The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-04
The PIums of the Alaska Cake.

From Brick" P0meroyS NJ Y. Democrat
The radical press has been very adroit in
husbipg up all reference to the Alaska swim
die, by which some lucky brethren of the
God-and morality party must have pocketed
among them over two millions Of dollars.
gentleman by the name of Martin declares
himself ready to show the committee of Con-
gress where all this sum went to. His story
is, that a gentleman whose evieence may be
forthcoming, called on Baron Stoeckl soon
after the appropriation was made by Con-
gress, and saw ON the Russian Minister'S desk
draft for s., coo, 600, and the Baron presented
it to him for inspection. The gentleman asked
what it was for, and on being told that it was
to pay for Alaska, he eplied:-"But this is
only for $5,000,000; l thought the United
States were to pay 81, 200, ,000." "No," re-
piled the Russian baron, "that is all We asked
for the territory-you Yankees got all the
rest.''
1t is said that gentleman employed in the
State Department to translate documents
from foreign languages made the discovery of
list of worthy radical members of Congress,
lobbyists, and pious brethren of the dead
Parson Lincoln's church, who were the bene-
fciaries of this little swindle. This gentle
man has been sent to Mexico on some errand,
but he will be back and Congress can, if it
wants to- find out all about this patriotic and
characteristic radical fraud.
The following is portion of the list above
referred to-
To an eX- public printer, $4,000; to near rela-
tive OF the Great COmmoner $4,000; to an ex-
Com missioner OF Pensions, $40 600; to the Wash
ing:on correspondent of New York radical
morning paper, S5UOO TO Washington cores
pondeni who is on the list as belonging to the
HcraId, but who is known to be attached TO u
Cincinnati paper, $4,000; to q conservative
morning. paper in Baltimore, S2O 900; to the
Washlneton special correspondent OF the same
paper 5000; to Chicago Democratic morning
paper, S5g0O; TO representative of the Jones
family, $1,000; to an Eastern Senator wbo had
influence with a prominent journal, $4,000;
and The Eastern member before alluded to
no; ol,o u S29O,OOO to Eastern member No. 2,
S2C0O00 iand the great king OF the New York
lobby, who had the general management of
sco.O|SS sHs O|SS0 received the modest little sum of
This accounts for the busiuess-like vista
tions of Thurlow Weed to Washington, about
the time of the Alaska negotiations. And it
will be remembered by the reader that there
was a hint at the time that near friend of
the "Great Commoner," old Thad., had re-
ceived big plum out of the Alaska cake.
The conservative morning paper in Balti-
more" which got plum of $40, 900 weight,
we suppose was the Sun, unless the asthmatic
and wheeling old American could fool the
lobby into the idea that it had grain of inlu-
ence with somebody. Which of the 'New
York radical morning papers" received the
$4,000 plum If it was the Tribune, we expect
dirty job and tell us all he knows about it.;
but if it was the Times, or the World, the
public will, we fear, never be any wiser than
II now is on that subject. Wemust not look for
repentance in such impenitent sheets. There
is but one Democratic paper which is down as
having received plum out of this charming
cake, and that has bsen sometimes accused Of
possessing an easy and pliable virtue in the
seductive presence of gold.
The amiability, the decidedly more than
sweet-tempered committee of Congress, which
pretended to be investigating this fraud are
ominously silent-nay, indeed, fOolishly so;
for they ought to pretend to bs doing some
thing. They know how to cheat; lying is as
easy to them as blowing in fiie, or any other
wind instrument; and they ought to at least
keep up the appearance OF seeking to find ont
where all the plums OF the Alaska cake have
| gone to. As all these plums in reality be-
| iopged to the American people, we find it ouI
duty to demand that this tell-tae silence o.
the committee shall be broken. OF course,
| such patriotic, honorable gentlemen will tel
| the whole truth-Of course