New-York tribune., 1872-07-04

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comhIna,ion between the politician aud the stock
broker. Ho the power that was h ), n1 h a &
r,m them '0'tS,' to co5perato with him, they would
hold tho financial power Of , the thTa, CITY ana ,na
forms Of law be complied with Inc enorts OF NJ
Fisk get eonirel Of the Ee ROai ,Se MS 1Sary and
the Legislature the Ramsay suit was referred TO- ana rne
subsequent assault upon & MI s te was 70 he forfeited
| in the same way To show tie power St the man. M
McKeon read Jay Gous panic % the Fisk snt AGAINST
Mr. Bowles for libel, and tbe % o tne
h Tb;cb some men we're made crazy and Others were
driven 70 desperation Fisk became alarmed, and from
that time %p"b ,OpgsiI TO de6auch public morals as
He became colonel for purpose. lie wanted
! pnrsued a system OF brignndage, and his brigands
We're encamped in the very heart OF f tfe Socomc S
opnosed 10 him marked for something or perhaps
for death might refer to certain tng5 In his carer
which would throw suspicion upon him. eut ! W. oniy
refer TO certain things which we well might question:
| FIsKs SPIES AND BRIGANDs
! Mr Fisk always had at his command set o.
| "droppers." who would follow him; men who
would knock his down, and lay them out, and
| perhaps finish them entirely. Mr.. Fisk's common re-
| mark was IF any one interferes with us we never
will prosecute him :" and a favorite expression OF his
WAS Our touch il cold and clammy." Another faVoT9
WHAT does tlis intmatef 1t shows that Mr. Fisk had
his command lot Of men who would for small amount
you that this gentleman who fired this bail at
certain time; that he found himself followed rom time
TO time On the 18th of December 1870, MI ktOh was
going home at night rom tne nCse OF OF onc o s o
the street watching him. and another man JUST near n
house he heard low whistle, and moment aterWard
was struck down within hundred Ieet OF f1aVe,, AVE.
and was left there without any sign OF tfe We VIII snow
tbe whole transaction; and we Will show yOu that this
man Stokes was told That ho would be treated II the
same way -
Now am coming to n personal matter. | have hved
through the Offices Of District Attorney for both the
state and the United States for nearly four years. My
business as such required TO prosecute peiurers,
murderers slave traders and all Of that character and
there never lived of whom was afraid nor never
met n man who thought would do o wrong until
Fix IT,. and faced each other am eoenizln,
Sm S tho ran Tst Of his m That was said
to make Mr. Flax understand that he knew
Attorney aftqrward that knew what Mr.. Fisk had
power TO do, aud that we all were at his mercy. You
will ask me why this C1se not prose utcd hut no
when one OF the Police Commissioners was borrowing
money from time to time from BIN, aud political power
nat he was I'm business Of indeiicate charactorin in
New-York Not word of truth in that The officials
went and told certain editors that therewas evidence
false. wish Mr. Eaton here to-day and let him
ten how Flax admitted after that If there was pure
s n fnrlher Ei%S refer s" to % judge Dowlnr wish
10 was here, too; but he has gone to Ldrope.
sisted in ARRANGING the plan to arrest Stokes on the
charge eUhcZZlpment.
civil and criminal power was in their hands Ihere wts
choice for any human being, and uian mig as wen
take in his own hands that law or, would say, he
wOud ne excused under the circumstances In taking the
law into his own hands We will show you that this
Measures mean S9D'S to protect bimscli Ho did not 60
out at all the last months OF that ran ana
protect him. nearly ALWAYS in carriage. with per3on
TO protect him he has told in NovemhcI-as Fall-ihat
Fisk said he would have his life. and he was constantly
anprehensve Of his lfc he was armed in CONSEQUENCE
wa
"'"i'' RELATIONS OF F1sK AND STOKES.
Now come TO the condition OF things between Fisk
and Stokes Now with regard to Mr.. stskes; and II
you ask me how he became acquainted with Mr. Fisk
will give you something of stokess history. He was
born IN Philadelphia and came to this city some seven
years RgO. He seven or eight years younger than
Mr. Fisk He went into the oil refinery business and in
1863 he entered into business With Mr.. Harley,
who was the confidential man Of & Mr. Fik Ihey sared
what was tlisd The BTooSXn IN nnfry Haey VIZ o
pany and Stokes was 10 MANAGE t9e business % Inc Inc
here his mother. Fifty thousand dollars was the orig
nal sum put in' but IT was aderTaTd increased
Harley tolegraphed htm TO come Gown on Important
business when he arrived ne was toIa o,a tnai may
introduced to him at the Opera House FISK said he
wanted to get Go9 & OF ts I'M rc Sn Gap he nf 6nrbt he
could make good thing out or ana he thSn enteted
into plan every barrel of oil that passed over the
road should be chareed 20 every 0LeI uan eDogcu ~
the business, and at the end OF the month draWnacK
consequence an immense profit made That yielded
something 10000 year. This was all taken ont OF
go EOo' rde to Li,n 10 Increase his business It was
very natural go into the immense power OF Mr. Fisk
Fisk made other aianeement wltns diI rent com &
hen Stokes rented it TO the person who assigned to
the company. Now l introduce TO you the name OF
person Of whom you have heard great deal. Stokes
was introduced TO Miss Mansfield (ill attention. in
November, 1862 at t.e Contnental Hotel in Pmhdel-
pha, by this same man. Mr.. Harley, who was
Inc agent of Fisk at that time The first
time that ever Stokes saw Miss Mansfield at her
invited by Fisk 10 dine him He did dine with
him there Mr. Jay Gould ana some OF te % most Pro
that dned with Mr. stokes that occasion In April
as &c 70 his refinery He wanted additional buildings,
and TO increase the capacity and power OF the
from Mrs Stokes $4,000 year. and to continue for
five years. new company was formed, win eapal
which Fisk Gould, and all concerned. You will
that Mr. stokes had the minority OF the STOCK
should make so much in the management o, te concern
was completely disappointed and ioed In IT,
MANSFIELD DIsGUsTED WITH FISK.
Dnrinr the Winter of lSG9-7O. Mansfield became dis
Rusted with Fisk. She turned him away would have
nothing to do with him. For WHAT 1t is enough to
know that had wife living in Boston. where she
renamed while he lived here with Mansfield. Now
want you to mark the point that she became dsgused
with him-d sgusted as any woman ought TO be, for
number of reasons the that she left him
that her health required that she should drive him
away; that IL was necessary that she should have
nothing TO do with him. and she separated herself from
him She remained away from him, but Fisk was 80 ln-
fayaIed with this that he begged her 10 take MN
back and she having tho weakness OF w0man-wOman-
like some people will sayhe yielded to Fsks entreaties
to take him back. 1t was In the Winter That FIX
and his friends struggling for this great financial
political power IT was in this Winter that ne orean
lied raid upon Mr. Eaton, and 1t was in this Winter
said he much power that ne alarmed
| every one that brought In contact with him.
He seemed TO possess tie power OF magi-
| clan. TO conform everything at his WILL for
| evil or for good much, however for evil as
| evcry ono stood I'm awe OF him Stokes visiting this