The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-09-25
NEW MULLIGAN LETTERS.
The Celebrated LETTER Mentioned
In Muligan's Memorandum
Asking Settlement by
Blaine.
The Draft OF the Letter by Blaine Asking
Fisher TO Exonorate Him.

in regard to the formers connection with the
Little Rock 4 Fort Smith railroad bonds, and
also the establishment of national bank in
Little Rock, Ark The document containing
these letters was distributed through the vari-
GUS newspapers tonight by two emissaries of
the Independent Republican committee and
was signed by Messrs. Warren Fisher, Jr., and
James II. Mulligan, who say:
To the people of the United States: Believ-
ing that it is our duty tolay before our fellow
countrymen the following documents which
have been in our possession, we have placed
the originals for safe keeping in the hands Of
Messrs. Sopier 4 Walch, counselors of Boston
and herewith submit their contents without
comment
The document includes twelve letters from
Mr.. Blaine and six from Warren Fisher, Jr.,
covering period from 1869 to just before the
Cincinnati convention. In the first, dated Oct
4, 1869, Mr. Blaine encloses $l0, 900 check in
payment of A and P. Coburns subscription
for bonds. He says:
of No one will ever know
from me that have disposed of a single dollar
In Maine, so there need be no embarrassment
in talking with Mr. Caldwell
In the second letter, dated Oct 3, 1869, Mr..
Blaine sends two further instalmentS of mon
ey and 5000 subscription from Mr. Lot N.
Morrill, Mr. Blaine says;
note what you say about the Importance
of my keeping all quiet here fully appreci-
ate your wisdom and kindness, and shall do
as YOU desire
THE THIRD LETTER
The third letter is as follows:
Augusta, Me-, Nov. Is, 1S6a-Mr Dear Mr..
Fisher: 1t is quite evident to my mind that at
the approaching session of congress there will
be an expansion of the currency to the amount
of fifty to seventy-tve millions of dollars.
The form it will take, l think, will be an addi-
ton to the national bank circulation West and
South. My object in writing is to ask in season,
if your friends would desire to establish
bank at Little Rock: 1t will be to some extent
matter of favorltlsm as to who gets the banks
IN the several localities and 1t will be within
my power 10 cast an anchor to the wlndward
in your behalf if YOU desire 1t y 1t
would be well to determine the amount to
which You might wish TO go. 1 suppose it
might be practicable TO secure $500 0OO; but in
that locality you would hardly wish to go so
deep. But they are very profitable institutions
say S25O,o OO. Yours very truly,
Warren Fisher, Jr., ESQ.
THE OTHER LETTERS
Most of the other letters refer to the details
of the organizing the proposed national bank,
and also to the settlement of financial affairs
between Mr. Blaine and Mr. Fisher Mr..
loan which he had negotiated, and beside to send
him some S15,uO0 land bonds and $4,000 first
mortgage bonds of the Fort Smith railway, due
him under contract
One signed Warren Fisher, Jr. is said to be
the letter described in Mulligans famous men,
oranda, as Fisher to Blaine urging settlement
of Union Pacific railroad account, So 600 and
of which Mr. Blaine denied all knowledge. 1t
Is dated Oct. a, 1871, and is, in part, as fol-
lows:
can get no information when Mr. Caldwell
is to return: when he does will lay your let
tiers before him. In the meantime | can say
nothing in regrad 10 the matter further than
what have heretofore told you, that Mr. Cald-
well represented to me that he had paid for
your account, and for which he has given your
receipts, all but $500 of the 1000 which
you loaned, and for which you received as col
lateral s50CUO of the Little Rock & Fort Smith
land grant bonds, which You since sold at 50
cents on the dollar. realizing therefor $50, COO
leaving you now an advance of funds, even if
MI. Caldwell had paid you nothing.
