The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-10-11
4 SIGNIFICANT LETTER.
0ue That Was Written by ConkIIng wAsa
re FIRST Fell Out with Blaine.

He FirBt Feu Out Win BiAines
Republicans here are greatly aston
ished over the following letter from
Roscoe COnkling to Peter y. CrandalI,
OF this city, published in the Ithaca
Democrat, together with a long inter-
view with Mr.. Crandall on the hircum-
stance under which the letter wss
written;
htY6 is6s Ny Ds0r SIR; am glad 20 re-
eeive your lettef B5 this time you will have
seen in full the. latter Passages of the Fry
blafre matter let nre know what you think,
You will not think find fault with the self
command OF your representative when called
on without noment's warning III the presence
Of the Nation TO answer such libel what IS
The effect upon our people'
Mr. Blaine IS said " be too near the business
Ui fGstSitinR at Augusta, Me- where he lives,
and where thefs was another Hadfock ana -
in crime but not in conviction and punishment.
Ne has grown suddenly rich, 1t ic said, odt Of
GoyerniE--, iobs His brother was con siste
of forgery and set - the State prison, am
told and all arouGd you SET there Is strong
Favor about the whole thing.
II where you and are known any one caE he
found 20 believe the foul imputation put Oh us
Ae have lived in vain
HSw ikthis' Your friend.
ROSCOE CONKLTNG.
Peter B. Crandsii' tsanecck Hill Oneida
County, n. Y.
Nit Crandalf rs eighty years I'D. HN
has been a brot1inent man in State
and National pslitica for rnany years.
and has always been one OF Conklirs
most devoted friends.
In An interview Mr.. Crandall said
~ want -imply TO make statement
for the benefit - the friends Of Mr..
Conkling. He was a s'"tesman, a
patriot. an honest man. Through "r
Blaine's intrigucs and Vaccinations
he was forced from public life to his
death Il is now the duty of every one
of Mr.. Conkling's friends to repay that
trcachery by helping 10 silence forever
| that scheniihg and dishonest politician.
| have known Sir Conklirg all my life
and have correspondent with him for
many fcrr5. All of his letters sho"
| his intense suffering on account ot the
| way Blaine has illuminated him. Ills
last letter was written few days be
fore his death. and in that he still ex-
pressed an interest Ii public affairs.
when ! was Provost Marshal 81
Oneida County great frauds were un-
earthed by Conkling and traced tc
Washington COnkling attempted tc
introduce bill abolishing the Provost
| Marshalsrip. Fry and Blaine opposed
It, "a they wanted the office to- beCon'
part of the War department; So rs tC
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.
Conklng arose, demanded an investi-
CATION, and turned on Fry and Blaine,
charging that out of 800, 900 men to
whom bOunties were paid scarcely
| 2OO. 900 ever went to service and some
body stole the money. The committees
| appointed eXOnGrated COnkllng, but
the Fry investigation found too biF =
Job On their hands, and so many per
sons were implicated that the matter
was finally dropped. l have all the
papers in 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 tho country the Admin
| istratiOn would not last six months.
Conkling said he had letter from
| Augusta, Me, Blaine home, charging
Blaine with making $40,O 900 in a single
day out of county frauds. About q
month after this | 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 it
removes the obligations of secrecy.
| The friends OF Mr. COnkling. now that
he is dead owe him the right to be
heard on all matters relating to
Blaine's integrity. The friends of
Conkling can not vote for Harrison
this fall if 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. have al
ways been a Republican. but when
that party goes in for plunder | leave
1t. The Republican party seems to
have but one purpose, and that to aid
capitalists and bondholders to squander
the public lands and build up man.
moth corporations. | am too old to
ask or expect any thing from any po-
litical party now, and all wish is to
leave the world better than | found it.
But wneI | think that if Harrison is
elected this fall Blaine will be az 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 subject which has
ever been painful one TO me-"
The leading Democrats here say thi'
letter and interview will increase the
Democratic vote in this section by hun
dreds. ithaca (M ~ Cor. Chicago
Times.