Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1884 — Page 3

BLAINE LAID BARE.

A Supplemental Edition of the Mulligan Letters Written by Blaine. One of His Friends Who Advanced Him Money Which He Did Hot Return. Anxiety of the Tattooed Knight to Assist His Companions to Establish a Bank. Appeals to “My Dear Fisher” That "Would Cause the Flintiest of Stones to Weep. The Mulligan letters which James G. Blaine oppressed have been given to the world through the Boston papers, and are printed below. The reason that Mr. Fisher gives lor having the letters printed is that he considered it a -duty to have them published for the benefit of the people of the United States. Mr. Mulligan has been denounced by the Blaine papers, and his Integrity impeached. Both Mulligan and Fisher have considered It their duty to defend themselves, and they submit the letters .without comment; T?o the People of the United States: Believing that it Is onr duty to lay before onr fellow-countrymen the following documents which have been in our possession, we have placed the originals for safe keeping in the hands of Messrs. Sohler A Welch, counselors, of Boston, and herewith submit their contents -without comment. The letters from Mr. Fisher are letter-press copies of the originals: Augusta, Me.. Oct. 4, 1869—My Dear Mr. Fish--er: Find inclosed SIO,OOO check in payment of A. AP. Coburn’s subscription. I presume you will receive by same mall the 20 per cent, due on all -the subscriptions already forwarded to yon, and also Ym the following: Philo Hersey, Belfast, 45,000; A. W. Johnson, Belfast, $5,000; B. C. Johnson, Belfast,.ss,ooo; N. P. Mnnroe, Belfast, 46,000; C. B Hazeltine, Belfast, SS,CUD. This makes $125,000 in all I have disposed of. It Is doubtful If I dispose of any more, but I shall know- by to-morrow, so there will be no delay to -embarrass you In any way. No one will ever know from me that I nave disposed of a single dollar in Maine. So there need be no embarrassment in talking with Mr. Caldwell. I don’t wish yon to settle that matter with Mr. Caldwell till yon hear from me .again. Please send Receipt to A. & P. Coburn, Skowhegan, Me. Yours truly, J. G. Blaine. After I received the letter in regard to Mr. .Adams’ case I telegraphed again. Delano had returned, and I think the suspension was at once ordered by him. J. G. B. P. S.—l send only SB,OOO this morning; will oend $7,000 remaining to-morrow morning. Augusta, Me., Oct. 5, 1869.—(55.000)—My Dear Mr. Fisher: I Inclose you $2,000 check, balance of A. <fe P. Coburn’s installment; SAJioo In payment of Anson P. Morrill’s installment. Lot M. Morrill’s subscription of $5,000 is additional to those already advised, making in all $13,000. ■There may pcssibly be $20,000 more, but $150,000 will be mu limit. I received yours inclosing P. B. Hazletine’s letter from Belfast. By mail succeeding this you will receive a cashier’s check Jtor SI,OOO, and hereafter you will have no trouble with any of the Maine subscriptions. All will ■come to you 'in cashier checks or money direct by express. I note what you say about the importance of my keeping all Quiet here. I fully appreciate your wisdom and your kindness, and shall endeavor to do jfist as you desire In the premises. The letter, inclosing the Globe by •same with this, can be read by you to Mr. Cald•Well if yon think it expedient. I have endeavored in .writing it not to be indelicate. I shall Ifee yon in Boston Thursday noon. Don’t send ■«ny receipts to the Maine folks till I come, fours. Blaine. W. F., Jr., Esq. Those two letters of Oct. 4 and 5. 1869, are in *ontinuation of the two letters of Oct. 4, 1869, which have been already published: Augusta, Me., Nov. 18, 1869. My Dear Mr. .Fisher: It is quite evident to my mind that at the approaching session of Congress there will he an expansion of the currency to the amount •of $50,000,000 to $75,000,000. The form it will take, I think, will be an addition to the nationalbank circulation West and South. My obj ct $n writing is to ask in season if your friends would desire to establish a bank at Little Bock. It will be to some extent a matter of favoritism |s to who gets the banks in the several localities, and it will be in my power to “cast an Anchor to the windward” in your behalf if yon ales ire it. Please think over the matter and gonfer with Mr. Caldwell, and let me know your desires as soon as you reach any conclusion. There of course, no special hurry, but I thought 1 would suggest the matter in order ♦hat you might mature your thoughts in good iime. It would be well to determine the amount ;fo which you might wish to go. I suppose it .pight be practicable to secure a $500,000 bank, hut in that locality you would hardly wish to go so deep. But they are very profitable institutions —say $250,000. Yours very truly, m J. G. Blaine. Warren Fisher, Jr., Esq.

