Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 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 this State on the day of the October election in 1876. At the meeting of 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 was made through Mr. McKinney, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Ohio. The discussion which it caused was long and not very harmonious, finally it was agreed that the money must come from New York, mid that Tilden ought to head the list and come down handsomely. At this ex-Senator Barnum, one of Tilden’s managers now as in 1876, said: “Gentlemen, the truth about this business is just this: You Southern and Western Democrats wbo are clamoring for greenbacks and denouncing the Eastern Democrats as being

Bilied with Wail street art bloated bondholders and remonelMß capitalists, always come at last to New York ana Kastern men to help you out of the mire. It Is tteoldrtorynTbe only Western State carried by the Democrats inUTI was won at fee eleventh hour by the sinews of war from the Bast.” 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' 1 is a confession that it was carried forTilden by the corrupt use of money. Hie celebrated mule dispatch sent by Abram S. Hewitt to ex-Senator Bamum, in this city, on the day of the October election, in 1876, was as follows: “Naw Yob*, Oct. 10,1878. “W. H. Bamum, care of William Henderson, Bank of Commerce, Indianapolis: u Dispatch received. You may buy seven more mules. A bran 8. Hewitt.” At that time Mr. Bamum was acting as Tilden'B corruption agent in this city. It has been repeatedly charged and never denied that the above authority to “ buy seven more mules” was authority to draw for $7,000 more, and now Mr. Bamum 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 j number of Tilden corruptionists in different parts of this State, and a horde of ballot-box stuffers and repeaters brought here from the large cities of the East and West. W. H. Bamum was Tilden’s manager, and the head of the rascally movement to carry this State by corrupt means. It was to him that the mule dispatch was sent, and now, after three years, he inadvertently admits that the State was carried by corrupt means. 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.