Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1880 — Honest (?) “Jim” Blaine. [ARTICLE]

Honest (?) “Jim” Blaine.

When Proctor Knott traced $64,000 of Little Rock, Fort Smith and Union Pacific bribery money into Blaine’s pockets, his conclusive reply was that Knott was a rebel. When Ben Hill showed jthat Blaine, in writing, had demanded, and, in writing, had receipted for tons of thousands of dollars for making his rulings and paekinghiscommittees,Mr. Blaine’s crushing rejoinder was that Mr. Hill had been a secessionist. When Lamar proved that J. B. Stewart brought Blaine $21,000 worth of Cumberland coal stock at midnight, Blaine’s unanswerable counterstatement was that Lamar had been a confederate soldier. When the Maine people brought bribery to Blaine’s house he cried out conspirators and rascals. In calling names and receiving or disbursing bribes Blaine is an entire success. As the reverse of a reformer, or as the exhibition of an honest character, he is a complete failure.—Albany Argus. Now add to this, among a thousand still other evidences of his baseness, the $5,000 check said to be yet in possession of Wnj, H. Kemble, the re cently convicted and pardoned briber, which the Hari'isburg, Pa., Telegraph said was exhibited, and unchallenged, at Cincinnati, In proof of his venality, and as the price of his political integrity, and you will be aided in getting at the measure of this “knight of the white plume.”