Forty-first Congress, United States House of Representatives, Washington, ■D. C., Dec. 7, 1870.—My Dear Mr. Fisher: You Rave received Mr. Boutwell’s answer. I presume you will not deem it necessary to come on here; if so, let me know of it a day or two in •advance. I have written Mr. Caldwell about the bank; no trouble in securing a bank of $600,000. The Secretary of War will not allow the use of the arsenal at Little Bock; says it is Impossible. Very hastily and truly, J. G. B. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., Dec. 9,1870. —My Dear Mr. Fisher: I wrote Tery hastily, both to yourself and Mr. Caldwell, In regard to the bank. A further conference -with the Comptroller of the Currency gives some additional facts which are of interest, and this better is intended alike for yourself and Air. •Caldwell. Please show it to him. Theyvare mow allowing 90 per cent, circulation on 10-40 bonds instead of 80, and then 85, as at different periods in the past. They give me the assurance that you shall have full $450,000 circulation on a basis of $500,000. You can, of couree, •deposit 5-20 s if you please; but you will get no more than 90 per cent circulation. They will cost you more, of course; and though you get more interest, you will very likely be disturbed in the quiet possession of them very soon by the •operation of the funding scheme. The opinion *ains ground here quite rapidly, as von might infer from Secretary Boutwell's report, that the debt can’t be funded at less than 6 percent. By taking 10-40 bonds, therefore, you would be undisturbed as long as the banking Bystem lasts, or at least lor thirty years and more. None of the 10-40 S mature before A. D. 1904, and that is quite long enough to embrace within the scope of any financial operation. It might be well to have your formal application for your . increase of capital, and then take such time as you may wish for getting your stocks subscribed. If you desire, I will confer with Senator Rice in legard tqgforms, etc. It might be better now to l.t him take the lead. Yours very truly, J. G. Blaine. W. Fisher, Jr. Augusta, Me., Dec. 29, 1870.—My Dear Fisher: T am in hopes now that I shall secure $25,000, or pearly that. I find money very tight and rates well up to 9 per cent, stiff at that. The moßt of It will be for five or six months. If I had had more time and earlier notice I could have raised more, and at easier rates. I have seen most of theT>artieß to whom bonds are due. I do not have much trouble about the January coupons ■of the first-mortgage bonds, but they, of course, •growl some on six of the bonds. I would be glad to have the coupon. I promised them individually to make it right in the future. I did not in any way use the name of the company, nor commit you to anything—only mvself. Only the land bonds, I cannot make them see the equity of removing the April coupon, and I promised to try and adjust that matter with you on my return to Boston. They all agree with one voice that no bond shall be exposed for sale. I wish you could give me the benefit ■of that fraction, making thirty-two of the firstmortgage bonds for the $31,500 due. I used the •extra s>oo in adjusting the interest matter, and it fits completely. I will make it all right with you. What I want, then, is $82,000—532,000 firstmortgage bonds, $50,000 land bonds; and also for collateral to thpnotes for $25,000 an additional $50,000 of land bonds. Please meet me at Mr. Caldwell’s private office on Saturday at 12:15 sharp. I shall try to bo there at noon, but allow fifteen minutes for grace. It is verv important that I have everything completed that day, as a man will come to Boston with me to take charge of the bonds. Yours in great haste, J. G. Blaine. Forty-first Congress, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., Jan. 26, 1871. —My Dear Mr. Fisher: I have this momentwrftten to Air. Caldwell suggesting that in casedrcan arrange a meeting in this city next week with Col. Thomas A- Scott, to come on here. I have some reason for believing that a very advantageous arrangement may be made for taking, say, $300,000. I will telegraph Mr. Caldwell by Tuesday evening if I can arrange the meeting and ask him to hold himself in

readiness for the journey. Your letter Is this moment received. You ask my advice; let me have an accurate and reliable statement of your financial condition and I can do something. I feel very sanguine with Thomas A. Scott. I tnink yon will not deem me unreasonable when I again and persistently urge that I ought to have good notes for the sk,ooo, and that I ought also to have the $82,000 bonds which were made by yourself and Mr. Caldwell the express basis of the $25,000 loan. I do not believe your company has a stronger or more equitable aud legal claim than mine, while its personal hardships to me are bitter and burning and humiliating to the last degree. Sincerely your friend, J. G. Blaine. Fobtt-second Congbess, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D. C„ April 21,1871,—My Dear Mr. Caldwell: On the 29th Inst, the second note of the loan I negotiated in December last falls due. The first for $2,032.50, which fell due March 1-4,1 was compelled to meet at the greatest possible inconvenience to myself. I drew on Mr. Fisher for the amount, but he declined to notice the draft. The note which falls dne on the 29th inst. is for $2,578.35. It seems extremely hard and unjust that I should be compelled to pay this money. ltds no more my debt than the debt of President Grant or* Queen Victoria, and I cannot believe that you and Mr. Fisher, both or either, intend to leave this burden on pie. If you doit will crush me. I have no possible means wherewith to meet these notes, and I beg of you and Mr. Fisher, either or both, to come to my relief. In a letter from Mr. Fisher mATer date of Jan. 24 he writes as follows: “In regard to the $25[000 which you borrowed and loaned to Mr. Caldwell, or rather Mr. Pratt, as it was assumed by Mr. Pratt because ytfu received from him $50,000 in land bonds for the amount. Upon my visiting the office for the first time after you left the city Mr. Pratt said be and Mr. Farrington gave to yon their individual bonds, and they kept the money. And in order to obtain the money and get out of Mr. Pratt’s hands', I obtained $50,000 in land bonds and took what I supposed to be money, but it was not there. Part of it had been misapplied to other matters. Fifteen thousand dollars of it I loaned Mr. Caldwell. The balance went into a house at Little Rock without my knowledge or consent, and Pullman cars, etc., etc.” Now, my dear sir, if this be a correct statement, may I not hope yon may relieve me to the extent of the $15,000 and Mr. Fisher will surely pay .the other $10,000? As a wholly innocent third party, doing my best to act as a sincere and steadfast fnOnd to both of you, I ought not be left exposed to financial rnin and personal humiliation. Please read this taMr. Fisher. I have advised him of my writing to you. Sincerely yours, J. G. Blaine. Josiah Caldwell, Esq. No. 1 Pembebton Squaee, Boston, April 25, 1870.—Dear Fisher: I inclose a letter from Blaine. I forgot to speak to yon about them when I saw you this afternoon. I hope you can help him. I would if it were in my power. Blaine is an Important man for ns to have. He feels all right toward I only wish that I was so situated that I could help him. Yours very truly, J. Caldwell. This letter inclosed Mr. Blaine’s letter to Caldwell of April 21,1871. Augusta, Me., Jnne 14, 187 L—My Dear Mr. Fisher: I tried very hard yesterday and day before (Monday and Tuesday) to see you, but was not fortunate enough to run across you. I am in a very painful and embarrassing situation, growing out*of my connection with the Fort Smith enterprise. I have paid and caused to be paid into your treasury about $150,060, and the only result to me is the most painful perplexity. The most painful of all—the most’ oppressive—is the $25,000 which I paid to Mr. Pratt for you January 2, which I borrowed here on my own credit on the distinct understanding with you that it was to be repaid, and that I was also to receive a certain proportion of bonds. I have received only a part of the bonds—the larger part—and not a dollar of the money. And now, in addition to all other troubles. I have SIO,OOO of coupons, a little over that amount, which I am held to take care of partly through verbal understanding and partly through written agreement—coupons due in April on the land bonds and to fall due in July on the first-mortgage bonds. Now, I have a proposition to make to you which I think most liberal and fair, going as far as 1 possibly can so without ruining myself past all recovery, f you will look at a copy of our agreement in your hands, you will find there is still due to me $70,000 of land bonds and $32,000 of first mortgage. In order to square myself with my friends I need and must have $36,000 in land bonds and $3,000 in first mortgage—sls,ooo in all—still leaving $57,000 of mine in your hands. Now, if you will take up these SIO,OOO of coupons, paying me the cash therefor, and give me the $45,000 of bonds, I will let all the remainder of onr matters stand until you are perfectly at ease and ready to open correspondence on the subject yourself. In other words, I will leave the matter in your hands until the Fort Smith enterprise is out of the woods and its tangled affairs well smoothed out. I trust, in consideration of our many years of friendship, as well as in view of the peculiar relations I have held in this matter, you will make an effort to do this. Pray let me hear from you at your earliest leisure, and greatly oblige yours truly, J. G. BLAINE. W. Fisher, Jr., Esq.

