Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — The Greenhorn and the Confidence Men. [ARTICLE]

The Greenhorn and the Confidence Men.

The task of picturing Btr. Blaine ks a greenhorn from the country "bunkoed” by the confidence men, Caldwell and Fisher, is now the chief occupation of the Blaine organs. Tip New York Tribune tries its hand in this way:?’Mr. Blaine was deceived by as pretty a pair <f rogues as ever adorned the annals of the Pblce Gazette: but he did not plead the baby act He did not quietly sit down and let himself b< fleeced. He left them no peace. He worried dem, pursued them—even into court—and filially got his money back.” After thus getting on to theirrlittlp game” B’aine “quietly sat down” and wfote to one of these "rogues * “My dear Mr. Fiber, you can $0 me a gr.at favor, and I know i will give you pleasure to do so—just as I wouil do for you under similar circnm tances.” 'lien he asked this “regue” to furnish him witty certificate of good character in regard to thetf very transactions in which thev had tried “fleece him.” In it this “rogue” was a«ked tefsay that these rascally transactions were “open md fair as the day.” He also told this “rogu ’that this account of their business etiterprit s was “strictly true and honorable to you and tl me.” He also told the “rogue” that this lettk was "strictly confidential;” that it was "coped by a most trustworthy clerk,” and sent b a special messenger. He then asked the “roge” to "burn the letter." In the same way he soi fht a certificate from the other "rogue.” Caldwe. And those were the confident il and intimate terms on which Mr. Blaine live with two men after he had, according to his c ?an, dis. overed them to be "as pretty a pair o rogues as ever adorned the annals of the htice Gazette," writing to one of them that th<r mutual transactions and speculations were ‘ lonorable to you and tb me.” Does anybody else want to ti his hand at defending Mr Blaine from the ei deuce furnished by himselt?— Detroit Free Prts.