Show GOULDS PLOT the great secret scheme to elect jas G blaine jay gould would have done better to conio come out of his hole and tell the story himself of the fifty thousand dollars he paid to john J obrien on sunday no november ve aber 2 1884 to procure democratic votes enough in this city to elect blaine president on the tuesday following instead of padlocking bi his 8 mouth and tacitly challenging the herald to unearth the facts A confession would not have made the public think any worse wo rs 3 of him than it did already I 1 he cie had bad rioth nothing ipg to lose in public esteem by 4 owning ng up and he had something to gain by frank frankness nesa so longano long ago as april 11 1873 he be had bad announced his code of political ari principles 11 c i p IC 11 and morals to the erie investigating 1 1 t ig ting committee under oath as follows without a blush it wig was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions and I 1 made them and considered them good paying api ng in la in a t republican li district t rit I 1 was a strong republica a in i a democratic district I 1 was wits a democrat and in doubtful districts I 1 was doubtful ul in politics I 1 was an erie railroad man every time ever since this unblushing announcement no the public has been perfectly aware amaie that t hat gould has no scruples ac about using money to influence fluence elections to suit guit stock speculations ions nobody in all the intervening thirteen years has had the tho slightest test doubt that gould would consider ita good paying investment to put up money to decide any election city state or national in favor of any candidate democratic 4 or r republican if the man in office could servo serve his pecuniary becu biary i purpose ea and he could thereby lay jay him un der a ft secret obligation to do so F fifty efty thou thousand tand dollars was a mon ly cheap price for gould t to 0 pay to get a president of the united states under his thumb the investment would have been a pay payi a i ing one vit if it had been five hundred bundre thousand instead of fifty thousand in the uld old erie days about which testified in 1873 as much as 11 fifty it thousand 0 usand sometimes wag paid fox for a single 11 agle state senator at AL bany if there are any circumstances not yet brought out that would qualify in goulds and blaines BI ainee bo be half balf the facts about this particular fifty thousand dollar job which the herald has proceeded to in response to goulds challenge it is their own fault if the public doca not know them we have dug out the story without fear or favor from the best other sources source ii available neither gould nor blaine would speak we have haye shown to the public gould paying the money to obrien on the same d day ay sunday on which he was secretly closeted with blaine for several hours we have shown the aw bunac proclamation io to country re rei i publicans the next day A monday londay that th they e y rn might ight trust this city citi to we ve ba have y e shown gould Irl riding around to the election booths on the east side of the city on the day afterward I 1 tuesday fo to see if that had been donefer done for which the money had been paid in addition to the testimony of colonel george bliss 1 we have produced the testimony of colonel ethan alien allen another well known republican worker as to what the money was paid for 1 I know that it was given to buy den deir 0 cratic votes 0 if it was given at all i said aid colonel alien allen in the herald and behave cited a high officer of the police forced a tammany man as yet unnamed in conference twice at goulda gould s bouse house concerning the job now ie we have to pass to the forty eight hours after the election during which gould was not quite aito sure that obrien had failed him although he had bad suspicions I 1 through all that birge ay virtue of dispatches des patches from the NV V estern union telegraph company a corporation under goulds gould a control false claims were incessantly made that blaine had carried the state of new york and waa was elected president although impartial investigations and it reports had satisfied all Im impartial partia men of the country before the close of wednesday november 6 5 As we write we wo have before ui ua the originals of twentythree twenty three bulletins issued from the western union telegraph office offlie in thi this city between morning and midnight of thursday Novem lier er 6 monotonously claiming caidin ca imin that blaine had carri earned ed new york by pluralities ranging ranging from in in bulletin Eul bulletin letin no 0 9 to 68 in bulletin no 23 and on the same day the republican national committee to back up the gould bulletin bulletins put forth to the people of the united slates states an aej address declaring new T york city nov 6 1884 aa tho republican R utoca CV ha a dional committee r rejoice that the re turns now receive receiver warrant w ant it in announcing noun cing the i triumphant electron of blaine there ie is no ground for doubt that the honest vote of the tho state of bew wew ew york haa has been given to the republican candidates and though the def defeated elded candidate for or the Il residency ig Is tat the head of the election machinery in thia this state the democratic party which hae bai notoriously been the party of fraud in election elections defor for years vill not be permitted to thwart the will willi of the people the republican candidates have been honestly elected beyond a question if tho the intended use of the fifty thousand dollars was infamous what shall be said of suase quent F proceedings roce edings before gould ead positively positive y ascertained that obrien had pocketed the money NY N Y herald |