The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17

r~aTVT 49, \
as .al,os1 stock-iobberies, CIeuII
aSpoS,;Iiars rings, and swindleS OF az
S11..e..-i,sfions. when the balance OF pow.
- n held IN the hands or lndepenasns
..aeera and the independent vouerS ~
$500 IN the land and viii not pc olc-
1879 - nv fire machine politicians, II
3 tI,a rarf az prudence to look tacIs
= sS,,,aS,ISy in the face, to let the Dill
I;ant dramatic. and dazzling spectacle
c oct. for amusement, and take peep ne
Rind the scenes, and to ask ones SCI a
fhe question: What shall we gun IL - "" s
have q magnetic, audaclouS man Ao - &
candidate and lose the eIectI1 SIh;s 60
control of the goveTnnien''S ''''''s'
Tribune, June Z, 1875.
WHAT BLAINE FAILED 10 EAPLAiN'
Mr.. Blaine has thus far omltteo ~
HIS various explanations 10 give z Ctes ~
idea as To the meaning or a poItlon VI
the letters and memoranda rescueu
from Mulligan's custody.
n Is shown that for the trouble ana
skill exercised in negotiating the SAFE
to his Maine constituents OF So5O,VVO
nominaI value of bonds for Sl3O,OQO IN
cash. Mr.. Blaine received bonds OF enc
nominaI value of SIG, 800. worth ABOUT
S55 600 in cash at that time. AccoIu-
inc RI the agreement this large dona-
tion to Mr.. Blaine was partly. IN the
nature of a commission on the SAFE,
and afor otherValuable considerations.
Mr.. Blaine has so far neglected 10
exnlain what these other valuable con-
siderations" were. They must nave
been very valuable to have swelleu tne
aggregate compensation TO Soo,OOV' OF
about AZ per cent upon sale Wnicn
amounted to $4,000 in cash. rms
nart If the documentary display was
9nietIy passed over and not read by
Mr. blaine with the remark that 1t was
un1mportant.-Chi Tribune, jane ~,
1876.
MR.. BLAINE's PUBLIC RECORD.
= *# Among the candidates named
was Mr.. Blaine, and he was the most
popular of all. He was bold, aggress-
i've. magnetic, and eloquent. But his
personal rivals had prepared for ms
Candidacy. Conkling and Morton and
Butler had made up his record. Ihey
knew him as the people did not know
him. They knew him as the man VINO
had voted for or failed to oppose every
subsidy of either land or money asked
while he was in congress. They knew
him as the man who had voted for the
audacious robbery by which the gov
eminent lien for its siXty-fOur millions
advanced to the Pacific railroads was
changed from first to second mort
gage. They knew him as a lobbyist
before he entered congress, seeking
contracts for the supply OF arms. They
knew him in congress, and while
speaker, as the inside friend OF .corpo-
r,tions; concerned in legislation 10
benefit such corporations; ruling as
speaker to save their bills, and as
claiming rewards for his official &C
lions; as engaged in selling the worth
less bonds of such corporations, Teceiv-
ing large gratuities therefor, as con-
feSsed in his letters; and finally, when
pecuniarily involved, getting the Pacl-
fic Railroad company, as 1t seems al
most certain, to give him S64,OOO cash
for what was VIGOROUSLY not worth 64,-
600 cents, although he declares in one
of his letters that he paid ont that
money in forty-eight hours thereafter.
The record of all this, in Mr.. Blaine's
own handwriting, these personal rivals
of Mr.. Blaine have made public. 1t is
imnaterial how they became public or
through whose agency, These letters
are all Mr.. Blaine's-his own record OF
his own operations as a Jobber IN con.
tracts, in railroad legislation and in
wildcat securities. and Of his peeuniary
obligations 10 the Pacific Railroad COM
pany.
Is this the record of a reFormer? OF
2 man to purify the administration, to
exterminate congressional corruption,
and raise the standard of political and
official morality? The IIjb nc has OBJ
Jected to periling the party triumph by
the nomination OF party candidate
thus loaded down and impeaehed, not
by c0nfederates or democrats, but by
republicans. who are also aspirants for
the presidency. The Tribune objects to
a nomination which will be accepted
by the country as a disavoWal of all
purpose OF reform. 1t objects to fore |
ing the party, unnecessarily, into a five |
months campaign which will be ex-
eluslvely defensive one. Martin Van |
Buren,, in 1910, was defeated in q de- |
..enslve campaign; Henry Clay, in 1871, |
for SIX months defended his record, as |
presented IN his letter, and was de- |
Feated. Gen. Cass defended his Mich
bison letter and his river and haTbOr |
etter in 1913, and was defeated. Doug
as was put on the defensive in 1850 and |
defeated, and also Seymour in 1858 and /
Ireeley in 1872, and went down. But |
neither of these had sguh a record to
De defended as Is furnished by Blaine's
)wn letter against himself.
Unfortunately there is not a speech.
Tor vote, nor letter of Mr.. Blaine's
N record that in the slightest sense
an 90 tortured into faY0iing reform.
IDolIShlng useless ~ .oS. reducino ev-
puri The civil service
II cutting Oft all ;he abuses which
AVE skunk in q ,.rils of the pnO-
lie. Inc Chic, Tribune has been
ompeiled % pa. ga all this record,
log 70 lijgIt III. blaine, but as current |
liQ teiegF+plilc news and as q matter
s !. ll me public should understand.
I mas pointed out TO the republicans
ne ! supreme folly CT nominating a can
idate whose personal record win sum-
rsede The record of the republican !
arty, ami VIII have to be defended for
We months before the scrutinizino
floqnal OF a people who demand az [
resident a man who is by principle
nd practice a reformer IfAIr. Blaine
nominated, then Tlll begin the lone [
'dlous, and hear keuinr work IA /
Eplaining and d. sing that score of
tiers, several 81 ch have noh vet Z
ID the light. 9 defending a long
ora or votes f9 sGOsidies to nonop.
ana. questionable legislation Of :
Ell Kinds. If before that CAMPAIGN !
ended the people shall be weary If :
. Disgusting repetition, and at the :
c w 81 ctiohs in Ohio and Indiana !
latl IessAV such a nomination and ]
ect democratic president and der , !
ATTIC seuate and house. and = 10; 40 %
2 sltne party tbs ccy1rToI ' Of t5ree ~ 3
urths OF all tho State coveTnmenfs y
insist that no republican shall hold 3
ls paper responsible for the follv q
lIch invited such a disaster bv the +
hil51 g or such a candidate, Chi y
90 Tribune, June 10. 1915. ~ r