Show TARDY TRIBUTE it ia scarcely a year since the name of oakes ames the originator of the credit Mo bilier scheme and one of the chief promoters of the pacific railroad system tem was brought forward with virulent obloquy as a party weapon to besmirch the character and record ofa of a presidential candidate whose brow wag was crowned with the palm of the martyr ere the laurel leaf of t the victor had bad withered As for years before even since the collapse col lapso of that gigantic capital consolidation scheme the name of oakes amea ames was bandied about aa as a cognomen denoting everything that was corruptible rup tible venal dishonest fraudulent ilia ilis failure was made a crime and in the flood of opprobrium poured out over his memory many oft the men who had partaken partaker par taken of his money tried to wash the stains of guilt from their own garments but now a change has taken place the reverse in public opinion for which oakes ames sons had so loyally labored has occurred recently the memorial hall erected to his me memory mory by the instigation of oliver and frank 11 ames at north easton mass LN ass was dedicated under the active participation of all that is of best beat repute among massachusetts chu statesmen tho the man mail who had testified on oa oath th thai that ma many ny men who we were rethen then in ill public favor and have tince since been promoted still further acted as his paid agents in congress to buy legislation easel essential bial to support the organizers of the pacific raili Railroad oad has lias been eulogized by every Ne new england man that was w with ith him in congress such aa as governor long rev E everett hall senators dawes and hoar william evarts secretary blaine ex senator boutwell they all now take up the tile timbre ls in testifying r that he was tho the model of an upright truthful lionor loving conscientious ious friend citizen publicist and business man wo we mention this almost wonderful mutation with regard to tho the memory of a dead man because at the time of tho the last presidential campaign when the name of gen Garfield was sullied by connee connection tion with the credit Mo bilier manipulations we believed that his interest in the matter was without a tinge of dishun dishonesty aty on his part as at the time of the prosperity of the C bubble greater financiers than garfield placed trust in it and expected great things of it benefits of a national character oakes ames himself was far more the victim of uncontrollable able circumstances than a victimizer his ilis melancholy death demonstrated that at last his intentions had been for the general good As to mr gal gai fields fame it is fair enough not to need posthumous vindication but still it is duo due to history to remove from the escutcheon of the entombed hero even tb the shadow of a it flaw |