Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-28
eLAiNE.s BAD RECORD.
His appointment to High Office an I'm
pugnment of National Honesty.

SO Sun-Struck as to stop the 1nveStlga'
ton of his methods of securing money
while Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives. he retired to Augusta, and
when an attempt was made to resume
the investigation, his physician, DIR,
H. II. Hill, telegraphed: ''What he
needs is absolute rest"
To that opinion we hold now. With
no malice toward Mr.. Blaine. we must
tell the truth about him as long as he
insists on taking public Office fol-
which he is unfit. He needs absolute
rest-and repentance.
MIR. Blaine's record is too long for
review here. 1t fills many pages that
shame the American people with in.
disputable evidence of the venality OF
a man trusted in many high trusts
and false to them all. Though we can
not review the record in a single arti-
Gle. it is our duty when he is given the
helm of a National administration by
the party of which he is representa-
tive to revert briefly in protest to
some of the more salient points of his
career. Initially we extract the fol-
lowing from the New York Tribune,
in which it appeared editorially on
September %. 1872:
If Speaker Blaine thinks he has effectually
'squelched'' the Credit Mobilier scandal by his
pompous denial he may find new exercise for
his peculiar talents in that direction IN the
story which We print to-day. In the course OF
railway litigation, proofs of Mr.. Blaine's opera
tioEs in railway stocks have come out and are
now in possession of lawyers in this city. We
publish as much of this business as Mr.. Blaine
will find time to attend to at once. By these
documents the Speaker is proceed to haze receiUsd
80. 500 Of 0sstssable stock Or the Union Pacific
railway, E. d., and 1000 unGss sssa6Ee shares of
the same. Why aUos the Speaker of the House
dd65Iing in this business? Why recsiuino stock
The entries show that it was assigned to him,
among others, to secure the ratification OF the
Delaware and Pottawatomie treaties and the
passage OF bill in Congress. Mr.. Blaine's rec
ord in regard to railway matters grows darker
as it is examined. He has never vet given any
explanation of his conduct in reddling stock in
the Fort Smith & Little Rock railroad among
his neighbors in Maine. He has now al oppor-
tunity to rise to an explanation OF his extensive
operations in Union Pac fic, E. D., stock 1t
my be noboGy's business hoao he has become a
millionaire on a Conqressnaas'S pay: but it is the
business Of has constituents and Of tie country to
knoac hooc the Speaker Of the House of r presenta-
SDSCu5ItLOU.
Why Mr.. Blaine was receiving "32, =
500 of assessable stock of the Union
Pacific railway, E. D., and 1000 unas-
sessable shares of the same appeared
later on in evidence in similar connec-
tions, leaving no one room to doubt
that he became "a millionaire on a
pay" by selling him
self-taking brides. betraying his
trust, perjuring himself
The Blaine whom Harrison has
called to the highest Office in his gift
is the person referred to by the Trib-
lne in the above extract; the person
who used his public trust for black
mail; who as Speaker of the House of
forced the Union Pa
,ific and other railroads interested in
pending legislation to bride him by
buying from him at high prices the al
Rock and Fort Smith.
1t is as detected thief and as a con-
7icted liar that MIR. Blaine is called to
he premiership of the Harrison Ad-
and of the Republican
party. The following is from the tes-
idential secretary of Mr.. Blaine's
riend. Mr.. Warren Fisher. Jr.:
Mr.. Blaine said if I should publish them they
would ruin him for life, and wanted
o know if I would surrender them. Ito!d him
TO- and that would not give them to the COM
nittee unless it would turn out it was neces-
airy. After my examination here yesterday
1r. Blaine came up to the hotel, and there had
conference with Mr.. Adkins, MIR. Fisher and
myself. He wanted to see the letters had I
eclined to let him see them. He prayed and
lmost went on his knees-I would say on his
,nees-and implored me to think of his six
hildren and his wife, and that If the committee
hould get hold of this communication it would
ink him Immediately and ruin him forever.
1 retired TO my room and he followed
ne up, and went over the same history about
lis family and children, and implored me to
i've them up to him, and even contemplated
uicide.
On April 16, 1872, Fisher wrote
Blaine:
1 have placed you in positions where you
AVE received large sums of money without a
lollar of expense to you, and you ought not to
orget the act on my part. or all the parties
with the Little Rock Fort Smith
abroad, no one has been so fortunate as your
elf in obtaining money out OF it, You obtained
from your friends in Maine for
he building of the Little Rock & Fort Smith
abroad. Out of their subscriptions you OBJ
aimed a large amount both Of bonds and money
rec of cost to you. 1 have your own figures
md know the amounts. Owing to your politi-
al position you were able to work off all your
ponds at a very high price
To this Blaine replied on April Is,
1872:
My DEAR FISHER-I answered yours very
hastily last evening as you said you wished an
Immediate reply. The demand you
make on me now is one I am entirely unable
o comply with. can not do it. 1t is not in my
power. You say that necessity knows no law.
That applies to me as well as TO you, and when
have reached the point I am now at, 1
imply fall back on that law. With
-ery kind regards to Mrs Fisher, am yours
ruly.
Was there ever in the world a more
,itiable spectacle than of this Plumed
Knight of the Highway, when, after
with sharpers and cooper
.ting with them in their plans OF
winding, he found himself in their
power? That under Harrison such a
nan should take the place just vacated
,nder Cleveland by Bayard is a re-
,roach to the civilization of the
United States-an impugnment OF the
honesty of the American people.-St.
louis Republic.
Wanamaker's Philanthropy.
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