Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-30

Mr.. warren F1Sner mas IuTnlSuou DOSlOL
correspondent of the Chicago Neacs few
more letters showing how Blaine had I'M
plored him to come to him when the Little
Rock matter was under investigation.
In order to inform the reader as to the
true relevancy of these letters, it is necessa.
ry to recall the incidents Immediately con-
nected with their contents. On June s.
1876, Mr.. Blaine made his dramatic expla.
nation to 44,OOO,00O of his countrymen and
read the letters he had practically stolen
from Mulligan. At the request of Mr..
Blaine, the committee investigating his
case adjourned from Saturday, June 10, to
the following Monday, in conseqeunce OF
the absence of his colleagues, Messrs. Hale
and Frye. On Sunday, June II, Mr.. Blaine
sank down on the church steps, complain
ing of pain in his head, and saying he
was afraid he had sunstroke. On Monday,
the witnesses for two weeks on account OF
Mr.. Blaine's illness. On Tuesday, June IL,
Mr.. Blaine sent the following dispatch:
Eugene Hale, Cincinnati, o.:
am entirely convalescent, suffering only from
physical weakness. Impress upon my friends
the debt of gratitude feel for the unparalleled
steadfastness with which they have stood by Inc
in my hour of trial. D.. U. BLAINE.
Mr.. Hayes was nominated by the Nation
al Republican Convention June l6, and on
the Monday following, June 20, Mr.. Blaine
made ratification speech in washington.
AS the date for the reassembling of the
committee of investigation approached, Mr..
Baine's health failed rapidly, and at l.3O
P. M, Tuesday, June q, he left Washing
ton by special car for his home in Augusta.
On the same day Messrs. Fisher and Null
ligan arrived in Washington to continue
their testimony. A dispatch to the Boston
Herald of that date says "they were greatly
annoyed at being detained until Friday, to
which date the committee had adjourned" !"
The special car in which Mr. Blaine travel
ed went direct to Augusta, so that he was
not seen at New York or Boston en- ro,1e.
He reached home Wednesday, June %, and
that very night wrote the following urgent
letter to Mr.. Fisher, which is here pub
lished for the first time, the italics being
Blaine's:
WEDNESDAY (2srH,) EvEG.
My DEAR MIR. FISHER I want to see you just
as much as before you went to washington.
You can leave Boston at 1890 and return same
night if you desire, though I would prefer to
have you stay over. Come directly to my house.
1t is, think, as important for you to see me as
for me to see you. Come this a0eek.
Don't fail. Come tomorrow, if possible.
Yours, J. G.. BLAINE.
This letter pretty clearly indicates the
A dispatch to the Boston Herald, dated Au-
gusta, Thursday, June 90, says that Mr..
Blaine suffered no serious setback by his
Journey, and was then enjoying the rest and
freedom from the excitement he so much
needed. 1t continued: "Dr. Hill, his fam
ily physician, says there is no organic trou-
BILE, but that the nervous prostratlOn COM
plicated with malarial effects is more severe
than he had calculated from what ne had
read of the case. He has adopted careful
line Of treatment, even forbiddlng MIR.
Blaine's aoritieg q letter. He gives him no
assurance that he will be able to take any
part in the pending campaign"
This was on Thursday, and yet the fol-
lowing letter, written two days later, shows
that Mr.. Blaine knew better what medicine
he wanted than his family physician. Here,
too, the italics are Mr.. Blaine's own:
[Private.]
AUGUSTA, Saturday, Eveg lst July, '76.
MY DEAR Mr.. FISHER:-I write from my
sick bed. 1 want very much to see you. am
very sorry you did not come to Wash'ton when
train Monday? Express train leaves Eastern
Station at o'clock, reaching here at P. NJ You
can return same evening.
Or, if you can't come by the o'clock train
there is train that leaves at ~ or 1890 noon,
and gets here about 8 p. m. You can return
same night. DO come quickly Say nothing TO
anv one. But do come Yours sincerely,
J. G. BLAINE.
(See over.) }
Important to you as aoeu as to myself that yo's
come. VERY.
ION other side of sheet.) Don't let any human
being except your wife know you are coming
down. But do not fail to come-whatever you
do do not fail.
You will regret it if you do not come.
Could anything be more abject in its plead
xl-. L 80 Dat ,Nf hn Inc nf
this remarkable series of letters. On the
following day he wrote again as follows:
SUNDAY EVENING, July ~ 1876.
My DEAR Mr. FISHER: If you have not
started when this reaches you, pray you leave
for Augusta at once.
am very sick, but know what I am talk
ing about. and ii is largely for your sake that
delay. 1t may be too late Don't refuse a sick
man J. B.
You can 20 back on return train. Come direct
ly to my house. Don't 60 to hotel
Can any one read these letters, urging,
beseeching and furtively threatening Mr..
Fisher, and not see into the very heart of
Mr.. Blaine's disease? The investigation
not abandoned. He felt then that he could
not walk out from his sick room well man
until the terror of Mulligan's and Fishers
knowledge against him was removed.
On Friday, June 80, Messrs. Fisher and
Mulligan were recalled by the investigating
committee and discharged until July 10, to
which time the further investigation was
POSTPONED. In the meantime events were
shaping which were to take Mr.. Blaine out
of the Jurisdiction of committee of the
House of Representatives. June 81 Lot NJ.
Morrill, was appointed Secretary Of the
Treasury, and on July he resigned as Sen.
ator and qualified. On July 10 DR.. Hill
certified to Messrs. Hale and Frye: "Any-
thing that tends to excite Mr.. Blaine's mind
or to deeply interest is certain to seriously
delay and may even prevent his recovery.
What he needs and must have is absolute
rest from all care and anxiety" And yet
one exciting hour on his knees to Fisher
would have been worth all the rest and
drugs in the universe.
On July II, upon the representations of
Messrs. Hale and Frye, the Judiciary Com
mittee, after stormy session, postponed the
further investigation of the Union Pacific
Railroads Little Rock bonds until the next
session. July ~, Mr.. Blaine's credentials
were presented to the Senate, the matter
was dropped and he became convalescent.
Only the presence of immediate danger was
sufficient to keep him in a state of malaral
prostration.
PARTY STRENGTH IN THE NEXT Con-
GREss.-When the present Congress met
last December it was composed of 1875 Dem
ocrats, 126 Republicans and one Independ-
ent, and there were three vacancies. When
it adjourned in July two of the vacancies
had been filled by Republicans and one by
Democrat. Four Republicans had been
unseated and Democrats put in their places,
while the Independent had become Re-
publican. The session closed with 200 Dem