St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-25
Blaine Didn't Pay His Substitute.
special Telegram to the Globe.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct "a The Demo-
cratic executive committee to-day took the
aftidavits of Jacob Poor and G. j. Williams.
Poor is a negro who went to war as the sub
stitute for Jas. G. Blaine. Williams was
lieutenant in the company. c. j. Williams,
of the Thirteenth district, Davidson county,
who was lieutenant of Company c, Fortieth
United States colored troops, makes the fol-
lowing statement:
A call for troops as substitutes was made
for about fourteen men from the state of
Maine. From the best of my knowledge and
belief Jacob Poor, colored, then in the city
of Marshall Tenn, was selected as substi-
tute for Jas. G. Blaine, of
Maine. A gentleman by the name of
Stone, ranking as lieutenant colonel, selected
the substitutes. Jacob Poor was promised
5000 for his services as substitute for Blaine,
and my impression was he only received S35.
Since then Poor has stated to me that he only
received SO. 1 also know that Poor was in
structed to say he was from Alabama, as no
men at that time inside the Federal lines could
be taken as substitutes. l insisted that
Poor should not comply with said instructions
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whereupon this Col. Stone and Capt. Milton
Current refused TO allow me to further see
the substitute and threatened to send me
back to my own command as a pri-
vate, thus reducing me to the ranks,
if l further interfered by advice or otherwise
with substitutes they were getting up. l am
confident from information given me by the
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observation, that Jacob Poor, now here while
this statement is being taken, was
mustered into my company and regiment
as substitute for a. man named Ex-Congress-
man JAS. G.. Blaine, of Maine, and l do not
know that the said Jacob Poor, now with me
while this statement is taken, was substi-
tute sent to my company, and that he served
during the rest of the war and was
honorably discharged. 1 am not now
have been Democrat, and
make this statement that justice and right
may prevail.
Signed c. J. WILLIAMS.
What Poor says: az, Jacob Poor, was a
member of the Fortieth United States regi-
ment, (colored), Company C, under Capt.
Milton Current, with Col. F. W. Lester
as commander of the regiment
and under the immediate command
of Second Lieut.. C. J. Williams. 1 was
mustered in as a substitute, and my under
standing was then and is now that l was
substitute for a man named Blaine, of
Maine. This information was received from
Lieut. Geo. Lodge of the company.
was instructed by the mastering officer
to declare that l hailed from the
state of Alabama, since no substitute could be
taken from within the federal lines. Lieut..
Williams. instructed me not to do so, but
told me to join the company as volunteer,
not as substitute, but Col. Stone promised
me 5000 to act as sub
titute for man from Maine
whose name Lieut.. Lodge afterwards said
was Blaine. of Maine. 1 received Of the 5000
promised but S10 and that was handed me
at the capital of the state of Tennessee at thC
time l was mustered. 1 to-day, at the re
| quest of several friends, wen
to the photograph gallery o
| Thuss, Koelin 81 Glers, of Nashville
Tenn, and had likeness of myself taken
l am now about ffty-two or fifty three year
of age. am not now or ever have been
Democrat, and this statement is mad,
voluntarily, and without compulsion o
bribe, of my own free will and accord
lSignedl JACOB Poor.