Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-07
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
We desire that full and exact Justice
shall be done to Mr.. Blaine In the lnves.
| tigation of his v%ariegated career in pub
lie life. He has enough to explain and
enough to answer for as the Gaze stands.
No candid person will c~ountenance any
attempt to make the republican candi
date seem worse than he is by misrep-
resentation of the record by d~isingenious
differences from distorted facts or by
headlong, laundering logic.
In the New York Times of Monday
last there appeared a leading editorial
article entitled ''The missing Mulligsn
letters" When Mr.. Blaine took from
Mulligan the letters which were after
ward read by the hard-pressed statesman
in the house of representatives, he took
also a memorandum which Mulltgan had
made of the dates of the letters in a
package with a synopsis of their con-
tents. This schedule called for fifteen
letters or, to be exact, fourteen letters
and one paper entered as contract witch
Northern Pacific" The Congressional
Record for June s, 1876, shows that Me-.
Blaine read just fifteen letters on thu
floor of the house. He said at the time:
"Thank God Almighty, l am not afraid
to show them. There they are. There
is the very original package" Again,
just before sending tn the clerk Mr.. Null
ligan's memorandum, he said: 81 have
now read those fifteen letters, the whole
of them. The house and the country
now knows all there is in them. They are
dated, and they correspond precisely
with Mulligan's memorandum which 1
have here. 1 keep this memorandum as
a protection to myself, for it is very val
liable as showing the identity of the lst-
ters in every ref pect."
Did Mr.. Blaine, in fact, read the let
ters, and all of the letters, which he had
taken from Mulligan. or did he suppress
some of the more damaging documents
in the budget, supplying their places
with comparatively innocuous epistles in
order to keep the tally rightl 1t is need
less to say that this is a very important
question.
The Times endeavors to establish the
facts that the fifteen letters submitted to
the house by Mr. Blaine, with so many
professions of candor and unreserve, were
not the fifteen letters called for by the
Mulligan memorandum. 1t prints the
memorandum itself. and also the dates
of the letters actually read in the house.
On the strength OF certain apparent dis.
c%repanciea between the two lists, the
Times insinuates that Mr.. Blaine
deceived his colleagues in the house
while pretending to take them into his
confidence and to put himself on honor,
as it were. ii that was the case no more
de~spicable trick was ever devised by any
hunted rascal. The Times finds that
four letters called for by the memoran-
dunn were not read by Blaine, while he
aid read four letters that were not in
cluded in the memorandum. 1t asks:
Where were the letters called for by
the following entries in Mulligan's MEM
orandum2
No. July 90. 1869, on the same
subject.
No. September 6, 1869, contract
with different parties.
No. 6.-Contract with Northern
Pacific
No. S-October "a, 1871, Fisher to
Blaine urging settlement of Northern
Pacific railroad account.
Aud why is it by Q most singular coin
cidenoe Mulligan's memorandum is silent
IS to four letters read by Mr.. Brine,
bearing dates OF July 3, 1879; April 20,
1879; April 90, 1872, and July 2. 1862
Can II be that this splendidly audacious
statesman substituted some harmless let.
ters from his portfolio or manufactured
for the ooolsioh the four letters on Null
ligan's list but not readl If 90, 1t was