The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-10-04
a SIGNIFICANT LETTER.
One That Was Written by Conkling wken
lie First FELL Out with RlAine.

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One That Was written By Conklins wsen
lie First Fell Out with Blaine.
Republicans here are greatly aston
ished over the following letter from
Roscoe Conkl;ng to Peter i. crandall.
Of this city, published in the Ithaca
| Democrat. together with long inter-
view with Mr.. Crandall on the circum-
stance under which the letter was
written:
MAY q. i8j6.-Wy Dear SIR: am glad TO re-
! ceiyc Your letter. by this time you will have
seen in fri. the latter passages OF the Fry
| Blaine matter. Let me know what you think.
You Will not think, find fault with the self
command OF your representative when called
on without a moments warning in the presence
OF the Nation to answer such . libel. What Is
the eff.tt nron our people?
Mr.. Elaine IS said TO be too near the business
OF recruiting at Augusta, Nc, where he lives,
md where there vas another Haddock affair,
in crime but not in conviction and punishment
lie has grown suddenly ricl: It IS said, out OF
Government JOBS. His brother was convicted
Of forgery and sent TO the State prison. 1am
| tod, and all a-ou.d yoa see there Is strong
/ flavor about the whole thing
II where you ard are known any one can be
found 70 believe the foul i:nputation put on US
We have lived in vain.
How is ihss You: friend.
Roscoe CoskLIS0.
Peter B. Cranaali. Babcock Hill. Oneida
County. y. y.
Mr.. Crandall is eighty years old. He
has been q prominent man In State
and National politics for many years,
and has always been one Of Conkling's
most devoted friends.
In an interview Mr.. Crandall said:
Il want simply to make a statement
for the benefit of the friends of Mr..
| Conkling. He was statesman, a
| patriot, an honest man. Through Mr..
Blaine's intrignes and Vaccinations
he was forced from public life to his
death. 1t is now the duty of every one
OF Mr.. Conkling's friends to repay that
treachery by helping to silence forever
that schem;ng and dishonest politician.
! have known Mr.. Conkling all my life
and have corresponded with him for
mary years. All of his letters show
his intense suffering on account of the
WY Blaine has illuminated him. His
lat letter was written few days be-
| forc his death, and in that he still ex-
pressed an interest in public affairs.
ii hen | was Provost Marshal of
Oneida County great frauds were un-
eariaed by Conkling and traced to
Washington. Conkling attempted to
introduce a bill abolishing the Provost
Mar-halship. Fry and Blaine opposed
it, as they wanted the Office to become
part OF the War Department, SO as to
continue the frauds. General Fry
sent a letter to Congress. and Blaine
caused it to be read, charging Conk-
| ling with protecting his own district
from exposure in the county frauds.
Conkling arose, demanded an investi-
CATION, and turned on Fry and Blaine.
charging that out OF 100000 men to
whom bounties were paid scarcely
/ 100000 ever went to service and some
body stole the money. The committees
appointed exonerated Conkling, but
the Fry investigation found too big a
job On their hands, and SO many per-
sons We're implicated that the matter
was finally dropped. | have all the
papers i'll the matter, as Conkling told
| me to keep them. Mr.. Hotchkiss.
attorney for the committee, said: If
We should attempt to get back this
stolen money by spreading these trans
actions over the country the Admin
istration would not last six months. ;
Conkling said he had a letter from
Augusta. Me-, Blaine's home. charging
Blaine with making $40. in single
day out of county frauds. About a
month after this l received
the letter which now give to the pub.
lie When Mr.. Blaine has been pushed
to the very front Of his party as ar.
bitter and dictator and has reached and
holds that position by treachery i,
removes the obligations OF secrecy.
The friends Of Mr.. Conkling, now thai
he is dead. owe him the right to bt
heard on i'll matters relating te
B!ainc's integrity. The friends o
Conkling can not vote for Harrison
thi, fall ii they are true to Conkling'.
memory. Blaine is the Republican
party. and if it had not been for him
Garfield would have been alive and
Conkling still in politics. will not
vote for Harrison this fall. l have nj
ways been Republican, but wher
that party goes in for plumber leave
it. The Republican party seems te
have but one purpose, and that to aid
capitalists and bondholders to squandel
the public lands and build up mann
moth corporations. | am too old tl
ask or expect any thing from any po
iitical party now. and all wish is To
leave the world better than l found it.
But when think that II Harrison il
elected this fall Blaine will be at the
head OF the Government, | can not die
contented. but feel like going to every
friend Of Mr.. Conkling and telling him
what know personally about the
shameful way he was treated by Blaine
and thereby removing from my heart
the secrecy Of a subject which has
ever been II painful ono to me-"
The leading Democrats here say thi.
letter and interview will increase tho
Democratic vote in this section by hun
dreds. ithaca (N ~ Cor. Chicago
iimcs.
DOWN ON THE IRISH.
Nar-ison's Views Frankly Expressed 1T
Meeting Twelve Years Ago.
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