Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1884 — Maguatisms. [ARTICLE]
Maguatisms.
‘Blaine is an important man for us to have to feel all right toward us.’—Caldwell to Fisher. ‘I have placed you in positions whereby you have received very large sums of money without one dollar of expense to you, and you ought not to forget the act on my part.’—Fisher to Blaine. ‘I will make it all right with you.’—Blaine to Fisher. ‘Taking into account the $10",000 bonds you sold to Tom Scott and the amount of money you received on the Eastern contracts, our relative positions financially in the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad bear a wide contrast.’ Fisher to Blaine. ‘My object in writing is to ask in season if your friends sire to establish a bank at Little Rock? It will be to some extent a matter of favoritism as 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 you desire it. —Blaine to Fisher. ‘You can do me a great favor, * * * I want you to send me a letter, such as the inclosed draft. * * * It will be a favor I shall never forget. * * * 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. * * * Burn this letter,’-Blaine to Fisher. ‘I Do Not Feel that I shall prove a deadhead in the enterprise if I once embark in it.’—Blaine to Fisher. ‘Secreats Will Leak.’— Blaine, in House of representatives. ‘Burn this letter.’— Blaine to Fisher. On the 14th of July, 1884, Neal Dow, of Maine, wrote: ‘Blaihe is a friend ; > the proposed Constitutional amend ment and will vote for it.’ Blaine dodged the amei ment, Neal Dow, and wfc will do about it? Carl Schurz recently sa that Grover he esty is of that kind whicii makes not only honest, men his friends but rascals his enemies,
