The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-17
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(Confidential]
WASHINGTON. D. c., April 16, 1876.
Ny DEAR Mr.. FISHER: You can do
me very great favor, and l know it
will give you pleasure to do so, just as
would do for you under similar circum-
stances. Certain persons and papers
are trying to throw mud at me to in
lure my candidacy before the Cincin-
matt convention, and you may observe
they are trying it in connection with
the Little Rock and Fort Smith matter.
want you to send me letter, such as
the enclosed draft. You will receive
this tomorrow (Monday) evening, and
it will be q favor | shall never forget if
you will at once write me letter and
mail it the same evening. The letter is
strictly true, is honorable to you and to
me, and will stop the mouths of the
slanderers at once. Regard this letter
as strictly confidential. Do not show it
to anyone. The draft is in the hand of
my clerk, who is as trustworthy as any
man can be- If you can't get letter
written in time for the 8 O'Clock mail to
New Yord, please be sure to mail it
during the night, so that it will start by
the first mail Tuesday morning; but if
possible, pray you, get it in the 8
o'clock mail Monday evening. Kind
regards to Mrs. Fisher. Sincerely,
fSignedl J. G. 3.
Endorsed on the back.
Not knowing your exact address,
send this to the Parker House, in order
that it may not be subjected to any
danger in the hands of the carrier.
1Signed) J. q. 3.
If this is not the plea of q guilty
wretch who seeks to evade the conse-
quences of wrong-doing by arranging
his case so that it may bear the SEM
blance of plausibility beforehand, then
our estimation of the meaning OF sem
fences and the consequences apparently
hoped for from them is greatly at fault
It is as though the lines quoted above
read something like this:
Dear Sri am a candidate for Pres
ident and have been engaged in some
speculations which various persons and
papers see At to condemn These, being
developed at this particular time, are
very injurious to me and must be ex-
planned away. You can do this if you
will. 1t can easily be made to appear
that bought my stock and paid for it,
like other people. Will you not do this
for me7 submit herewith what de-
sire you to subscribe to; please do SO
and return. Of course this is confideu-
tial. Yours, etc.
Perhaps all this, TO the majority OF the
people OF the United States, was I'M
necessary, because they knew before
what an Infamous trickster and
eorrup+ionist Blaine was on general
principles. The spectacle of a man
holding the highest directly represent
alive station in the United States, and
therefore in the world, permitting him
self to beplaced in such position as that
above disclosed, is more than infamous,
it IS dastardly. And now he is pre-
scented to the people, whose SURFACES
placed him in an Office where he could
corrupt and be corrupted with profit,
and did both, as candidate for still
higher and the highest place in their
gift. There can be but one respectable
response to his request for voters and
that will surely come-he will be repu-
dated at the polls just as he repudiated
the great trust reposed in him: he will
be defeated.
would be such an act OF ignominy
on the part of the people OF the United
States to permit SO craven, corrupt and
cringing wretch as James G. Blaine to
occupy the chair of state.as would make
the grand title of American citizen a
term of reproach. Let the culprit be
satisfied with the verdict which will only
keep him outside the walls of the White
House so long as it does not place him
inside those OF penitentiary.