The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-02-02

made at this time under the spur of oppo-
sition Of Mr.. Hill of Georgia.
In 1876 he was called upon to defend his
political character against charges of brib-
cry from the Union Pacific and other rail-
road companies The Mulllgan letters were
produced and the stormy scenes of May and
June of that year followed June 5 Mr..
Blaine, rising to a personal explanation, de-
MED the right of congress to compel the
production of his private papers. He ex-
pressed his willingness to stand any ex-
animation, and having possessed himself of
these letters he declared his purpose to re-
serve nothing. He stood up In the house
holding the letters in his hand
"Thank Cod" said he, 81 am not ashamed
to show them. There is the very original
tion, with modification / do not not at
temps TO conceal, with sense of outrage,
which, L think. any man In my position
would feel, | invite the confidence OF forty,
four millions of my countrymen while read
those letters from this desk"
At this time Josiah Caldwell, one of the
originators of the Little Rock & Fort Smith
railroad, was travelling In Europe, and eff
forts had cen made at Mr.. Blaine's sugges-
ing these letters. Mr.. Blaine turned to the
chairman of the investigating committee and
demanded to know II any answer had been
Blaine turned upon him, charging, as within
his own knowledge that the chairman had
absolutely exonerating me from this charge,
and you have suppressed IT.. Of this scene
Gen. Garfield said that it exceeded anything
he had ever seen in congresss
June IL was the time of the Republican
national convention. The previous Sunday
he had been Frustrated by the heat and
fears were entertained for his life. In the
convention, however, his friends stood firm.
On the first ballot he received 2S5 votes out
Of the total of 754. The remainder were di-
Bristow, Senator COnkling, Gov Hayes and
others. On the seventh ballot his vote rose
to 351, lacking only 2S of q nomination. A
combination upon Hayes, however, defeated
him.
Goes to the Senate.
Mr. Blaine entered the senate some months
later. Again in 1880 his friends of four
years before stood by him in the national
convention. The first vote stood: Grant,
81: Washburne, 80; Window, 10, and Gar
field, /. On the final ballot, however, the
Blaine forces united on Garfield, who was
nominated. After his election Mr.. Blaine
was made secretary of state He was in the
cabinet ten months: After Garfield's death
Mr. Blaine retired from the cabinet.
On his retirement he was for the first
time In twenty three years out of public sta
tion. He took up his well known historical
work, Twenty Years of Congress-" and is
sued the first volume in January. 1884. In
that year he was again before the Repub-
lican convention for the nomination to the
presidency. On the fourth ballot he received
541 of the S13 votes and was nominated.
President Arthur was his chief competitor.
The campaign was a peculiarly bitter one.
The result hinged upon New York, which
went Democratic and elected Grover Cleve-
land. Mr.. Blaine returned at once to his
history and completed the second volume in
1886.
Later he Travelled extensively in Europe.
his health being much broken. At the time