Bostqn, Sept. 30, 1871.— My Dear Blaine: It Is of the greatest importance that the parties owning the interest, the $25,000, and invested by them in the Northern Pacific Railroad, should receive what is dug them, and nnless something is done about it I shall be forced to turn the document over to them, and you settle directly with them. lam constantly reminded about it, and they all say: "Why don’t Blaine deliver to you our Interest?” Mr. Caldwell tells me he has paid you his last note due you, and gave you the $50,000 land bonds in addition. I should judge it was for your interest to settle the matter at once and have no further delay. You must be your own judge in the matter, bnt my advice is to settle at once. I remain, Wabben Fisher, Jr. Mr. Blaine’s letter of Ocjj, 1, ltf7l, already published, is the answer to this letter. Boston, Oct. 24, 1871. —My Dear Blaine: Yesterday I received your favor of the 21st- inst., which I replied to by telegram. Mr. C. has not been in this city for four weeks. He is now in St. Louis. I can get no information when Mr. Caldwell is to return. When he does I will lay the matter before him. In the meantime I can say nothing in regard to the matter farther than what I have heretofore told you, that Mr. Caldwell represented to me that he had paid for your account, and for which he has your receipts, all but $2,500 of the $25,000 which you loaned, for which yon received as collateral $50,000 of the Little Rock and Fort Smith land-grant bonds, which you since sold at 60 cents on the dollar, realizing therefor $30,000, leaving you in advance of funds even if Mr. Caldwell had paid yon nothing. I have heretofore advised yon that I had been frequently importuned for the securities of the Northern Pacific Railrhad, and as a last resort I had to surrender you obligation for the benefit of the parties in interest, who now say that after so long delay they will not take the securities, but require you to refund the money. I remain, Wabben Fishes, Jb. Augusta, Me., Nov. 31, 1871— My Dear Mr. Fisher: I write Mr. Caldwell this day earnestly asking him to. relieve me from the very pressing and painful embarrassment entailed npon me by raising the money I loaned to yon and him last winter. Mr. Saldwell has paid me $6,000. There remains $21,000, with considerable interest. There is due, also, to me under contract with yon, $70,000 land bonds and $32,000 first mortgage. Retaining in my possession the $50.000 land bonds as collateral to the note, there is still due me $20,000 land bonds and the first mortgage bonds, $32,010. I have already made one proposition tor settlement, to which I call Mr. Caldwell's attention. X must have the matter settled in some way and at once. Sincerely yours. J. G. Blaine. W. Fisher. Jr.. Esq. P. S.—lt is very important to me that I have some bonds next week. If you don’t accept the proposition I have made, suppose you consider this: Let me retain the land bonds now in my possession as satisfaction for loaned money, and you pay me the $70,000 land bonds and $32,000 first mortgage dne to me under the contract. I do not make this proposition to be bound by it. I merely suggest it. But I must have the matter settled in some way quickly. Boston, Nov. 4,1871.—My Dear Blaine: Your letter of the 3d inst. received. I hope Mr. Caldwell will respond to your request promptly and satisfactorily. I cannot say anything until I see Mr. Caldwell, who keeps out of the way of creditors, but he will call upon me soon. If you have given any to parties at Washington or disposed of them to others it is no consern of mine, and of course must be accounted for in settlement hereafter. I remain yours, etc., W. Fishes, Jb. Augiista, Me., Nov. 8. 1871.—My Dear Mr. Fisher: lam pressed daily for the bonds, which up to this time I have never been able to deliver. Let me assure yon that if I were suffering in this matter alone I would not bother you, but wait in silepee the issue of events. Bnt hdw can I do this with parties who have paid their money earnestly demanding of me the consideration promised by me, bnt which I am not able to give because I do not receive the bonds to which lam entitled by contract? lam ready to receive any reasonable proposition you may make. It is not a question of money making with me. It is simply a question of saving my word with others. I will sacrifice a great deal to get a settlement. I feel assured of your friendly disposition toward me, and, therefore, I do not wish to seem importunate and troublesome; but if you knew the agonies I have suffered in this matter during the past six

