Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1884 — THE MADIGAN CIRCULAR. [ARTICLE]

THE MADIGAN CIRCULAR.

The Authorship of the Infamous Document Fixed Upon the Tattooed Candidate. [Augusta (Me.) telegram ] The Augusta New Ape prints affidavits from Daniel Buckley, CoL Morton, Oliver Otis, L. M. Robbins, and Thomas F. Murphy, all reputable and well-known citizens of this place, fixing upon James G. Blaine the sole authorship of the notorious Madigan circular, which he has time and again denied upon his word of honor. The Madigan circular was a Republican campaign document appealing to Protestant Democrats to rebuke the'r party for asking them to vote for James C. Madigan, a Roman Catholic candidate for Congress in the Fourth Maine District in 1875. Messrs. Otis and Robbins swear that they received from the Republican Campaign Committee a bundle of the Madigan circulars, with the request to distribute them among dissatisfied Democrats and Republicans, thus proving the falsity of the charge that Gov. Plaisted was the author of the circular. Daniel Buckley swears that he was In the employ of Blaine during the four years from 1873 to March, 1877; that in September, 1875, he found huge piles of the Madigan letters in Blaine’s library, and that they were done up in small packages and shipped away from Blaine’s house. Buckley savs he never meant to make public his knowledge of these facts, but when Blaine denied on his honor having anything to do with theoircular he determined to tell the truth. CoL Charles B. Morton swears that at the time Blaine issued the Madigan circular he (Morton) was employed in the express office in this place, and received packages of the circular fiom Blaine for transmission to many parts of the State. CoL Morton says some of the packages came to Mm broken, and he thus saw and read the ciroular. Thomas Murphy swears that he is a printer, and worked, in Blaine’s Kennebec Journal offioe; that the circulars were printed in that office, and that the compositor who set up the circular told him that the manuscript was in the handwriting of Blaine’s private secretary, with which both were familiar. Db. Sntdeb, of St. Paul, an intimate friend of Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York, has received a letter from the latter nnder date of Aug. 29, which savs: “We have them here on the hip, and I believe nothing can now stop the incoming tide for Cleveland. You can say for me that it so looks now, and that it seems to me inevitable."