Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1884 — THE MODERN ANANIAS. [ARTICLE]

THE MODERN ANANIAS.

He Writes Another Boomerang Letter Which Convicts Him of Deliberate Falsehood. Another Scaly Episode in the Career of the Crooked Demagogue.' The New York Evening Post prints a twocolumn sensation on Blaine and bls coal mine operations in Ohio, On July 22, 1884, while at Bar Harbor, Mr. Blaine wrote as follows to H. 8. Bundy; "I am not and never have been the owner of any coal lands or iron lands, or lands of any character whatever in the Hocking Valley, or in any part of Ohio. Nor have lat any time owned a share of stock in any coal, iron or land company in the State of Ohio. Five years ago I loaned 812,500 to a member of the Standard Oil Company and took the bonds of the company as collateral. I shall be happy to transfer the bonds to any gentleman who is ambitions to pay thh debt. lam interested in coal lands in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but there has never been the slightest trouble with laboring men in anv enterprise with which I have been connected.” With this letter as a text the Post proceeds to brand Mr. Blaine as a liar, and quotes his own letter of Washington, Deo. 30,1880, inclosing a check for $25,000 to J. N. Denison, Boston, financial agent of the Hope Furnace Tract. The draft inclosed in Mr. Blaine’s letter was upon

the Hon. 8. B. Elkins, of Na 2 Wall street. New York, and when its collection was reported through the customary banking channels Mr. Denison issued a voucher similar to what was given other subscribers- when payment was made, which was an follows: Boston, Dec. 17, 1880. Received from James G. Blaine $25,187.50, being payment in full for one share in the association formed, for the purchase of lands known as the Hope Furnace Tract, situated in Vinton sfcd other counties, Ohio, this receipt to be exchanged for a certificate when prepared. (Signed) J. N. Denison, Agent. Early in 1882 the Standard Coal and Iron Company combination was formed for the general consolidation of the smaller companies in the Hocking Valley. The Hope Furnace Tract Association property, as represented by the $25,000 shares or blocks, ultimately merged into or consolidated with the Standard Coal and Iron Company on the basis of $50,000 at par of the consolidated company’s bonds for a $25,000 block in the Hope tract. On tbe 25th of May, 1882, fifty of the Standard Coal and Iron bonds were handed 8. B. Elkins for Mr. Blaine, and were receipted for by Elkins. In referring back for a moment to Mr. Blaine's most extraordinary letter upon this subject to the Hon. H. 8. Bundy, written at Bar Harbor, Me., under date of July 22,1884, it will be immediately noticed that either the original letter or the copy is in er>or wh?re it alludes to the Standard Oil Company, as this should read the Standard Coal and Iron Company. The Poet article is signed by J. Henry Brooks, and followed by eonies of telegrams and letters passing during the transaction. A Letter Which Disposes of the Plumed Liar’s Recent Denial. [Boston special to the Chicago Daily News.] The following letter has been made public by Mr. Brooks, one of those originally interested in the syndicate formed to buy nn the coal interests in tne Hocking Valley: Saratoga Springs, N. Y.. Ang. 10,188% W. D. Lee, Esq. Dear Sib : I have your favor, and in answer beg to say that I never in my life recommended a loan to any one or assumed any responsibility for another man’s investment. You are at liberty. however, to say that in addition to an investment in the bonds of the Standard Company, I and a friend of mine-jointly advanced a very considerable sum of money on your note secured by the bonds, and in this way showed our faith in the intrinsic value of the bonds, and in the success of the Standard Company. Sincerely, James G. Blaine. New York Workingmen Not Deceived by Blaine’s Denial. [New York special to the Chicago Daily News.] At a meeting of the National Labor party tonight the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That a committee of ten be appointed to prepare a citcuhr to send to all the trade and labor organizations of the country notifying them that after investigation by the National Labor party they find the charge to be true that James G. Blaine was a stockholder in the Hocking Valley Coal and Iron Company, and also in the Standard Iron and Coal Company, which companies discharged union laborers end employed imported Hungarian laborers at eighty cents a day, and their wives and children at fifteen cents a day, to take their places; and also employed Pinkerton's police to shoot the union miners down if they resisted this employment of pauper labor. Resolved, That we urge all friends of honest labor and American labor to work and vote against James G. Blaine as the enemy of honest labor and a false and dishonest protectionist.