mouths you would pity me, I am sure, and make a great effort to relieve me. Pray let me know what I may expect. Yours very sincerely, J. G. Blaine. Warren Fisher, Jr. Boston, Nov. 10, 18T1.—My Dear Blaine: lam i in receipt of your favor of the Bth inst., from which 1 am led to Infer that the contracts I made through you to your Eastern friends have not been fulfilled on my part, but such is not the fact, as I have delivered each and every one : of them, all the securities, in accordance with the contracts, and they have surrendered to me my obligations. You are well aware of the condition ot the road, and that yon have received your full proportion of the bauds to whioh yon were entitled under the Eastern contracts when yon consider the length of the road completed. I think yon can readily see that I can make no proposition further than as the road progresses to deliver yon bonds in accordance. 1 know but little of your obligations to deliver bonds to others, bnt taking into account the SIOO,OOO bonds yon sold to Tom Scott, and the amount of money .'you received on the Eastern contracts, onr relative positions, financially, in the Little Bock <fc Fort Smith Railroad bear a wide contrast. Mr. Caldwell is here, bnt I have not seen him; still I presume he has paid procer attention to your letter addressed to him. I remain, with kind regards, Warren Fishes, Jb. Tjie following was in reply to Mr. Blaine’S letter of April 13. 1872, already published: Boston, April 16, 1872.—My Dear Blaine: Your favor of the 13th inst. reashed me this morning. I am surprised at its contents. I have loaned you at various times, when you were comparatively poor, very large sums of money, and never have you paid me one dollar from your own pocket, either principal or interest. I have paid sundry amounts to others to whom you were indebted, and these debts have been allowed to stand unpaid like the notes which I hold. I have placed yon in positions whereby you hays received very large sums of money without one dollar of expense to yon, and you ought not to forget the fact on my part. Of all the parties connected with the Little Bock and Fort Smith Railroad no one has been so fortunate as yourself in obtaining money out of it. You obtained subscriptions from your friends in Maine for the bnllding of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad. Out of their subscriptions you obtaiued a large amount, both of bonds and money, free of cost to you. 1 have your own figures, and know the amount. Owing to your political position yon were able to work off all your bonds at a very high price, and the fact is well known to others as well as myself. Would your friends in Maine be satisfied if they knew the facts? Are my associates satisfied to have you'obtaln $25,000 for Northern Paoifio Railroads, and yon not make the investment as per agreement? The course you have thought proper to take in regard to my request is rather a poor one, taking your relations with me, and I again ask you toireconsider and grant it. You will find it much easier to pay by obtaining the credit, and I selected that course, thinking it to be the best. If you again decline I shall be obliged to use the notes or sell them to outside purchasers. Necessity knows no law. Whatever bonds are still due to you will be delivered as the road progresses. To the other portions of your letter I make no reply. Yon know the tacts. It is sufficient that I know them, and it is useless to mention them at this time. Please answer at once. I am, respectfully yours, Wabben Fishes, Jb. The reply to this letter Is Mr. Blaine's letter of April 18, 1872, already published. The expression, “obtained the credit," in the above letter, refers to a request by Mr. Fisher that Mr. Blaine would give him a letter of credit to be drawn against by Mr. Fisher during a proposed European trip—Mr. Blaine being at the time indebted to Mr. Fisher for borrowed money, for which Mr. Fisher held Mr. Blaine’s demand promissory notes. [Confidential.] Washington, D. C., April 16, 1876.-My dear Mr. Fisher: You can do me a very great favor, and I know it will give you pleasure to do so, just aFI would do for you'under similar circumstances. Certain persons and papers are trying to throw mnd at me to injure my candidacy before the Cincinnati convention, and you may observe they are trying it in connection with the Little Rock and Fort. Smith matter. I want you to send me a letter such as the inclosed draft You will receive this to-morrow (Monday) evening, and it will be a favor I shall never forget if you will at once write me the letter and mail the same evening. The letter Is strictly true, is honorable to you and to me, and will stop the months of slanderers at once. Regard this letter as strictly confidential. Do not show it to any one. The draft is in the hands of my clerk, who is as trustworthy as any man can be. If you cannot get the letter in season for the 9 o’clock mail to New York, please be sure to mail it during the night, so that it will start first mail Tuesday morning. But, if possible, I pray you to get it in the 9 o'clock mail Monday evening. Kind regards to Mrs. Fisher. Burn this letter. Sincerely. J. G. B. This letter was indorsed on the back as follows: Not knowing your exact address, I send this to the Parker House, in order that it may (not) be subjected to any danger in the hands of a carrier. J. G. B.

