F,s-- l. evaE
mortgage bonds, together with an equal
amount of common stock and also OF pre-
9erred stock; and that for the sale he thus
made he received, as commission or gratuity,
or both, S125, 600 land grant bonds S31, $50
first mortgage bonds and SIS $50 in CASH
wide disparity certainly between the state
Enents and the facts
Ia December, 1872, when the Credit Mo-
bilier investigation was begun, Mr.. Blaine
declared under oath in reference to stock Of
the Credit Mobilier and Of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company:
Il wish 10 state, without reservation or
qualification that l never owned share OF
1he stock in the Credit Mobilier in my lite
either by gift purchase or IN any way what
ever. Nor did l ever receive, directly or in
directly g single cent derived in any man
ner or shape from the Credit Mobilier or the
Union Pacific Railroad Company. No per
son holds, or ever did hold, for me any stock
in either corporation as agent or trustee, or
in any capacity whatever. | wish my testi-
mony to be taken as exhaustive and as in
tended to exclude every form or phase OF
ownership in the Credit Mobilier or the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, both past
ond present"
This is Mr.. Blaines statement under oath
before the Credit MObilier Committee. Per
contra, Mr. Blaines letter to Warren Fisher,
Jr., under date of April 13 1872 or eight
months before the above statement under
oath, reads thus:
81 left with Mr.. Mulligan (sic) January,
1871, $4,000 in land grant bonds, Union Pa
cifc Railroad, to be exchanged for like
amount of Little Rock land bonds with Mr..
Caldwell, he to change back when desired.
Mr.. Caldwell declined to take them, aud you
took them without any negotiation with me,
or any authority FROM me in regard to the
matter. You placed the Little Rock land
bonds in the envelope, and / have the Origi-
nal envelope with Mulligan's endorsement
thereon of the fact of the delivery to you.
Now I do not complain of your taking the
bonds. provided you hold yourself bound TO
replace them The worst of the whole mat