The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-09-20


discussed, and the letters bearing thereon
have been published. 1t will be remembered
| that this transaction was analysed by Car
Schurz, in his great speech in Brooklyn, n
Y, and recently published in this paper
| With the sworn evidence of Mr.. Blaine and
the letters then brought to light, Mr.. Schurz
convicted Mr.. Blaine of prostituting the office
of Speaker of the House of Representatives
for pecuniary gain, and of the further offense
of lying about the transaction. So damaging
have these letters and the evidence of official
corruption been, that all efforts to reason on
them by Republican orators and newspapers
have had no effect, and they have taken to
abusing Fisher and Mulligan. In reply
Fisher and Mulligan have given to the public
another batch of the Blaine letters, some thir-
teen i'll all.
Below is the letter of Blaine to Mr.. Fisher
and also the copy of the one Mr.. Blaine de-
sired Mr.. Fisher to copy and sign and re-
turn at once:
[Confidential.l
WAsH'TN d. C., 10th April, 1876
Ny Dear Mr.. Fisher:-You can do me very great
favor and know it will give you pleasure to do
just as l would do for you under similar circum-
stances. Certain persons and papers are trying to
throw mud at me to injure my candidacy before the
Cincinnati convention, and you may observe they
trying it i'll connection with the Little Rock and
Fort Smith matter.
want TO SEND me letter Sucn as the lnclOSSu
draft You will receive this tomorrow (Monisy)
evening. and it will be favor shall never forget
if you will at once write me the letter and mail the
same evening.
The letter Is strictly true is honorable to you and
to me- and will stop the mouths of slanderers at
once.
Regard this letter as strictly confidential Do not
show it to any The draft is in the hands of my
clerk, who is as trustworthy as any man can be- If
O'Clock mail to New York please be sure to mail it
during the night that it will start irs mail Tues
a fraar nff IN
O'Clock mda Monday 6renfHg Kind regards to Mrs.
Fisher. Sincerely J. b.
Burn this letter
Endorsed on the back.l
Not knowing your exact address send this to the
Parker House, in order that ii may mott be sub
jected to any danger in the hands of u carrier.
J. q. b.
The Western Union Telegraph Company.
Dated WAsIINGToN, d. C., 1876.
Received at 9.H, April Ii.
To Warren Fisher, Commonwealth Hotel Please
arrival morning mail from New York, find letter
Answer by return mail
I9D.H. J. G. BLAINE.
The following is the Enclosure referred to in the
BosroN, April -, 1876.
| The Hon. James q. Blaine Washington, d. c.
! Dear Sir II observe that certain newspapers are
/ making, rather irsinuatng, the absurd charge
that you own or had owned Sl50.0OO of Little Rock
and Fort Smith Railroad bonds. and that you had in
1 The enterprise of building the Little Rock and
/ Fort Smith Railroad was undertaken in 1869 by a
company of Boston gentlemen, of whom 1 was my
self one. The bonds OF the road were put upon the
market in this city, on what was deemed very adj
vantageous terms to the purchaser. They were sold
| largely through myself. You became the purchaser
of about S30OOO of the bonds precisely the same
terms that every other buyer received, paying for
them in installments, running over "A considerable
period just as others did The transaction was per-
/ iectly open and there was no more secrecy in re-
/ gard TO it than If you had been buying -four or
sugar. / am sure you never owned a bond of the
road that you did not pay for ut the market rate.
Indeed, am sure that no one received bonds ON
When the road got into financial difficulties and
loss fell upon You you still retained your bonds,
and yon held them clear through To the reorganiza
! ton of the company in 1874, exchanging them for
stock and bonds of the new company.
