The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-10-22
FRIDAY. OCT. %, 1869.
Grant, Corbia, and FISK, Jr.

gambling in Wall street that re
suited so disastrously to the financia
interests Of the entire country wa
put-up,job" Of tho Presidcn
and his brother-in-law a. r. Cor
bin. That the President CorLin
Rig made large profits in the re
cent operations iu New York is tn,
prevailing impression in tinancia
circles everywhere. .. $751;. ..
The Rochester On. ~ Unior
says under the heading San ad
ministration Of Brokers aud Gam.
blers" -:
1Dtbc FIRST place it is to be borne
in mind that the President is q
broken down broker and gold gam.
bier Of ten years ago IN St. Louis.
The firm Of Boggs l. Grant, before
it fell through, advertised as fol.
lows in the St. Louis papers, from
one Of waich Of tho date mentioned
this is clipped ~.. ..-. Ill.,.
II. BoGos. rs. cnAyr.
49, BOGGS l. GRANT.
ENERAL AGENTS FORSELLING.
" Bartering Real or Personal Proper
~, Notes, Bonds and other Securities ::
borrowing or Leaning Of Money on Real
Estate or other good security Collecting
OF Rents Renting Of Houses Collecting
Of Notes, Bills, Accounts or other de-
snands.
Office, IS Pine street, St Louis, Mo.
Setting aside Gen. Grants mill
tary career, which no more fits him
for the Office Of President that the
career Of his war horse fits that an
imal for Professorship in a Theo-
logical Seminary, and we have in
the Executive Chair the junior
member Of the broken down St.
Louis 6rm Of brokers, Boggs e.
Grant. As broker, what would
be more natural for him, greedy of
gain as he has shown himself to be,
than to wink at and dabblc UNDER
handedly in put up" operations in
Wall street :?
The admission of Grant that BE
allowed. himself to be approached
by the most notorious gambler Of
Wall street, Fisk. jr., with q mis-.
sion from that other gold and stock
gambler, Jay Gould, and to be Sc
licitcd for private intimation
as to the coming storm, and that
instead of repclling and spurning
with indignation the man who could
make spch . request only upon the
knowledge or the assumption of tx
ecutive bascncss. no entertained
the proposition 50 far as TO discuss
it ethically with the gambler-this
admission alone is enough to put
the President under the gravest sus-
picion as to completely with the
Wall street jobbers. Would a pure,
high minded, d,sintcrcsted Presi-
dent recognize or listen to for q
moment such q character as Fisk,
Jr.. after having been thus solicited
to- prostitute his high Office for the
mercenary uses Of gold gamblers +? |
What would . Washington, a Jack
son. or even an Andrew johnson,
who, in contrast with the existing
Executive, refused every present, |
offered him while an occupant of |
the White House, do under. such
circumstances .4,.~ i
And, it will be. observed, this
approach was made upon Grant be-
fore the storm came and when the
gamblers begun to suspect that .
job Was being put up'-when he
was taking steamer from New York
for Newport. AT this very time.
too, and up to a day or so before
the panic. Mr.. Boutwell,, Secreta-
~ Of tho Treasury, was in New
York. theguest in turn Of the prin-
cipal Shylocks and money changers
who have profted by recent trans
actions. And how rcmarka Bile,
that after the President and Sec.
rotary returned to Washington.
and while the bulls and hears was
going on. they should simultane-
rusly conclude to sell several mil
lions Of gold-the one FIVE millions
and tho other three, settling down
upon q compromise Of four Re-
table coincidence in the minds
pf fhosc remarka BILE financicrs !!