The Western Union Telegraph Company, dated Washington, D. C., 1876, received at 9:44, April 16. To Warren Fisher, Commonwealth Hotel: Please go to Parker House to-morrow (Monday) evening on arrival morning mall from New York. Find letter. .Answer by mail. J. G. Blaine. 19 D. 11. 4 p. m. The following is the inolosnre referred to in the preceding letter: Boston, April, 1876.—H0n. J. G. Blaine, Washington, D. C.—Dear Sir: I observe that certain newspapers are making, or rather insinuating, the absurd charge that you own or had owned $150,000 of Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad bonds, and that you had in some way obtaiued them as a gratuity. The enterprise of building the Little Rock and Fert Smith Railway was nndertaken in 1869, by a company of Boston gentlemen, of whom I was one. The bonds of the road were put upon the market in this city on what were deemed very advantageous terms to the purchaser. They were sold largely through myself. Yon became the purchaser of about $30,000 of the bonds on precisely the same terms that every other buyer received, paying for them in installments running over a'considerable period, just as others did. The transaction was perfectly open, and there was no more secrecy in regard to it than if you had been buying flour or sugar. lam sure you never owned a bond of the that you did not pay for at the market I am sure that no one received bonds on any other terms. When the road got into financial difficulties and loss fell upon it you still retained yonr bonds, and you held them clean through to the reorganization of the company in 1874, exchanging for stock and bonds of the new company. You acquired, also, some demands against the new company.bv reason of your having joined with others in raising some money when the company,,was in pressing need. For the recovery of that money proceedings are now pending in the United States Circuit Court in Arkansas, to which you are openly a party of record. Concealment of the investment and everything connected with it would have been very easy had concealment been desirable, bnt your action in the matter was as open and as fair as the day. When the original enterprise failed, I know with what severity the pecuniary loss fell on yon, and with what integrity and nerve you met it. Years having since elapsed, it-seems rather hard at this late day to be compelled to meet a slander In the matter where your conduct was in the highest degree honorable and straightforward. You may use this letter in any way that will be of service to you. Yery sincerely yours, W. F. Jb. The words “ Indeed, I am sure that no one received bonds on any other terms,” were interlined in the foregoing letter in Mr. Blaine's own handwriting. We hereby certify the foregoing to be true and correct copies of the originals. Wabben Fisher, James Mulligan, Boston, Sept. 12, 1884.

WILL VOTE FOR CLEVELAND.

Gen. B. H. Bristow and Gen. Francis A. Walker Express Their Purpose Unreservedly. Bishop Huntington and Edward Eggleston Also Found Among the “ Pharisees,” Gen. B. H. Bristow, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, has announced his Intention of supporting Gay- Cleveland. In an interview at Saratoga Mr. Bristow said: I shall vote for Cleveland as an emphatic protest against the nomination of snch a man as Blaine. It is the only way 1 can protest against the candidacy of bo dishonest and corrupt a. man. I’don’t call it a Democratic vote; I call .it an honest one. lam not m love with the Democratic party, and am not a Democrat. Gen. Francis A. Walker, Chief of the Census Bureau, said in an interview at Washington: "I shall vote for Cleveland, bnt I am still a Republican. The Republican nominee has always had my support except when Grant ran the second time. Then 1 did not vote. In Massachusetts, mv State, the candidacy of Butler has taken from the’Democrats 20,000 of the most disreputable voters. On the other hand I believe that folly 15:000 of tho best and most in-

tellleent Republicans will rote for Cleveland. The Independent movement is Urge and well organised, bnt it is doubtful whether it will counterbalance the Butler defection. It looks somewhat now as though the Blaine managers were becoming afraid of the spirit they bad evoked In Butler. He is not who'ly under their control and seems to be hurting the Republicans as much as any other party.” In a letter from Edward Eggleston, the wellknown anthor, dated from Lake George, and addressed to the Secretary of the National Committee of Independent Republicans, the wTiter v gorousiy discusses the causes for the Republican bolt, and diaws a striking contrast between Gov. Cleveland and Mr. Blaine: He says the first thing that impresses the observer from a quiet point of view is that the voters who are driven from theirplaces in the Republican ranks by Mr. Blaine’s candidacy are for the most part men of a very high order, and that he does not find one of the pot-huntero of the party among them. They are leading business men, young men of high aims and aspirations, prominent lawyers, clergymen, college professors, distinguished writers, and c&rerul students of history and the science of government Some of these deserters from the Republican party are the ornament and crown of the Intellectual life of the nation. The writer disclaims any thought of saying t’hat Mr. Blaine does not number among his supporters many excellent people. The strength of the party attachment ana superstition, the force of political habits and associations, arc so great that Mr. BUine will get the votes of many thousands whose lives and principles are as superior to his as uprightness is to venality. The proselytes whom Gov. Cleveland repels are almost to a man either interested and unsavory monopolists, foreigners seeking to embroil the country, or political riffraff. If Mr. Blaine, he says, should succeed in this confused and quadrilateral canvass in snatching the Presidency, it will be by the aid of good men who have a superstitious veneration for their party, and by men who openly declared his unfitness until he was nominated. Among the prominent men of the country, says a correspondent of the Springfield Republican, who spend their summers in the delightful old oounty of Hampshire is Bishop Huntington, of Syracuse. N. Y., who resides for the summer in an old-fashioned farm-house somewhat modernized, in the quaint and historical town of Hadley. Your reporter had a very pleasant chat, the other day with this well-known theologian on the political aspect of the day. While the Bishop s tastes and work do not lead him into politics, yet he is a keen observer of what is going on in the political world, and his deductions are made after mature reflection and careful investigation. As to his own position the Bishop said: “I class myself with the Independents, for I am in the habit of voting according to the character of the men placed in nomination.*' In reply to a query aa to hU opinion of Mr. Blaine, he said: “ Well, I have no deaire to publish my opinions to the work!, nor do I care to hold them back. I have never been in favor of Blaine, whom I recognize aa a trafficker in official influence, and I am very much pained to see ao many or my New England friends yielding np the high standard of morals ao requisite to the Presidential candidate in the past. Nothing has been said in this miserable attempt which can bring him into the society of the pure statesmen of the past. It would indeed be deplorable if the yonug men of this nation should be informed by this election that the people of the United States eon dene tho offenses proved against James G. Blaine. The moral effect would be very depressing "should they be told by his election that they can lie, defraud, become demagogues bribe givers and takers, and still not forfeit the public confidence. It is a humiliating spectacle to see so many men like Hoar, Dawes and others twisting his dishonored record in such a way as to become a deliberate attempt to make his conduct reputable. To me the action of thoso who sneer at the attempt to purify the political atmosphere is contemptible.”

