Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Wi liam B. Allison figured in Oakes Ames’ little red memcrand um book which momentarily shattered the reputation of many a professedly Chnstiau republican statesman. He received ten shares of the stook of a corporation organized for the purpose cf making enormous and illicit profits out of the construction of a road built through lib ral land grants and large subventions from the United States. But the fact will not, it may be presumed, disturb in the slightest Mr. Allison’s standing in the republican party nor take from him one iota of his chance for th 9 nominalion at St. Louis. Other gentlemen of the republican party figured in the Credit Mobilier. Mr. Garfield was a shareholder, but Mr. Garfield, nominated at Chicago in 1880, overthrew republicans who never held a jhare of Credit Mobilier stock, was elected President of the United States by the republican partv and immediatelv chose for secretary ot state James G. Blaine, another Credit Mobilier statesman. Mr. Colfax was vice president of the United States from 1872 to 1876. Mr. Cohax was also a Credit Mobiher statesman. Mr. Blaine waß nominated by the republican party for the presidency in 1884 and nariowly escaped election, yet Mr. Blaine was the member of the house who urged the passage of the bill, opposed by E. B. Wasnburu, postponing the government’s first lien upon the construction to *he second place, a maneuver imperative as a condition precedent to the carrying ont of the Credit Mobiher Bchame, which involved tho necessary authority to give a first mortgage bond on the con struction, for it was proposed to pay the construction company in bonds. Oakeß Ames pointed the way to operations of many a con* struction company tLat, having public grants given it of cne kind or another, have taken their profit from shareholders and the public through the operation of a Credit Mobiher. Chicago has repeatedly witnessed the operation. Were the standard of American honor higher no party would dare to present to the .mtire electorate of the UnitedlStates as a presidential candidate a man tainted at all with j restitution of his place or his vote to sordid selfishness. — But the republican party thinks nothing of choosing as its standard bearers men who have been proven rejreaut to that rule of honesty which ought to be maintained as of course by every Amercan statesman. Few of these reach the high standard of Bayard, who when approached by this tempter of Massachusetts with his offer of Credit Mobilier stock, declined to discuss the preposition in any other view than tnat the corporation bad no application to make to congress on which he would be fitted to act officially, asheco’ild not consistently with his views of duty vote upon a question ; n which he had a pecuniary interest. How often republican statesmen are found furthering thair own interests as se”ntors or represen'ativesof the people. When Warner Miller was a senator from New York he was particularly looking after the tariff on wood pulp, in the manufacture of which he waß interested. Sawdust Sawyer of Wisconsin as a senator was more concerned ab ut the tariff on lamer than about any service he co’d render to the people of the United States. Leland Stanford sat not as a senator of the United States, but as a senator of the Pacific radways, the very same out of which and the public contribution to whieb, now in arrears, grew the scandalous Credit Mobilier.—Chicago Chronicle

Senator Billee Chandler, of New Hampshire, now confesses that he assented to a cowardly compromise b/ which McKinley’s name was placed beside Reed’s in the republican convention of his state. He is now in sorrow. “1 acquiesced,” he says, “in such an act of cowardice once before, when we allowed a resolution to pass at the New Hampshire con . ention in ’77 that Hay< s’ administration was guod and pure rather than have a bitter controversy over the quest tion whethe. its conduct had been dishonorable in surrendering to the democratic usurpers the local governm nt of Louisiana and S. Carolina, whose title was as good as that of Mr. Hayes ” Very trm. Fraud Hayes had no title*. Billee belonged to a gaug of thieves at that time. Colored delegates to the £St. Lou. isconvention are generally c hosen