Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-09-27

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The Facts Cannot he Faisined.

The Facts Cannot he FaisiHed.
II must strike intelligent Republicans
as very singular that, with all their pro
fessed confidence in the innocent tenor
of the Mulligan letters, not single Re
publican newspaper ON the Pacific Coast
hasdared to publish them. From the
way the average editor writes of tho
Fisher correspondence. one would think
that they would serve excellently as
campaign documents in the interest of
the Plumed Knight, Probably il is the
native magnanimity of the Republican
editorial guild which prevents their pub
LEGATION, as they might make Baino's
triumph too overwhelming. The voters
might grow so enamored of the Republi.
can candidates integrity and fine sense
OF official proprioty that the poor Dem
ocrats would not even figure in the race.
Not only do they not publish them, but
they do not refer to Mr.. Blaine's bust
ness relations with Fisher and his clerk
Muligan. Here and there Republi.
can newspaper ventures to touch upon
little edge Of the matter, as witness
the following from the Chicago Ne'cs,
which is allowed modest corner in the
columns OF our esteemed contemporary,
the Times, of this city:
You cannot pick up Democratic
newspaper without finding in il an al.
fusion to the Mulligan letters" Not
one in hundred OF the Democratic
newspapers which use the phrase, and
not one in n thousand of the readers
who see IL, know its meaning. The
facts are simple and few. A number of
years ago, while Mr.. Blaine was in Con.
gress, he, like great many other public
men OF both parties, became in
terested in some railroad enter
prises. Not one act of corrup-
ton or any act inconsistent with the
incest scruples of honor, has been proven
against him in connection with these
transactions. While they were in
progress he wrote the letters to Multi
gan, who had been in some way his
agent or associate. Mulligan carefully
kept them, and gave them to the Demo.
cratic Congressional Investigators of
1876 with the assurance that they con.
tanned matters seriously compromising
MIR. Blaine. Mr. Blaine asked to see
them when in the hands of the Commit
tee, aud kept them over night to care.
fully collate them, and the next day
read every word and line which they
contained to his accusers ia the House.
The fair construction and honest mean
ing Of every phrase was vindicated by
the manner in which they were present.
ed The syndicate Of his calumniators
then said he had suppressed and de-
stroyed some of the most damaging of
the letters while they were in his hands.
But this was disproved, for all tho let
tiers had previously been carefully in.
dexed, and none We're missing. That is
all there was about the Mulligan letters.
There is not line in the foregoing
and it is harsh thing to say-that was
not written with the Intention to de.
ceive unless its writer is fool. The
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inevitable. The facts of the case are
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somely lowered by Congress, that MIR.
Blaine was Speaker of the United States
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hir. bla'he wro.e 10 MY dear fishcr,
reminded nun oil the ru''hg ne haa made
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admitted on the ground hoor' he
would prove no uead mead IN the
matter Inc correspondence Is long
and 1t SHOWS at every stage EVIL
denees oil the completeness with which
Diane was ienaihg ms oIhcia position
10 the uses OF a gang OF spectators and
railway loppers. Inc latest oatch OF the
Mul'igan letters is even worse than the
hrst' In 1t Is letter dated April 10th,
1917 from Blaine to Fisher, calling at
'ehtioh 10 the tact that the approaching
national Convention, before which
Blame expected to be candidate,
would cause his connection with the
Fort smith and Little Rock Railway to
be closely investigated, and imploring
Fisher to come to his rescue with lying
statement OF the facts, for which pur-
pose Blaine enclosed a draft OF letter,
which he requested Fisher to sign and
return to him (Blaine) that he might use
it for his exculpation at Washington.
This Fisher peremptorily declined to do;
and, in reply, he accused Blaine OF hav-
ing obtained large quantities OF this
stock for which he had paid nothing, Of
having roped in his Maine friends, who
supposed they were getting in on the
ground floor, while large commission