ILLINOIS INDEPENDENTS.

They Enter the Campaign in a Way Indicating that They Mean Business. A Vigorous Address to Repub* lican and Independent Voters. The following address has been leaned from the Ulinois Independent headquarters, room 26, Palmer House, Chicago: The nomination of James G. Blaine for the Presidency by the Republican National Convention of 1884 has precipitated a qnestlon of' great difficulty and supreme moment upon the American people. By this action the voter’s attention is forced away lrom the consideration of party principles and policies to the scrutiny of party candidates and the duties of citizenship. It is all the more deplorable and dangerous because Mr. Blaine’s nomination was made with all tho outward forms and circumstance of popular party choice. But those who were on the spot know how fictitious is the claim that it was. the irresistible demand ot the great body of the Republicans of the Northwest. They are not qblivioue to the necessity of honor, integrity, and a pure record in a Presidential candiaate, however noisy and bawling politicians may misrepresent them. We know that Cook County was represented in the June convention by at least two men who were elected to oppose Blaine and voted for him. One of these men deliberately betrayed the trust reposed in him by his district. We know not how many others were brought to Mr. Blaine’s support as he was, nor the means used to accomplish his conversion. Living in Chicago, some of ns remember the spirit of liberty that animated the Republican convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and We saw the political vultures who dominated the convention which nominated James G, Blaine in 1864. The men who had been fighting to keep on the outside of a jail in Washington fought for the nomination of James G. Blaine In Chicago. N o unknown man was nominated. His record is notorious. Its “ magnetic brilliancy” oan not hide its utter lack of principle, unselfish purpose, or public good accomplished. As a hnember of Congress his voice was never raised, his vote never cast, for a measure to protect the public domain from the raids of landgrabbers and corporate plunderers. As Speaker ot the House of Representatives, he did not scruple to prostitute a judicial decision to personal gain. As United States Senator, in the language of Senator Edmunds, "he jumped up, musket in hand, from behind the breastworks of Jay Gould’s lobby, to lire into the back ” of those senators who were endeavoring to make the Union Pacific Railway Company keep its contract with the Government, As Secretary ot State, for a brief period, he made the United States rloicnlous in the eyes of foreign powers of the first rank, while indulging in questionable interference with the affairs of minor nationalities. His appointment of a disgraced officer of the army to represent this country as Minister to Peru, in order that he might holly that distressed power. into the recognition of a private claim, is not forgotten ia Illinois, where that officer was known. As a private citizen of national influence he has not shrank from advising the distribution of the snrplus in the Treasury among the States in such a way as to afford a vast corruption fund in the hands of the dominant party. The public standards and methods of Mr. Blaine are thoroughly corrupt and demoralizing. He treats public office as a private acquisition. He makes use of its opportunities to enrich and advance himself. He prostitutes its powers to reward his friends and to punish and proscribe those who oppose him. What has been accomplished toward administrative reform has been effected without his aid. in fact, he and those closely associated with him have been conspicuous among those to be reformed. His late profession of acceptance of the reformed system most be viewed with great suspicion by those who are familiar with his career, and do not now overlook the methods of himself and his friends in the present campaign. Those who stand behind the Washington committee and receive its “collections" can not be trusted with the execution and improvement of the civil-service act. Our opposition to Mr. Blaine is based upon the evidence furnished by the candidate himself and the public records. The strength of our position is exactly measured by the force of that evidence. Everything now known against Mr. Blaine was known when he was nominated last June. In the conventions of 1876'and 1880 a healthy respect for the honest sentiment of the country defeated him. Bat in 1884 the corrupt influences which he represented, in defiance of repeated warnings, forced him upon the party. Believing that popular indifference to dishonesty and corruption in office is a menace to good government; that a party nomination cannot cleanse a sooty record; that when party action ceases to respond *to the pure and honest sentiment within it it becomes party tyranny; that it is the duty of all intelligent citizens to look qn parties as the aids of good government, not the idols for Individual worship; that to accept Inevitably the offerings of a party oonventloivgood or the voter of his inalienable rights; that Blaine’s nomination compromised the Republican party, and his election would dishonor the nation; and believing that its defeat now may be the salva-

tion of party, that through the r&iley of tribuJath.n it may come into a purer life, we declare our unalterable opposition to the eiectiion of James G. Blaiue. Whether we shall support Grover Cleveland must be left to individual choice. Or him, we have tills to say: His nomination was made 'bv the Democrat!e party in response to the call for a man whose official life In sterling integrity and unwavering honesty should afford the strongest possible contrast to that of James O. Blaine. He has been thoroughly tried, and found Arm and able to withstand the worst elements of his own party. The manner of his nomination commends him to us. No malignant assaults upon his private life have weakened his publto record, or can alter the just and high aim of the convention which nominated him. The present is a good time to rebuke the insolent arrogance of unprincipled iioliticians who gut up their chief and invoke party fealty to make tm ruler of 55,u00,0u0 p.ople. The pernicious doctrine that the act of a convention, if it nominate Beelzebub, binds the consciences and votes of the party, is the issne of this campaign. Shall It prevail? \Ve firmly, honestly, sincerely believe not. To elect Blaine is to set him up as a model for the youth of America. To. defeat him Is to make his course a warning for all time. Therefore all Republicans and Independents who believe that the interests of good government, official honesty, efficient public service, purity of the primaries, and the honor of the American people, demand the defeat of James G. Blaine are invited to place their names upon our rolls and aid us in every honorable way to prevent his election as President of the United States.