MIR. FISHER WAS MAD
The following was in reply to Mr. Blaine's
letter of April A. 1872 already published:
Boston, April 16 1S72-My Dear Blaine
Your favor of the 18th inst reached me this
Morning. l am surprised at its contents. l
have loaned YOU at various times, when you
were comparatively poor very large sums of
money, and never have you paid me 81 from
your own pocket either principal or interest
l have paid sundry amounts to others to whom
you were indebted, and the sc debts YOU have
allowed to stand unpaid like the notes which
hold. have placed You in positions whereby
you have received very large sums of money
without one dollar of expense to you, and you
ought not to forget the act on my part OF all
the parties connected with Little Rock Il Fort
Smith railroad no one has been so fortunate as
yourself in obtaining money out of it.
You obtained subscriptions from your
friends in Maine for the building of the Little
Rock & Fort Smith railroad. Out of these sub
scriptions you obtained large amount. both of
hoods and money, free of cost to you. have
your own figures and know the amount Ow-
ing to your political position you are able to
work off all your bonds at very high price,
and the fact is well known to others as we'll as
myself, Would your friends in Maine be salts
fiedif they knew the facts Are my associates
satisfied to have you obtain s225, UOO from the
Northern Pacific railroad, and you not make
the investment as per agreement? The course
you have thought proper to take in regard to
my request Is rather a poor one, taking your
relations with me, aud | again ask Won to re-
consider and grantt. You will find it much
easier to pay by obtaining the credit, and I Sc
1ected that course, thinking it to be the best
If you again Decline I shall be obliged to use
the notes or sell them to outside purchasers
Necessity knows no law Whatever bonds are
still due to you will be delivered as the road
prog1 esses. To the other portion of your let
ter 1 make no reply. You know the facts; it is
II
mention them at this time. Please answer at
once. l remain, respectfully yours,
WARREN FIs HER, JR.
The reply to this letter is Mr.. Blane's letter
of April IL, 1872, already published
CONFIDENTIAL
Washington, d. c., April Is, 1S76-'t(Coni-
dential)" My Dear Mr.. Flsher-You can do me
avery great favor and know it will give you
pleasure to do so-iust as l would do for you
under similar circumstances. Certain persons
and papers are trying to throw mud at me to
iniure my candidacy before the Cincinnati
convention, and you may observe they are
trying it in connection with the Little Rock
and Fort Smith matter. l want you to send
me letter such as the enclosed draft
You will receive this tomorrow Monday
evening, and it will be a favor 1 shall never
forget if you will at once write me the
letter and mail the same evening. The
latter is strictly true, is honorable to you and to
me- and will stop the mouths of sanderers at
once. Regard this letter strictly confden-
tial. DO not show it to any one. The draft is
i'll the hands of my clerk, who is as trustworthy
any man can be. If You can't get the let
tiers written in season for the O'Clock mail for
New York, please be sure to mail it during the
night, so that it will start first mail Tuesday
morning. But if possible pray you get it on
the O'Clock mail Monday evening, and kind
regards to Mrs Fisher. Sincerely, J. G. B.
[Burn this letter.
THE ENCLOSURE.
The following is the enclosure referred to in
the preceding letter:
Boston, April, 1876 -Hon. James G. Blaine,
Washington, d. c. Dear Sir-I observe that
certain newspapers are making, or rather in
slnuatlng, the absurd charge that you owned
or had owned $3.50, 600 of Little Rock h Fort
Smith railroad bonds, and that you had in
someway obtained them as gratuity. The
enterprise of building the Little Rock & Fort
Smith was undertaken in 1869 by company of
gentlemen, of whom was myself one The
bonds of the road we're put upon the market
in this city, upon what was deemed very adj
vantageous terms to the purchaser. They
were sold largely through myself You became
the purchaser of about $4,000 of the bonds
on precisely the same terms that every other
buyer received. paying for them in install
ments. running over considerable period,
just as others did The transaction was per-
fectly open, and there was no more secresy
in regard to it than if you were buying -four or
sugar. am sure you never owned a bond of
the road that you did not pay for it in the mar
ket rate. Indeed am sure that no one re-
ceived bonds on any other terms When the
road got into financial difficulties and loss fell
upOn Won Won stiII retained y0r1r bonds and