The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-04-10
RL;AiNES VENAIlIY;
Ills Appointment IS d High Office an ini-
pugnnent Of National Honesty:

pugnment of National Honesty:
After MIR. James G. Blaine had been
SO sun-struck as to stop the investiga-
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, DR.:
H. H. 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 for
which he is unfit. He needs absolute
rest-and repentance.
Mr.: Blaihe'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
man trusted in many high trusts
and false to them all. Though we can
not review the record In 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 Initia1ly we extract the fol-
lowing from the New York Tribune,
in which it appeared editorially on
september %, 1872:
II Speaker Blaine thinks he has ef1ectually
"squelchod" the Credit Mobilier scandal by his
pompous denial he may find new exercise for
his pc .uliar talents in that direction in the
story watch we print to-day. In the cotrse OF
railway litigation, proofs Of Mr. Baines opera
TORS in railway stocks have come out and are
now in possession Of lawyers in this city. We
publish Us much OF this business as MI. Blaine
will find time to attend TO at once. BY these
documents the Speaker is proued to haze receiued
81, 500 Of dsstsstble stock o. tho Union Pacific
raI,oav, f. d., and 1000 uncss ssa1is ssarss Of
the SAM. Why acas the Speaker Of the Hovss
dabblng in this busintsss lIhyrsceiuina stocke
The entries show that it was assign ed to him,
among others, 10 secure the ratification Of the
Delaware and Pottawatomie treaties and the
passage OF q bill In Congress. Mr.. Blaine's rec
ord in regard to railway matters grows darker
as it is examined He has never yet given any
explanation of his conduct in reddling stock in
the Fort Smith n Little Rock railroad among
his ne!ghbors in Maine. He has now an oppor
tunity TO rise to an explanation of his extensive
operations in Union Pac tic, Z. D.. stock. 1t
my be no6oays business hon he has become
millionaire on a Congressn,ams pay; but it is tho
business Of hts constituents and Of TIE country to
knoac ho,D the Speaker of the House of r presenta
kUes came into this rich railway speculation.
Why Mr.. Blaine was receiving 49,
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-
lions, leaving no one room to doubt
that he became "a millionaire on a
Congressman's 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-
une in the above extract; the person
who used his public trust for black
mail; who as Speaker of the House of
Representatives forced the Union Pa
cific and other railroads interested in
pending legislation to bride him by
buying from him at high prices the al
most valueless securities of the Little
Rock and Fort Smith.
1t is as detected thief and as con-
victed liar that Mr.. Blaine is called to
the premiership of the Harrison Ad-
ministration and of the Republican
party. The following is from the tes-
timony of Mr.. James Mulligan, con-
fdential secretary of Mr.. Blaine's
friend, Mr.. Warren Fisher, Jr.:
Mr. Blaine said If should publish them they
would ruin him for life, and wanted
to know If would surrender them. told him
no, and that would not give Thorn to the COM
mittee unless 1t would turn out 1t was neces-
sary. After my examination here yesterday
Mr.. Blaine came up to the hotel, and there bad
conference with Mr.. Adkins Mr.. Fisher and
myself. He wanted to see the letters had.
declined to let him see them. He prayed and
almost went on his knees-I would say on his
knees-and implored me to think OF his six
children and his wife, and that il the committee
should get hold of this communication it,would
sink him Immediately and ruin him forever
- retired to my room and he followed
me up, and went over the same history about
| his family and children, and implored me to
give them up to him, and even contemplated
suicide.
| On April Is, 1872, Fisher wrote
Blaine:
| have placed you in positions where you
| have received large sums Of money without a
dollar Of expense to you, and you ought not to
| forget the act on my part. or all the parties
| connected With the Little Rock & Fort Smith
railroad, no one has been so fortunate as your.
self in obtaining money out OF it. You obtained
subscriptions from your friends in Maine for
the building OF the Little Rock & Fort Smith
railroad. Out of their subscriptions you OBJ
tanned large amount both OF bonds and money
free Of cost to you. have your own figures
and know the amounts. Owing to your politi'
cal position you were able to work OF all your
bonds at very high price,
TO this Blaine replied on April IS,
1872:
| MY DEAR FIsHER-I answered yours very
hastily last evening you said you wished an
| immediate reply. The demand you
| make on me now is one / am entirely unable
to comply with. can not do 1t. 1t is not in my
power. You say that necessity knows no law.
That applies to me as we'll as to you, and when
| I have reached the point I am now at,
simply fall back on that law. With
very kind RECORDS to Mrs. Fisher, I am yours
truly
Was there ever in the world more
pitiable spectacle than OF this Plumed
Knight of the Highway, when. after
consorting with sharpers and cooper
ating with them in their plans o.
swindling, he found himself in theil
power? That under Harrison such {
man should take the place just vacated
under Cleveland by a Bayard is re
proach to the civilization of tn.