THE MAGNETIC HEELER.

How Demooratio Voters of Maine Were Magnetized for the Republican Ticket. Ten Dollars About the Average Price, Promptly Pclid on Delivery. Brazenly Corrupt Methods Practiced by the Augusta Republicans at the Recent Elections. It cost the Republican managers in Maine a big pile of money to make a showing in that State. At Augusta, the homo of tho leader of the party that declares so vehemently In Its platform for the purity of the ballot-box, $lO was paid In many cases for individual votes, and It is said that the number of men In the State who sold their votes was not less than ns,ooo. Tho result is an Interesting verification of the Rev. Stephen B. Elkins' favorite political apothegm: “Carrying an election is a more question of finance;” but tho magnitude of tho outlay In Maine is a good ground for fear that the party barrel will run short before the work of electing Jim Blaine has boon completed. A New York dispatch to tho Chicago Daily AVtcs (Independent) says: The World publishes a special dispatch, two columns in length, from Its staff correspondent at Augimta, Me., reiterating the charges of wholesale bribery

practiced by the Republicans in the State election last Monday, supported by a dozen affidavits, sworn to before a Justice of the Peace and the names of more than 800 Augusta men aocused of having been paid bv B a.no's managers for voting for Gov. lloble. William H. Burgess swears that ho saw Assistant Postmaster Burrows pav monoy at the polls to Isaac Brand; Fred Cypress Bwears that he saw $lO paid to William Downs In return for his vote for Robie; Paul Mackay swears that F. H. Harvev, a Republican politician, oiferod him $lO to vote for Robio; Michael Burns, a saloonkeeper, swears that a Republican Government official of Augusta offered him SIOO to stay away from the polls and work on the outside to get the Democrats to voto the Republican ticket; also that he knows that Joseph Routn, James Shaw, Samuel Berry and Tip Shaw sold their votes to the Ropubicans for $lO each. Freeman E. Woeks swears that he had alwavs voted the Demooratio tloket until Monday last, when he sold his vote to the Republicans, receiving for It $lO in cash, although Horace B. Cony, a Republican manager, told him they were only paying $0 for votes. Then follow 800 names of men in tho Ist, Bd, ad, 4th, sth and Otti Wards of Augusta, all of whom tho World correspondent oharges with having sold their votos to the Republicans. Another batch of affidavits is being prepared in Augusta, taken from men who openly declare that they sold their votes for prices ranging from $U to *lB at tho solicitation of Republican managers, and were paid the money by the same men. The following will servo to show tho iniquitous methods employed by tho Blaine managers to swell tho Republican majority: “J, Michael Burns, of Augusta, Me., occupation saloon-keeper, upon oath depose and say that I was approached two or three days before the State election, which was held on the Bth day of September, 1884, by a gentleman in good standing and now in Government employ, who asked me if SIOO would induce me to stay awav from the polls and use my influence in getting Democrats to vote the Republican ticket. He also stated to me that I should have as good a show as any one engaged in my business If I would do what I could to help them (the Republicans) in the eleotion. I took it to mean that 1 should be saved from prosecution as a seller of intoxicating liquors. Tho gentleman further remarked to me that the Republicans would surely carry the city at the spring election, so that they would control matters. I asked him who authorized him to mako that statement to me, and he replied that he would not reveal the name of the party unless I would give my word of honor that I would go with them on election day. I relused to do so, telling him that SSOO would be no object to me so far as Inducing me to vote and work against my convictions. On the morning of election several men came to my place of business whom I knew to be Democrats, and some of whom never voted any other ticket, and told me they had been offered $lO and sl2 each to vete the Republican ticket, and asked me what they should do about it. I told them to go and vote according to their convictions and not sell their votes. They returned to my saloon after election and informed me they had sold their votes, and some of them showed me the monev which thev received ior them. Joseph Routh was one of them; Samuel Berry was another one who told me that he had sold his vote. James Shaw and ‘Tip’ Shaw also came to my saloon and showed me their money. One of the Shaws had two flve-dollar bills and the other hod a ten-dollar bill. James Shaw told me that ho received the money tor his vote from the Republicans. I know of many others who I am positive sold their votes to the Republicans. Michael, Buhnh. “Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 11th day of September, A. D., 1884. “Thomas J. Lynch, Justice of the Peace. “State of Mainq, County of Kennebec.” , “I, Freeman E. Weeks, of Angnsta, county of Kennebec, and State of Maine, upon oath depose and say that I am a legal voter of Ward 5 of said Augusta; that I have always voted the Democratic tloket; that on Thursday or Friday of last week Horgoe Blaney asked me how 1 was going to vote: I told him that I did not intend to vote the Republican ticket,,bnt Intended to vote my own principles; he told me that if I would vote the Republican ticket he would pay me as much as any one was paid, whether It was $lO or more. On election day he took me to the voting precinct, and I deposited a Republican vote in the box which Horace Blaney gave me. When I came back to the carriage he took me and carried me across the street, and gave me $lO, saying that they were not paying but $9 for votes, bnt he would give me $lO. Fbeeman E. Weeks. “Subscribed and sworn to on this 10th day ot September, before me, Thomas J. Lynch, Justice of the Peace. “State of Maine, County of Kennebec." The above are only two ot a largo number of similar depositions. Then follow a long list of names of voters of Angusta who are known to have been suborned at the polls by Republican managers. It is my deliberate opinion that Mr. Blaine acts as the attorney of Jay Gould. Whenever Mr. Thnrman and I have settled upon legislation to bring the Pacific Builroads to terms of equity with the Government, up has jumped James G. Blaine, musket in hand, from behind the breastworks of Gould’s lobby, to fire in our back.— Senator George F. Edmunds, of Vermont. I have the greatest respect and admiration for tho Democratic candidate. He has made a splendid record as Governor, and I believe would do equally well as the Chief Executive.— Ex-Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. If Cleveland was a good enough man for Mr. Blaine’s friends to make Governor of New Yoifk, perhaps some Republicans may think he is a good man to make President.— Bo'scoe Conkling.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A careless hunter set fire to a tract of meadow on the farm of D. Sayre, near i Wabash, and destroyed about fifty tons of ! bay. a large quantity of fencing, and almost ! reached a bam. —A tramp who was refused lodging at a farm-house near Indianapolis spent the night in the orchard, and on leaving Sunday morning he set fire to a strawstack and caused the destruction of all the out- | buildings. —On recommendation of the bondsmen ! of thq late W. S. Lingle, as Postmaster at Lafayette, John G. Sample has been appointed temporarily to the position, serving under the same bond as that of the deceased Postmaster. —The University of Notre Dame has received from the King of Spain a copy of the ancient portrait of Columbus recently found at Madrid, and from a resident of Shanghai a library of Chinese works with Latin translations. —The five-year-old son of Melven Chasteen, who lives near Lexington, was sent to his father’s stable t.) git a horse. The boy walked up behind the animal and slapped its leg, when it kicked the boy with both feet in the breast and face, killing him instantly. —The report of tho State Geologist shows that there are 206 coal mines in nineteen different counties of the State, employing 5,400 men, receiving $1,500,000, producing 2,500,000 tons of coal, and requiring a capital of nearly $2,000,000 for their operation. —The 14-year-old daughter of Alexander Jones wns helping to haul hay, near Nashville, in the wagon, when the horses got into a yellow-jackets’ ne it and ran away, throwing her off. She fell between the horses and tho wagon and was kicked to death, dying almost instantly. —A few days ago a young mnn living near Moscow, Hush County, by the name of JDavid Duel, came home from Greensburg deathly siok. Ho was treated for fever, but died in a few days. It was then found that he had been terribly beaten by some unknown parties, and liis death was tho result of the injuries he had received. —Proceedings in insanity were instituted recently against Henry Quillen, a well-to-farmer near Columbus. Within the last three venrs his wife and seven childen have died of that dreaded disease, consumption, and of tho two remaining children, one of them now lies at death’s door. Mr. Quillen, in his vagaries, imagines that Satan is following him continually, and will hide in his bam or anywhere to kill him. —Miss Mary A. Adams, a pretty girl, eight miles out of Vincennes, who took chloroform, while her friends were at church, ami was found dead by a neighbor who happened to call, was supposed to have committed the fatal act to bide her shame, but a post-mortem showed such not to be the fact. Her parents died years ago, and she had since lived wilh the family of John Welton. Why she should have killed herself is still a mystery. Hhe was only fifteen.

