The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-01-26
The JuntO sOrely AgItated.

ury since the organization OF Inc AeIEltot 10
government, and gobbled up nearly all th'
public money in that time, are DOW fearfullJ
agitated over the expected exposure to 81
made of their thieving practices and whole.
sale corruption, by means of the investiga
ton which Commissioner H. @. Street has
gone on to prosecute, in connection with the
Federal authorities in Washington City, with
regard to the financial affairs of the Terrific
~. To aid their cause, and to escape detec-
ton, if possible, they have hurriedly started
Judge Kelly, and one or two Others of their
own body, to proceed to Washington and
there labor ia their behalf. We predict that
the desperate gang will fail in their plans
this time, Mr.. Street goes on as the ap.
pointed Commissioner of the Territory, and is
abundantly armed with facts and proofs to
convince the Government of the rascality
and robberies which the Junto have practiced
for years. Unless the rankest corruption pre-
walls in the Treasury Department, the spe-
.cious or colored representations of Judge
Kelly and his confederates will not avail
against the direct statements and incontro-
vertibIe proofs which will be offered by Com
missioner Street. His high integrity, his
spotless reputation, his calm, firm, convinc-
ing manner, and decided ability, will enlist
the attention and quite surely command the
judgment of Secretary McCulloch. When
he presents the proven yilIainy, the shameless
perjury, the absolute dishonesty, and utter
moral rottennesS Of Secretary Hewlett, who
has, in clerkly or other subordinate positions
before coming into his present Office, and
since, played the knave and pimp continu-
ously, we believe that all the special plead
ing, all the sophistry, all the spurious repre-
sensations of Judge Kelly and his confeder-
ates, will not have weight to remove from
Mr.. McCulloChls mind the fixed opinion that
Hewlett is atrociousIy corrupt, and totally
unworthy of anyposition under the Govern
ment, save as a condemned felon in Coy
eminent prison. s.ia aaafrsa hi.
So will the statements and the proofs to
support them which Mr.. Street will present
to Secretary McCnlloch, with reference to the
system of knayery that has been practiced by
certain other Federal officials in Idaho, their
employees, attaches. and "outside friends"
convince that high functionary that there
was an urgent necessity for the appointment
by the Legislature of Commissioner for the
special service on which Mr. Street has gone.
And the frnitof his labors will be of of in
calculable benefit to our citizens generally.
The exposure of the rasca!ites so success
fully. carried on during the last four years,
by the thieving Jnnto, will have the effect to
stop them in their infamous plunderings and
schemings, and serve as warning to others
to abstain from like misconduct. It will be
the means of causing the money appropriated
by Congress annually for the Territory to be
hereafter rightfully accounted for and prop
erly applied; and it will not only break up
the notorious gang who now rob the sub
stance of the treasury, but it will deter others
from forming into similar corrupt conspira-
cies.' - ils- ..stas13 1a
The Boise City Statesman is the organ of
the present Junto. 1t has been fed from the
feast and is bound to sound the
praises and undertake the defence of its
guilty patrons. 1t dare not come out openly
and avow its real objections to the mission
upon which Mr.. Street has gone, for that
would be to write down its own completely
with the gang but it seeks to cast odium on
the mission, on Mr.. Street, and on the Leg
islature, by coupling with the subject and all
concerned the names of one or two direputa-
bic persons, and transaction, and by gross,
bat utterly false insinuations. The States
man has reason to be excited. We do not
wonder at its manifestations of effete rage
and assumed leYity alternately It fears,
aye knows, we might say, that it will be ex-
posed as PARTICLES cRIMINIs; while it
hopes that 6y some means, no matter what,
the exposure may not befall. Thus, itrages
and raves in one paragraph, without sense
or c6ngf6ity, and in another displays the
levity Of the abandoned criminal with whom
the worst is over, and who has no further
care of character.t 1t is not material, how
ever. what the Statesman or the Junto do