/ You acquired also some demands against the new
company by reason of your having joined with
Others in raising some money when the company
! money proceedings are now pending in the United
States Circuit Court in Arkansas, to which you are
vestment and everything connected with it would
have been very easy had 0Onoealmept been desir-
able ont your ae t 'y Enf tb rin p was smt p
prise failed, knew with what severity the pecuni-
AIRY loss fell upon You and with what integrity and
nerve you met ii. Years having since elapsed, il
seems rather hard at this late day 10 be compelled
20 meet . SANDER IN matter where your conduct
was in the highest degree honorable and straight
forward,
You may use this letter in any way that will be OF
service to you. Very sincerely yours,
The words Indeed am sure that no one received
bonds on any other terms. were interlined in the
foregoing letter in Mr. Baine's own handwriting
Mr. Fisher knew that the letter drafted by
Blaine did not contain the truth, and he did
not comply. Blaine knew it also, and he was
afraid to trust the letter containing the draft
10 the ordinary course of letters, but enioined
Mr.. Fisher to burn il. waa also marked
confidential" which meant that no one was
to see it except Fisher, and he was to ''burn
it rs soon rs read.
! PRESS COMMENTS.
The New York Times Republican says: but IL
anything short of actual horse stealing will con-
vince the ardent Blaine Republicans that their
! candidate is n man without honor and without
shame scoundrel himself and the instgator of
scoundrelsm i'll Others, sure that Mr.. Blaine s
letter of April &C. 1872 TO Fisher with its inclosurc
will haye that effect. Not relying upon powers OF
Justification III dsnial of the EamoFs affecting his
ShsEsS s se q s S Rshe % as b. yae hs
sanction TO the statement that you Blaine became
a purchaser of about $4,000 of the bonds on pre-
eeived, paying for them in installments running
oyer a considerable period; Just as others did "
| Blaine never paid cent for his bonds"
From the Nep York Herald, Ind.
There is scarcely one which does not contain
damnng proof of Mr.. Blaines corruption and of the
debasfemeg9t 70 which the Republican party he's
direct special attention to the leeF of April l6 lsT6
menu eomIosed for Fin b. IT. Blaine rs' aSg se
statements concerning Mr.. Blaines railroad ohbery
and designed for publication 10 help his President
tial aspirations at Cincinnati The people will pn-
derstahd now why Nj; Raine went on his knees
| snd Threatened suicide to move Mr., Mqliigan 10
They will understand Mr.. Blaine's relief of mind
when he found that the package did not contain
his letter of April 10 and its inclosure. And they
will also understand the contempt with which for
| eight years Mr.. James Mulligan has regarded Mr..
James G. Blaine who during all that long time has
! been miserably praying for forbearance.
From tie Near York Word.
1.-THE amazing exhibit made by these letters of
/ sordid subseryiency and of guilty implication on
| the part of u speaker of the House of Represen-
atYbs Is one 10 being the blush of shame to every
overcome the sense Of natioUal humiliation az the
| dshopor TO the country. No one can read these
fo ha he araf was using Rs ssoa IN The
House of Representatives for the most ignohle and
selfish purposes The internal evidence q direct
| lobbyists is unmstakable. We place these dOeu
ments before the intelligent reader in sorrow rather
! than in triumph They show, we think, conclu-
| siyely and without the shadow Of doubt. that
James g. Blaine is unworthy the suftrages of citi-
liens who believe leat tie highest Office in the gift
by his own admission the tool and confdant of job
beers; who prostitutes his position and influence in
tho House of Representatives to lobbyists and spec
ulatoFs whose guilt hetrays itself in the painful
cries for help and whose yretehed seFylily 70 The
men treat him with contempt"
From The Nelc York Sun.
If this had been the first evidence published of
Mr.. Blaines financial transactions when Speaker of
the House, the sensation occasioned by the dis
closure and the blow to the supporters of the Re-
publican candidate would have been tremendous
beyond description As the stands, the country
Ii prepared for everything now added to the reve-
lati6Js OF lgl. FSY citizens, We imagine. who had
or the recorded evidence OF his jobhefy Mi,iis bald
ing Office, and of his falsehood when bfotght 20
bay. VIII find serious trouble in disposing Of Mr..
Mulligan latest budget on the same principles of
tolerdton that enabled them To withstand the first
shock on The dlher' band, people who have al