—A decision has just been rendered in Tipton County, in the celebrated Legg and Patterson case, which was a suit brought by tho Patterson heirs to recover 297 acres of real estate which B. F. Legg sold while he was administrator of the John Patterson estate. Mr. Legg's son bought the land, but a deed was made in a few days transferring it to B. F.' Legg. Tho suit was an important one, as it involved about $20,000. The Judge decided that the land should go back to tho heirs, nnd that the heirs should pay Mr. Legg $5,300 purchase l-.ouey. At the commencement of the suit the Patterson heirs tendered Mr. Legg $5,995 in gold. —A queer case of somnambulism occurred near North Vernon, which was a narrow escape from death. J. S. Thompson and his son, a youth of 16, of Bdartansburg, 8. C., were en route on the east-bound train from Louisville to Cincinnati. When the train arrived at North Vernon Mr. Thompson missed the boy, and he took the return train to Louisville to look for his boy’s remains, as no one doubted but he was either dead or dangerously wounded. The boy was found about sixteen miles from North Vernon. He had walked out of the car and off the train, without hat or shoes, when the train was running about forty miles per hour. The fall knocked him senseless for some time, bruising and scratching him badly, but otherwise he was uninjured. —Col. Wm. C. Rise, a soldier of two wars, died at his home in Lebanon, aged 69 years. Col Kise was a native of Kentucky, bat with his father he came to Indiana in 1821. He was a Second Lieutenant in Col. James H. Lane’s Indiana regiment (the Fifth) in the Mexican war. Within seven days after the attack on Sumter in 1861 he raised a company, of which he was elected Captain, and which becime a part of the Tenth Indiana Volunteers. Upon the reorganization of the regiment for the ihree years’ service he was made Lieutenant Colonel, and subsequently Colonel. In 1862 ill health drove him from the army, but immediately upon his recovery he raised the One Hundred and Sixteenth Indiana Regiment, which he commanded thereafter. Col. Kise has been exceptionally popular in the State, especially with the soldier element, since the war.

—The Rev. H. S. Jordan, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Shelbyville, has received a call from the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Chicago at an increased salary. The members of his church are opposed to his leaving them. —At Columbia City, William Grand was fatally shot while engaged with others in stoning a house of ill-fame. —ln Muncie is a tomato vine which is feet high and still growing. i