The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-08-31
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN LIES COM
ING HOME TO BOOST.

ING HOME TO BOOST.
from the New York Evening POst.f
The Home. Market Club, of Boston,
having got rid of its secretary, MIR.
Radcliffe, who was so diIigent last
year in circulating the forged quota
lions from English newspapers, that
person has unbosomed himself as to
tie origin and mode of circulation of
said forgeries. Mr.. Radclyffe was ac-
cused at one time of originating these
forgeries. In order to repel tins charge
he makes his present statement lie
says he happened to be in New YORK
in July. 1883, attending meeting OF
the national republican committee, and
there he saw for the first time flag
document" On his way homeWard
from the committee rooms he saw
boy selling Tribune extras containing
the flag document having the forged
extract from the London Times:-
"The only time England can use an
Irishman is when he emigrates TO
America and votes for free trade" 1t
struck him that this would be very
telling document, and he prepared 1t
for circulation by the Home Market
Club and sent it out, and kept sending
1t out until he saw telegram in the
Boston Post saying that the st. James
Gazette, OF London, had published ail
article denying the authenticity eli the|
quotation from the London 4 IitFez y q.
seems to have doubted q Hfle} lsks 3f}e
was any such paper - ~ <t{711}t<
Gazette-WAic dos. lIo speak vel
for his Intel d gps,ce eeei th4f be blu
waited tililfbe Sssf james Gazette ar
rived in Boston with the article as
reported. Then, finding that there
was such a paper and such an article,
he stopped the circulation of the
forgery.
Our own columns bear witness 10
facts of a somewhat different character,
namely, that the Massachusetts tariff.
reform league and others in Boston
made strenuous protests against ihe
circulation of this particular forgery
by the Home Market club, without
avail, and finally made personal ap-
peal to Mr.. Joseph II. Walker, of
Worchester, in his religious character.
that he should either stop the Circula.
ton of the forgery or Withdraw from
his position as one OF the directors of
the Home Market club, and that Mr..
Walker replied that such request was
reasonable and would be complied
with so far as he was concerned, and
that thereupon the circulation OF
this particular forged quotation by the
Home Market club was discontinued.
But it was never discontinued at New
York The only person who made any
Of liooontSu,,fnn Mr.
X Thurber, who dropped the words
"London Times and substituted "an
English paper" in place thereof.
Another reminiscence of the cam
paign is called up by the present.
condition of the treasury deposit
account in the national banks. One
year ago (July l, 1889, according to
figures presented in the last Financial
Chronicle, the governments deposits
in national banks were S59, as, ,046.
On the 1st OF July, 1889, they were
S47 ,432 ,377, a reduction of about
$l2,000,000. But the reduction of
The total cash in the treasury in the
same time has been $52 ,S0S ,742. That
is to say, the secretary of the treasury
could, if he had been disposed to do
SO, have drawn out every dollar of the
money deposited with the banks,
in the course of ordinary dlsburse-
ments. But he has drawn out rather
less from this particular part of his
resources than from his sub-treasury
funds.
The public have not forgotten Mr..
| Blaine's terrible arraignment of Secre-
tary Fairchild for blending the money
of the government to the banks,' in his
speeches at Detroit. New Albany and
other places last year, ably seconded by
| President Harrison in his letter of
acceptance. Mr.. Blaine said at Detroit
that Secretary Fairchild was liable to
| Impeachment, or that if any republican
| secretary OF the treasury had thus
loaned the public money TO the banks,
and the democrats had been in power,
they would have impeached him. Mr..
Fairchild made reply few days later
in which, after showing that il was
necessary to keep the money in busi-
ness channels in order TO prevent a
| financial crisis, and that the law
expressly authorized him 10 make such
deposits in the banks, he said that if he
had known that he was liable 10 i'm
peachment in case Mr.. Blaine were
impt rtectly acquainted with the law +,
he would never have accepted the office
of secretary of the treasury.
The campaign of lying and misrepre-
sentation went on to the end of the
chapter. Mr.. Harrison's share in it
was attributable to ignorance only.
| 'The surplus now in the treasury" he
said, "should be used in the purchase
OF bonds. The law authorizes this use
of it, and. if it is not now needed Tor
current or deficiency appropriations,
the people, and not the banks in which
it has been deposited, should have the
advantage of its use by stopping inter-
est on the public debt" Very well,
Mr.. Harrison, yOu and Mr. Blaine have
been in Office since the 4th of March.
The surplus then in the treasury Is
still there. except $12,000,000. You
have had ample time and ample
facilities to remove it. The money
market has been easv. Why have You
not done what you said ought to be
done? And do you think that Secretary
Window ought to be impeached as
soon as congress assemblies?