Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-03-23
Blalne, NIor.on and MuLngan
Missouri Republic.

Missouri Republic.
There are many respectable people
in the Republican party who would
not be in it if they we're familiar with
the records of the men who are now
dominating it. Scattered as this re
cord is, through hundreds Of pagAs Of
testimony, taken before investigating
committees aud before the criminal.
courts. it is IA work Of great labor 10
review it, but IKE REPUBLIC means to
lay before the country all facts obtain
able from evidence as far rs those facts
bear on the character. and. associations
Of the men now organized in Washing
ton for schemes of public plumber. OF
these men HARRIsoN connot fail to be
the victim. Financially honest him.
elf, he is in their power and at their
mercy. With BEANIE, WINDOW and
MORTON holding together to control
him, he will be forced into subser
viency to them throughout the al min
istratiOn as he has been forced to
acknowledge the triumvirate on the
day of his Inauguration.
The first sworn testimony showing
the relations between MORTON OF
MORToN, BLlss & Co. and BLAINE is
n of the most instructive chapters in
the long his tory of BLAKE's rapacity.
It was mad, public in 1876 Immediately
after BLANE's sunstroke. The ques
ton was how BLAINE succeeded in
getting the money from the Union
Pacific. 1t wae not expected of course
that he had waited on the directors of
the road Nth a demand for it, but
there has bt en- found in the assets of
the road a number of worthless securi
ties for which the company had paid
$50, 600 How this happened was
developed in the evidence of NULL
GAN. CARNEGIE, MORTON and ScorT.
ScoT1 swore that the road bought
the bon6s from him US a way OF ere
munerating him for personal services. "
Form his testimony in connection
with that Of MORTON and CARNEGIE it
was developed thai though tue Union
Pacific had no money to invest in
bonds, that though the price paid for
these bonds had no relation to their
valne, the bonds were bought with the
agreement that ScorT might take them
back in $ they rose. coT asked
UARNRGn1 to act for him; gavt CARNE-
GLE tue "a Little Rock bonds aud sent
him to MoRToS, BLISS " Co., who
paid the 500, 0Uu fhnt Was afterwards
paid by the Uuioh Pacific.
The folio ling is That portion of the
testimony OF JAMES MULLIGAN. FIsHER's
confidential secretary, showing rela-
tiUns between BLAINE, SooTr, CABNE.
GLE, MOTION and the UniGn Pacific in
this connection:
20. DO you know of your own
knowledge or from information derived
from any body but CALDWELL OF u sale
of Little Rock and Fort Smith Rail
road bonds to Col. ScottP A. Yes sir
@. State it. A. / heard it from
Mr.. ELISHA Atkins member of the
Executive Committee of the Union
Pacific Railroad).
Q. State what you heard. A. Mr.
ATKINS told me there was 1854, 000
charged for rs bonds of the Little
Rock and Fort Smith Railroad which
MIR. Tom ScoTF had a0d which he made
he Union Pacific Railroad take from
him at that price.
Q. State all you heard Nj ATKINs
say il that connection. A. That is
about the whole of it
@. all that occurred between you
and Mr.. ATKINS was II statement by
him that Mr.. SooTT had mad the
Union Pacific Railroad Company take
these bonds at the price of 1854. OOOi
A. No, he said they came from
another party.
q. State all about it. A. He said
they came from Mr.. BLAINE. Mr..
ATKINS tcld me that MIR. BLAINE gave
the bonds to Tow SooTT and that Ton
Scorr made the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company tako them.
The testimony 4eaves no doubt that
AS far back as 1872 MORTON Was in the
confidence of the B,aiue gang Of
operators as the man to handle the
money passing between Wall street and
Washington through such agents AZ
CAsNEaIE and SooTT for the purchase
of such stuff as BLAINE. The little bill
Of testimony quoted above dOes more tc
explain MoRToN's nomination at Chi
cago than any column that could bG
written on it. The work that is going
on in Washington now is the reunion
of the Blaine gang, scattered BY the