Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — THE MULLIGAN EPISTLES. [ARTICLE]

THE MULLIGAN EPISTLES.

Blaine’s Important Elocutionary Omissions. [Washington special] There is much comment here on the developments made to-day by the New York Times. which shows conclusively from records of the House of Representatives that four of the letters taken from Mulligan by Blaine were not read by the latter on the memorable June 5, 1876. After he had concluded his reading on that day Blaine solemnly declared to the House that he read every one of the fifteen letters he had obtained from Mulligan. He also affirmed, in the presence of the House, that the letters he had read were dated, and corresponded precisely with Mulligan’s memorandum which he held in his hand, and which he said he kept as protection to himself, as it showed the identity of the letters in every respect. The record shows that four letters, noted specifically and by date in Mulligan’s memorandum, were not read, but in their stead Blaine substituted four letters of a different date which had not been in Mulligan’s possession. This corroborates Mulligan, who has declared that Blaine did not read all the letters, and that some of Them Blaine never would make public. At the time Blaine read the letters on the floor of the House he refused to let them pass into the hands of the official reporter, or to be copied by agents of the Associated Press. He furnished copies himself, and he denied all newspaper men access to the letters. In reading them to the House he did not observe the chronological order as they were arranged in the Mulligan memorandum, but studiously mixed up and disconnected the dates and subjects, and they were in this manner furnished by him to the Associated Press.