Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-09-19
Those Letters.


FRIDAY. i. SEPTEMBER 10. 1884.
Those Letters.
"Eow would give thousand furlongs
a sea for one acre Of barren ground" says
GoxrALo In "TAs Tempest" SO Mr..
BLAINE. suffering from the MuLLIGiS let
tiers. must feel like exelsiming, "Now
would give thousand days Of Republi-
can candidacy for one day OF peace a. a pri-
waite citisep."
But whilst Mr.. BLAINE Is suffering
"agonies." TO employ HE own word, some
Of bis apolseists are attempting 10 convince
the publie tina. there IL nothing wrong In
the last batch OF MUILrGAS letters. Mr..
MuRAr HAisrnAD, OF New York and Gin
cinuati. is engaged In that sort OF Sisyphean
work. But we bave not observed that he
has published those innocent letters.
lie has not allowed his resders to
Judge for themselves as to what they
prove Mr.. BLAINE TO be. Nj. HALssvAD
seems 10 have lost bis balance. lie does
not content himself with saying Of the
MuraIoiH letters I" that they ampiify lit
tie precisely what was known before" but
proceeds to argue the right OF q congress
man to make money under the circum-
stanccs under which MIR. BLAIsE made his
fortune, But does Dir. HALsrEAD really
hold that Mr.. BLAINE had right to make
money for himself or friends out Of the
fact that be knew that be and others could
get Congress 70 pass bill authorizing the
establishment OF new national bsnkss
Pray read once more the following letter:
Augusta, Me-, 18th Nov, 1869.
NV dear Hr. Fisher: Ii Is quite evident
to my mind that st the approaching session
Of Congress there will be an expansion OF
The currency to the amount Of CITY to seven.
ty.fye millions OF dollars. The form IL will
take, / think. will be an addition to the
national bank circulation West and South.
My object in writing il TO ask in season
II your friends would desire TO establish
bank at Little Rock. IL will be TO some
extent a matter OF favoritism as 10 who gets
The banks In the several localities. aud it
Will be In my power 10 " cast an Anchor to
the Windwsrd " in your behalf II You de-
sire 1t. Please think over the matter, and
confer with Mr. Caldwell; and let me
know your desire as soon as you reach any
conclusion. There is. OF course, no special
hurry; but thought would suggest the
matter In order shat you might mature
your thoughts In good time.
1t would be well to determine the amount
10 which ron might wish to 20. lsuppose
il might be practicable to secure 100000
bank; but in that locality you would hard
II wish to go 90 deep. But they are very
profitable institutions-say s25o,00o.
Yours truly, J. G. BLAINE.
Ndren FISHER. Jr., Esq.
Isn't II % PLAN as day that when Mr..
BLAINE said that 1t was "a matter OF favor
itsm as to who gets the banks in tho several
localities" be meant thst he would be one
Of the "favorites"i Note, too, that he
selects Little Rock, Arkansas, rs the local
lily Of this bank which was to be established
az o matter Of "favorltism." Whyl
Probably because Arkansas was State
having no publ, men whose influence in
Washington would be comparable to
Mr.. BLAIHx's when the question
Of "favoritism' should be raised. Note,
toe, that he says "they are very
profitable institutions" That is 10 say he
(BLAISE) was going to do q great favor for
Mr.. FIKHIR's friends {" your friends ".
All this 10, in Mr.. HALsrBAD's opinion,
justiflable.
Does Mr.. HALsrEAD hold that Mr.. BLAINE
had right to feather his nest in the man.
ner limited at in the following letter from
MIR. Fisher to Mr.. BLAINE:
al have loaned you at various times.
when you were comparatively pool, very
large sums OF money, and never have you
paid me one dollar from your own pocket.
either principal or interest. / have paid
suDdry amounts to others TO whom you
were indebted. and these debts you have al
lowed 10 stand unpaid like tue notes which
hold. 1 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 10 forget the act on
my part. or nil the pa rites connected with
the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad,
no one has been so fortunate as yourself In
obtaining money out OF it,"
Can Mr.. HusrBAD even pretend to mis-
understand that language? Isn't it evil
dent that BLAINE paid his debts in some
other WY than By taking money out Of his
own pocket. or else never paid them at all
This one letter standing alone il sufficient
TO prove oil that has been charged against
Mr.. BLAINE In this connection. IL needs
not one word OF comment. Any man OF
average intelligence Is bound to under
stand 1t 10 mean that BLAINE pocketed bor-
rowed money as his own because be con-
sidered the pretcnce that II had been '.bor-
rowed" a. nothing but pretence.
Again. Mr.. HAIsTBAD, what did FISHER
mean when be wrote to BLAINE a. fol-
lows.
"You baye bad more bonds than you
state In your letter. II you have given
any to PARTIES 1t Wssbing top. or disposed
Of them to others, 1t Is no concern OF
minc"?
Why should Mr.. BLAINE have given any
bonds 10 parties In Washington We an
swer, because they were members OF Con-
gress. What other reason could there be ?
Is there any other explanation posnbles
II would seem, too. that BLAINE might
have written 10 FISHER, or perhaps told
him IN private conversation, that he had
given some Of the bonds away. and so was
entitled TO be renunerated. We would that
some Republican paper would try to ex.
plain away these letters.
Again. Mr.. HALsTKAp. what does FISHER
mean whtn be writes to BLAINE these
words;
"Taking into sccount the 100000 you
sold 10 Tom Scott" &C.. &c.
You (I3LAiSI) sold to TON SCOTT ei00, 900
! Of bonds. Why did TON scorr buy those
bonds. and buy them from BLAINE! Mr..
a FIsHEx tells why ScorT bought them. For he
cites the fact that BLANs had sold these
bonds to ron scosr 20 proving that there
was "a wide contrast" between what he
FisHER) and what BLAINE had made 10 the
transactions 10 which they were CONFORMITY
engaged.
Finally. Mr.. HAisvRAD. explsis how the
following extracts from R.AIxs's letters TO
Fisaka can consist with innocence on bis
part:
I. +" Burn this letter."
3. Its personal hardships b me are bit.
Ter. burning. and Atmiiidttnq.'
3. "In view Of the peculiar relations
hsve held n this matter"
4. "n you knew the sgonlss have sui.
iered n Ats ss0ttes during the past elk
ssosfbs vot1 would nifv me- am s1trs .,