Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1879 — The Fact Admitted. [ARTICLE]

The Fact Admitted.

Ex-Senator Barnum, chairman of the democratic national executive committee, has virtually confessed to the celebrated mule dispatch sent to ibis stare on the day of the October election in 1876. At the meeting ot the democratic national and congressional committees held in Washington last week, there was an urgent demand from Ewing for money to prosecute the Ohio campaign. This demand whs made through Mr. McKinney, chairman of the democratic executive *tommittee of Ohio. Tic discussion which it caused was long and not very.ha*-monious. Finally it was agreed that the money must come trbm New York, and that Tilden ought to head the list and come down handsomely. At thi*ex-Sena-tor Barnuin, one of Tilden’s managers notv as in 1876, said : “Gentlemen, the truth about this business is just this: You Southern and Western democrats who are clamoring for greenbacks ahd denouncing Eastern democrats as being allied with Wall street and bloated bondholders and remorseless capitalists, always come at last to New York and Eastern men to help you out of the mire. It is the story. The only Western state carried by the democrats in 1876 was won at the eleventh hour by tlie sinews of war from the East.” The Western state referred to is Indiana, and the statement that it “was won at the eleventh hour by the sinews of war from the East” is a confession that it was carried for Tilden by the corrupt use of money. The celebrated mule dispatch sen* by Abram S. Hewitt to ex-Senator Barnuin, in this city, on the day of the October election, in 1876, was as follows; “New’ York, October 10, 1876. **W. H. Barnuin, care of Wm. Henderson, Bank’of Commerce, Indianapolis: “Dispatch received. You may buy sevey more mules. Abram S. Hewitt.”

At that time Mr. Barnam jvas aeting as Tilden’s corruption agent in this city. It has been repeatedly charged and never denied that the above authority to “buy seven roorb mules” was authority to draw for $7,000 more, and now Mr. Barnnm virtually confesses it by saying that “the only Western state carried by the democrats in 1876 was won at the eleventh hour by the sinews of war from the East.” At the time the above dispatch was sent, and for some weeks before, there was a large number of Tilden corruptionists in different parts of this state, and a horde of ballot-box stnffers and repeaters brought here from the l«rge cities of the East and West. W. H. Barnuin was Tilden’s manager and the head of the rascally movement to carry this state by corrupt means. It was to him that the mole dispatch was sent, and now after three years he inadvertently admits that the state w-ae carried by oonuiytmeans. We have always believed and maintained that Indiana was not fairly carried by the democrats in 1876, and this admission of Barnum is conclusive proof that it was not.— Indianapolis Journal.