The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-28
From the Milwaukee News, 18th inst.
Gov. Fairchild and the Gam BILE
Pardon.

We have been requested to copy the fol-
lowing statements, made in yesterdays
Sentinel on the authority of Gov Fair
child:
al. Governor Fairchild had never
heard, at the time the pardon was issued,
that E. w. Reyes was an attorney in the
case and does not now know that he was,
except from common report.
80. That governor Fairchid was never
addressed or approached, either, directly
Or ndiIectly,on the subject by Nj. Keyes,
and never knew or heard of any fee paid,
or to be paid, to MIR. Keyes, or any other
person, and had not the slightest intima-
ton that there had been, or was, a change
of attorneys in the case.
%. That the pardon was granted sole
ly upon the merits of the application and
proofs now on file in the executive office,
tor the reasons given officially by the gov
ernor to the Legislature Of 1862 that an
essential proof was first put on file in the
executive office but n few days before the
pardon was issued, placing CANDLES IN
nccence Of the crime of which he was
convicted beyond reasonable doubt, and
that from the proofs on file the governor
was satisfied that Gamble had been suffi.
GENTLY punished for the crime of which
he was confessedly guilty.
81 That more th>n year and half
elapsed before the filing of the first petit
ton, and some nine months after the last
refusal of the pardon, before the pardon
was finally granted.
IS. That Col. J, G. Spooner, whose
name is also mentioned IN connection
Wi !, har !, ar OF hof
Fairchild's private secretary, or employed
in any capacity in the executive Office, and
had not been for months previously.
"8. That neither Col Spooner nor any
other person ever asked that this or any
other pardon be granted rs u personal "a
vor, or tor any other reason than upon the
merits of the petitions and proofs on file
in the executive office"
This is but reiteration of the explain
atoms given by Gov. Fairchild in his late
Oshkosh speech. AS we have said before,
We have not the slightest desire to per.
sonally implicate Gov. Fairchlld in the
disgraceful trasaction to which these
statements relate. We do not believe
that he accepted or would accept o
bride or that he was personally cognlzant
of the corruption of others in this matter
Our charge is that the politicians. by
whom he is surrounded are currupt that
the means which we're used to extort
money from Gamble were corrupt, and
that men of the class concerned in this
transaction are not the men to be trusted
by the people with the care of their
financial and political affairs We have it
admitted that thousands of dollars were
for long time missing from the treasury,
and yet Gov. Falrchild was undoubtedly
ignorant of the whole matter. The Gov
ornol indeed has comparatively little to do
with the administration of public affairs, !
and unless the people interfere the rogues
about the capital may go on robbing the
treasury and squanderlng the revenues of
the state for score Of years longer with
out the slightest apprehension OF discov-
cry. To what extent this system of
plumber has been carried neither the gov
ernor nor the people will ever know IN
til there is o change made in the ad
ministration and thorough investigation
of the whole subject. The abstraction of
illicit fees from the pockets of the peo-
pie the absence of funds from the treas
ury which ought to have been there, and
the extortion of a thousand dollars from
Gamble tor q pardon which, according
to the governor, should have been granted
him without price, are disgraceful facts
which have been developed by mere acct
dent, and rest mostly on the voluntary
testimony Of republicans. Is 1t too much
under such circumstances tina. the people
should insist on change Of the Madison
regime, and the expulsion of the regency
from the capitol?
As the Ne.s omits the remarks of the
'SJntiYsel which proceeded and followed
these six statements we give them
First, what proceeded:
"The Democratic papers Of Wisconsin
are charging, either directly or by impli-
cation, that in the year 1868 Governor
Fairchild pardoned one Michael Gamble,
convict in the State prison, in order
that an attorney, E. W Reyes, Esq, oil
Madison, might, with the Governors
knowledged, receive from Gamble fee of
$1,000, after having previously refused to
pardon him upon an application made in
his hehalf by his attorney, Mr.. Williams,
Of Watertown. In answer to this charge
we are authorized by the Governor to
state the following facts"
Second, what followed:
THAT if Dir. Gamble suffered from the !
wrong doing Of any other person or per
sons,it was utterly without the Governors
knowledge, and that no one in the Exec
utive Department was In any manner
whatever implicated therein or had infor-
nation thereof.
The Governor has authorized these
statements to be made only for the pur-
pose of explicitly meeting and denying
the inference which has been drawn that