The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-08-02

The Chicago News, "hlch Is n luHplooueu
REPUBLICAN journal, sailing under the guis'
of independency, fought nobly against the
nomination of Blaine, and gave, one day, as
its reasons for so doing, the following ex-
tracts from the tattooed knights political
record. We take pleasure in reproducing
the same, viz:
Take his public record as it is made up:
During his first session in Congress he pro-
posed the great fraud by which the first lien
of the government on the Pacific roads
amounting to 100000 600, was surrendered
and was lost to the government. This great
fraud was exposed by Mr.. Washburne, OF
Illinois. What he received for his efforts TO
defraud the government is not known.
His dealings with Fisher concerning North
ern Pacific stock, in which by his own let
tiers, it appears he desired to transfer to
him for So 600 lot of fictitious stock of that
road is another of those transactions which
Mr.. Phelps, in his frantic efforts to clear Mr.,
Blaine, could not explain.
His Little Rock & Fort Smith scheme, in
which he prostituted his position as speaker
to assist corporation, receiving S32, 600
first-mortgage bonds without paying any
thing himself, has never been honored with
! an attempt at explanation.
His arrangement with Mr.. Scott, by which
that gentleman took from Mr.. Blaine S75,-
600 worthless bonds, and, to relieve him,
put them off upon the Union Pacific road for
S64, 600 cash, has not been explained by any
officer of that road, nor has it ever been
denied
His destroying of the evidences against
him as they existed in the Mulligan letters
pending a congressional investigation was a
virtual admission of the truth of the charges
against him, which if proved would have
resulted in his expulsion from congress.
His opposition in 1874 to the force bill for
the protection of the colored voters of the
South, the defeat of which has rendered it
impossible for his party to carry any South
ern state. cannot endear him to any Southern
republican. He was persistent in his efforts
to defeat the measure, and succeeded
He voted agast the RECOMMENDATION of sill
yer, and when Mr. Hayes vetoed the bill Mr..
Blaine was one of the nineteen Senators who
voted against passing the bill over his veto.
In 1878 he opposed the Thurman bill which
was to compel the subsidized Pacific rail-
roads to provide for paying their debts to
the government, and was the spokesman of
the powerful lobby to defeat the measure.
The same year he was the tool Of the tim
Der thieves and made his furious attact on
Mr.. Schurz, who was attempting to protect
the timber lands of the government from the
thieves who were despoiling the land of its
wealth of timber.
The same year he supported measure
for substituting certain steamship lines
which Senator Edmunds defeated.
II is not necessary to lengthen such a re-
cord, the proof of which is abundant in the
records of Congress and the columns of such
republican papers as the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, the Chicago Tribune, the st, Louis Globe
Democrat and hosts of others less promi-
nent. From the day of his nomination to
the eve his defeat the republican party will
be kept busy trying to explain record that
admits of no explanation and to acquit of
crimes "a candidate who his own party
knows is guilty beyond acquittal.