Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1884 — Stealing the Public Lands. [ARTICLE]

Stealing the Public Lands.

Blal e wrote so many letters that his various enterprises and speculations in all sorts of corruption were easily tracked to him by these silent witnesses, Tke vast majority of this class, of which Blaine Is a colossal type, are too sharp to put their questionable modes on papsr. It is only oc ’as onally that they can be caught. Here, however, is a cue in point, ai d it involves General Logan and one or two otner prominent Republicans A gentleman writes to th > No-'' Yonr Times as follows: “What appears n your columns from time to time legarding the spoliation of the public lands by the ‘land sharks’ must com* mend i : self to the approving judgment of all right-minded men. - When 1 was ln|London, over a year ago, a gentleman living in Brooklyn by the name of Conway offered to 8 *ll me 1,000,000 acres in New Mexico owned by a syndicate composed of Henry M. Atkinson, United States S irvnyor; a man by the name of Casey. and others, including-General John A* Logan. He showed me letters of Mr. Atkinson In proof of his authority, and, in faot, gave ige tbe Utters to examine at mv leisure. After General Logan’rnnmlnation Conway sent a messeng. r to m*» in Wash ingfon to get th - Atkinson letters.— Now 1 see that be did so in order to save Logan ‘from t © possible em barrassment of their public use. The land is situated In tbe American Valley, in New Mexico, and is one -f the best glazing tracts in the Territory All of it was not ot imed to be private property, but only about 30,000 acres, procured by the syndicate by means of the purchase of soldiers’ rights.— These were ‘locations’ controlling the water and the water controlled the balance to the extent of a million acres, all of which was offered for sale, including tbe cattle there on These facts Mr. Conway will not de» ny unless he denies the truth. He also sold to a Syndicate in London, composed of Frederick Fuller. Esq., Henry Ailbm, Esq., the Hon. Edward Edward R. Gray, and George H. Philipots. the son of tne eminent English Bi hop, and one or two parties In Edinburgh, another large truct of a million acres, and has made a large fortune by the operation, so it is said. “Whether he consummated t esale of tbe Logan Atkinson land is more than I know, though I understand he did sell it in London ” * NewYoik Herald (Ind ) tßlaine is tempting his followers to revolution. He oas given notice that ho is ready to Mexioanizc this country if h e can get anybody to stand bv him. He helped to steal the presidency in 1876; he whs part of the Dorsy ”soap ami uew $2 bill” campaign in 1880. and took the state department as his reward. And he now appeals M his followers to hslp him in a still more despevate step. We believe that this Dold, bad man, oonyicted loboyist, convicted corruptionist, convicted ally of star route and navy thieves, convicted falsifier, convicted ignoramus in all true statesmanship, convicted trickster and political gambler, will fail in this last attempt at fraud and revolut'on. He can not grab the presider'*-, bt*' cause the pe >ple arc lookin'- At him.”