Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-17
Startling Revelations Of Confidential
Correspondence.
THE EsToRY OF OFFICIAL PaoFuIeAcY.
The Relations Of Blaine, Caldwell, Fisher
and hulIigan---The Maine States
man" Convicted Out Of
His Own Mouth.
FALSE STATEMENTS TO CONGRESS.


not get when he went down on his knees to
Mulhgsn, have been made public BY Multi
gan and Warren Fisher. They make
Blaine's stockjobbing schemes perfectly
clear and show that Blaine deliberately
he'd when he made his statement to Con-
gress in April, 1876. The most important
and damaging letter is one from Fisher to
Blaine, in which the former tells how Blaine
obtained money out of his connection with
the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad, by
which he obtained bonds and money free of
cost, and worked off the bonds at a very
high price, owing to his political position.
The following is the letter in full:
BoSrOS. April IS, lS72
MY DEAR BLAINE: Your favor Of the 18th inst
rSS,hSd me THIS morning l sm surprised at its
you were comparatively poor, very large sums OF
money, and never have you paid me one dollar from
your own pocket, either principal or interest. |
have paid sundTy amounts 10 others TO whom you
were indebted and these debts YOU have allowed 10
stand unpaid like the notes which hold. have
placed you IN position whereby YOU have received
very large sums 0l money without one dollar OF ex-
pene 10 yO and you ought not 10 forget the act on
my part OF all the parties connected with the Lit
tie Rock and Fort Smith. railroad no one has been
50 fortunate as yourself in obtaining money oft
lou obtained subscriptions from your friends in
Maine foT the building oi the Little Rock and Fort
smith railroad. Out OF their subscriptions you 90
tdtAsd kigs Gl'Pui bsh gf bgRis and agAsy fee o.
eaS 70 gn". have your own figures and know the
amount. OriRq 10 g0Hr D0iiticai position you ,rprs
GbS % 'cgrS Gg az yoaT bonds q rery AGA price,
amt the tact : well Known b. others aS well as my
sell Would your friends i'm Maine be sal iSfed If
they knew tue IactSt Are my associates satisfied to
have yoU obtain j 900 ior Northern Pacific railroad
and YOU not make the investment as per agreement
The course you have thought proper to take in re-
gard 10 my request is rather poor one, taking your
relations with me- and seain ask you 10 reconsider
BY obtaining the credit, and selected that course
thinking n TO be the best. IL you again decline
shall be Obliged to use the notes or sell them 20 out
side purchasers. Necessity knows no law
''Whateyer bonds still due io YOU will be deliver
ed n the road progresses. The other portions OF
your letter make no reply to. You know the factS;
it's >ucieut that know thenI and il Is useless TO
mention them AZ this time. Please answer az once.
l remain respectfully yours,
WARNER FISHER JR.
In a letter Of January &c, 1871, Mr..
Blaine talks of meeting which he was try
ing to arrange between Caldwell and
Thomas A. Scott, with whom he feels very
sanguine" that he can do something" that
is, can make
"A Very Advantageous Arrangement
for taking, say 100000 Mr.. Scott again
appears in Fishers letter of November 10,
1871, to Blaine, in which he saws: II know
but little of your obligations to deliver
bonds to others; but takinginto account the
100000 bonds you sold Tom Scott and the
amount Of money you received on Eastern
contracts, our relative positions financially
in the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad
bear wide contrast" These two letters
show the falsity Of Mr. Blaines statement
in the House on April "a, when he de-
clared, al never had any transaction of any
kind with Thomas A. Scott concerning
bonds of the Little Rock and Fort Smith
road, or the bonds Of any other railroad, or
any business in any way connected with
railroads, directly or indirectly, immediate
ly or remotely"
Another letter from Fisher dated Oct.
"a, 1871, to Blaine, is in relation to the lat
ter's Northern Pacific deal In this Blaine
appears as begging repayment of a loan Of
S2j, 900 at time when he had sold the
collateral for a sum
$4,000 Greater Than the Loan,
to say nothing about the 81, 900 paid him BY |
Caldwell on the same account, of which |
payment he speaks in his letter Of Oct. !, |
1871, to which Fisher letter is q reply.
Whenever Fisher grew cold and threat |
ening, Blaine ceased to buster and took on |
a crlnging tone. You have more bonds |
than YOU state in your letter, writes Fisher |
on November g. 1871, and he hints that if |
they have been disposed of in Washington |
they must be accounted for. NV dear Mr. |
I Il 1ata
ne assure YOU that If ! were suffering in |
this matter alone, would not plunder you
but wait in silence the issue of events. j /
feel assured of your friendly disposition to-
ward me, and therefore do not wish to
seem inportuuate and troublesome; bat II |
YOU knew the agouies / have suffered in ]
this matter during the past six months, you
would pity me, am sure, aud make = great
effort to relieve me-.
Another Evidence of FalsiRcation
in Blsine's statement to Congress appears
in letter from Blaine to Fisher, dated
April l6 1876, in which he wants Fisher to
exonerate him in regard to the Little Rock
matter as he said certain persons and pa
pers we're trying TO throw mud at him to in
Jury his candidacy before the Cincinnati
In this confidential letter Blaine inclosed
the form of q statement which he desired
his old friend 10 forward him in vindicstiug
himself "You can do me very great ia
vOr,' he pleaded, and | know it will give
YOU great pleasure to do so-just as would
DO for YOU under similar circumstances.
" Bur this letter" he added in postscript,
Theu favor was this: Fisher was to say un-
Der his own signature that Blaine had
purchased about 5000 OF Little hocA
and Fort Smith bonds
On Precisely the same Terms
tbs, every other BUYER received, paving for
them in installments running over con,
siderable periOd. Just as Others dld. ana
Fisher was to add The TRANSACTION was
perfectly open, and there was no more sec
reey about it than il you had been ouyaS
goIr or sugar. am sure you never owned
. bond Of the road that you did not pay for
:, AZ the market rate Indeed am sure
,bat no one received bonds on any other
terms
Fisher did not grant this favor and pa
therc appeal Of Blsines knowing thAt
yras No. true. as his letter Of four years prev
ions plSinly showed. Blaine, nevertheless,
went into the House and made this state
men, on his own account: In common
With hundreds Of other people in New Eng
and and other parts Of the country bought
some of these bonds-not vary large
smount-paying for them st precisely st
the same rate that others paid. never
hoard and do not believe that the Little |
Rock Company-wbieh l know is controlled
INV highly honorable men-eTer parted Wltn |
sbon9 to any person, except at the regular
nr;ce fixed for their sale" Ny whole con-
pection with the road" he went on, has
besn As open as the dsy." Again be said.
in srmming mp: Instead Of receiving bonds
of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Road as
a yratuisv. never had one except at the
regular market Prce. ~
One OF the letters gives 8 scheme which
was not generally known 1t isss follows;
Cat An Aachor to the windwarj.
AUsCsrA, Me-. Nov. L. 1859.
~ Ds,R Ms FISlIEE: IL is qatte eyidsat N ny
,,ir,' thst at the approaching session Of congress
,ha,s vii he N expsnsoa OF the currency 10 tne