Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — Hurled Back Into His Teeth. [ARTICLE]

Hurled Back Into His Teeth.

[Boston special.] In reference to Mr, Blaine's denial of the assertion of Warren Fisher that he (Blaine) had offered a sum of money for the Mulligan letters, Mr. Fisher, in an interview with a Herald, representative, says that at the request of Mr. Elisha Atkins and at the special request of Mr. Blaine he went to New York in the spring of 1880, and met Mr. Blaine at the Fifth Avenue Hotel; that then and there Mr. Blaine made his request. "Definitely state, Mr. Fisher, what wks Mr. Blaine’s request.” “To obtain for money or otherwise from Jim Mulligan all letters, copy of letters, all the let-ter-books, copies from letter-books, and memoranda of every name and nature in which Mr. Blaine was mentioned or had any interest.” “What was the amount paid for the delivery of these?” • "The amount to be paid was not limited. I was to pay SIO,OOO if I could not obtain them for less. Mr. Blaine further.stated that Mr. John Cummings, the partner of Elisha Atkins & Co., would furnish all the money for the purchase of the letters, and he authorized me to confer with Mr. Cummings about the money to be paid to Mr. Mulligan if the letters could be purchased.” "Did Mr. Elisha Atkins know of this proposition?" "Certainly. He knew of my progress from time to time about the purchase ot the letters, and stated that his partner had all the funds required if the purchase was made, as his partner (Mr. Cummings) had recently sold all Blaine’s Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad stock at about s'» per share, which Mr. Atkins, in his judgment, thought at the time was a foolish sale, as the stock afterward advanced, reaching about S6O per share.